Romantic symphony - they lasted from 20 - 45 minutes, unlike classical symphonies they didn't follow strict rules on how they were supposed to sound. They used much larger orchestra's and were a lot more expressive using a lot of harmonisation, Rythmic patterns and dynamics. They could flow how the composer wanted it to so that they could tell stories that they were often inspired by things outside of music.Used a lot more instruments and often lasted more than 4 movements.
Dissonance - used classy sounds, Things like noes from outside the key, to be able to give their music emotion. Broke the rules from the classical period. Beethoven was the first to use this.
Virtuoso - a performer who excels in technical ability; fanciest, most complicated instruments playing, playing the instruments to best of it's ability. Liszt was an amazing virtuoso pianist who wrote pieces for the piano.
Tone poems - Composers would read a novel or look at a painting, things like this and then turn it into a piece of music.
Programme music - often from a piece of writing, where a composer read some writing and wrote an instrumental piece from it. Longer than tone poems.
Impressionism - Late in the romantic era that gave a feeling to their music instead of describing it. changes in
Opera - stories from history and myths retold through drama and music forming an expressive style. They lasted a long time can go to 3 hours. They covered all form of disaster and went to the extreme emotions, showed death war and Implimented the gods into the story, used the large orchestra including lots of brass instruments.
Wagner, Liszt, Schumann and Mahler were composer that were around in the Romantic period.
Here is an example from each of their compositions;
Wagner
