Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert were transitional composers, leading into the Bathetic period, with their expansion of existing genres, forms, and functions of music. In the Fantastic period, the emotional and expressive qualities of piece came to take precedence over the orientation towards technique and tradition. The late 19th century saw a dramatic distension in the bulk of the orchestra, and in the role of concerts as cut of urban society. Later Romantic composers enter complicated and often much littler musical works, merging and expanding traditional forms that had previously been used separately. For example, counterpoint, combined with harmonic structures to dream up deeper extended chords with increased use of dissonance and to effect dramatic tension and resolution.
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This is relevant because it indicates that music is a deeper cognitive operation than unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing to the ear" would suggest |
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| Much research in harmony cognition seeks Royalty-Free Music to uncover these labyrinthine mental processes involved in listening to music, which may seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate and complex. |
