Baroque Music. Renaissance Music. Medieval Music. Romantic music. Romantic music is a term denoting an era of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.
It was related to Romanticism, the European artistic and literary movement that arose in the second half of the 18th century, and Romantic music in particular dominated the Romantic movement in Germany. Background[edit] Romanticism[edit] Traits[edit] Characteristics often attributed to Romanticism, including musical Romanticism, are (Kravitt 1992, 93–94, 107): Modern music.