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You move into the Romantic. You have expansive themes,
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but by way of contradistinction there,
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then the rhythm becomes not necessarily more flaccid, but more loose,
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and we talked about this phenomenon of rubato, for example.
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So flexible rhythms, flexible tempos, less clear meters in the Romantic period.
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And,not to overdo it,but maybe this idea of just "beautiful melody,"
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and it is of course in the nineteenth century
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that we get the whole idea of the bel canto sound.
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Anybody read Rothstein's--
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no--Anthony Tommasini's article that I pointed you to about bel canto?
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He said, "Actually,the beginning of that
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starts back with the composers of piano music of that same period