r his "Constable sky," which is the main element of his portrayal of the scene at Wivenhoe Park. Joseph Mallard William Turner was another Englishman who is famed for his Romantic works. His emphasis on light possibly arrives from his sensitivity to it. He was ahead of his time with his use of light, extremities of storms, fire, and sunsets. His Keelmen Heaving Coals by Moonlight (ca. 1835) is an illustrious example of most of his famous effects: moonlight, fires, and color in atmospheric effects.Romanticism in music ran parallel with the movement in literature and art. The Romantic composers were highly individual. They expressed intense emotion, projected their own feelings, and suggested exotic, strange, and vivid ideas in their music. Composers began suggesting pictorial ideas and telling stories in their music. An example is the distinguished orchestral inventor Hector Berlioz. His innovative style led to his creation of a single theme classical form. In 1830, Berlioz created Symphonie fantastique which derived from different interests in his life. It had five movements presenting human emotions, death, imagination, the peaceful aspects of nature, and fantasy. Another example is the famed Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (1892). It was a story based on imagination, creativity, fantasy, and the emotional nature of human beings. You might be able to see that Romantic poets and painters had a direct and powerful influence on musicIn conclusion, Romanticism was a movement in the arts and in social thought. It varied from one group, or individual to another, but certain characteristics were common to most aspects of the movement. Among these characteristics were individualism, emotional expression, rejection of rules of art forms, imagination rather than reason, and expression of the sublime or peaceful aspects of nature. There were also definite or specific characteristics that Romanticists opposed. Such characteristics include...
