Excerpt from What Is Good Music?: Suggestions to Persons Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Musical Art Recapitulation - The two great impulses - Classicism and Romanticism - Demand for expression - Beethoven's romanticism - Its effect on form - Community of theme Schumann's fourth symphony Its plan of development The Symphonic poem - The programme overture - Liszt's piano concertos - Traits of romantic music. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.