After reading this chapter you should be familiar with the following:- The definitions of key terms: Industrial Revolution, Idealism, Romanticism, Marxism, program music, melodrama
- An understanding of the context -- technological innovations, philosophical, economic and political trends -- in which Romanticism developed
- An understanding of the effect of social changes, including the rise of the middle class, Marxism and developments in philosophy, upon the art of the period
- An understanding of the characteristics of Romanticism as an artistic and cultural movement
- An undertstanding of Romantic style in visual art and architecture, major works and artists
- An understanding of The Arts of the Romantic Age: Literature, including its major works and writers
- An understanding of the effect of Romanticism upon music of the period in general
- Understanding of the development of musical genres, including piano works, program music, symphonic music and choral music
- Identification of the works of art in this chapter, including architecture, visual art, sculpture, music, literature and dance
- An understanding of Victorianism: the culture of England, under Queen Victoria, and the larger effects of Victorianism upon the arts and culture of England
