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  Romantic nationalism - Wikipedia
Romantic nationalism (also organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs.
Romantic nationalism formed a key strand in the philosophy of Hegel, who argued that there was a "spirit of the age" or zeitgeist that inhabited a particular people at a particular time, and that, when that people became the active determiner of history, it was simply because their cultural and political moment had come.
Romantic nationalism is inherently exclusionary, and that, in the 20th century, proved to be a tragic flaw.
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 Romantic nationalism article - Romantic nationalism Revolution 1830 Eugène Delacroix nationalism language - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Romantic nationalism formed one of the key strands in the philosophy of Hegel, who argued that there was a "spirit of the age" or zeitgeist which inhabited a particular people at a particular time.
There is a strong romantic nationalist element to the rhetoric used by the United States of America in both its Declaration of Independence and Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain.
Romantic nationalism from Germany would serve as a model for a process where by folk epics, stories and material were combined with existing dialects and the need for a completely modern syntax to create a "revived" version of a language.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Romantic_nationalism   (1428 words)

  
 Romantic nationalism - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Romantic nationalism formed a key strand in the philosophy of Hegel, who argued that there was a "spirit of the age" or zeitgeist that inhabited a particular people at a particular time, and that, when that people became the active determiner of history, their cultural and poltical moment came.
Under the influence of romantic nationalism, among economic and political forces, both Germany and Italy found political unify, and movements to create nations similarly based upon ethnic groups would flower in the Balkans (see for example, the Carinthian Plebiscite, 1920), along the Baltic Sea, and in the interior of Central Europe.
Romantic nationalism inspired the processes whereby folk epics, retold legends and even fairy tales, published in existing dialects, were combined with the need for a completely modern syntax to create a "revived" version of a language.
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 Romantic music
Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from the early 1800s to the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period.
Romantic music is related to Romantic movement in literature, art, and philosophy, though the conventional periods used in musicology are now very different from their counterparts in the other arts, which define "romantic" as running from the 1780s to the 1840s.
Romantic composers were aided by improvements in technology, which provided significant changes in the language of music, ranging from an increase in the range and power of the piano to improvements in the sound and reach of the symphony orchestra.
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 math lessons - Romantic nationalism
From its earliest stirrings, with their focus on the development of national languages and folklore, and the importance of local customs and traditions, to the movements which would redraw the map of Europe and lead to calls for "self-determination" of nationalities, nationalism was one of the key issues in Romanticism, its role, expression and meaning.
Romantic nationalism inspired the processes whereby folk epics, retold legends and even fairy tales, published in existing dialects, were combined with a completely modern syntax to create a "revived" version of a language.
As an idea, if not a specific movement, it is present as an assumption in debates over nationality and nationhood even today, and many of the world's nations were created from priciples drawn from romantic nationalism as their source of legitimacy.
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 Romantic
The genre of the symphonic poem was brought to the fore during the Romantic era.
Nationalism became a driving force in the later Romantic period, with composers trying to express their cultural identity through their music.
The Romantic era was a paradise of virtuosos.
homepages.pathfinder.gr /great_composers/periods/Romantic.htm   (932 words)

  
 Romantic music
Romantic music analogized music to poetry and to rhapsodic and narrative structures, and at the same time created a more systematic basis for the composing and performing of concert music.
Romantic composers were aided by improvements in technology, which provided significant changes in the language of music, ranging from an increase in the range and power of the
The late Romantic period saw the rise of national "styles" which were associated with the folk music and poetry of particular countries, and with the important composers from that country.
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 Romantic music
Although the word "romantic" is now usually used to mean "something related to love", "romantic music" as spoken about by musicologists and academics is not necessarily about this and does not always sound like what would nowadays be thought of as "romantic" in the general sense.
The Romantic era extended the tonal and harmonic vocabulary of the previous era; in particular there was a desire for greater fluidity of movement, greater contrasts and, in the end, longer works.
Romantic music analogized music to poetry and to rhapsodic and narrative structures, and at the same time created a more systematic basis for teaching the composing and performing of concert music.
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 Romantic music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Romantic music is defined as the period of European Classical music which runs roughly from the early 1800's and ends in the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written in the norms and styles of that period.
The vernacular use of the term romantic music applies to music which is thought to evoke a certain dreamy or soft atmosphere.
The nationalism that was an important strain of the early 19th century Romanticism became formalized by political and linguistic means.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Romantic-music.htm   (5027 words)

  
 The Norwegian-American Historical Association, Northfield, MN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
THE TENACITY of the Norwegian impulse to emigrate during the Civil War years was an augur of the coming flood, but few appear to have anticipated the extraordinary outpouring of the postwar years from 1866 to 1875.
On the Norwegian side the searcher for explanations is confronted, not by a simple category of emigration causes, but by the entire economic and social web of the common life as it was spun on the loom of the nineteenth century.
Norwegian population expanded to twice its size in the half century from the end of the Napoleonic wars to 1865.
www.naha.stolaf.edu /publications/blegenbooks/book2/chapter15.htm   (6279 words)

  
 Romantic music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The musical language employed by the romantic composers was a good deal more extensive and flexible than that of the classical composers, allowing for the greater range of expression these composers sought.
The romantic period also saw the establishment of song as an important part of classical music.
However, new tendencies such as neo-classicism and serialism challenged the preeminence of the romantic style, and by the middle of the century, very few significant composers were writing in a style that would have been recognised by the romantics.
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 Romantic nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of a unity of those it governs
romantic nationalism has relied upon the existence of a historical ethnic culture which meets the romantic ideal; folklore developed as a romantic nationalist concept
Romantic nationalism formed one of the key strands in the philosophy of Hegel
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 Nation Planet: nationalism resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nations expect their members not to attack their 'own' national forces - meaning generally the forces of the country where they were born.
Nationalism theory of the last 20 years was written under the assumption, that national sovereignty had been adopted as standard.
Museum of the Centre of Europe - this is in the section on nationalism, because it it used as a symbol of the uniqueness of Lithuania: the monument is a stone version of a distance signpost.
web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/plana.html   (16124 words)

  
 Romantic music
Although the word "romantic" now most usually means "something related to love", "romantic music" as spoken about by musicologists and academics isn't necessarily about this and doesn't always sound like what would nowadays be thought of as "romantic" in the general sense.
Whereas instrumental music of earlier times was almost always absolute, that is concerned with nothing apart from music itself, much romantic music is programme music[?] - it is based on some other source.
Romanticism survived into the 20th century, and a number of composers, among them Sergei Rachmaninov, Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss, continued to write music in a romantic style.
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 Paul Nazzaro Music Studio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Grieg met Rikard Nordraak, another famous Norwegian composer who was a leading figure in the Norwegian national movement.
Nordraak also wrote Norway¹s national anthem, "Ja Vi Elsker." This meeting inspired Grieg with Norwegian romantic nationalism, and he then wrote Humoresker (1865) for the piano.
Grieg's compositional style is that of a romantic nationalist.
www.nazzaromusic.com /StudentFun/grieg.html   (471 words)

  
 Marja-Leena Rathje: Culture
National Geographic also reports on this, stating that "Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan ("whale valley") reveals one of the iconic transitions in the record of life".
Some are the descendants of Sámi people who emigrated to the United States and Canada as Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns and some are the descendants of "Lapp" herders from the Alaska Reindeer Project who introduced reindeer husbandry to the Inupiaq and Yup'ik peoples'.
National Geographic News has some interesting pages about the new National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Native by design, it incorporated suggestions from Native Americans throughout North, Central, and South America.
www.marja-leena-rathje.info /archives/cat_culture.php   (10115 words)

  
 Romantic music - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Romantic music - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
And sought to fuse the chromatic innovations with the large structural harmonic planning of Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924), late romantic Italian verismo opera composer (La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly)
www.music.us /education/R/Romantic-music.htm   (5207 words)

  
 Romantic music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Whereas instrumental music of earlier times was almost always absolute, that is concerned with nothing apart from music itself, much romantic music is program music - it is based on some other source.
Later in the 20th century, a number of pieces and composers have been described as "neo-romantic", John Adams' Violin Concerto being one example.
Amy Beach (1867 - 1944), an American, the leading female composer of her time
www.portaljuice.com /romantic_music_1.html   (2286 words)

  
 Norse Gods - The Gold Scales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Some of the information on this page is found in the 2nd edition of Munch's Norrøne Gude- og heltesagn (Norse Stories of Gods and Heroes).
Peter Andreas Munch (1810-63) was a Norwegian university professor who co-founded a Norwegian school of historiography during the period of romantic nationalism.
One of Munch's main ideas was that the Old Norse language was a product of Norwegian culture, and not general Scandinavian culture.
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 Princeton - Weekly Bulletin 02/21/05 - Q&A with Kwame Anthony Appiah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
His importance as a thinker is evident in the attention his work garners — for example, he was named one of 25 great “public philosophers” in the world today in the Dec. 29, 2004, issue of the French news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.
Part of the reason we do so much less about this than we should, I think, is the power of national and more local identities to blind us to the significance of the suffering of strangers.
But another part of the answer is that the solution isn’t really to be found in individual acts but in a systematic restructuring of the global community, which is something that can only be achieved by politics, by acting in communities.
www.princeton.edu /pr/pwb/05/0221/1a.shtml   (2332 words)

  
 DDM Romantic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Heckert, Deborah L. Composing History: National Identity and the Uses of the Past in the English Masque, 1860-1918.
Hollingsworth, Norma E. Religious, National Identity and Gender in Newman's Poem and Elgar's Oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius.
Romantic Childhood, Bourgeois Commercialism and the Music of Robert Schumann.
www.music.indiana.edu /ddm/Romantic.html   (9470 words)

  
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Referring to the interval between the fall of Napoleon and the unification of Italy in 1861 "In the Papal States, the clergy used the Inquisition and torture to suppress nationalism and liberalism."
National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc.
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