Romance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchRomance or romantic may refer to:
- Romance languages extinct: Anatolian · Paleo-Balkans (Dacian, , a family of languages originating in south-western Europe.
- Romance (genre) As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about the marvelous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight errant, often of super-human ability, who often goes on a, a genre of medieval and renaissance narrative fiction
- Romance (music) The term romance has a centuries-long history. Applied to narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th century for simple lyrical pieces not only for voice, but also for instruments alone. During the 18th and 19th centuries Russian composers developed the French variety of the romance as a sentimental category of Russian art song. &, a type of ballad or lyrical song
- Romance (meter) The romance is a metric combination that originated in the verse and poetry of Spain. It consists of an indefinite series (tirada) of verses, in which the even-numbered lines have a near-rhyme (assonance) and the odd lines are unrhymed. The lines are octosyllabic (eight syllables to a line); a similar but far less common form is hexasyllabic (six, a metric pattern found particularly in Spanish-language poetry
- Romanticism Romanticism or Romantic Era is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the, an artistic and intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including
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- Romantic music Romantic music is a musicological term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in European music history, from about 1815 to 1910
- Romantic poetry Romanticism largely began as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day. Inevitably, the characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture the essence of the actual ‘movement’
- Romance (love) In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person. This is especially apparent in platonic love where sexual drive is sublimated into an expression of desire.[citation needed], love emphasizing emotion over libido.
- Romance film While most films have some aspect of romance between characters a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists. Common themes include the characters making decisions based on a newly-found romantic attraction. The questions,, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
- Romance novel The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late 20th and early 21st centuries, these novels, a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
Toponyms
- Romance, Arkansas Romance is an unincorporated community in west-central White County, Arkansas. The community is located approximately halfway between the town of Rose Bud to the north, and the unincorporated community of El Paso to the south. Alternately, the community is about 16 miles northwest of Beebe, and less than 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Mount Vernon, U.S.
- Romance, Missouri Romance is an unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, in the United States. It is located about nine miles north of Gainesville, U.S.
- Romance, West Virginia Romance is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia. It is located along Sugar Creek Rd . It has a post office with a zip code of 25248. The area between Middle Fork and Advent is also considered Romance U.S.
- Romance, Wisconsin Romance, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community in the town of Genoa in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States U.S.
Titles and proper names
- Romance (song), also known as Romance Anónimo, a Spanish instrumental guitar piece of anonymous origin
- Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G major, Op. 40 and Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 50 by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Romance (novel) Romance is a novel co-authored by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It was the second of their three collaborations. Romance was eventually published by George Bell and Sons in London and by McClure, Phillips in New York, in March 1904, a 1905 novel by Joseph Conrad
- "Romance" (poem) This article lists all known poems by American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe , regardless of importance. They are listed alphabetically with the date of their authorship in parentheses, an 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
- Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major is one of the composer's most popular works. It was written in 1874 and revised several times through 1888. It was dedicated to Prince Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. It was premiered in 1881 by Hans Richter in Vienna with great success. (In a well-known and amusing story that illustrates, known as Romantic
- "Romantic" (song) "Romantic" is a song recorded by Karyn White. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 2, 1991, making it her biggest hit to date. "Romantic" was also Karyn White's fourth number one on the Hot Black Singles chart.. She recorded it with her then-husband Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam and it became a huge success,, by Karyn White
- The Romantics The Romantics are an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1977. The band adopted the name "The Romantics" because they formed on Valentine's Day, 1977. The Romantics achieved moderate popularity in the United States, Canada, parts of Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America during the first half of the 1980s on the, an American rock 'n roll band from Detroit
- Romance (Luis Miguel album), 1991
- Romance (Seldom album) Romance is an album by Seldom. It was released on July 16, 2002 on Casa Recording Co. and distributed by Barsuk Records, 2002
- Romance (Ali Project album) Romance is an album by Ali Project, released on December 6, 2006 by Tokuma Japan Communications (catalog number: TKCU-77128). It is the fourth album in their series of string and piano orchestration album
- Romance (Dave Palmer album) Romance is a solo album by session keyboardist Dave Palmer. The album has seven piano solo tracks and two tracks which are a trio of piano, drums and bass. The music is self described as "at once somber and beautiful, melancholy and hopeful." The piano is a "Bluthner Grand from the early 1900's."
- Romance (David Cassidy album)
- Romance (Mamet play)
- "Romance", a track on the album Light & Shade Light + Shade is a two-disc album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It is the first album to be released by Oldfield following his signing with Mercury Records. The album was released on 26 September 2005 . Some of the music on these CDs was originally released (with alternate mixes) on the soundtracks to his virtual reality games, Tr3 by Mike Oldfield
- Romance (1920 film), silent film, directed by Chester Withey
- Romance (1930 film) Romance is a film which tells the story of a bishop sharing a cautionary tale with a young man, who is going against the wishes of his family, of the dangers of falling in love with "fallen women," by using a story of naivete from his past. It stars Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent, Florence Lake, and Henry Armetta, starring Greta Garbo
- Romance (1999 film) Romance is a 1999 French movie written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, pornographic actor Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. The film features explicit copulation scenes, especially one showing Caroline Ducey's coitus with Rocco Siffredi. Romance inspired the trend of some artistic films, directed by Catherine Breillat
See also
- Romanza (disambiguation)
- Roman (disambiguation)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms (disambiguation)
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