Saturday, November 7, 2015

Romance

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Romance or romantic usually refers to romance (love), love emphasizing emotion over libido. It may also refer to:

Contents

   
  • 1Genres
  • 2Places
  • 3Film and theater
  • 4Literature
  • 5Other uses
  • 6Music
    • 6.1Classical genres and compositions
    • 6.2Groups
    • 6.3Albums
    • 6.4Songs
  • 7
  • Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
  • Chivalric Romance, a genre of medieval and Renaissance narrative fiction
  • Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
    • Romancero, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them
    • Romance (meter), a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads
  • Romanticism, or the Romantic period/era, an artistic and intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including
    • Romantic music, the musical style used by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner and other late 18th and 19th-century composers
    • Romantic poetry, the poetic style used by Schiller, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth and other late 18th and 19th-century poets
    • Romanticism in science, a movement in science during the Romantic period
  • Romance novel, a genre of novel that focuses on romantic love
  • Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
  • Romantic comedy film, a hybrid genre of film centered on a comic romantic relationship
  • Shakespeare's late romances, the later plays of Shakespeare that mix tragic and comedic elements

Places[edit]

Film and theater[edit]

Literature[edit]

Other uses[edit]

Music[edit]

Classical genres and compositions[edit]

  • Romance (music) and list of compositions:
    • "Romance" (guitar piece), also known as "Romance Anónimo", a Spanish instrumental guitar piece of anonymous origin
    • Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven) in G major, Op. 40, by Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) in F major, Op. 50, by Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Romantic Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4
    • Romance in C major, Op. 48, for violin and orchestra Saint-Saëns
    • Romance song by Debussy
    • Romance, the second movement of the suite Lieutenant Kijé (Op. 60) by Sergei Prokofiev
  • Russian romance, classical art song
  • Scandinavian romanser, classical art songs, equivalent to the German Lied.

Groups[edit]

  • The Romantics, an American rock 'n roll band from Detroit

Albums[edit]

  • Romance, album by Montserrat Caballé
  • Romance (Luis Miguel album), 1991
  • Romance (Ali Project album), 2006
  • Romance (Dave Palmer album), 2006
  • Romance (David Cassidy album)
  • Romance (Frank Sinatra album), 2004
  • Romance (Tubelord album)
  • Romantic (album), by The Human League
  • Romances (Luis Miguel album), 1997
  • Romances (Kaada/Patton album), 2004

Songs[edit]

  • "Romance", a song from the musical The Desert Song
  • "Romantic" (song), by Karyn White
  • "Romance", a track on the album Light & Shade by Mike Oldfield
  • "Romance", a pop waltz written by Gordon Lightfoot and released on his 1983 album Salute
  • "Romance", a song by R.E.M. originally released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Made in Heaven

See also[edit]

Note: the following entries are arranged in an etymological tree.

  • Romana (disambiguation)
  • Romand
  • Romania (disambiguation)
  • Romanicus
  • Romanization (disambiguation)
  • Romano (disambiguation)
  • Romansh language
  • Rûm
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