Romantic composers pursued __________________________ to a g…

Romantic composers pursued __________________________ to a greater extent than Baroque and Classical ones, to expand the expressive range of both their melodies and their harmonies. It refers to music that liberally employs all twelve notes of the chromatic scale.

The general Romantic tendency to blur all sharp edges found…

The general Romantic tendency to blur all sharp edges found its musical counterpart in the practice of tempo ____________________, which means that in performance, the rhythm is handled flexibly, the meter itself may waver, or else the beat is maintained strictly in the accompaniment while the melody is played or sung slightly out of place with it.