ROMANTIC
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Chromaticism

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Instruments
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Huge range-range contra to picc
Block orchestration
Composers
Bertiloz
TchaikovskyComposers: Adolphe Sax, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky,
Wagner,
Brahms