Alas, with the modern frantic pace of life, the struggle for survival and the search for work, the great breakthroughs of technological progress, a person loses a romantic attitude. He is increasingly moving away from nature, less and less paying attention to the beauty of the world. And if you ask him what romance is, it is unlikely that something intelligible will answer. He is becoming less and less capable of lyrical emotionality and dramatic experiences. The pragmatism of consciousness excludes lofty ideals and dreams, dissatisfaction with the monotony and poverty of life. And today's young people are ready to perform feats rather in virtual reality than in the present.
By and large, romance is a way of life. This ability to see in stars not “spittle” but “pearls”, in a beloved girl - “a genius of pure beauty”, Madonna, and not an object of bed comforts, in human life - a great destination and high meaning, and not a transshipment point between “is "And" was."
You can learn about what romance is from books and movies, from poems and songs, from sculpture and painting. Poetry of Pushkin, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, the famous Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet" and Servantovsky "Don Quixote", the heroes of Rodenovsky "Kiss" and Shagalovskaya painting "Over the City", as well as many other examples of true romanticism, alas, are undeservedly forgotten and almost scrapped time. But this is not fair! Our spiritual life will be seriously emasculated, devastated, if we completely forget about what romance is.
Romance and romance are close concepts. We can say that a romance is a romantic song, an elegy laid on music. It is characterized by lyrical serenity and sharp drama, a high intensity of feelings and light gentle sadness, philosophical reflections on the transience of earthly existence and a passionate acceptance of life. The romance of the romance found a deep and sensitive expression not only in poetry, but also in music, giving us such touching things as “Don’t leave, stay with me …”, “I like that you are not sick with me …”, “Nightingale” and etc.
It is the romance that is considered the most romantic genre in the musical art of songs also because it has a special confession, sincerity, personal, confidential intonations. And if we consider that romance is emotional and emotional experiences, aesthetic impulses, a person’s desire for beauty and harmony, then everything falls into place.
The story of the romance is also not entirely ordinary. His homeland is Spain. On hot nights, to the sound of cicadas at the windows of beautiful black-eyed seigneur, the guitar strings sang sweetly, and the lovers of troubadours sang their songs in their honor - a romancero. This genre became extremely popular among the Romance-speaking peoples, then it reached Russia. Is it mysterious for the Russian soul to explain what romance is? Strong passions, eternal longing for the ideal, falling in love with nature, i.e. what is in the romance turned out to be akin to the Russian man. And therefore, from about the first quarter of the 19th century, this genre has taken a strong place in our song culture. And now it’s just impossible to imagine that on a television or in private collections “Morning on a foggy …”, “At dawn, you don’t wake her …”, “You will wake me at dawn …”. And if you recall how many singers owe it to a romance for their popularity! Brigvadze, Besedina, Malinin and many, many, many …
Romance is a multifaceted work. By genre nature, it is divided into love, hussar, city, household, gypsy, philosophical. And according to the performance technique - to the vocal and instrumental (romance without words). The originality of the latter lies in the fact that the leading part is performed by a melody - instead of a human voice. Rachmaninov. Tchaikovsky, Glazunov created such works for violin, piano. Traditionally, this romantic song is played with a guitar or piano, piano.
Romance brings so much missing romance into our life, enriches it with vivid experiences, brings to the high beauty of feelings, words, music.
