Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3

Neoromanticism is a modern redevelopment of 19th-century Romantic musical language within the context of 20th-century art music. It revives expressive melody, expanded lyricism, emotional contrast, rich orchestral color, and large-scale formal thinking associated with Romanticism, but does so with modern techniques such as polytonality, advanced chromaticism, structural compression or expansion, and a post-Expressionist harmonic sensibility. Unlike straightforward historic imitation, neoromanticism reinterprets Romantic idioms through a modern lens. It is informed by, but distinct from, Expressionism: it often preserves emotional intensity and harmonic ambiguity while placing greater emphasis on continuity, beauty of line, and renewed engagement with tonal or quasi-tonal reference points. The style is especially associated with 20th-century and later concert music in which composers sought a return to expressive immediacy after the radical fragmentation of early modernism, while still retaining modern complexity.