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Romantic irony
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In Beethoven's music, romantic irony is expressed as the "flouting of musical conventions ... contrast of prosaic roughness and poetic beauty ... blunt destruction of sublime moods ... [and] practical jokes on musicians and audiences" (Longyear, "Beethoven and Romantic Irony," Musical Quarterly 40 (1970).
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