Romance

Romance or romantic usually refers to Romance (love), love emphasizing emotion over libido.

It can also refer to:

Genres

• Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
• Romance novel, a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
• Romance (genre), a genre of medieval and renaissance narrative fiction
• Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
  • Romancero, the Spanish tradition of such ballads
• Romance (meter), a metric pattern found particularly in Spanish-language poetry
• Romanticism, an artistic and intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including
  • Romantic music
  • Romantic poetry

Places

• Romance, Arkansas, U.S.
• Romance, Missouri, U.S.
• Romance, West Virginia U.S.
• Romance, Wisconsin U.S.

Music

Groups

• The Romantics, an American rock 'n roll band from Detroit

Albums

• Romance (Luis Miguel album), 1991
• Romance (Seldom album), 2002
• Romance (Ali Project album)
• Romance (Dave Palmer album)
• Romance (David Cassidy album)

Songs and works

• Romance (song), also known as Romance Anónimo, a Spanish instrumental guitar piece of anonymous origin
• Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven) in G major, Op. 40, by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) in F major, Op. 50, by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4, known as Romantic
• "Romantic" (song), by Karyn White
• "Romance", a track on the album Light & Shade by Mike Oldfield

Film and theater

• Romance (1920 film), silent film, directed by Chester Withey
• Romance (1930 film), starring Greta Garbo
• Romance (1999 film), directed by Catherine Breillat
• Romance (Mamet play)

Literature

• Romance (novel), a 1905 novel by Joseph Conrad
• "Romance" (poem), an 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe

Other uses

• Romance languages, a family of languages originating in south-western Europe

See also

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (disambiguation)

Note: the following entries are arranged in an etymological tree.

• Roma (disambiguation)
  • Rome (disambiguation)
  • Romaic
  • Romanus (disambiguation)
    • Aromanians
    • Romagna
      • Romagnol language
    • Romain (disambiguation)
    • Romaine (disambiguation)
    • Roman (disambiguation)
      • Romanesco
      • Romanesque (disambiguation)
    • Romana (disambiguation)
    • Romand
      • Romandy
    • Romania (disambiguation)
      • Romanian (disambiguation)
    • Romanicus
      • Romance (disambiguation)
      • Romanza (disambiguation)
      • Romance languages (Romanic)
    • Romanization (disambiguation)
    • Romano (disambiguation)
    • Romansh language
  • Rûm
    • Rumelia