I LOVE DOING THAT!!! It gives off a great deal of suspense or dramatic incline if you will. I believe your thinking of the word rubato. I hope that helped.
Because art is something humans just do. all humans have a liking to music or drawing or sculpting or some kind of art. its not a cultural thing, its a human thing.
This gave rise to both similarities and differences between the two periods of music. As composers were moving toward defining the individual as opposed to the group perspective of music, Romantic composers began to stretch boundaries of form and harmonic function. One of the most enigmatic composers of both periods is Beethoven.
