Abstract
Some compositional techniques 
 usually associated with German Romantic music, such as tonal pairing and the 
 frequent use of chromatic mediants, may have originated in Italian opera. These 
 techniques are traced from Rossini’s Tancredi (1813) to Verdi’s Il trovatore 
 (1853). Similarities to pre-tonal and twentieth-century neoclassical music are 
 considered. In studying and teaching nineteenth-century music, theorists should 
 broaden their focus beyond the Austro-German repertoire. The notion of “common 
 practice” is misleading and should be abandoned.
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