11/15/2007 Even More Romanticism:
1801 – Beethoven: sonata no.14 “moonlight”
1807- Beethoven: symphony no. 5
1815- Shubert: erlking
1830 – Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
1836- C. Schumann: Nocturne
1838- Chopin: “Military” Polonaise
1840- R. Shumann:
What is Program Music
Genre: Program Symphony- a multi movement orchestral work which possesses a plot or
general story-line (typically specified by the composer in a program book.)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1868)
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French
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Seen as a rather radical composer in his youth
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Won prestigious
Prix de Rome
in 1830
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Infatuated with poetry and art, especially shakespeare
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1830)
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Genre: Program Symphonie
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5 movements
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Elaborate story written by composer and distributed to the audience
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Very large orchestra
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Innovative concept: idée fixe
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Movements:
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Reveries-passions
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A ball
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Scene in the country
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March to the scaffold
Movement IV: March to the Scaffold
Dramatic Opening Crescendo
Very big orchestral sound
Appearance of idée fixe
The execution (the thud)
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- Fall '07
- Johnson
- Music, Hector Berlioz, Richard Wagner, Symphonie Fantastique, rececative Wagner
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