GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Harriet Smithson, Piccolo, Sonata Form

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 250
• Professor: Marc Ducusin

Document Summary

Instrumental music written in connections with a poem, story, or some general idea or mood: different approaches to programmatic music, e. g. Berlioz" symphonie fantastique follows a story, step-by-step: e. g. Chopin"s nocturnes: evokes a general nighttime atmosphere for mood: controversial in its day, people didn"t believe music could present a story, mixes non-musical elements in. Hector berlioz: son of a physician, little in the way of formal music education; primarily self-taught, studied scores, not a virtuoso; never learned to ply piano, but played flute and guitar, moved to paris to study medicine. Symphonie fantastique: programmatic music in five movements, 1. Reveries, passions: largo-allegro; loose sonata form, strings, ascending pitches, emotional and physical yearning, 2. A ball: allegro non troppo, dance movement in triple meter, woodwinds, 3. Scene in the country: adagio, pastoral duet invoking nature, woodwinds associated with the countryside and pastorals, 4.