MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Symphonie Fantastique, Harriet Smithson, Program Music
13 Apr 2013
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5 in c minor (1808) - possibly world"s best known piece: music moves dramatically through extremes. Austrian, 1 of 15 children, relatively low birth proli c composer (1815 made 20000 bars of music, 9 church works, symphony, 140 lieder) Schubert (1797-1828 @31) rhythm: repetitive = horsey each character diff. register narrator = middle range, minor father - low range, minor/major child - high range, minor. Berlioz (1803-1869 [french]) melodies associated with characters in the story programme music - instrumental work associated with story or idea invokes atmosphere and characters of play theme 1: enchanted forest (winds) theme 2: kingdom of fairies (high strings) Mendelssohn (1809 [hamburg] - 1847 [berlin]) prominent, intellectual, cosmopolitan family. Overture to a midsummer night"s dream: mythological comedy studied at national conservatory of music in paris - guitarist not pianist wrote personal life into music. Symphonie fantastique (1830) composer and pianist married robert schumann, he went crazy and was institutionalized.
