MUS 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Program Music, Young Country, Friar Laurence
11 Dec 2015
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Focus on colour and effect, not necessarily structure/melody/harmony/form. Idee fixe returns briefly at the end: almost in a taunting way: guillotine: loud crashing chord, then two pizzicato chords = the head bouncing down onto the ground ! Intro leads to a march: march (bassoons, march and the crowd, low brass, descending scales, new march and scales, accelerated tempo of the new march, loud chord, pizzicato (decapitation, final chords (crowd goes wild) Not in a traditional form: more about the story, images, and emotions: interesting fact: when moving harriet smithson"s body from her grave, her head fell off irony, in mvt. Berlioz"s other important works: harold in italy (program symphony, with idee fixe theme in solo viola), commissioned by paganini (virtuoso violinist) Romeo and juliet (dramatic symphony, with choir and soloists) ou orchestra performing next semester. Evolve the idee fixe in different movements to mean different aspects of a character"s development/change: also influences opera (themes representing characters)
