Music 1102A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Program Music
25 Apr 2018
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Timbre: listen for the massive sound of the orchestra, especially in the brass and percussion. Word-music relationships: it is a work of program music. How doe the music re ect the scenario outlined here. Form: listen for the alternation between large sections of music in the minor mode and large sections in the major mode. What happens at the very end of the movement. Re-creates thoughts, dreams, and nightmares of an artist in music. Berlioz wrote a detailed prose narrative describing the program. Berlioz rst great master of orchestration (art of arranging music for orchestral instruments) Introduces new instruments and found new effects on older instruments. Melody associated with the artist"s lover called an id e xe. Present in all ve movements, but transformed. In march to the scaffold the idee xe is interrupted as the artist is beheaded. A in minor mode, b in major mode. Each section represents a particular mood (gloomy and ferocious or solemn and brilliant)
