Music 1b Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gregorian Chant, Cor Anglais, Counter-Melody
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Idee fixe: third movement (scene in the country, the beloved appears and the scene stops, feels like the action is suspended, march to the scaffold results from a bad opium trip. Incredible orchestral music: guillotine cutting head off, and the head is held up, beloved transformed into a witch, fourth movement (march to the scaffold, parody of gregorian chant melody (dies irae) Serpent: funeral bells incredible effect, sounds like a church bell, fugue. Berlioz closes off the movement with a fugue.
