MUSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Symphonie Fantastique, New German School, Symphonic Poem
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Movement 2 (paris: at the ball and sees his beloved idee fixe in the grand ball. Bright major triumphant chords yes he"s dead low strings descending head falling. Vivid touches of imagery: the new addition to symphony berlioz added march movement into the symphony. ) going to hell: doesn"t follow conventional form of concluding which is typically with sonata form or rondo new for symphony, beloved back as a witch dancing freaky dance idee fixe is in grotesque version. Eflat clarinet (high and shrill freakish/demented: sacrilegious presentation of the fugue and a roman catholic chant (dies irae day of. Wrath tells what happens on judgement day) from the requiem mass (mass for the dead) melody about the death; describing what happened. 2 this chant is sacred, he makes it demented presentation (actual melody from the mass) introduced by bells (church bells) Low brass theme: fugue most serious genre.
