Programmatic Music
Piece of music that tells a story
Hector Berloiz ( ) French Romantic Composer Musical Journalist First Modern Conductor Mentally Unstable(Bro’s Crazy!)
Berlioz (continued) Wrote a book on Orchestration Studied medicine then switched to music Preferred to perform with large orchestras
Symphonie Fantastique 5 movement piece Written in 1830 Tells a story about a musician that falls in love with a woman
Movements I: Rêveries - Passions II: Un bal - A Ball III: Scène aux champs - Scene in the Fields IV: Marche au supplice - March to the Scaffold V: Songe d'une nuit de sabbat - Dreams of a Witches' Sabbath