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1 Programmatic Music

2 Piece of music that tells a story

3 Hector Berloiz (1803-1869) French Romantic Composer Musical Journalist First Modern Conductor Mentally Unstable(Bro’s Crazy!)

4 Berlioz (continued) Wrote a book on Orchestration Studied medicine then switched to music Preferred to perform with large orchestras

5 Symphonie Fantastique 5 movement piece Written in 1830 Tells a story about a musician that falls in love with a woman

6 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

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