MUS- M 402 1st EditionLecture 12Outline of Last LectureI. After Beethoven: Characteristics of Beethoven’s music that have an incredible influence on what comes next…II. New Traditions of RomanticismOutline of Current LectureI. Berlioz’s Compositional StyleCurrent LectureI. Berlioz’s Compositional Style a. Hector Berlioz lived from 1803-1869.b. Berlioz’s imagination was set on fire by stories and dramatic compositions. c. Symphony Fantastique is one of his most popular works.i. Written under an opium hallucination, Berlioz dreams he murders his beloved and then must be executed as a result. ii. Music is almost programmatic in effect. 1. The magic of the ball in movement 22. The theme of the beloved floating through all the movements, sometimes in clarity, other times distorted shows how Berlioz’s mind becomes twisted and perverted under the influence of opium3. Elements of orchestral characterization (i.e. head being chopped off in the celli and double basses) help to convey the storyline in a vivid way.d. In La Damnation de Faust, the same thing happens.i. The orchestra sets off with colorful and picturesque details that tell the storyline that Berlioz is trying to present. 1. One example of this is Berlioz’s use of tritones. 2. Berlioz was fascinated with the diabolical, with the bizarre, with the grotesque, with the strange, and with the outlandish.ii. Beethoven had moved away from the ideas of passion balanced with reason and order…Berlioz moved towards the ideas of a complete and all-consuming passion of extremes, chaos, and
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