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Hector Berlioz | First important French romantic composer, unconventional style music, had to put performances on at his own expense |
Programmatic music | Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene |
Symphonie Fantastique | program symphony, 5-movement program symphony |
Romeo and Juliet and Carnaval | examples of Programmatic music |
Absolute Music | nonprogram music |
Symphonie Fantastique additions | Cow bells, 4 kettle drums, violins striking strings |
Irregular and | assymmetrical forms |
Symphonie Fantastique was | Berlioz's passion for Shakespeare actress Harriet Smithson |
Idee fixe | (fixed idea)-single melody to represent the beloved |
Symphonie Fantastique Movement 4 | March to Scaffold |
Dreams that he murdered his beloved and has been condemned to death | Movement 4 |
Clarinet | idee fixe interrupted by guillotine |
Pizzicato | bouncing head |
Peter Ilyich Rchaikovsky | from Russia, 6 symphonies, instrumental concertos, ballets |
Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker | works of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Nationalism | Russian folk song influence during period of Tchaikovsky |
Romeo and Juliet | Concert Overture, Sonata form with intro, programmatic |
Theme of Romeo and Juliet | Love triumphs over death; Love theme most famous |