| A | B |
| 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 |