What are the five movements of Symphonie Fantastique?

What are the five movements of Symphonie Fantastique?

Movements

• “Rêveries – Passions” (Reveries – Passions) – C minor/C major.
• “Un bal” (A Ball) – A major.
• “Scène aux champs” (Scene in the Fields) – F major.
• “Marche au supplice” (March to the Scaffold) – G minor.
• “Songe d’une nuit du sabbat” (Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath) – C minor/C major.

What is special about Symphonie Fantastique?

Symphonie fantastique is an epic for a huge orchestra. Through its movements, it tells the story of an artist’s self-destructive passion for a beautiful woman. The symphony describes his obsession and dreams, tantrums and moments of tenderness, and visions of suicide and murder, ecstasy and despair.

What did Berlioz call the recurring theme used in his Symphonie Fantastique?

idée fixe

Is Symphonie Fantastique homophonic?

A homophonic chordal texture is presented in the Religiosamente ending (bar 511). Central to the melodic writing of Symphonie Fantastique is the idée fixe (a recurring theme which serves as a structural device). This theme is heard in all five movements of the work. It is then repeated, altered down a fourth in bar 80.

What movies has Symphonie Fantastique been in?

• “Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)”
• Film: “The Black Cat” (1934)
• “Black Angels”
• Film: “The Exorcist” (1973)
• “Symphonie Fantastique”
• Film: “The Shining” (1980)
• “Danse Macabre”
• Film: “Tombstone” (1993)

What is the idée fixe in Symphonie Fantastique?

Idée fixe (Fr.: ‘obsession’) A term coined by Berlioz to denote a musical idea used obsessively. When in 1830 he applied it to the principal theme of his Symphonie fantastique, it was a new term in the French language.

What purpose did the Dies Irae melody have in Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique?

A tradition of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred vocal music in the early European Catholic church. The Dies irae theme used in the fifth movement, Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath, of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique was originally a Gregorian chant as part of the Catholic Requiem Mass.

Why was program music so important in the Romantic era?

Program music particularly flourished in the Romantic era. Composers believed that the dynamics of sound that were newly possible in the Romantic orchestra of the era allowed them to focus on emotions and other intangible aspects of life much more than during the Baroque or Classical eras.