romantic period Flashcards
(7 cards)
Mvt. 1
Dreams, passions of the suffering artist.
vulnerable, characteristic pauses, instruments acting human, fixation
about desire and unachievable love
Mvt. 2
A Ball
imaginary ball, glittering harps, dreamy hazy lovely
about yearning
Mvt. 3
Scene in the fields
based on alpnhorn, written for english horn and oboe, difficult intimate composition, delicate tender, tremello violin
about imagining his love with another
Mvt. 4
March to the scaffold
opium delusion song, menacing cello and bass, sinister imagination
executed at scaffold with head chopped off for killing his lover in his opium dream
Mvt. 5
Dream of a witches sabbath
lethal opium dose, di es ere, becomes fugue, locked in a room to write fugue, harriet realizes it’s all about her and marries him so he doesn’t kill himself
What’s symphonie fantastique about
artist vision about life of a self destructive passionate artist
