Symphonie Fantastique
- Created by: poppyisdotty
- Created on: 24-04-19 11:12
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- Symphonie Fantastique - General Features
- Dynamics
- ff at climax of Witches' Sabbath
- ff to represent guillotine/chopping of head
- Articulation
- Generally detailed throughout
- Con sordini (with mute) in mvt 1
- Tremolo in strings and timpani to represent thunder
- Pizzicato to represent falling head
- Col legno in mvt 5
- Rhythm
- Time signatures
- 2/4 in mvt 1 also
- 3/8 in mvt 2
- 6/8 in mvt 3 and mvt 5
- 4/4 in mvt 1 and intro of mvt 5
- Idee fixe has an anacrusis
- syncopation and cross rhythms
- Time signatures
- Context
- 1: Sees woman and falls in love
- 2: Is haunted by thought of woman
- 3: Hears Shepards talking and feels lonely
- 4: Takes opium and dreams about killing beloved and watches his own beheading
- 5: Monsters etc come to his funeral and beloved appears as a witch
- Texture
- Frequent change of texture throughout
- Polyphony
- Use of countermelodies to create polyphony in mvt 1 and 2
- mvt 4 and 5 also have polyphonic passages
- Homophony
- all movements have some homohony
- Antiphony in mvt 3 to depict `Shepard's conversation
- Structure
- Movement 1: loose sonata form with introduction
- Movement 2: ternary form with intro and coda
- Movement 3: Ternary form with coda
- Movement 4: irregular. Intro, descending theme, march theme, transition, development, coda.
- Movement 5: 4 sections - before funeral, dies irea, witches dance, chaos.
- Melody
- Idée fixe to represent love interest
- Heavy use of counter-melodies
- Broken chords used as accompanim-ent
- Mostly disjunct
- Wide tessitura
- Instruments
- Strings: standard as well as two harps
- Both harps only used at the same time in mvt 2
- Violins and violas split into 8 parts in mvt 5
- Woodwind: flutes, piccolo, oboes, cor anglais, clarinets, Eb clarinet, bassoons
- Oboe (offstage) and cor anglais for Shepard's convo in mvt 3
- Eb clarinet plays distorted idee fixe in very high register in mvt 5
- Brass: French horns, cornets, trumpets, trombones, tubas
- Cornet solo in mvt 2
- Percussion: timpani, assorted percussion, bells in C and G
- Distant thunder at end of mvt 3 and start of mvt 4
- Strings: standard as well as two harps
- Tempo
- Movement 1: Largo and Molto Allegro
- Movement 2: allegro non troppo
- Movement 3: Adagio
- Movement 4: allegretto non troppo
- Movement 5: Largo and allegro
- Harmony
- Main Keys
- 1: C minor
- 2: A major
- 3: F major
- 4: G minor
- 5: Eb major
- Heavy use of chromaticism
- Frequent changes between major and mionr in all movements
- Main Keys
- Dynamics
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