Programmatic Music

Programmatic Music

Piece of music that tells a story

Hector Berloiz (1803-1869)

French Romantic ComposerMusical JournalistFirst Modern ConductorMentally Unstable(Bro’s Crazy!)

Berlioz (continued)

Wrote a book on OrchestrationStudied medicine then switched to musicPreferred to perform with large

orchestras

Symphonie Fantastique

5 movement pieceWritten in 1830Tells a story about a musician that falls

in love with a woman

Movements

I: Rêveries - Passions II: Un bal - A Ball III: Scène aux champs - Scene in the Fields IV: Marche au supplice - March to the Scaffold V: Songe d'une nuit de sabbat - Dreams of a

Witches' Sabbath