The movement that most called my attention was the fifth movement, "Songe d'une nuit du sabbat" / "Dream of the Night of the Sabbath." At first, when I heard the first instruments I recognized it from a horror movie, it brought me the feeling of a dark and scary story. Then, I read the program notes when I saw I was right, it was about ghosts, monsters, strange noises, bursts of laughter, and distant cries. He was very good in showing that because since the first melody of the first instrument I could notice the story he was trying to show in the piece, so I believe …show more content…
The violins and violas were essential to produce a clattering sound and creating an eerie effect of skeletons dancing. When playing together, the instruments show the drama, the dark, and the scary part of the piece "The belove melody appears again, but it has lost its character of nobility and shyness," "it is she, coming to join the sabbath.—A roar of joy at her arrival.—She takes part in the devilish orgy.—Funeral knell, burlesque parody of the Dies irae, sabbath round-dance. The sabbath round and the Dies irae combined." Berlioz was unbelievable when we wrote this piece. Every time I heard I imagined myself running away from the ghosts in a dark house. He made the listeners feel in the same situation that he was when he wrote the