Symphonie Fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is quite possibly one of the most important and representative pieces of the Romantic period‚ and is still very popular to this day. The first performance took place at the Paris Conservatoire in December 1830. In many aspects Symphonie Fantastique and J.M.W. Turner’s “Slave Ship” are very similar. Romanticism was a movement during the mid to late 1700’s in Europe; this was around the time of the Industrial
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Hector Berlioz Berlioz was born in 1803 near Lyon‚ France. His father was a physician. Berlioz began his music studies at the age of twelve‚ learning to play the guitar and flute‚ but not piano. He went to Paris to study medicine‚ but eventually lost interest and began to pursue a career in music. In 1826‚ he began his studies at the Paris Conservatoire. He fell under the spell of Beethoven’s music. In 1830‚ after three failed attempts‚ he was finally awarded the Prix de Rome. The same year‚ his
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it’s gifts. He gains pleasure from the scenery and reminisces about how nature inspired him even in his younger days‚ how it what he was looking at would possibly inspire him in later days. Of the Romantic composers we learned about‚ I feel Hector Berlioz has the most similar feel to his music to Wordsworth poems. Wordsworth has his beliefs based in nature while Berlioz’s music has a fantasy feel that is almost like ballet with more faerie like sound. I feel
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Casual Listener Referential Listener Critical Listener Perceptive Listener Casual listeners are probably the most common type of listeners. So‚ what is a casual listener? This type of listener likes having music playing‚ filling the environment with sounds. Whether present as a background to drive‚ study‚ work‚ exercise‚ or hang out with friends‚ music is an accompaniment to the casual listener’s daily activities. Sometimes the music simply mask the sounds of a noisy street. The casual
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Hector Berlioz‚ son of Louis Berlioz and Marie Antoinette‚ born in France at the La Cote- Saint- Andre in December 1803‚ lived a great life to be a well-known French Romantic Composer. Hector did not start studying music till age 12 and with the lack of support of his parents never learned to play the piano. His lack of knowledge of ability to play the piano was both beneficial and detrimental to his works later in life as a composer. As he grew older‚ his parents pushed him towards studies in the
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way is to look at this is a mostly subjective manner. That said‚ I will attempt to do my best by looking at the examining the composition and what it reminded me of at that point in the song. I will then compare and contrast the song. First I will examine Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath of Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz but because I believe that it is an extremely important part
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I always identify myself as a listener. If I do not know how to respond to others‚ then I should put myself into the listener role. After I studied the chapter‚ I realized that I am not a good listener. To my understanding‚ a good listener is better at observing a person’s expressions and weigh his/her words carefully and know how to respond. Unfortunately‚ I always mess up with the responses‚ and sometimes I cannot catch the main point from the speaker. There was a time‚ one of my
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there are two kinds of points of view: the first-person point of view‚ and the third-person point of view. In the first-person point of view a fictitious observer tells us what he or she saw‚ heard‚ concluded‚ and thought and is usually characterized by the use of the pronoun “I”. The speaker or narrator may sometimes seem to be the author speaking directly using an authorial voice. For example‚ Nick Carraway in “The Great Gatsby” tells the story in a first-person point of view‚ sharing with the reader
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Point Of View December 4‚ 2011 E block The three points of view are first person‚ third person limited‚ and third person omniscient. First person is when the narrator is a character in the story. Third limited is telling from one characters perspective‚ and omniscient is an all seeing‚ all knowing narrator. Situational irony is defined as a contradiction between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. Narrator point of view creates situational irony
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the high waves that are menacing their existence (paragraph 9). At about paragraph 49‚ however‚ the speaker shifts his concentration primarily to the correspondent‚ while he describes the other men more dramatically. Might we assume that at this point‚ Crane is merging the speaker of the story with his own voice‚ as nearly as we can determine it? Throughout‚ the speaker introduces some of his own ideas‚ and also‚ at times‚ speaks ironically. This accounts for some of the more humorous expressions
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