Notes on Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
I. Reveries, passions
New city – Expectation, hopes, opportunities
new start.
celebration overexcitement
theme emerges from chaos
optomistic
(settling? becoming familiar)
ending
last 30 seconds
calm
at peace
II. Ballroom
Dream like, (obsession?), distracted
playful, light
turns darker
theme isolated. becomes more energetic. waltz, sweeps up
everything else
left alone, dive back into (fantasy)



