Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

• The song was written when Berlioz found out the actress Harriet Smithson has a boyfriend
• Berlioz uses opium
• This piece is the first of five movemnts
• The tonality of the piece is C minor
• The piece modulates of G major
• There are 90 instruments in this piece of music
• The dynamics change of ppp to ff
• The genre of this piece of music is programme music
• The piece was created during the romantic time period
• At the begining of the piece of music it is monophonic and the rest it is melody dominated homophony
• Rhythmic features of the piece include syncopation, triplets, sextuplets, cross rhythms, push rhythms, swing rhythms ,semiquavers
• Articulation: arco, pizzicato, tremolo, double stopping
• The structure of the piece is sonata form
• Melodic Feautres: descending sequences  and ascending melodies, chromatic scales,  scalic passages, extreme leaps and intervals,
• Ornamentation features are: acciaccaturas, trills,  lower mordents and appoggiaturas,
• Harmonic Features: Suspensions, dissonance, dominant 7th,
• The tonality of the piece is Ambiguous and unsettled
• The cadences of this piece are perfect and plagal
• There is a relative major modulation