This type of music makes me feel alive more than other type of music out there. It seems to activate my brain, and makes me feel like I can do anything. am going crazy, for I do not care, for now I just feel inspired.
at 4:45, the two strings you hear playing is supposed to represent the main character's head bouncing down the stairs as he is killed from the guillotine
i love to see how all the musicians are so different from one another, different ages and races and styles. Awesome to see how music can cross so many boarders.
A dull sound of heavy footsteps follows without transition the loudest outbursts. At the end of the march, the first four bars of the idée fixe reappear like a final thought of love interrupted by the fatal blow when his head bounced down the steps.
The Synphony fantastique ends with the 5th mvt, the dreams of a Witches' Sabbat.
The fist mvt can be summed up as a musing, as ferdiness. He remembers his love. In the second movement, the young musicer went to a ball, and sees his truelove. The third one takes place in the country, he battened there, but suddenly, he imagined that the lady could cheat him... In this movement, the forth, he killed his love, and he was sentenced to death. He was conducted to the place of execution going along with a march, that is sometimes sombre and wild, and sometimes brilliant and solemn.
This masterpiece of Berlioz is kind of an autobiography. Hector Berlioz fell in love with the actress H. Smithson. But his love was unanswered. To get over his heartsickness, the composer wrote this "synphony fantastique". It is arranged in 5 movements. This piece tells the story of a young musician who poisened himself with opium. He is not strong enough to wish his death but fell in kind of "dream". In this dream, he appreciates everything as music. His feelings, his memorys etc.
What a gruesome little movement...the saddest part is the return of the idée fixe via the solo clarinet before it gets CHOPPED OFF by the rest of the orchestra...
The video statistics say that this video is most popular with guys between the ages of 35-54, so i hope i'm not the only 18 year old who would rather die young than live a life without this kind of music.
It's interesting that the lead trombonist wasn't playing an alto trombone. The whole part is in the alto clef and it goes out of the range of most professional tenor trombone players.
@lucasofee A lot of pieces marked in alto clef for the 1st part don't mean its meant for an alto trombone. And if you're a professional tenor player and can't hit that E flat you don't deserve to be a professional. A lot of people play it on tenor, and Berlioz is said to have disliked the sound of an alto. Although apparently he did mark in the score for an alto for this.
@cysotbone621 No need to get hostile bro, I'm sure you can hit that Eb on tenor and I'll keep you in mind whenever I need to know if someone deserves to be a professional trombonist or not. Wow, it's so great to have a conversation with the leading authority on Trombone. Thank you for your words of wisdom.
@lucasofee Anytime bro. I wasn't being hostile at all, just saying its not impossible to play on tenor but you're right because it technically was meant for alto. My comment about the E-flat wasn't directed towards you, just a general statement, because theres plenty of rep where you have to. Sorry if it came off that way though
Also, I love this movement! I'm playing this piece at NYSSSA, the summer music orchestral studies camp I'm currently at. auditions tomorrow, probably on this movement. i love it!
@mugsi the conductor is highly important! he draws the emotion and intensity (or delicacy) out of music. most good musicians use the music nearly as a guide, but constantly watch ..or stare down...the conductor. you'd think he's not necessary but really he is. though, yes, they could play without him, he still plays a huge role in also managing the tempo. he's not just waving his arms for nothing, though. and agreed with @wispybutt . i can't even describe. hahaha. orchestral musician here!:)
@saxyviolist @wispybutt Well, if you say so I guess. But I have the distinct feeling that if I were to replace the conductor in this movement and started flailing and flapping my arms madly like a hummingbird on steroids, people would play exactly as they would do with him.
No. You do realize the conductor is conducting the piece to his interpretation? Besides keeping the time, he has to listen and keep balance between each section (eg. ensuring important lines and melodies don't get trumped by accompaniment). You say the orchestra would play the same way if you were to conduct? No. If they do, a) it won't sound as good b) only because they've practiced the piece. Try doing it with a brand new piece of music. Lets see how you do then.
@Mugsi the conductor is like the human metronome. Not only this, but they have to be able to pick up every single sound coming from each instrument and section. he has to set the tone, speeds, moods etc etc. He is their leader! :)
@MsFloopdedoop Hmm. You make it sound as if it's quite difficult without him. Surely it shouldn't be too vexing? I mean they probably rehearse the poop right out of themselves before each performance?
I'm just wondering why he'd marry Harriet after all these strange dreams he's been having? =A= I mean, 'oho, I killed my love and she danced by my execution in a dream! I think I'll marry her."
I think it is amazing how a deeply-rooted and culturally rich far-eastern country such as Japan has so willingly and enthusiastically embraced Western music. Japanese discipline and rigorous work ethics has joined with Western musical innovation and grandiosity, producing such a wonderful performance. The Japanese are fantastic musicians.
@keetner Well, I took a Music Appreciation class this semester, so I was just going through these videos a few days ago, trying to identify some of the concepts I learned. I just think a culture that is so completely different from the US' embracing western music is really interesting.
@uranodavid Have you studied history? You might find that Japan has been embracing western ideas for quite a while, and for reasons other than music as well :P
@budemma45 Well, of course xD I just meant it in a very general way... I mean... Japan and the US were separated by time and space for hundreds and hundreds of years... and a very short time-span you see Japan just taking in all that is Western. Bu, I see what you mean, haha, I guess pretty much the entire world has been embracing Western culture for some time. I just made a general observation :)
So by "Western" do you mean US then? Because I don't see how it has much to do with the US when Berlioz was French. And it actually doesn't surprise me too much if ideas were traded between Europe and Asia...cause back in the late 19th century when transportation was becoming more sophisticated, it was really common for people from all over the place to trade ideas and the like (like music, yay!). Heck, look at "Madame Butterfly" - an opera by Italians, heh :P
@keetner I just meant "Western" in a general sense, forget about the US. And yes, Madam Butterfly is a great example of this exchange of ideas. But when you think of Japan, do you think of operas, symphonic poems, or programmatic music? I don't. So, it's like watching a soccer player with a basketball - it doesn't look very natural, but it doesn't mean the soccer player can't play basketball (or play it well, for that matter). I don't know how good of an analogy that was, haha.
Wowww,I'm in 7th grade and we played this. Hahaha,it makes it seem like we were playing 1/10 of the speed. Also,the flutes(and sometimes clarinets) played where viloins were playing in this.
I like it a little more neurotic. In this music, mental health is overated. A lot more snap is needed from the trumpets when they come in with the tune. A hair faster wouldn't hurt.
@Xebonyeyezx I took a music appreciation class in school and one of the people I learned about was Berlioz. He quit medicine to become a composer. The storyline is he's madly in love with an actress, and he pursues her to the point where he kills her from insanity. Then, this movement is about his conflicting feelings of happiness and dread as he is marched to the scaffold. Then, in the last movement, his beloved becomes a witch and haunts him. In real life, he was a heroine addict. His son too.
i dont see how people can view this music and say their is so much meaning in it... :/ i truly dont. how am i supposed to visualize what the songs REALLY describing with just listening to the strings, percussions, woodwinds, ect... if u want me visualizing. Put lyrics <3
@BrawlerZant you should be able to pick up on some of the tones and stuff, and as a cheat, the japanese in the video is telling you what's going on lol
@BrawlerZant If you're not getting any meaning, listen harder. Listen to the speed, tone, and dynamics. A picture is a thousand words, right? Well, a good piece of music is 1000 pictures.
@Raipikachu@BrawlerZant Which means a good piece of music is a million words! Which is exactly what this is - a million words, a thousand pictures, a dramatic story of drug induced deams of execution (this movement) love (the clarinet solo near the end, where he sees his love right before) and a BOUNCING HEAD (the two beets after). Music really is a brilliant brilliant thing.
i herd this whole symphonie in music class and the meaning of all the movements was described to us and i find from the info we got about his meaning to is song and other info we were told of tht he and i think somewhat in simalar ways. i also found oher things simalar but i may just be crazy. i ussly am not into this style of music but i cant get enough of berlioz's music
I played bassoon yesterday for this piece, if my conductor had gone this speed we would have been fine, but he was taking it like 20 bpm faster than this, we had no chance on the big soli at 1:33 and so we sorta died there. It was horrible.
@Sandman515 If he did I sort of hope he tripped on the way there. It wasn't entirely his fault though, he did start it a bit too fast but the strings rushed on the way in. Of course we also added the repeat to the beginning that was supposed to be in at a double bar somewhere near the middle according to him, so not only did we fail... we failed twice. Oh, and did I mention? We only got 1 1/2 days to practice our music...
Psychedelic doesn't mean "art with drugs as it's main subject". Psychedelia attacks the psyche with all means possible (colors, imagery, harsh and loud sound, melody, rhythm - you name it). This piece doesn't focus on the psyche.
@whatshendrix I was actually being humorous, and I realize it doesn't mean just drug trips. But I have to disagree with you. The entire symphony deals with sounds based on the emmotions of the composer, and the unerlying story it tells. If you haven't yet, check out the "program notes" of the symphony, sometime.
haha my conductor described it was their out looking for the man, then the clarinet solo at the end is the man squealing for his life then the strings after that are his head rolling down haha
@nottravis28 It is reminiscent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'Kubla Khan' which was also an opium induced vision / dream. I suppose you could translate the title as 'Symphony of a Fantasy' - though I've had stranger dreams without opium.
I played this with an orchestra for the first time yestarday. The youth orchestra
I'm in sight read this and the 5th movement. Can't Wait until we smooth out the edges and get it sounding really good. I've almost got the entire 4th movement down and I'm about to put in a couple hours on the 5th, the string part from 4:01-4:22 is amazing on bass, and hard.
He dreams that he killed his beloved, that he has been condemned to die and is being led to the scaffold. The procession moves to the sound of a march somber and wild, now brilliant and solemn at the very end the fixed idea appears for an instant like the last thought of love interrupted by the fall of the axe.
I'm pretty sure the head lopped off was the girl Berlioz had an obsession with, Harriet. She rejected him, so he wrote this beautiful piece where it starts off sweet and dreamlike (as his initial feelings for Harriet were) and then each movement becomes slightly more intense (as his feelings turn towards anger for her refusal), until eventually he says "OFF WITH HER HEAD".
Ugh!! I can't find the answer to one of the questions on my unit study guide for art. I tried to look it up, but then I just came here... hoping HEARING something would know the answer to; "What happened in the fourth movement of Symphonie Fantastique"? How do you answer something like that!! Oh crap. Thre's a question just like it! except it's about the FIFTH MOVEMENT!! Joy to the world.
fourth movement is a march about how the prisoners feels through the process of execution. The bass drum at 1:12 to about 4:30 is the prisoners marching to the guillotine stage. the clarinet at 4:38-4:40 is the theme in the second movement and is like a flashback for the prisoner in the guillotine. after that is the death of the prisoner and how the crowd cheers on.
isn't the big dissonant chord that interrupts the idée fixe (ze clarinet) the guillotine? As if he saw (or thought he saw) his love just before he died?
I Saw this yesterday at the Sydney Opera house. It was amazing, and this same conductor - Pinchas Steinberg conducted the orchestra. I love this movement and also the 5th. Although the first 3 are certainly necessary to tell the story, and the last two movements juxtapose so nicely :)
I really love this movement. I play bass trombone and enjoy playing lower than the tuba and higher than the horns. and to anyone who does not know why Berlioz wrote this whole song, its because he was trying to win a girl over who he really liked. she didn't even go to the concert... then he planned to kill her after she had an "affair" even though they were never together.
Actually, it wasn't Smithson whom he had planned to kill, but another woman who he was engaged during his time at the academy in Rome. When he recieved a letter from her informing him she had left him to marry pleyel,the famous music publisher, he left the academy imediately, buying two pistols and a maid's costume, planning to enter her house in disguise, shoot her and commit suicide. Fortunately this plan didn't follow through.
This would sound so much better played at a slightly faster tempo. The one I have on my iPod spans 4 minutes and 31 seconds; it sounds much more brilliant than this.
This type of music makes me feel alive more than other type of music out there. It seems to activate my brain, and makes me feel like I can do anything. am going crazy, for I do not care, for now I just feel inspired.
DaHunt505 6 days ago
does age really matter? can't we all just listen to the music?
Pennybut 1 week ago
im 17, saw the CBSO play this last year... just amazing!!
PyroManiak180 2 weeks ago
am I the only 3 year old that LOVES this, why cant there be more 3 year olds like me
cheekytommy44 2 weeks ago 2
This movement is by far my favorite part of Symphonie Fantastique!!!
WASSUPFOOISH 1 month ago
thumbs up if your here because of music class
kissmymatzoh 1 month ago 9
at 4:45, the two strings you hear playing is supposed to represent the main character's head bouncing down the stairs as he is killed from the guillotine
PMartinez55 1 month ago 3
I don't see the violas. Where are they?
aii41 2 months ago
4:38
Clarinet: I'd just like to say, if you don't mind...
Maestro: shut up!
lol
luizcadu 2 months ago 5
got to listen formusic project :)
palerider0212 2 months ago
i love to see how all the musicians are so different from one another, different ages and races and styles. Awesome to see how music can cross so many boarders.
killerfriend94 2 months ago 3
Theres a reason only 731 out of 522,530 liked or disliked...
DaGraboidHacker 2 months ago
A dull sound of heavy footsteps follows without transition the loudest outbursts. At the end of the march, the first four bars of the idée fixe reappear like a final thought of love interrupted by the fatal blow when his head bounced down the steps.
The Synphony fantastique ends with the 5th mvt, the dreams of a Witches' Sabbat.
eviimarie 2 months ago
The fist mvt can be summed up as a musing, as ferdiness. He remembers his love. In the second movement, the young musicer went to a ball, and sees his truelove. The third one takes place in the country, he battened there, but suddenly, he imagined that the lady could cheat him... In this movement, the forth, he killed his love, and he was sentenced to death. He was conducted to the place of execution going along with a march, that is sometimes sombre and wild, and sometimes brilliant and solemn.
eviimarie 2 months ago
This masterpiece of Berlioz is kind of an autobiography. Hector Berlioz fell in love with the actress H. Smithson. But his love was unanswered. To get over his heartsickness, the composer wrote this "synphony fantastique". It is arranged in 5 movements. This piece tells the story of a young musician who poisened himself with opium. He is not strong enough to wish his death but fell in kind of "dream". In this dream, he appreciates everything as music. His feelings, his memorys etc.
eviimarie 2 months ago
look up Leonard Bernstein's "Berlioz takes a trip" for the explaination of this masterpiece.
it's on youtube. and one of the Young Peoples Concerts, too.
pmrossetti1 3 months ago
26 people hung themselves listening to this.
AndrewGilmore1986 3 months ago 3
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I just love the awkward claps at the end....this happens SO OFTEN it's not even funny
12saramore12 3 months ago
26 people have no taste in music.
stefey9 3 months ago
The Bass Trombone in this movement is probably what made Mendellsohn cry.
PapaBone69 3 months ago
Thanks 4 postin this I needed it to do homework
Clopyface1234 4 months ago
What a gruesome little movement...the saddest part is the return of the idée fixe via the solo clarinet before it gets CHOPPED OFF by the rest of the orchestra...
EDRO45 4 months ago
@EDRO45 who cares about the clarinet? The Bone Squad uses smashed clarinet dust to lube our slides. Get the reed out of your arse.
RubyIsSupperCool 3 months ago
Hey where's the saxophone section. I feel discriminated against. Long live tenor sax....
godley2 4 months ago
@godley2 I also play sax so don't take this the wrong way, but a saxophone has no place in a piece like this.
TheFoggVlog 4 months ago
@TheFoggVlog There was originally a ophicleide part, the forerunner of the saxophone, in the piece. But I agree, a sax wouldn't fit in with the style
blumieification 4 months ago
@blumieification
The ophicleide has nothing to do with saxophones. It was the forunner of the modern tuba and euphonium, and after the serpenteon
MelancholyBleeding 3 months ago
love the cello section in this movement although I'm a violin lol
Mrphe3000 4 months ago
@iwieldthetool I'm 14 and I share your feelings. I play trumpet in a youth orchestra and I would go crazy without it.
Gordontrek 5 months ago
@iwieldthetool No, you're not. =p
Pawnofhearts 5 months ago
The video statistics say that this video is most popular with guys between the ages of 35-54, so i hope i'm not the only 18 year old who would rather die young than live a life without this kind of music.
iwieldthetool 5 months ago 82
@iwieldthetool what a fag
TheSweatyfatguy 2 months ago
@iwieldthetool I'm 18 and in full agreement with ya
MrGeddylee2112 2 months ago
@iwieldthetool
You're not. I used to be 18, myself.
Sylderon 2 months ago
@iwieldthetool mm nope your not im 15 and i find this music is fantasticoo
undesisivej24 2 months ago
@iwieldthetool 15 and agree wholeheartedly.
RelytNosRedna 1 month ago
@iwieldthetool I'm 19 and you couldn't have said it any better.
Ferrariman601 3 weeks ago
It's interesting that the lead trombonist wasn't playing an alto trombone. The whole part is in the alto clef and it goes out of the range of most professional tenor trombone players.
lucasofee 6 months ago
@lucasofee A lot of pieces marked in alto clef for the 1st part don't mean its meant for an alto trombone. And if you're a professional tenor player and can't hit that E flat you don't deserve to be a professional. A lot of people play it on tenor, and Berlioz is said to have disliked the sound of an alto. Although apparently he did mark in the score for an alto for this.
cysotbone621 4 months ago
@cysotbone621 No need to get hostile bro, I'm sure you can hit that Eb on tenor and I'll keep you in mind whenever I need to know if someone deserves to be a professional trombonist or not. Wow, it's so great to have a conversation with the leading authority on Trombone. Thank you for your words of wisdom.
lucasofee 4 months ago
@lucasofee Anytime bro. I wasn't being hostile at all, just saying its not impossible to play on tenor but you're right because it technically was meant for alto. My comment about the E-flat wasn't directed towards you, just a general statement, because theres plenty of rep where you have to. Sorry if it came off that way though
cysotbone621 4 months ago
Also, I love this movement! I'm playing this piece at NYSSSA, the summer music orchestral studies camp I'm currently at. auditions tomorrow, probably on this movement. i love it!
saxyviolist 6 months ago
@mugsi the conductor is highly important! he draws the emotion and intensity (or delicacy) out of music. most good musicians use the music nearly as a guide, but constantly watch ..or stare down...the conductor. you'd think he's not necessary but really he is. though, yes, they could play without him, he still plays a huge role in also managing the tempo. he's not just waving his arms for nothing, though. and agreed with @wispybutt . i can't even describe. hahaha. orchestral musician here!:)
saxyviolist 6 months ago
@saxyviolist @wispybutt Well, if you say so I guess. But I have the distinct feeling that if I were to replace the conductor in this movement and started flailing and flapping my arms madly like a hummingbird on steroids, people would play exactly as they would do with him.
Mugsi 6 months ago
@Mugsi Well, you'd be wrong then.
bobbydimarzio 4 months ago
@Mugsi
No. You do realize the conductor is conducting the piece to his interpretation? Besides keeping the time, he has to listen and keep balance between each section (eg. ensuring important lines and melodies don't get trumped by accompaniment). You say the orchestra would play the same way if you were to conduct? No. If they do, a) it won't sound as good b) only because they've practiced the piece. Try doing it with a brand new piece of music. Lets see how you do then.
keetner 3 months ago
@Mugsi Well the conductor keeps the orchestra together. He's actually extremely important.
wispybutt 6 months ago in playlist history
I'm wondering. Is the conductor actually really necessary? All everyone has to do is read their sheet of music in front of them right?
Mugsi 6 months ago
@Mugsi the conductor is like the human metronome. Not only this, but they have to be able to pick up every single sound coming from each instrument and section. he has to set the tone, speeds, moods etc etc. He is their leader! :)
MsFloopdedoop 6 months ago
@MsFloopdedoop Hmm. You make it sound as if it's quite difficult without him. Surely it shouldn't be too vexing? I mean they probably rehearse the poop right out of themselves before each performance?
Mugsi 6 months ago
@Mugsi I'm sure if the conductor wasn't important, they would have done away with having a conductor a long time ago!
MsFloopdedoop 6 months ago
I'm just wondering why he'd marry Harriet after all these strange dreams he's been having? =A= I mean, 'oho, I killed my love and she danced by my execution in a dream! I think I'll marry her."
wispybutt 6 months ago
Such a grand celebration of Berlioz's own punishment by guillotine. Very happy for such an occasion. He must have had a good sense of humor.
TheMeanerKitty 8 months ago
The head roles at 4:45 (the massive chord), just after the idee fixe (played by the Eb Clarinet).
The last memories of his beloved, cut short by the blade.
ClassicalMania 8 months ago
when does the head role?
thekfactor27 8 months ago
この楽団はN響ですか？IS THIS NHKsymphony？
sapix21 8 months ago
man dreams he killed his wife so he really gets his head copped off haha
Legowizard137 8 months ago
I played that yesterday! Only... we didn't have strings... we were gangsterr
LindseyWallflower 9 months ago
Were playing this song in my middle school band ;)
Alyluvsrain 9 months ago
This music is what plays when god takes a shit.
frigs123 9 months ago 35
@frigs123 lmao
jorg39223 9 months ago
BASSSOOOOOOOON
PinkLipGlossKS 9 months ago
i fell in love with this movement the first time i heard it
bluefuzzysocks 9 months ago 3
@bluefuzzysocks that's what's just happening to me. haha
jmdb1994 9 months ago
I think it is amazing how a deeply-rooted and culturally rich far-eastern country such as Japan has so willingly and enthusiastically embraced Western music. Japanese discipline and rigorous work ethics has joined with Western musical innovation and grandiosity, producing such a wonderful performance. The Japanese are fantastic musicians.
uranodavid 9 months ago 2
@uranodavid
I don't see what the big deal is...
keetner 9 months ago
@keetner Well, I took a Music Appreciation class this semester, so I was just going through these videos a few days ago, trying to identify some of the concepts I learned. I just think a culture that is so completely different from the US' embracing western music is really interesting.
uranodavid 9 months ago
@uranodavid absolutely
MickB0529 5 months ago
@uranodavid Have you studied history? You might find that Japan has been embracing western ideas for quite a while, and for reasons other than music as well :P
budemma45 9 months ago
@budemma45 Well, of course xD I just meant it in a very general way... I mean... Japan and the US were separated by time and space for hundreds and hundreds of years... and a very short time-span you see Japan just taking in all that is Western. Bu, I see what you mean, haha, I guess pretty much the entire world has been embracing Western culture for some time. I just made a general observation :)
Cheers!
uranodavid 9 months ago
@uranodavid
So by "Western" do you mean US then? Because I don't see how it has much to do with the US when Berlioz was French. And it actually doesn't surprise me too much if ideas were traded between Europe and Asia...cause back in the late 19th century when transportation was becoming more sophisticated, it was really common for people from all over the place to trade ideas and the like (like music, yay!). Heck, look at "Madame Butterfly" - an opera by Italians, heh :P
keetner 9 months ago
@keetner I just meant "Western" in a general sense, forget about the US. And yes, Madam Butterfly is a great example of this exchange of ideas. But when you think of Japan, do you think of operas, symphonic poems, or programmatic music? I don't. So, it's like watching a soccer player with a basketball - it doesn't look very natural, but it doesn't mean the soccer player can't play basketball (or play it well, for that matter). I don't know how good of an analogy that was, haha.
uranodavid 9 months ago
@uranodavid
when i think of music and japan, i think joe hisaishi...
mikimoto231 9 months ago
@mikimoto231
I think of Nujabes
HipHopiz4Real 8 months ago
@keetner I guess I was referring to globalization in an indirect way, maybe it came out wrong.
uranodavid 9 months ago
Wowww,I'm in 7th grade and we played this. Hahaha,it makes it seem like we were playing 1/10 of the speed. Also,the flutes(and sometimes clarinets) played where viloins were playing in this.
PsychoAndTacm 10 months ago
@PsychoAndTacm
You actually played this in concert band??
Sounds like it'd be quite interesting...
keetner 10 months ago
@keetner yes,it was quite interseting. I took us forever and a half to get it right though.
PsychoAndTacm 9 months ago
love this movement my favourite... the whole Symphony is brilliant ! good owl Berlioz
lukopolo900 10 months ago
chills and a few tears,...why?
TheBoondoggler 10 months ago
My conductor asked the timpani to play louder, 5 times.
I'm in year 8 and I play 2nd violin. We play a bit faster and the horns play a bit more... Abruptly.
HexusOne 10 months ago
who is the conductor and which orchestra is performing this?thanks, need it for coursework, discography cheers
emerowland 10 months ago
@emerowland Look under the "show more". They've listed it.
OboeplayerZ 10 months ago
I like it a little more neurotic. In this music, mental health is overated. A lot more snap is needed from the trumpets when they come in with the tune. A hair faster wouldn't hurt.
presbyterosBassI 10 months ago
Bad conductor, Beast Basses, Timpony work a little better.
xicezonex 10 months ago
in this movement, the musicians play well but doesn't play with the necessary strength.
Iloveofrahaza87 11 months ago
who arranged this?
PinkLipGlossKS 11 months ago
the conductor's movements are uniform and unchanging; what's going on with that?
RedCloudBeechWaveAhh 11 months ago
STAR WARS!!!
blinktom11guitar 1 year ago
Sup
CThunderofLB 1 year ago
Berlioz was a nutcase for those of you who didnt know.
CThunderofLB 1 year ago
@CThunderofLB how so?
Xebonyeyezx 1 year ago
@Xebonyeyezx I took a music appreciation class in school and one of the people I learned about was Berlioz. He quit medicine to become a composer. The storyline is he's madly in love with an actress, and he pursues her to the point where he kills her from insanity. Then, this movement is about his conflicting feelings of happiness and dread as he is marched to the scaffold. Then, in the last movement, his beloved becomes a witch and haunts him. In real life, he was a heroine addict. His son too.
CThunderofLB 1 year ago
very good
AutumnSnake2011 1 year ago
i dont see how people can view this music and say their is so much meaning in it... :/ i truly dont. how am i supposed to visualize what the songs REALLY describing with just listening to the strings, percussions, woodwinds, ect... if u want me visualizing. Put lyrics <3
BrawlerZant 1 year ago
@BrawlerZant you should be able to pick up on some of the tones and stuff, and as a cheat, the japanese in the video is telling you what's going on lol
Zeomn 1 year ago
@Zeomn lol ya i was already taught what the symphonie is about in its diff parts. I just honestly dont get it.
BrawlerZant 1 year ago
@BrawlerZant If you're not getting any meaning, listen harder. Listen to the speed, tone, and dynamics. A picture is a thousand words, right? Well, a good piece of music is 1000 pictures.
Raipikachu 11 months ago 39
@Raipikachu Please write me a 1,000,000 word essay about this piece.
mattman82794 4 months ago
@mattman82794 Why would I do that? That's far too long. And even then, I might not capture the whole essence of the piece.
Raipikachu 4 months ago
@Raipikachu @BrawlerZant Which means a good piece of music is a million words! Which is exactly what this is - a million words, a thousand pictures, a dramatic story of drug induced deams of execution (this movement) love (the clarinet solo near the end, where he sees his love right before) and a BOUNCING HEAD (the two beets after). Music really is a brilliant brilliant thing.
TheFoggVlog 4 months ago
@Raipikachu can you tell me what Berlioz is trying to convey? im trying to understand the music... not quite there yet
KennyParkz 3 months ago
i herd this whole symphonie in music class and the meaning of all the movements was described to us and i find from the info we got about his meaning to is song and other info we were told of tht he and i think somewhat in simalar ways. i also found oher things simalar but i may just be crazy. i ussly am not into this style of music but i cant get enough of berlioz's music
squarecrackers 1 year ago
I played bassoon yesterday for this piece, if my conductor had gone this speed we would have been fine, but he was taking it like 20 bpm faster than this, we had no chance on the big soli at 1:33 and so we sorta died there. It was horrible.
LarryMoeCheese 1 year ago
@LarryMoeCheese
Maybe he had to use the restroom.
Sandman515 1 year ago
@Sandman515 If he did I sort of hope he tripped on the way there. It wasn't entirely his fault though, he did start it a bit too fast but the strings rushed on the way in. Of course we also added the repeat to the beginning that was supposed to be in at a double bar somewhere near the middle according to him, so not only did we fail... we failed twice. Oh, and did I mention? We only got 1 1/2 days to practice our music...
LarryMoeCheese 1 year ago
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emszutk09 1 year ago 2
I played this with my orchestra today!!! I was concert master for it :D
nightandaydifference 1 year ago
@nightandaydifference u sure u werent just on opium and imagined it.
boshfan25 1 year ago
sure they would he was on opium.alot of it.
bryceloveshillary 1 year ago
我愛上交響樂了
mori2881 1 year ago
His head is removed and bounces away... THE CROWD GOES WILD
Huddiethegreat 1 year ago 58
Wonderful and thought-provoking interpretation (as well as the whole symphony itself). It's a pleasure to listen to every single time.
Boomflame82 1 year ago
errmm its a farking march not a lets play lagoto notes song...
XxD3ADxTR33xX 1 year ago
@XxD3ADxTR33xX
errmmm itsa time to spell things correctly....
Yehboi96 1 year ago
absolutely love this movement....I never get bored of listening to it
mshyper00 1 year ago
i like it
tasteofchips 1 year ago
on the slow side.
timpanister73 1 year ago
lol in the non professional version i have, in the viola part toward the end, it says something like "head falls" hahaha i love this song!
superviolist15 1 year ago
@superviolist15 Is it all region music? I cant play this very well. YET but i will soon.
jthameschoir 1 year ago
@superviolist15 Mine does too! :D
wierdo1232123 8 months ago
What is the name of this orchestra
DealTurtle 1 year ago
@DealTurtle NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
GuitarFox200 1 year ago
opening was a bit slow...
horngeek8D 1 year ago
An entire symphony based on a a drug trip. And people thought the 60's were psychodellic.
normharris 1 year ago
@normharris
Psychedelic doesn't mean "art with drugs as it's main subject". Psychedelia attacks the psyche with all means possible (colors, imagery, harsh and loud sound, melody, rhythm - you name it). This piece doesn't focus on the psyche.
whatshendrix 1 year ago
@whatshendrix I was actually being humorous, and I realize it doesn't mean just drug trips. But I have to disagree with you. The entire symphony deals with sounds based on the emmotions of the composer, and the unerlying story it tells. If you haven't yet, check out the "program notes" of the symphony, sometime.
normharris 1 year ago
@normharris
I knew you weren't too serious about it :)
It's an emotional piece, but emotional doesn't mean psychedelic.
whatshendrix 1 year ago
I love the one person who almost clapped at the very end...! haha
samdajellybeenie14 1 year ago
It was hilarious when my conductor explained the storyline:
He walks up to the guillotine and right as he is about to get beheaded, looks up, sees his love *love theme*, BUT IT'S TOO LATE!
Down comes the guillotine, and... plunk, plunk. His head rolls down.
And the crowd cheers: Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!!
When I told my parents this, they were horrified!
CrazyCatMan13 1 year ago
@CrazyCatMan13
haha my conductor described it was their out looking for the man, then the clarinet solo at the end is the man squealing for his life then the strings after that are his head rolling down haha
nottravis28 1 year ago
@nottravis28 It is reminiscent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'Kubla Khan' which was also an opium induced vision / dream. I suppose you could translate the title as 'Symphony of a Fantasy' - though I've had stranger dreams without opium.
incorrigibleg 1 year ago
@nottravis28 Actually the clarinet solo is his love that is in the crowd. Not him.
JellyBean101978 1 year ago
i did my report on hector berlioz he is one sophisticated man
RAPWORDYO 1 year ago
tuba players must love Berlioz, haha
paranoid711 1 year ago
I played this with an orchestra for the first time yestarday. The youth orchestra
I'm in sight read this and the 5th movement. Can't Wait until we smooth out the edges and get it sounding really good. I've almost got the entire 4th movement down and I'm about to put in a couple hours on the 5th, the string part from 4:01-4:22 is amazing on bass, and hard.
aleksavortis 1 year ago
I'm feel so bad, I've stopped listening to my dude beethoven because of this symphony.
Kuzya3k 1 year ago
idée fixe (fixed idea)
He dreams that he killed his beloved, that he has been condemned to die and is being led to the scaffold. The procession moves to the sound of a march somber and wild, now brilliant and solemn at the very end the fixed idea appears for an instant like the last thought of love interrupted by the fall of the axe.
icydong 1 year ago
2:21
tuba ftw!
gestrumpet 1 year ago
@gestrumpet YESSSSSSSSSSSS
Nraw08 1 year ago
We're playing this in concert band! Beautiful!
AikiMaiAkaneSu 1 year ago
I read Berlioz wrote this in one night. WHOA!
coaster1000 1 year ago
@coaster1000
anything is possible when you're tripping balls, my friend.
Keira13 1 year ago
I love the trumpet line in this.
Keira13 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure the head lopped off was the girl Berlioz had an obsession with, Harriet. She rejected him, so he wrote this beautiful piece where it starts off sweet and dreamlike (as his initial feelings for Harriet were) and then each movement becomes slightly more intense (as his feelings turn towards anger for her refusal), until eventually he says "OFF WITH HER HEAD".
kmoposse 1 year ago
Berlioz was an interesing composer. Added to the orchestra. Made it big. Kinda a weird how he's witnessing his exacution.
rubikscubex2 1 year ago
Srry but all music viddeo comments are geeky. Lmoa his story is odd.
rubikscubex2 1 year ago
Wow this must have been one desperate man. The man must be one for love...
markusboyd3 1 year ago
@markusboyd3 good thing he got the girl. one would normal think writing a whole syphony would come off as stalker-esq
ggcpres 1 year ago
" Berlioz's ideal symphony orchaestra was to be a mass of 465 members" - Musical Encyclopedia
O.O wow!
Besides that random fact this is the best symphony of the Romantic Period!
violinistx100 1 year ago
Ugh!! I can't find the answer to one of the questions on my unit study guide for art. I tried to look it up, but then I just came here... hoping HEARING something would know the answer to; "What happened in the fourth movement of Symphonie Fantastique"? How do you answer something like that!! Oh crap. Thre's a question just like it! except it's about the FIFTH MOVEMENT!! Joy to the world.
butteredpopcorn221 1 year ago
fourth movement is a march about how the prisoners feels through the process of execution. The bass drum at 1:12 to about 4:30 is the prisoners marching to the guillotine stage. the clarinet at 4:38-4:40 is the theme in the second movement and is like a flashback for the prisoner in the guillotine. after that is the death of the prisoner and how the crowd cheers on.
I hope you understand.
Xline171 1 year ago
@Xline171
isn't the big dissonant chord that interrupts the idée fixe (ze clarinet) the guillotine? As if he saw (or thought he saw) his love just before he died?
Keira13 1 year ago
I Saw this yesterday at the Sydney Opera house. It was amazing, and this same conductor - Pinchas Steinberg conducted the orchestra. I love this movement and also the 5th. Although the first 3 are certainly necessary to tell the story, and the last two movements juxtapose so nicely :)
OMGedInStoresNearYou 1 year ago
this is the only movement, from any piece that i can recall from my MUS200 class back in freshman year. for good reason.
ibehedward 1 year ago
One of my favourites.
EmisoraRadioPatio 1 year ago
what an orchestrator berlioz was. This is awesome!
pantherleal 1 year ago 3
my favourite movement, the beginning is pure AWESOME.
zuzazla 1 year ago 2
wow
these are great players
you can see the first stand cellos almost stand up in 1:19
great musical ability
2 thumbs WAY up
scaryfruits 1 year ago 8
@scaryfruits i know you, your name is kevin, aint it?
AROUNDThEpArK 1 year ago
o wait nvm, its andrew.
AROUNDThEpArK 1 year ago 2
lol
scaryfruits 1 year ago
this is my audition piece
a GREAT work of art
scaryfruits 1 year ago 3
@scaryfruits do you play bassoon?
jacobflaschen 1 year ago
no
i play violin
scaryfruits 1 year ago
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tasteofchips 1 year ago
if you check out the info, you'll see that they're in japan.
pinkiflowerx 1 year ago 3
your statement alone is offensive, you racist shit-stain.
jaimejames13 1 year ago
Berlioz... maestro!!!
manitate 1 year ago
so scary.
crystalstarclan 1 year ago
*sensitive melody*
*BAM!!!*
*plunk* *plunk*
*DA-DAAA!!*
Still makes me lol.
His head bounces when it gets chopped off xD
draconic33 1 year ago 116
This has always been a shocking piece for me.....thoughts of guillotine,fears,death fanfares...really terrifying!
Mozart61 2 years ago
I really love this movement. I play bass trombone and enjoy playing lower than the tuba and higher than the horns. and to anyone who does not know why Berlioz wrote this whole song, its because he was trying to win a girl over who he really liked. she didn't even go to the concert... then he planned to kill her after she had an "affair" even though they were never together.
WrightTenorBone 2 years ago
Actually, it wasn't Smithson whom he had planned to kill, but another woman who he was engaged during his time at the academy in Rome. When he recieved a letter from her informing him she had left him to marry pleyel,the famous music publisher, he left the academy imediately, buying two pistols and a maid's costume, planning to enter her house in disguise, shoot her and commit suicide. Fortunately this plan didn't follow through.
sstuddert 2 years ago
As for smithson, she did attend a performance of the symphony, resulting in Her marrying Berlioz soon thereafter.
sstuddert 2 years ago
This would sound so much better played at a slightly faster tempo. The one I have on my iPod spans 4 minutes and 31 seconds; it sounds much more brilliant than this.
OriginalBasaliskos 2 years ago
I played this not too long ago, loved it. Go bassoon!!!!
13ElloJello 2 years ago
Whoops. Meant to send that comment to someone else. I suck. I love Berlioz though, and thank you for posting this.
Morcon5 2 years ago