Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - March To The Scaffold

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - March To The Scaffold

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Music

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• Berlioz
• Symphonie
• Fantastique
• March
• To
• The
• Scaffold
• classical
• music

[scarecrowpa]

I'm surprised this march isn't used more often as a processional at weddings

[jjmsmusic]

The bassoon is the best part of this piece.

[lednibrusle]

@scarecrowpa I think I will use it ;)

[Fireballgf1]

@DeaThreeper5 Check out the song bayou breakdown... Now thats a fast painful song

[Fireballgf1]

@DeaThreeper5 I think its a pretty easy song, we are playingit for concert contests... What do you play....?

[Fireballgf1]

Actually guys.. The writer fell madly in love with a woman in real life, but she thought he was crazy... He has dream about it... And writes about the dream in music form... She figured out the song was about her... And fell madly in love with him... Turns out she they spoke different languages... But they got married and lived happily ever after...

[MrAtlantos]

@lostinspace94

I wasn't trying to start a debate. I was expressing the version I knew.

LOL

But, whatever.

[lostinspace94]

@MrAtlantos hahahaha i mean, there are probably hundreds of different versions of the same story since since its such an old piece, theres no use in trying to debate which one is more likely. lmao. but i heard my story from my music theory teacher whos whole life has been dedicated to stuff like this. lol.

[MrAtlantos]

@lostinspace94

I was told this version of the story by my father, who knows a lot about classical music. I mean, he could be wrong, but this is the version I know and it sounds right.

[MrAtlantos]

@lostinspace94

I knew the story differently.

I was told the guy was Berlioz himself. The first movement is kind of a description of Berlioz's love. The next two movements are like a dream in which Berlioz is with the woman he loves, and everything is perfect. Then, on the fourth movement, she is found guilty of a crime and executed (supposedly Berlioz tried to commit suicide while making this movement). On the last movement, he revives her, but she comes back as a witch.

[lostinspace94]

@scarecrowpa ok. im glad it was the first... cuz at first i thot you were someone who didnt know anything about music stating something that was completely wrong... but you are most definitely correct, the story makes your comment hilarious. and i hope i didnt make you mad by posting the story in my comment, is was as much to explain to everyone else why your comment makes sense as it was to "correct" you... so i apologize if i offended you. lol.

[scarecrowpa]

@lostinspace94 it's the sick sense of humor, or maybe an overactive sense of irony. I do know the story, that's what I though made my original statement funny. Now I find it hilarious that some fans of classical/orchestral music are so literal-minded and possibly humor-inhibited. Knowing the story should make the joke apparent, others who don't know the story would probably think "yeah, that might make a good wedding processional ..."