What's the story in March to the Scaffold?!


Question: What's the story in March to the Scaffold!?
All I know about the guy is that in the end, he doesn't get the girl he wanted and his head gets chopped off!. Please don't give me critiques or anything like that!. I just want the story!. Thanks!.Www@Enter-QA@Com


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Here is a quick synopsis!.!.!.!. March to the Scaffolds is the 4th movement of Symphonie fantastique composed by Hector Berlioz!.

Berlioz fell in love with Irish actress Harriet Smithson!. He tried desperately to get her attention by sending her letters which none she replied to!. He wrote Symphonie fantastique to expressive his love for her!.

The symphony uses the idea of idee fixe which is recurring theme that is often transformed or varied!. The idee fixe represents Harriet Smithson!. The use of the idee fixe also unifies the piece and allows the piece to by cyclic!. The main idea of the piece is a young lover's delirium after taking opium!.

First Movement - Reveries, Passions
The Young Lover - a musician sees his dream girl for the very first time!. It is here that the idee fixe is first heard in flutes and violins!. However the recurrent theme is often doubled or manipulated to create a traumatic mood!. the piece begins with a dreamy state the goes into furry to express jealousy and torment of not meeting his beloved and the back to dreamy!.

Second Movement - A Ball
This movement is a waltz!. The young lover is at a dance, the ultimate event during the 1800's!. The ball was always the most important event that could be held!. The idee fixe interupts the theme of the ball twice to represent the young lovers fascination over his beloved!.

Third Movement - Scene in the Fields
The use of English horn and oboe give the movement a pastoral feel!. The lover is in a field (represents Berlioz when he use to visit his grandparents)!. He hears shepards in the background piping a beautiful melody!. He dreams of his beloved!. The idee fixe is heard several times however, the pastoral feel is lost when the timpani beings signifying a thunder storm!. It starts of softly demonstrating that the storm is far away but the music gets louder representing the storm moving closer and closer!.

Fourth Movement - March to the Scaffold
The lover dreams that he has killed his beloved, he is tried in court and scentenced to death by guillotine (the form of death used in France through the French Revolution)!. The dimpanis signify the solemn march to the guillotine!. Clarinets play the idee fixe as the lover thinks of her as he approaches death!.

Fifth Movement - Witches Sabbath
The lover sees his own funeral!. There are witches, sorcerers, and trolls!. The music is much like a Requiem!. the idee fixe is transformed to and sounds devilish and represents his beloved mocking him!. The Dies irae is heard in the low strings!.

One of the first pieces to be completely programmatic!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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