Promt: (Read the readings I upload and use only the sources from the readings I upload!!!!) Berliozs Symphonie fantastic and Brahms Symphony No. 1 are works that differ widely in their approach to symphonic music. Your paper will discuss these differences and draw them into a larger historical and cultural context. In what ways might you argue that both composers/works continue a tradition inherited from Beethoven? What do these differences say about the symphonys relationship to Romantic beliefs about the virtues of absolute music and program music? Back up your argument by citing sources from the reading above. (Use no other sources. Use only the source I upload)
The form of my paper should be:
1st paragraph: A very brief introduction, stating the thesis about different approaches to the post-Beethoven
symphonic tradition that your paper will illustrate.
2nd paragraph: A discussion of Berliozs Symphonie fantastique. What were the composers aesthetic
priorities? How were they worked into the symphonys musical features? How does this
work relate to Romantic ideas on the merits of program music?
3rd paragraph: A similar discussion of Brahms Symphony No. 1. How does this work relate to Romantic
ideas on the merits of absolute music?
4th paragraph: Compare Berliozs Symphonie fantastique and Brahms Symphony No. 1. What’s the difference? Or what’s the similarity?
5th paragraph: Conclusion
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