Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture PDF

**[Tchaikovsky-Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture]** **Tchaikovsky Life:** - Born in 1840 - Studied law and worked as civil servant - Professor of theory and harmony at Moscow conservatory - Travelled the USA and Europe - Died of cholera in 1893 - Other compositions-swan lake and t...

**[Tchaikovsky-Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture]** **Tchaikovsky Life:** - Born in 1840 - Studied law and worked as civil servant - Professor of theory and harmony at Moscow conservatory - Travelled the USA and Europe - Died of cholera in 1893 - Other compositions-swan lake and the nut cracker **Tchaikovsky Style:** - New combinations-muted divided violins and cor anglais - Semiquaver scales in accompaniment - Descending bass lines - Using sequences to grow a melody - Contrasting keys and tempos - Unexpected keys eg love theme-Db major instead of D major **Intro:** - F sharp minor, homophonic - [Friar Lawrence theme] - Melody on clarinet-accompaniment in second clarinet and bassoons - Development of opening theme heard on strings - Woodwind plays melody, strings accompany - Pizzicato strings - Flute and oboe play theme - Tempo change-allegro - Theme in antiphonal dialogue-woodwind, horns+viola - Timpani roll **Exposition:** - B minor - [Strife theme] - Strings, woodwind and horn - Ascending and descending scales on strings - Antiphonal dialogue between strings and woodwind - Rushing strings - Step movement - Syncopated chords on woodwind brass and percussion - Rushing strings - Bridge passage - Lighter texture-instruments drop out until only horn, cello and bass remains - [Love Theme Part A]-played by cor anglais and viola first time - D flat major - Syncopated accompaniment in horns - [Love Theme Part B]-crotchet rhythm, muted(con sord) divided strings - Rising scale on flute and oboe leads to love theme repeated - [Love Theme 2^nd^ time]-octave higher, played on flute and oboe - Horn descending in semitone interval-imitates crying - Swaying quaver accompaniment in strings - Harp playing crotchet rhythm, block chords - Instruments drop out, codetta (mini ending) **Development** - No key signature but playing in the scale of B minor - Motif for [strife theme] - Dialogue between strings and wind - [Friar Lawrence] motif played in horns - Represents feuding families and mediation - Syncopated strings - Semitone motif on woodwind - Sustained d in low strings - Antiphonal dialogue wind answers strings - Everything a semitone higher - Tonality not certain highlights the strife feeling -- programme music - Tune in trumpet on beat, accompaniment syncopated Bm chords - Rising scales on strings **Recapitulation:** - Strife theme in key of Bm - First time played forte, second time played fortissimo - Richer texture, horns playing in octaves - Trumpet, trombone, tuba, cymbal and bass drum added - Ascending and Descending scales on woodwind and strings - Piccolo is added - [Love Theme Part B] is played first - In D major instead of D flat major - Originally played in muted divided strings, now oboe and clarinet - Chromatic rising scale in strings leading into [Love Theme Part A] - Tune played in piccolo, violins, viola and cello - Triplet accompaniment in woodwind-repeated notes - Timpani enters - Alargando-slowed down **Coda:** - Timpani playing triplet rhythm represents the death - Bassoon, violin and cello play funeral sequence - Hymn tune in the wind - [Love theme] on strings in octaves - Syncopated rhythm in wind - Descending line in cellos and basses - Timpani roll fortissimo - Repeated B major notes and chords - Tutti-everyone