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To: weegee

Berlioz's Symphonie fantanstique = the first stoner music in the modern Western tradition


10 posted on 09/14/2006 12:43:18 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (Clockwatcher Extraordinaire)
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To: Cyclopean Squid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_Fantastique

The symphony is a piece of program music which tells the story of "an artist gifted with a lively imagination" who has "poisoned himself with opium" in the "depths of despair" because of "hopeless love." There are five movements, which was unconventional for a symphony at the time:

11 posted on 09/14/2006 12:48:32 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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