Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Programme, Outline
  • Literary and Musical Romanticism
  • Symphonie fantastique in Berlioz's lifetime
  • First movement: 'Reveries, passions'
  • Second movement: 'Un bal'
  • Third movement: 'Scene aux champs'
  • Fourth movement: 'Marche au supplice'
  • Fifth movement: 'Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat'
  • The Sequel; Reception by Composers
  • Reception: Schumann and Musical Form
  • Other Approaches; Conclusion