Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, TH 42
This guide follows Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, TH 42 (1869) in one part (sonata form).
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Follow all 14 sections as they play
The -like Friar Laurence opens the piece in F-sharp minor, with uneasy figures in the low strings. The strife arrives in B minor, with agitated sixteenth-notes and cymbal crashes for swordplay. The love enters in D-flat, the English horn and viola standing for Romeo and the flutes for Juliet. The to the feud. The love blossoms again in the before the blows fall, the strife , and the ends with a dirge in B major.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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