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Unit 1: Music Surrounds You

Lesson 3: Take Charge!

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Learn more about program music.

  1. Listen to Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique with a narrator who explains the story behind the piece.

  2. Listen to Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, a tone poem based on a work by Friedrich Nietzsche. You’ll also be able to watch a video of a timpani player.

  3. Check out Edvard Grieg’s classic piece of program music titled “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the Peer Gynt Suite.