Music Style Comparison

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Joni Mitchell and Hector Berlioz lived in different parts of the world at different times. Berlioz died in 1869 almost eighty years before Mitchell's birth in 1944. This paper explains that Berlioz worked in the milieu of the symphonic orchestra and the complexity of classical music of the nineteenth century, while Mitchell accompanied herself with a guitar in the revival of traditional folk music that was occurring in the 1960s. The writer shows how neither was educated formally in music, but both became established as composers of their own works which were marked by genius. It concludes that both artists were considered by contemporaries to be in the avant-garde of the musical movement of the times.

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"Berlioz was raised by prosperous parents in Paris, and was expected by his father, a physician, to enter medical school. The thought of a musical career was not given a great deal of respect by Berlioz's father, and he felt that the boy's future could only be secured by preparation to enter into a lucrative field like the practice of medicine.
But Berlioz was repelled by his first experience in an anatomy lab and left his medial studies as a result. The romantic movement was just beginning in France, and its rich palette of orchestral expression was being called "The Music of the Future." In 1825 Berlioz assembled an orchestra of 150, and he dreamed of an ensemble 467 instruments, with a chorus of 360."

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