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Fantasia The Pastoral Symphony educational online |
| music by Ludwig van Beethoven - 6th symphony in F, Op.68 a mythological setting utilized delicate color styling; section from Fantasia (1940) movie. |
DescriptionThe symphony that Beethoven called "The Pastoral" is said, is one of the few pieces of music he ever wrote that tells something like a definite story. He was a great nature lover, and in this symphony he paints a musical picture of a day in the country. The country that Beethoven described was the countryside with which he was familiar. But his music covers a much wider field than that. And so Walt Disney has given the Pastoral Symphony movie a mythological setting. The Pastoral Symphony movie utilized delicate color styling to depict a mythical ancient Greek world of centaurs, pegasi, the gods of Mount Olympus, fauns, cupids, and other legendary creatures and characters of classical mythology. It tells the story of the mythological creatures gathering for a festival to honor Bacchus, the god of wine riding his horned donkey, Jacchus, which is interrupted by Zeus, who decides to have a little fun by throwing lightning bolts at the attendees. |
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Directed by Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, and Ford Beebe. Story development: Otto Englander, Webb Smith, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Bill Peet, and George Stallings. Character designs: James Bodrero, John P. Miller, Lorna S. Soderstrom. Art direction: Hugh Hennesy, Kenneth Anderson, J. Gordon Legg, Herbert Ryman, Yale Gracey, and Lance Nolley. Background painting: Claude Coats, Ray Huffine, W. Richard Anthony, Arthur Riley, Gerald Nevius, and Roy Forkum. Animation supervision: Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Art Babbitt, Oliver M. Johnston, Jr., and Don Towsley. Animation: Berny Wolf, Jack Campbell, Jack Bradbury, James Moore, Milt Neil, Bill Justice, John Elliotte, Walt Kelly, Don Lusk, Lynn Karp, Murray McClellan, Robert W. Youngquist, and Harry Hamsel Key animation by Joshua Meador. The educational section for every young person who learns online good quality music is included in Fantasia movie music NotesOriginal Beethoven's symphony is scored for the following instrumentation: Woodwinds: 1 piccolo (fourth movement only), 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B♭, 2 bassoons. Brass: 2 horns in F and B♭, 2 trumpets in C and E♭ (third, fourth, and fifth movements only), 2 trombones (alto and tenor, fourth and fifth movements only). Percussion: Timpani (fourth movement only, in F and C (Tonic-dominant)). Strings: Violins I, II, Violas, Cellos, Double basses. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, the symphony was first performed in Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four-hour concert. Watch musics from original movie soundtrack |
