Can I take your number? pharmaland1982.com The scene here comes from a poem by Th茅ophile Gautier about a dove which sings on a white tomb, and seems to conjure forth the spirit inside. Uncanny, ecstatic, radiant, desperate, haunted, heartbroken — all these words are right for this song, and none of them is quite right. The ambiguity is rooted in the music’s constant wavering between major and minor, achieved technically by depressing one vital note by a half-step. Berlioz saturates the entire sound with that downward step. At one point it even becomes an aural image, mimicking the dove’s sad song.
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