Discuss at least four moments when this music reflects emotions, themes, or images from Shakespeares story of Romeo and Juliet. If you need a refresher on how this story goes, here is a summary:

Part 1: One of the most famous pieces of program music is Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovskys Romeo and Juliet. You can listen to it here:

Discuss at least four moments when this music reflects emotions, themes, or images from Shakespeares story of Romeo and Juliet. If you need a refresher on how this story goes, here is a summary:

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/summary.html

Part 2: For many people of our own time, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet story is much better known from the award winning 1997 film adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Here is a link for the Wikipedia article for the soundtrack to that adaptation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_%2B_Juliet_(soundtrack) (Links to an external site.)

Choose 2 tracks from that soundtrack and discuss why they might have been chosen as background music for the Romeo and Juliet story. You will want to pull up the tracks on YouTube, Spotify, or another streaming service for listening. You will also need to do a Google search for the song’s lyrics. Your response to this part of the prompt must talk about both the music and lyrics of your chosen songs. (**note: choose your two tracks from Volume 1 of the soundtrack. Do not use Volume 2).

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