Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Genre: program music, overture-fantasy
Style Period: Romantic
Performing Forces: piccolo, flutes, clarinets, English horn, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, strings
sonata form (exposition, development, recapitulation, coda)
intro = plainchant, Friar Lawrence
1st theme = sword fight between Capulets & Montagues (begin sonata form)
2nd theme = love theme
ends w/ death sequence