Romeo and Juliet: “The Montagues and the Capulets”

Composer: PROKOFIEV, Sergei

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  • This movement portrays the feuding Montague and Capulet families.
  • Within the movement is a gentler section which is used for Juliet’s first dance with Paris, her fiancé. This is the moment when Romeo first glimpses Juliet.1

Sources

  1. Dorothea Redepenning, “Prokofiev, Sergey,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed December 26, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022402.

Cut IDs

21560, 22178, 22719