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Unit 7: Music and Art (Ch.36 (song structure (strophic form: same melody…

- - - - English madrigal
      - word painting allows us to "hear" the charming story
      - simple melodies
  - - - duple meter
      - celesta- primary melody
      - A-B-A
      - tempo: andante non troppo
      - staccato melody
  - - - romantic strangeness and wonder
      - through-composed
      - steady rise in tension and pitch builds until the end
      - first work published
  - - - depicts the awakening of earth in spring
      - uppermost range
      - unpredictable accents
      - random downbeats
  - - - inspired by the symbolist poem by Mallarme
      - describes half-man/half-goat creature
      - raw sensuality
      - Debussy's music is a series of backdrops
        
        fluid and rhapsodic
        
        novel tone colors and chords
      - later choreographed scandlously
      - ABA'
- - - - English Madrigal
        
        John Farmer
        
        organist and master of choir boys at Christ Church
        
        helped shape madrigal into a truly native art form
        
        simpler and lighter in style than Italian Madrigals
      - Italian Madrigal
        
        a 16th century tradition that linked music and lyric poetry
        
        expressive text setting, word painting, multiple meanings
        
        Jacques Arcadelt, early master
      - part song: separate musical lines are combined into a harmonious whole- a fitting sonic image for friendship
    - - worked first in Florence, later in Rome as a singer in the Sistine Chapel choir
      - first book of madrigals published in 1538
        
        Il Bianco e dolce cigno
        
        intended audience was amateur performers
      - musical style simpler and more lyrical than other composers
  - - - French chanson
      - Italian madrical
        
        word-painting: making the music directly reflect the meaning of the words
- - - - the art of ballet
      - Serge Diaghilev
  - - - Rite of Spring
        
        energetic interaction between rhythm and meter
      - full force of the brass and percussion to create a barbaric, primeval sound and gives the strings percussive material such as pizzicato and successive down-bow strokes
- - - - central to lavish festivals and theatric entertainments
      - presented at the courts of kings and dukes
      - intermedio, Italy
      - masque, England
      - ballet de cour, France
    - - son of Russian govt official
      - subject to attacks of depression
      - first Russian whose music appealed to western tastes
      - conducted the Pathetique Symphony in St. Petersburg
      - 8 operas (Eugene Onegin), 3 ballets (swan lake, sleeping beauty, nutcracker), orchestral music, symphonies, piano concertos, etc.
    - - performed every Christmas all over the world
      - dances accompanied by colorful isntruments
      - celesta: beautiful tone, mix between piano and glockenspiel
- - - - French composers of later 1800s tried to break from tradition
      - experience greater subtley and impressive ambiguity
      - subtle harmonic relationships
      - Composers made use of the entire spectrum of notes on the chromatic scale
        
        experimented with the 9th chord, set of 5 notes in which the interval between the lowest and highest tones is a 9th
        
        composers blended timbres from their counterparts in art