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Unit 7: Music and Art (Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (1830s courtship of…

- - - - Music at home
      - Vocal, instrumental, mix
      - Part of “proper” upbringing- especially women
- - - - Social part songs- Separate musical lines
        combined into a whole
    - - Music reflects the meaning of the words
- - - - German-texted solo song with piano
        accompaniment
    - - Goethe, Heine
      - Love, longing, beauty of nature
    - - Identify the words of a song as carrying
        its meaning
      - Music carries subtle intensity
      - Interaction between text and music
      - For amateurs and professionals
  - - - The same music repeated for each stanza
    - - No repetitions of whole sections, the
        music changes according to the text
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    - - The same melody may be repeated for a few stanzas, but new material introduced when poem requires it.
  - - - More than 600 Lieder
      - Subtle interactions between vocal part and accompaniment
- - - - Renaissance court festivals and
        entertainments
        
        England - masque
        
        France - ballet de cour & divertissements
        
        Italy - Intermedio
      - Attached to Operas
      - 18th century ballet independent of opera
      - 19th Century French, then Russian
        preeminence
  - - - 19th century Russian ballet
      - based on story by ETA Hoffmann
        
        Christmas party
        
        Clara receives a nutcracker from her godfather
        
        Clara dreams the nutcracker becomes her prince
        
        They travel through exotic places
      - orchestral suite came after the Ballet
  - - - Paris company with Russian dances
    - - Nijinsky (choreographer), Stravinsky (music), Roerich (stage design)
  - - - percussive use of dissonance
    - - ostinatos
      - pedal points
      - repetition
- - - - Mallarmé, Verlaine, influenced by Poe
  - - - major-minor system too predictable
      - blending timbres, veiled sounds
- - - - legend of the Elfking: whoever he touches
        must die
      - father and sick son riding through the forest on a windy night, Elfking appears to the son, and the son dies
    - - sung by same soloist, differentiated musically
  - - - piano part wistful, meandering, no
        resolution
  - - - fluid and rhapsodic
      - novel tone colors and chords
  - - - pizzicato
      - ABA
      - duple meter
      - features celesta
    - - Russian Dance
      - ABA
      - molto vivace
      - features tambourine
      - accelerando at the end
  - - - percussive use of dissonance
    - - Huge orchestral forces, with constantly changing timbral colors
    - - ostinatos
      - pedal points
      - repetition