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MUSIC & DEATH (Purcell & Early Opera (LG 11 : DIDO AND AENEAS…

- - - - AENEAS leaves and DIDO dies of a heartbreak
      - Witch tricks AENEAS and calls back to battle
      - AENEAS shipwrecked on island of Carthage
      - AENEAS and Queen of Carthage-DIDO fall in love
  - - - By 1642 - Public Opera house in Venice
    - - Lavish spectacles
      - Ex) Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607)
  - - - Speech-like singing
      - Moves plot along
    - - Sung outside of the Opera
      - No action taken - frozen in time
      - Emotional
    - - Sinfonias - interludes between scenes
      - Overture -introduction
      - Sets mood
    - - Commentary on plot
      - Backs up solo voices
      - Chorus -duos, trios, quartets
  - - - popular among aristocracy
      - Combined vocal and instrumental music with poetry and dance
    - - Stage plays are forbidden
      - Plays set to music could be passed off as a "Concert"
- - - - Samller chamber orchestra
      - Freely edited Latin
      - 7 movements
  - - - Serene mood
      - Pulsing ostinato
      - Homophonic
    - - Forceful French horns
      - FF Choir
    - - Serene
      - Soloist + choir
- - - - Thematic transformation
      - IDEE FIXE
        
        Varied throughout by harmony, meter, timbre, dynamics, register
        
        Recurring musical thread unifying 5 movements
      - Intense & Bold music
        
        1st great proponent of musical romanticism in France
        
        Most of his works' features
      - Program Symphony based on his life
    - - Scene in the fields
      - March to the Scaffold
      - A Ball
      - Dream of a Witches' Sabbath
      - Reveries, Passions
    - - Genius orchestrator
      - Works draw upon literary influences
      - Born in Southern France
      - Fan of Beethoven and Shakespeare
    - - Program music is more artistic within society
      - Different from absolute music -> musical patterns designed without meanings
      - Program music = Instrumental music with literary or pictorial associations specified by the composer
  - - - Teaches composition at the Curtis Institute
      - Pulitzer prize in 2010 for violin concerto
      - Inspired by Beetles
      - Rooting in tonality, Neo-romanticism
      - Studied with George Crumb
      - Output spans most genres, described as having an "American sound"
      - Born in Brooklyn
    - - Written in 2000
      - Personal grief over death of her brother
      - Overall
        
        Metallic percussions
        
        Meters shift
        
        lyrical - Neo romantic
        
        No key center
      - Program music
        
        Biographical elements
        
        Tone color
      - Large orchestra with many percussions
    - - Some composers maintained commitment to romanticism, updates it
      - Romantic style on the 1800s never really went away - still performed in concert halls
      - Embracing aspects of 19th C orchestral sound
      - Modernizing 19th C orchestral tradition
      - Reclaimed 19th C harmonic & melodic language