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Unit 7-Music & Art (Music & Art: Ballet (Peter Ilyich…

- - - - Expensive but soon found cheaper methods
      - Amateur Musicians
  - - - Usually monophonic
      - Word painting
        
        Music reflects the meaning of the words
      - Spontaneous social song
        
        Social part songs-Separate musical lines combined into a whole
    - - Amateurs-Men & Women sing
      - Double meanings
      - Subtle word painting
      - Chamber music, one per part, each reading from a part book
      - Words clear(Homorhythm)
      - Published first book of madrigals most widely reprinted collection of the time(1538)
      - Listening Guide 5
        
        Il biancoe dolce cigno
        
        quadruple meter
        
        English Madrigal
        
        Late sixteenth century, reign of Elizabeth I
        
        Some serious, some humorous
        
        English composers developed Italian madrigal into a native art form
        
        John Farmer(1570-1603)
        
        Listening Guide 6: Fair Phyllis
        
        Social music
        
        Form-ababcc
        
        Word painting
        
        pastoral text, good humor, lively rhythms
- - - - Identify the words of a song as carrying its meaning
      - Music carries subtle intensity
      - Interaction between text and music
      - For amateurs and professionals
  - - - No repetitions of whole sections, the music changes according to the text
    - - The same melody may be repeated for a few stanzas, but new material introduced when poem requires it
    - - Elfking Erlkonig
        
        Piano opening sets the atmosphere, galloping
        
        Four characters(father, son, Elfking, narrator)
        
        Ballad poem by Goethe
        
        Through-composed
      - Robert Schumann(1810-1856)
        
        1830s courtship of composer/pianist Clara Wieck; married in 1840
        
        After a suicide attempt, Robert was confined to an asylum
        
        Ambition to be a pianist, but injured his hand and turned to composition and criticism
        
        Unified Song Cycles from single poet
        
        Born in Zwichau Germany
        
        A Poets Love
        
        sixteen poems by Heinrich Heine
        
        Psychological progression from freshness of love through disappointment to despair
        
        Song cycle from 1840
        
        Listening Guide 27: In the Lovely Month of May
        
        Two strophes
        
        Piano part wistful, meandering, no resolution
- - - - WWII-Moved to Los Angeles; 1945 became US citizen
      - Evolving styles: post-Impressionism, primitivism, Neo-Classicism, twelve-tone
      - WWI-refuge in Switzerland, France
      - Great Orchestrator
      - Ballets: The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring
      - Ballets, Operas, Choral music, chamber music, piano music
      - Studied composition with Rimsky-Korsavov
      - Russian composer
      - The Rite of Spring-Innovative
        
        Polytonality & Polyrhythms
        
        Orchestra large & loud
        
        Primitavism
        
        Russian folk songs or short fragments
        
        Subtitled- Scenes of pagan Russia
        
        Minimized harmonic change
        
        Unpredictable & violent accents
- - - - Degas
      - Renoir
      - Monet
  - - - Debussys music a series of "backdrops"
      - Later choreographed scandlously by Nijinsky
      - Inspired by the Symbolist poem by Mallarme