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Romantic/modern English music timeline (Britten (Modernist, returns to…
Romantic/modern English music timeline
Elgar
German Rom trad. Late-Romantic harmony
1st major English composer of this time
Britten
Modernist
returns to folk heritage in
Folksong arrangements
however new musical directions – complex chromaticism & tone colour
Vaughan Williams
fragmentation of musical styles in early years of C20th :arrow_right: search for own musical style
English heritage
tonal borrowings
collects folk songs
incorporates modes into comps.
study of and incorporation of tudor mus (false rels).
Fanto n a themeo f TT
choice of texts about pastoral / heritage
sets them with a concern for "atmospehric effect"
contr to simple depics of storm/bells in Schub DJN / V
weird ensemble: voice + pno 5tet
and for mirroring their structure :arrow_right: elems of through comp / modfied strophic form in no.3
French Impressionism
study with Ravel for "a little French polish".
harmonic devices
La Cath engloutie
Alex
Daphnis et Chloe
chromatic stepwise movement?
concern for rhythmically fluid setting of text
conservatism (Elgar/eng mus) vs modernism (Verklaerte Nacht)
initially Ger Romantic style.
study with Bruch
art song conventions
match text
melodic shaping
Elgar Sea Pics
and rhythmic emphasis
Stanford
Parry
again, conventional late Romantic harmony. chromaticism and 7ths but functional.
