MUS302H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), Slavonic Dances, Vienna Symphony
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Audio recording started: 10:12 am thursday, june 8, 2017. First success through piano music: 1878: slavonic dances, op. Spirit of czech folk music: middle class people plays piano at home to entertain themselves. First success through piano music: 1878: slavonic dances op. 46: pentatonic scales, dance rhythms, repetitive melodies. 46, no. 1 for orchestra: originally self published and then later brahms helped him publish some of these work, breakthrough in vienna. Symphony no. 6: allusions to beethoven and brahms, 1892: offer to become he artistic director of the newly founded national. Songs of hiawatha (!855: 1st movement: adagio - allegro molto. Followed beethoven for form, proportions and religious spirit (as modelled in the 9th) Symphonies typically with a vague agitation in the strings from which a theme arises builds into a crescendo, and the theme is born: revised all of his symphonies regularly! Inclues the "huhnt" scherzo and a new 4th movement.
