MUSL-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Romantic Poetry, Progressive Tonality, Mphasis
6 Apr 2016
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The failure of signification incessantly points to an absolute that hovers right there or right here, always out of reach yet the romantic artist continues to reach for it. Romantic poetry always in the state of becoming and can never be perfected. Interest in the past, specially the middle ages and folk tales. Interest in the fantastic, the unusual, the mysterious. Mahler wrote, to me symphony" means constructing a world with all the technical means at one"s disposal. and so he did. Mahler bio: i am thrice homeless: as a native of bohemia in austria, as an. Austrian amongst germans, and as a jew throughout the world. German folk poetry, klezmer-like music, marches within the respected late- 19th-century symphonic tradition was often considered a breach of taste. how did mahler bring together the conflicting nineteenth-century camps of brahms and wagner; The most modern aspect of mahler is the repeated lack of tonal cohesion the growing challenges to functional harmony.
