MUSI 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eduard Hanslick, Gesamtkunstwerk, Antithesis
25 May 2016
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The beautiful in music (1854: belief that music is abstract and unrelated to ideas or objects, believed that music was incapable of conveying emotional content of words, objects, ideas, or dramatic situations. Antithesis of everything wagner believed about music drama. Meistersinger prelude: the world"s most unpleasant prelude , a tonal typhoon contrived brutal in effect and painfully artificial , called tristan prelude even more horrible . *hanslick used to be close to wagner, but he critiqued wagner"s music in public, and wagner made fun of. Beckmesser stole the winning song from walther. But beckmesser stole it wrong, forgot several things. *nuremberg site of operas, hitler also uses nuremberg for battle. Nuremberg laws": revocation of german citizenship for jews and site of nazi rally (1935. Final: all overtures will be on exam and a few others. Tell the significance of the opera/ context. Create a playlist of all overtures (use naxos) *position myself and argue something in wagner paper.
