MUSI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Georges Bizet, Social Realism, Maurice Ravel
25 May 2016
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Part of a late-romantic movement: the ugly and vulgar have aesthetic value, baudelaire, millet, dickens, and zola represent the movement in literature and art. Social realism: leading characters are individuals from the poorer economic stratum of society, depicts the grimy, everyday life of industrialized nineteenth-century europe. Don jose, a young corporal falls in love with carmen. Jilted when carmen abandons him for a bullfighter escamillo. Definition: pride in national culture, a movement that musically emphasized indigenous qualities by incorporating folk songs, native scales, dance rhythms, and local instrumental sounds. Music became an intense means of expression of national spirit: national anthems came into being, marching bands and mass signing of patriotic songs began during this period. Melodies, rhythms, and textures similar to russian folk music. Compositions based on russian history, legends, and landscape: pictures at an exhibition (1874) Inspired by the paintings of musorgsky"s friend victor hartmann (1833-1873)
