MUAR 211 Lecture 17: day 17
11 Jan 2019
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Midsummer nights dream a. b. c. d. e. Symphonic poem: single movement work in free form () i. ii. Scheherade: arabic literature translated i. ii. iii. iv. Using strings: sustaining and gives a sense of space. Rising and falling with strings to betray water. Gives information about what are the ranges of instruments, how to assign orchestration c. Absolute music: mozart"s piano concerto; composer didn t suggest anything. Program music: make you think of the music in a certain way; mean something specific; free form: whatever he or she likes best. Idee fixe: light motive in every movement, and satisfy romantic aesthetic. End of fourth movement: idee fixe again and then head falling into the bucket. Programmatic music cannot have text, you"re supposed to infer meaning without words, instrumental music that pretends as if there is a text. Not part of the five russian national composers. Wrote symphonies and named them as symphonies, instead of program.
