MUTH 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Modest Mussorgsky, Gesamtkunstwerk, Process Music
12 Mar 2016
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Beethoven: organicism, larger orchestra, thematic development, progressives vs. conservatives. Berlioz: darmstadt school, textbook on instruments, progressive, baton-wielding conductor. Liszt: virtuoso piano, new german school, music of the future with wagner. Rossini: italian opera form, serious and comic opera. Donizetti and bellini: bel canto, followed italian opera form. Wagner: bayreuth, gesamtkunstwerk, ballets russes, schoenberg, stravinsky, debussy, music. Kuchka/m5: nationalist russian, rejected stp c, tchaikovsky, rimsky-korsakov, musorgsky. Der blaeu eiter: interested in people, schoenberg and kandinsky. Debussy: impressionism, peal tone, ostinato, french critic to wagner. Copland: american folk, usa, jaunty rhythms, wide spaces of america, stravinsky. Britten: community based, english opera group, children and amateurs. Var se: electronic music, questioned music and noise division. Cage: aleatoric and chance music, experimented, prepared piano, multiphonics, quarter tones. Ww1: modernism, neoclassicism, shift from paris to new york. Cold war: move to modernism, serialism, chance, patronage. Primitivism: fauvism"s wild beast, escape european constraint on art. Expressionism: disjunct chromatic melodies, atonality, sprechstimme, no reps.
