MUTH 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vienna Philharmonic, Organicism, E-Flat Clarinet
12 Mar 2016
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Symphony after beethoven lecture notes people look back at each other. In reality, all these people looked back at beethoven. Monumentality heroic style struggle victory narrative: minor to major organicism: different strategies of unifying symphonic composition, a theme that is developed overtime voices. Movements moving from one to another bigger orchestra, longer symphonies. Conservative: followed beethoven"s classical tendencies (early symphonies, schumann, mendelssohn, brahms, non-programmatic (no story, 4 movements in traditional forms, sonata, rondo, etc, no voices. Progressives: berlioz, liszt, richard strauss, programmatic, tells story, non-standard number of movements in non-traditional forms, sometimes with voices. When: mid to late 19th c. Others critiqued beethoven"s legacy came from national concerns. France (eg. saint-saens, franck, lalo: denial of monumentality and heroic style, thought opera should be more serious, wanted to surpass germany"s main genre of opera, struggle victory narrative established then foiled. Tchaikovsky: denial of organicism and motivic development, focus on beautiful melodies, brilliant orchestrations and dance movements.
