Music 1102A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Nadia Boulanger, Peabody Institute, Juilliard School
25 Apr 2018
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Timbre: listen for three layers of sound: 1. the bass line (organ), 2 the chorus of voices above it, and 3, the two seemingly independent speaking parts. Harmony: listen for the simple and strongly tonal harmonic progression that is repeated over and over in this scene. An opera with little singing and no plot. Minimalism brief musical ideas repeated and varied incrementally over a long span of time. Passage of time creates trance like state. Electric organ, small mixed chorus, two speakers. Chorus and organ move together, speakers enter randomly. Simple harmony directs attention to other elements (rhythm, texture, dynamics) Variations on short melodic fragments over an ostinato bass. Born in baltimore, trained at peabody conservatory of music and julliard school of music in. Studied in paris (with nadia boulanger) and in asia (with ravi shankar) Moved to new york city in 1960s and established his own ensemble to reach audiences more directly.
