MUS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Concerto Grosso
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B la bart k: (cid:1005)8(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s-1945, hungarian, studied and taught piano, budapest academy of music, hungarian nationalist, father of ethnomusicology, studying music in cultural context. Ethnomusicology: travelled to villages recording, peasant folk songs, phonograph, notated the folk songs, recorded their cultural context. Piano pedagogy: mikrokosmos: 153 piano pieces, 6 volumes: easy through advance ability levels, modes, bitonality, parallel intervals, folk melodies and rhythms. Concerto for orchestra: composed during difficult circumstances, wwii, chronic myeloid leukemia, commissioned by the boston symphony orchestra conductor, treat si(cid:374)gle i(cid:374)stru(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts i(cid:374) a co(cid:374)certa(cid:374)t or soloist (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:374)er, similar to concerto grosso. Games of pairs: parallel intervals, lutheran hymn melody in brass. Elegy: eerie-night music, possible reference to first love.
