MUS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gamelan, Postminimalism, Twelve-Tone Technique
Document Summary
Cultural center of russia and capital during romanov rule: built by peter the great in the model of a western european city in. Warm water (ish) port: st. peter was a russian capital form from 1712-1918. The decembrist revolution of 1825: goal of constitutional monarchy. Slaughter of petitioners in 1905: father gapon led a peaceful march to petition the tsar. This event is remembered as bloody sunday: led to militant shift in leftist groups. The bolshevik revolution of 1917: rise of the soviet era in russia, romanov family, servants, supporters, etc imprisoned and executed in 1918. Baroque era in russia- peter the great and immediate successors mirrored the fashions of western europe. As the influence of peter the great waned, russian nationalism started to rise. The mighty handful - group of nationally oriented (amateur) composers: mily balakirev, alaxander borodin, cesar cui, modest mussorgsky, mikolai rimsky-korsakov. Largly self-taught composers who learned by score study and group meetings.
