MUS-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Leitmotif, Thematic Transformation, Exoticism
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1850-1900: failed 1848 revolutions, romanticism lives on as nostalgia (not idealism, turn to realism (example: dickens novels, early romantic composers die around 1850 (robert schumann, chopin, Mendelssohn: wagner has big impact on late romantic composers (esp. his leitmotivs/integrating music and drama, other trends: increased nationalism in music/art, increased referencing of non- Nationalism in music often drawing on folk music. 1875 french opera, set in spain, title character is gypsy woman: this is in french, sung by carmen as her opening aria. Spain, but the habenera was actually a dance from cuba. Exoticism of many different cultures just ki(cid:374)d of (cid:373)elds togethe(cid:396) he(cid:396)e to po(cid:396)t(cid:396)a(cid:455) he(cid:396) as a(cid:374) (cid:862)othe(cid:396). (cid:863) Important late romantic genre: program music for orchestra, one movement, typically does not follow sonata form, theme and variations form, rondo form, etc. (or follows it only loosely, evokes a particular story (often well-known ones like shakespeare)
