MUS 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Claude Debussy, Exoticism, Art Music
Unit 6: Musical Others: Exoticism in Late 19th Century France
- The Exposition Universelle of 1889
o Paris
o World’s fair
▪ Public exhibition
o May 6 – November 6, 1889
o Eiffel Tower: gate way into the fair
▪ People hated it, thought it was too ugly
▪ Show new technology advancement in steel to build high buildings
o Over 30 million visitors
o Display of technology other than architecture
▪ Phone
o Displays of culture
▪ Crafts/industries from around the world
o The kampong Javanaise
▪ Recreation of Sundanese village
▪ Spectacle
▪ Tradition music and traditional dancing
▪ 4 famous dancers
- Gamelan
o Type of Indonesian orchestra
▪ Different base on location
o Ceremonial/religious occasions
o Common instruments
▪ Gongs, gong-chimes, metallophones, drums, stringed instruments,
xylophones, vocalists
o Uses non-European scale system
o Ma laers of usial teture
- Claude Debussy
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