MUS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sinfonia, Libretto, Alice Goodman
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Mus 4 lecture 4 monday, october 17, 2016: recap. Oratorios (examples from baroque and modern periods) Operas (examples from all periods) donizetti (not rossini) Delibes, vocalise (a kind of melisma) and exoticism. Opera: not only about the g/gods, but about humans and god-human relationships; opposite of chants or sacred motets in the renaissance and baroque periods (first opera in 1597) Human emotions: fear, feeling of being lost, happiness, joy, satisfaction, anger, mixed emotions, emotions hard to put into words. Human values: power and (or vs) love, virtues: loyalty, chastity, cunning, honesty, death, religions and beliefs , cultural tradition, asking ultimate questions human nature, g/god, existence, t/truth for oneself and for humanity, etc. Arthur schopenhauer (1788-1860): a specific way of understanding music. Idea from kant (german philosopher, 1724-1804): world = two parts: appearance (aka. phenomenon, things under appearance, or reality (aka. noumenon)
