MUSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rondo, Chromatic Scale, Martha Graham
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Anxiety at the turn of the century. Strange angular shapes, foreground and background mix, objects reduced into geometrical shapes, words and realistically painted objects gradually interested. Short musical fragments juxtaposed, reducing music to its most elemental rhythms. Matisse: not about the details for him it"s the colour and overall image. Picasso: geometric, angular, more about the jist of it, primitivism in some of his works. Stravinsky relates as there are little angular musical fragments coming at you. Meets sergei diaghilev, part of the ballet russes. Produces important ballets for them i. e. petrouschka (1911: angular sounds but other times , folk tunes pg. Stravinsky the rite of spring scenes from pagan russia (1913) Piece is a series of pre-christian fertility rights. Choppy, forte, very different than debussy, dark, dissonance, driving. He also uses poly rhythm- several meters happening at the same time. Dissonance created through bitonality- getting away from leading chords. Additive texture: instruments come in and build.
