MUSIC255 Study Guide - Carl Maria Von Weber, Stephen Heller, Thematic Transformation
13 Mar 2013
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Concept that pieces of music should be organic. Organic: describes a musical work in which all the parts relate to each other and to the whole like the parts of a single organism, derived from a common source. Goethe argued that artists should unify their works like a plant metamorphosis; all the parts should derive from a common source. The organic relationships of themes, sections, and movements is more important than rhetorical structure or persuasive force. Motivic links contribute more to unity than a harmonic plan or conventional form. They are indeed ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure. *the rondo can take several different forms, including abaca (as shown), abacaba, abacada, etc. , sometimes followed by a coda. Origins in the 18th century: texts by german literary greats, amateur performance (syllabic melodies and simple accompaniments) Forms: strophic or modified strophic, ternary (aba or aba", bar (aab, through-composed.
