MUSIC 408A Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Piano, Modernism, France
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Von meck (tchaikovsky"s patron), traveled around europe: great patron of the arts, also had von meck trio, 1884: won prix de rome, went to villa medici. Impressed by palestrina and lassus at church: did not like it, disliked opera (esp. Incomplete chords: dissing c major, chords don"t have to resolve, m and m are the same, relative keys are nonsense, pleasure is the law, not conventions of the past ix. Rhythms cn"at be contained in bars: greater nuance xi. Fin de si cle: the world of debussy (ca. 1880s-1914: build eiffel tower for world"s fair 1889. Syrinx motive: raised fourth (lydian, notes of a syrinx pan pipes made of reeds: descending fifth g#: tonal center, rhythmic ambiguity. Debussy: impressioni sm; stravinsky and b allet russe. Daguerreotype: louis daguerre (1884) early version of the camera: leads to development of photography as an art form, upset painting, art for its own sake, experimental approaches, subj. impressions of sensual experience.
