MUS 1751 Chapter : Music Appreciation Last
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Salome richard strauss - bible story-salome wilde wrote story. Leif motify waugner lighter st. john tone cluster same sound sustained. Vienna, the most radical shoot of music modernism and the 2nd viennese. 2nd viennese: schoenburg, alben berg, anton webern. *history fact- wwi had happened; freud comes out. The birth of atonal music music without tonality, without a key center. White faced clown from the italian pantomime transformed into the alienated modern artist. Uses sprechstimme, a vocal technique that declaims the pitch rather than sing it. Ex. of expressionist world, soldier (broke, sells body to science, in love with women who"s a whore, kills her, murders himself) Neither of his parents were musical but debussy became a pianist and started studying at the paris. Sergi diaghilev (impresario, russian opera and ballet) formed a dance company in paris the ballets russes. Polyrhythm (more than one chord at a time) 80% of soldiers that were killed died on the russian front.
