MUS-0143 Chapter Notes -Cross Rhythms, Blues, Gustav Holst
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Produced most of 250 lied during short periods of intense creativity. Ideal of equality between words and music, voice and piano. Lebe wohl! continuity in instrument chromatic voice leading, app. , vague tonality a la tristan all 12 chromatic notrs appear in first phrase, cromatic saturation. Known for tone poems, his name for symphonic poem (one move programmed work, combining symphonic procedure with analogies to literature) Program music trait shown, though events and ideas outside music explain certain ideas, the music still mostly makes sense on its own. Neitzche believed in superhero" ideal over christian ethic. Don quixote play with musical ideas chamber music sound, because it is concieved in contrapuntal lines. First symphony used musical styles as topics strings sustain a in seven octaves, a la space ie humans and nature on great landscape. Used big orchestras, but for their pieces effects from delicate to gigantic.
