VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Russian Culture, Leitmotif, The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians
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Part 1: general info: music often plays to a cultural agenda. Idea of using your own studies: folk song, symbols of costumes in pictures, historical reference to people, time, music death scene (listening, last moments of opera, background chorus, strong choral tradition (russian) Color of language : piano strongly plays lady hardly sings, russian culture- strong rich base, so strong, you can feel the man singing, visual: expressive, character: he is dying and sings, powerful conclusion. Part 2: history and place ii: general observations, venue or location, larger geographical units, aesthetic. Differences can be experienced across cultures and times. Ex) classical vs. romantic: mozart symphony no. 4 (1791: romantic, late 18th century, germany, incredible transparency, main melody, melody is organized to seem straightforward, time units = same/balances. Rise and fall: closing idea transparently constructed, economy of meanings few melodies, dominant piece, mussorgsky a night on the bare mountain (arr. Part 3: multimedia: multimedia, multimedia is media.
