HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Ballets Russes, Luigi Russolo
1 Apr 2016
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Disintegration of social and political systems before ww1. In addition to impressionism and expressionism, there were new directions in cubism and primitivism (stravinsky) Futurism affected both art and music (luigi russolo) After defeat in the franco-prussian war, confidence crisis in paris challenge to france"s traditional sense of grandeur and pre-eminence . Paris seemed to be entranced by foreign culture more than its own. Ballets russes formed in 1909 in paris by diaghilev. Fertility rite young girl is chosen as sacrifice to the god of spring, and must dance herself to death. 8th note pulsation combined with irregular pattern of accents depicts. Intensity builds with repetition and layering of musical elements primitive element of the story. Orchestration techniques learned from stravinsky"s teacher rimsky korsakov (nawm, p. 152) Almost no solo dancing (groups of dancers execute mass movements in machine-like synchronization). No graceful leaps and pirouettes of classical ballet, replaced by rhythmic stamping and flat, angular movements.
