Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marie Taglioni, Ballet Dancer, Romantic Ballet
13 Oct 2016
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Point shoes, bell-shaped, shorter skirt and fitted bodice. Encourged the new focus on the prima ballerina. Before tchaikovsky: music for ballet only (cid:498)aural d cor(cid:499) Helped create a narrative and sense of dramatic development. One of the most popular ballets in history. Romantic elements: alignment of natural world and world of human emotions. Abstraction of ballet music permits multiple possible interpretations of plot. Beautiful melodies; rich orchestration plots of swan lake. Love story of prince siegfried and princess odette. Evil sorcerer von rothbart has cast a spell on odette: wan by day, woman by night. Von rothbart tricks siegfried with an odette imitator, odile. Liszet"s (cid:883)(cid:884) symphonic poems from (cid:883)848-58 are central. Much debate about the form of liszt"s symphonic poem: always dictated by the. Liszt"s difficult reception encourages us to see the work as autobiographical program. The myth resonated with 19th century conceptions of the artist. Opposition of heroic with cantabile sorrowful material- shows continued influence of beethoven.
