Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Carl Orff
13 Oct 2016
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The german music scene in the early (cid:708)30s. Scored of music and articles by these composers. Paul hindemith (left 1937) cultural radical; jewish wife force to teach violin. Kurt weill (left 1933):marxist and jewish (not popular in germany went to us and france) Arnold schoenberg (left 1933):atonal music and jewish (nazi quickly set up atonal and jews music destroy eurpean music) Written for fellow prisoners: clarinetist, violinst, cellist, with himself on piano. An atonal work with cycles of rhythms and pitches characteristic features of m(cid:709)s modernist style: Independence treatment of pitch of rhythm, including cycles of ostinato: Cello; cedf#bflat; 15 durations: cello moves straight, just moves high pitches. Piano: series of 29 chords;17 durations: does not match up number of the chords for durations. Non-retrogradable: same chord as backward, create interesting ideas and materials, palindromic rhythms music express the body of the work, organizing the atonal material,
