Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Romanticism, Atonality, Dmitri Shostakovich
13 Oct 2016
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Sound recording-began 1877 new possibilities in reproduction new technologies inspired new type of composition: Romantic excess began to feel unbearable, especially after wwi. Quest for the new took composers in many directions force society to confront ugly aspect, not what they want to hear profusion of syllabic currents (everyone trying to do different things) Romantic music and preoccupation of composer didn"t have any place in modern war after ww1. So much live loss, romantic feeling just foolish childish, new direction need, music, show everyone human nature is dog size, rising fascinism, exploring human experience/emotion needed to more world, modernism. A new philosophical movement born of these socio-political changes more extreme, not only you need to build on what came before you, you need to throw it out and start a new, romantic burdened with the task of originality. A self-conscious search for new means of artistic expression. 19th century about originalities self conscious about creating something new.
