Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Franz Liszt, Cantabile, Program Music
25 Apr 2016
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Point shoes, bell shape short skirt and fitted bodice. Tchaikovsky"s ballet music: symphonic quality- sought cohesive whole. Work something sophisticated musically and dramatically: tonally linked movements. Keys that work together: helped create narrative and sense of dramatic development. One of the most popular ballet in history. Romantic elements: alignment of natural world and world of human emotions. Abstraction of ballet music permits multiple possible interpretations of plot. More interested in poetic, philosophical questions of story. Origins in incidental (may not be right word) music for herder play. Myth resonated with 19th c conceptions of the artist. P rebel against authority, how 19th c artists think of themselves. Liszt"s difficult reception encourages us to see works as auto-bio. Opposition of heroic with cantabile, sorrowful material, beethoven influence. Both romantic ballet and symphonic poem obsessed with individual. Ballet music more central role, prima ballerina key focus.
