BU111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Walter Pater, Symphonic Poem, Character Piece
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Developments in literature linked with developments in music. Sought to transcend everyday existence aspired to an ideal state of being rebelled against established order. Striving for a better, higher, ideal state of being. Free exercise of individual will and passion seen as highest good. Unconstrained by convention, religion or social taboo. An age of political revolutions american and french in late 18th century. 1848: france, germany, austria, italy many musicians took up political causes. Also social revolutions fewer barriers between classes greater social mobility. Traditional forms and genres now seen as constraints. Artistic expression and inspiration not to be hemmed in. Many supernatural or macabre subjects dreams, nightmares, demons. Composers created spooky music new, strange harmonies and sounds. Paintings and musical works given poetic titles wagner"s total artwork (gesamtkunstwerk) concept. Half-obscure verbal meanings ambiguous shapes and color blends. All art aspires to the condition of music (walter pater)
