Diverging Traditions Flashcards
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french music 2
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- challenging to position, trying to establish french identity and repertoire
- concerts of german classics and new french works
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french politics 3
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- significant musical govt funding
- political pressure
- works associated with political movements
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french music schools 3
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- conservertoire - prestigious, technical, focus on opera
- niedermeyer - general instruction, focus on church music
- schola cantorum - focus on historical studies
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2 strands of composition france
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- cosmopolitan tradition (Franck and pupils)
- more specifically French tradition (Faure)
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counterpoint
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note against note, not block chords
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cesar franck style 3
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- counterpoint and classical forms
- liszt’s thematic transformation
- wagner’s harmony and cyclic unification
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franck organ chorale style 2
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- improvisatory (new for organ)
- orchestral colour
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franck’s symphony in dm
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cyclic form (themes recur in other movements, binds them together)
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franck chamber music
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- he was founder of french chamber music
- all chief works in cyclic form
- violin sonata
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franck violin sonata 8
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- renaissance and baroque procedures with romantic harmony and thematic structure
- riternello combined with sonata, ternary, rondo forms
- extended canon of main theme
- modulated by 3 over A chord
- main theme alternates with themes of previous mvmnts
- tonal
- accessible to average listener
- violin and piano toss prominence back and forth
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gabriel faure general style 4
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- drew primarily on earlier French composers
- order and restraint, reserved and simple
- subtle patterns of tones, rhythms, colours
- stretched in new directions, provoked resistance from conservative establishment
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faure songs
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developed new language of fragmented melodic lines, harmony less directional, not sure where melodies will land as they move through chord modulation
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avant que te ne t’en allies 6
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- song of faure’s la bonne chanson cycle
- each poetic image set to melodic phrase in own tonal world
- harmonic successions dilute need for resolution, prolong tension
- chords fade into one another, linked through common tones
- chromaticism as means to achieve equilibrium, restraint
- symbolism where things are suggested instead of explicately said, listener interpreting for self
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tchaiovsky general 4
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- cosmopolitan music renowned all over europe and north america
- wide appeal, works at heart of repertoire
- best known symphonies almost as performed as beet’s
- funded by wealthy widow
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tchaiovsky’s symphony no 4 4
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- classical form
- draws from schubert: 3 key expositions, recapitulation behins away from tonic
- private program
- horn call in intro symbolizes inexorable fate
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tchaiovsky’s symphony no 6 (pathetique) 3
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- private program left as a mystery
- light scherzando character, evokes triumphant march
- motivic fragments coalesce into main theme (theme emerges instead of being introduced right away)
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borodin 3
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- devotee of chamber music
- admired mendellson
- melodies seldom quote folk tunes, but reflect their spirt
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musorgsky
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- pictures at an exhibition (scenes instead of narratives)
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rimsky-korsakov 4
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- known for programmatic orchestral works
- genius for orchestration, musical characterization
- capricccio espagnol, sceharzade exoticism from spain and arabia
- russian esater overture - nationalist
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smetana and dvorak 3
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- bohemia
- better known outside of bohemia for instrumental music than operas
- influenced by new german school