Exam 3 week 1 Flashcards
who had a hands off policy when it came to music in world war 2 soviet union
Anatoly Lunacharsky
who had a new atitude towards the arts and minimized jazz and modernism
Joseph Stalin
year of soviet realism
1933
What was the party resolution
nationalizing all artistic, literary and musical groups (Soviet Composer’s Union)
What is Socialist Realism in Music?
Proletarian, typical, realistic, and partisan
What was so daring about Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 1934
It depicted officials and police as villains, squalid expressionism, vice, rape, and decadence
What are the two possible interpretations of shostakovich’s symphony number 5
- The soviet state rescues the people from capitalist oppression
- the joy of overthrowing Soviet oppression (sonata form) No transition in exposition
Which composer primarily performed abroad during the beginning of the 1920s but moved back going from modern music to more simplistic styles
Sergei Prokofiev
What are the two possible interpretations of music in the Soviet Union
genuinely celebrates the Soviet Union (pro-regime) or celebrates the Soviet Union under duress (anti-regime)
Who was absent from Russia at the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution
Stravinsky and Sergei
ASM verses RAPM
Association for Contemporary Musicians (progressive, modernist, internationalist) Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (political propagandistic)
Score with much writing, begins moderato instrumentation, tempo instructions, arrows, tied eighth notes, many rests
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Op. 47 1937. This piece was written with two possible interpretation, anti-regime or pro regime. It has no transition in the exposition and uses sonata form.
Begins alleghetto, more fortes
movement 2
Densely scored, more woodwinds, many quarter notes and rests, begins with unison between first five voices, 8 solists, huge orchestra
Carl Orff “Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi” from Carmina Burana (1935-36) This piece was neo-medieval, stravinsky model,
Ser langsam, begins in four four, three middle voices in unison
Paul Hindemith Symphony Mathis der Maler movement 2 (1933-34) withdraw into art, clear form, coninuous flow
Why did music in the Weimar Culture thrive
Culture and free expression thrived because there was no point in saving money for tomorrow
First president of the Reichsmusikkammer
Richard Strauss
What was the Reichmusikammer tasks…
Lionize composers as a part of German culture, hijack extant music, create musico-political propaganda, suppress “degenerate” music
Frequently Performed composers in the thrid Reich
Joseph Haydn, W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Richard Wagner
What kind of music and artists were banned in Nazi Germany
Gershwin, anything jazz, many jewish composers such as Stravinsky
Composers who immigrated
Schoenberg, Weill
stayed
Strauss, Schwarzkopf
Who wrote music about the peasant’s rebellion of Matthias Grunewald
Paul Hindemith
Why was Mathias written?
Hindemith wanted to withdraw into contemplative art and the need for all art to withdraw from political manipulation
Which composer was partially jewish and this was ignored
Carl Orff
What was the original writing of Carmina burana
13th century German Manuscript with secular poems by students
Two views of Hindemith and Orff
Hindemith could be a hero or Nazi wannabe turned exile, Orff could be a complicit sympathizer or an opportunist
Who’s music was eventually banned in Nazi Germany
Paul Hindemith
