Week 4: New Zealand music in the 1950s Flashcards
1
Q
Details about Sings Harry
A
Lilburn (1939-51, performed 1953), song cycle, folksy (pentatonic scales), simplicity, about living off the land, sense of nostalgia/disillusionment with the world
2
Q
Set poems by New Zealand authors to music - equated musical language with their words and images
A
Douglas Lilburn
3
Q
Why was it difficult to get music published as a New Zealand composer?
A
People didn’t trust unknown New Zealand composers, so their music often didn’t get played
4
Q
Details about Harbour Nocturne
A
Larry Pruden - studied under Lilburn (1956), programmatic (harbour imagery), crunchy dissonance (never triads), spaciousness
5
Q
Lilburn’s goal
A
To get an essence of what New Zealanders are like in music (separate from English and everyone else)
