5. Quotes! “ Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.” “ You cannot expect the form before the idea, for they will come into being together.”
19. Background -Born in Lomonosov, Russia -Troubled Child -Father was a Bass singer -Took Piano lessons young -Parents expected him to become a lawyer
20. Music Style #1: Modern-Classical (Russian Period) Diaghilev 3 Ballets: Fireworks, Petruska, The Rite of Spring -Large Orchestra -Russian folk themes -Imaginative Scoring and instrumentation -Stylistic Diversity -Pushed boundaries of musical design
21. Let’s jump into some details & listen to Stravinsky’s music! Fireworks (1910) –Unusual Introduction Petroushka (1911) - Folk Mythology The Rite of Spring (1913) - Roughly drawn, stinging motifs Other pieces from this period: * Renard (1916) * A Soldiers Tale (1918) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIUGwx2NvwM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LRoIAS_RKM&feature=fvst
22. Music Style #2: Neo-classical Abandoned large orchestra’s and ballets Focused on: -Wind Instruments -Piano -Choral and Chamber Works
23. Details & Music Clips The Rake’s Progress (1951) -Opera -Known to encapsulate everything that Stravinsky had perfected in the previous 20 years of his neo-classic period. ================== Other pieces: * Pulcinella (1920) *Octet (1923) **Both strictly known for use of wind instruments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo2LtFXlgA8
24. Music Style #3: Surrealist +Influenced by Schoenberg *12 Tone System +Friend, Robert Craft helped aide Stravinsky into understanding the twelve tone system +Spent the next 15 years writing this style +Made it “his own”
25. Details & Music Clips Cantata (1952) *Began to work with the twelve tone system *A smaller, vocal piece *Later on, expanded his technique in works based off biblical texts.* [Such as: A Sermon, A Narrative, and A Prayer (1961) ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8KR8aDbVoU
26. October 3, 1936- Present Steve Reich “ I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.”
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29. Musical Style: Minimalistic 1960’s: + Twelve Tone Composition +Connected with rhythm more than melody +Started composing film soundtracks +Influenced by fellow minimalist Terry Riley +combines simple musical patterns, +offset in time, to create a slowly shifting, cohesive whole. + Phasing Music +Created Clapping Music +Four Organs (1970), deals specifically with augmentation. (the temporal lengthening of phrases and melodic fragments)
30. 1970’s & 1980’s Studied music in Ghana *Gideon Alorwoyie *African Experience inspired: *90-minute piece Drumming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fm3DdSejYE 1988 piece Different Trains. Compares his “train journeys” in 1939-1941 to the transportation of European children to the Nazi concentration camps.
33. Review MAIN FOCUS : Schoenberg- developed dodecaphonic, very influential; books and music still used today. Stravinsky- Offbeat Rhythm, Extreme Range of Instruments Reich- Twelve Note Composition, repetitive figures, harmonic rhythm.