19th Century Choral Music

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19th Century Choral Music

• Discuss the expansion of choral music in the 19th
  century.
• Amateurs
• Old forms Mass, Requiem Mass, Oratorio
• Concert Halls
• Secular music
• How may Brahms be considered a continuation of
  the 1st Viennese School?

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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

• Report on Brahms by Tony Fountain

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Brahms - A German Requiem

• Rooted in Protestant tradition
• Medium? Text?
• Connection between movements?
• Occasion for composition?
• 4th Movement How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place
• Form?
• Character? As relates to form?

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Romantic Opera

• Describe 19th century opera
• components
• Exoticism in 19th century opera
• Carmen - Bizet
• Aida - Verdi
• Jenny Lind (1820-1887)

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Opera - Vocabulary

• Grand opera - Fr
• Opéra comique
• Lyric opera
• Singspiel - Ger
• Music Drama
• Opera seria - It
• Opera Buffa
• Bel canto

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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

• Report on Verdi by Alison Winters

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Verdi - Rigoletto

• Victor Hugo
• Frencesco Piave
• Act III - excerpt
• Story?
• Action at this point?
• La donna e mobile
• Un di

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

• Self taught
• Chorus master in small opera house
• Rienzi - 1st success - age 30
• Theories of music drama
• Der Ring des Nibelung
• Tristan und Isolde
• Die Meistersinger

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Wagners music

• numbers opera --- endless melody
• Leitmotif
• Chromatic harmony
• Restless, intensely emotional

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Wagner - Die Walküre

• 2nd in cycle of 4
• Der Ring des Nibelung
• Act III, Finale
• characters

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Ballet

• 18th c. - rise as independent art form
• 19th c. - French --- Russian
• Marius Pepita - St. Petersburg
• Pas de deux
• Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929)
• Talent for recognizing talent
• Commissioned ballets

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky(1840-1893)

• Report on Tchaikovsky by Drew Burges

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Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker

• E.T.A. Hoffmann
• Pepita
• March from Act III
• form