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Title: 19th Century Choral Music


1
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?

2
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  • Report on Brahms by Tony Fountain

3
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?

4
Romantic Opera
  • Describe 19th century opera
  • components
  • Exoticism in 19th century opera
  • Carmen - Bizet
  • Aida - Verdi
  • Jenny Lind (1820-1887)

5
Opera - Vocabulary
  • Grand opera - Fr
  • Opéra comique
  • Lyric opera
  • Singspiel - Ger
  • Music Drama
  • Opera seria - It
  • Opera Buffa
  • Bel canto

6
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
  • Report on Verdi by Alison Winters

7
Verdi - Rigoletto
  • Victor Hugo
  • Frencesco Piave
  • Act III - excerpt
  • Story?
  • Action at this point?
  • La donna e mobile
  • Un di

8
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

9
Wagners music
  • numbers opera --- endless melody
  • Leitmotif
  • Chromatic harmony
  • Restless, intensely emotional

10
Wagner - Die Walküre
  • 2nd in cycle of 4
  • Der Ring des Nibelung
  • Act III, Finale
  • characters

11
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

12
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky(1840-1893)
  • Report on Tchaikovsky by Drew Burges

13
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • Pepita
  • March from Act III
  • form
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