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Norway Sweden
Russia: Tchaikovsky
MMSMA.8 - Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Created a style that merged Nationalism/folk song writing with Classical/"Art" music
- Died at 53 of cholera
- Famous pieces Swan Lake (1875), The Nutcracker (1892)
Russia
Russia
Today we will read music,
sing,
analyze songs related to culture,
write music,
and perform.
- In the 1900s, the Communist Party became prominent
- During Soviet Era, music scrutinized; supposed to be conservative and keep with Soviet ideals, not challenge them
- Stravinsky pushed the limits with Rite of Spring
- Ballet and orchestra
- About early civilization; pre-Soviet; girl sacrifice dances herself to death; riot broke out at premiere in Paris
37:30
Germany
Brandenburg
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- One of East Germany's main states
- Became Kingdom of Prussia 1701
- Brandenburg Concertos - 1721, Bach
- Terraced dynamics: volume levels shift from soft to loud based on solo or tutti
- Next generation of composers; led from "Classical" to "Romantic" music
- German composer and pianist
- Composed during the French Revolution
- Began losing hearing by late 20s; became totally deaf by 45
- continued composing; most famous works
- Divided after World
War II until end of Cold
War (Berlin Wall)
- German Unity Day
- Languages: German,
English, French, Danish, Turkish, Polish, Russian, and many more (23)
- Largest music market in Europe
- Reeperbahn=where Beatles performed
- Food: Pork, beef, sausage, many international dishes
- Football (soccer)
- "The Land of Poets and Thinkers"
- Nibelungenlied
Pink Floyd vs.
Marius Müller-Westernhagen
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
Invent a song title for these artworks that capture an important aspect.
Compare/contrast
Eroica Symphony: Choose an ATR
Land of Poets and Thinkers:
Nibelungenlied
Connect/Extend/Challenge
Beginning. Middle. End.
How can you connect this to something you know? How can you extend this to create new ideas? What do you wonder?
If this piece were the beginning/middle/end of a story, what would be the story? (Write a narrative)
- epic poem
- Siegfried captures treasure: sword, ring, and invisibility cloak
- Siegfried dragon slayer
- The ring is stolen and thrown into a river
- People kill in order to find the ring, but it is never found
Eroica Symphony
Originally written for Napoleon Bonaparte
Beethoven: "Is he then, too, nothing more than an ordinary human being? Now he too will trample on the rights of man and indulge only his ambition. He will exalt himself above all others and become a tyrant!"
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
Romantic Era: Wagner's Ring Cycle
In groups- 3 or less
Today's EQ:
MMSMA.8 - Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
1. Create a short story with recurring characters and moods
2. Use music (create on instruments, sing, or play songs using your technology) to be leitmotifs in your story
3. Present to class (One group member read; other group members perform leitmotifs)
- Wagner (1813-1883): many operas and symphonies, Gesamtkunstwerk
- "Total Work of Art"
- music, dance, poetry, visual arts, stage united
- The Ring Cycle (1874): Based on Nibelungenlied
- Leitmotifs
- Music that represents a character or mood in the opera- a recurring theme
2:53-3:30, 4:05-4:30
MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
Mendelssohn
Russia: The "Mighty Five" (1860s-1900s)
Ireland
Belarus
UK
- Wrote music for solo piano, chamber, orchestra, and more
- Wrote "Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream" (play written by Shakespeare)
- Five Russian composers that wrote Nationalist music: Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Balakirev, Cui
- Wanted to defy classical conventions
Poland
MMSMA.8 - Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
Beginning, Middle, End:
If this piece of music were a story, what happens at the beginning? Middle? End? Create your own story based on what is happening in the music.
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
Germany
How can I analyze musical piece and connect them to what I already know to help me gain an understanding of Germany’s history/culture?
Cesar Franck
Symphony in D Minor (1888)
When adagio: walk slowly
When moderato: skip
When allegro: jumping jacks
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
35-37
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Capital Vienna
- Folk music instruments: Accordion, fiddle, clarinet, harp, guitar, brass bands
- Bordered by Germany
- 1900s nationalism
- Arnold Schoenberg considered "degenerate music", emigrated to US in 1934
- Atonality
Create Your Own 12 Tone Piece
Choose which numbers you want, and assign rhythms to each. Then, draw it on the staff by following the guide. Choose at least 4 numbers. Then I will play your song on piano.
Belgium
12 Tone Technique
Der Mondfleck ("The Moonfleck")- 1912
MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Developed in 1921 by Shoenberg
- Assigned each of the tones on the piano a number; each note given equal importance
- Played each number in a random order, without repeating numbers
With a snowy fleck of shining moonlight
On the shoulder of his black silk frock-coat
So walks out Pierrot this languid evening.
Seeking everywhere for love’s adventure.
But what! something wrong with his appearance?
He looks round and round and then he finds it—
Just a snowy fleck of shining moonlight
On the shoulder of his black silk frock-coat.
Wait now (thinks he) ’tis a piece of plaster,
Wipes and wipes, yet cannot make it vanish.
So he goes on poisoned with his fancy,
Rubs and rubs until the early morning
Just a snowy fleck of shining moonlight.
MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music
MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
Ukraine
Austria
France
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
- Predominant religion Catholicism
- Music from Middle Ages and before often "sacred", not "secular"
- From 16th century, culture=cultivation of mind; intellect, knowledge, learning, creativity, and acceptable ways of behaving
- The Enlightenment- Romantic Music flourished (glorified the past, emphasized emotions): Debussy, Chopin, Saint-Saens
- Many artists from France (The Louvre)
- King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ruled until the French Revolution
The Sunken Cathedral (1910):
Beginning, Middle, End
If this artwork were a story, what would be the beginning? Middle? End?
Romania
Kuc-kuck Kuc-kuck ruft aus dem Wald! Lass-et und sing-en,
Tan-zen und spring-en! Fruh-ling, Fruh-ling, wird es nun bald!
Cuckoo, cuckoo, calls from the forest, he makes us sing,
Dance, and jump! Spring, spring, will soon be here!
Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals (1886)
Chopin's Nocturnes
(1830)
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Born in Poland, but moved to France
- Created Nocturnes ("night pieces") for piano
- Also wrote Polish Mazurkas (nationalism) and waltzes
If this were an animal, what animal would it be? What would it be doing?
Pick an animal and dance, draw, or act it out.
Write your own lyrics: you pick the subject
MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
Italy
Spain
Greece