Introducing
Prezi AI.
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Loading…
Irish Art Music
1
Transcript
Aloys Fleischmann
Irish Art Music
- born in Munich, Irish immigrant
- Gaelic music in compositions using contemporary techniques
- Piano Suite of 1933 - European and Irish characteristics; beginning of more modern pieces
Frederick May
1911-1985
Sean O Riada
1931-1971
Aloys Fleischmann
1910-1992
Brian Boydell
1917-2000
Sean O Riada
- educated by Fleischmann, took over May's position at Abbey Theatre
- first successful model for putting Irish traditional music in orchestral setting
- influence on Irish contemporary, classical, folk, and even rock music
Frederick May
- first composer to break out of the "folk music trap"
- Scherzo for Orchestra (1933)
- European: colorful orchestration, percussive cross-rhythms
- Irish: pentatonic melodies, variations, jig rhythm
- Increasing deafness
Brian Boydell
- upper middle class Anglo-Irish family
- used European compositional techniques, but still innately Irish
- juxtaposed diatonicism and octatonicism
- May's career ended due to deafness; Fleischmann was slow to catch on to modernist trend; Boydell made "breakthrough"
Choose a template
Presentations from around the world
Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi