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A network of stylistic innovations in music.
Developed after WWI
includes fusions of past & popular stylistic elements with modern elements
creates a vigorous and EMOTIONALLY DETACHED modern music |
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| most costly war to date, most casualties, guilt of everyone |
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Neo classicist
Pulcinella, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Octet for Winds, Edipus Rex
took thoughts from La Serva Padrona, said strings were too expressionistic
Music contains no emotional content |
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| Stravinsky- C major scale walking up and down, syncopated rhythms, Latin American dance rhythms 3+3+2, Baroque rhythms, |
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old fashioned, Handel Oratorio-esque, Expressionistic, foreign story, audacious, audience doesn't know what is happening,
Surprise for Diaghielev's birthday
Cocteau wrote libretto, asked for narrator
crappy actor |
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| The Society for Private Musical Performance |
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| Schoenberg and students decided that since concerts were to be disrupted continuously, everyone must now be invited, everything would be performed at least twice, no booing or applauding, no audience reaction at all 1918-1921 |
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| becomes US Citizen, moves to LA, invited to go back, changes spelling of name, |
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| Fourth String Quartet, 1st movement |
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| Schoenberg, emotional, expressive, intuitive, no change in output after WWI, reflects struggles of 1930's, 12 tone |
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student of Schoenberg, not really into dark music, utopianism & abstractism,
PhD in Musicology at U of Vienna
Nazi party declares music entartetekunst |
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origin of word concerto
Webern writes this for Schoenberg's 60th birthday present
Schoenberg says get out of Germany, 0-1-4 set, prime form, |
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