absolutely music music written for musics sake alone Program Music music that expresses an extramusical idea tells a story or paints a picture Virtuoso composers Chopin Liszt Paganini ID: 358394
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Absolute Music
absolutely music; music written for music’s sake aloneSlide2
Program Music
music that expresses an extra-musical idea; tells a story or paints a pictureSlide3
Virtuoso composers
Chopin
Liszt
Paganini
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Nationalistic composers
Brahms - Hungary
Grieg - Norway
Sibelius – Finland
Mussorgsky – Russia
Dvorak – America/Bohemia
Smetana – Bohemia
Tchaikovsky - RussiaSlide5
Program Music composers
Grieg – Peer Gynt
Smetana – Ma Vlast (The Moldau
Tchaikovsky – Marche Slav, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping BeautySlide6
Peter
Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
(page 21)
Born in
Votkinsk
, Russia in 1840
Died in Moscow, Russia in 1893Slide7
Peter
Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
(page 21)
Swan Lake
Sleeping Beauty
The Nutcracker
These are ballets -----------------
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Peter
Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
(page 21)
Tchaikovsky wrote
The Nutcracker
, not
The Nutcracker Suite
.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Marche Slav
Uses national anthem of imperial RussiaSlide10
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Notes:
Mussorgsky and the other members of the Big Five invited Tchaikovsky to join their group promoting Russian music. Slide11
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Notes:
He refused, saying that he wanted to write music for the world, not just for the Russians. He did not want to be known as a “Russian” composer.
My question is -------Slide12
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
If you write music that contains the Russian national anthem and write about a victorious time in Russian national history, is there any other country that the music could make people think about?????Slide13
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
No matter now much Tchaikovsky protested about not wanting to be known as a Russian composer, his music is very definitely Nationalistic music about Russia.
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Peter
Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
This is NOT about the War OF 1812 that took place in the United States. This is about another war that took place IN 1812 between France and Russia.Slide15
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
In your notes write down three or four phrases to help you remember what happened. Slide16
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
In 1812 Napoleon decided to conquer Russia. The French army entered Russia with 442,000 men.
The French army could not carry enough food for the entire army with them so they planned to refill their food and water supplies with each town they conquered.Slide17
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
As the French army advanced, the Russian army retreated. The French army advanced and the Russian army retreated. The French saw this as a great victory until they realized that with each retreat, the Russians were burning the villages, killing the livestock and throwing the carcasses into the wells.Slide18
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
The result was no food for the army and polluted wells which gave them no clean water to drink. The men began to weaken and get sick but they continued to advance.
In September the army reached Moscow with 100,000 men (less than 1/4 the number they had begun the war with).Slide19
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
With great rejoicing the French army surrounded Moscow and declared themselves the victor in the war. The Russians, however, still had another plan up their sleeves. As the French cut off supplies from entering the city, the Russians began to systematically burn Moscow. This further diminished the source of supplies for the French army.Slide20
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Finally as winter approached and the snow began to fall, the ill-equipped French army began their retreat. Having left home in the summer, the men had no boots or coats to protect them from the cold winter weather and many left bloody footprints in the snow on the trek back to France. Slide21
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
When the war was over and the French army struggled out of Russia, only 10,000 men remained of the 442,000 who had left France.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
As the French left Moscow, the Russians celebrated by ringing all the church bells in the city and singing the Russian National hymn, thanking God for saving their country.Slide23
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
The piece begins with the Russian people singing a prayer for peace in their land as the French army advances toward their country.Slide24
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Throughout the piece you will hear snatches of “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem. This is to indicate that the French are advancing.Slide25
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
You will also hear cannons throughout the piece as the war continues.Slide26
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
As you get near the end and the Russians know that victory is theirs, you will hear church bells ringing and the choir singing the National anthem of Imperial Russia.Slide27
Peter
Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
(page 21)
1812 Overture
Uses cannons, church bells and a choir
Uses French national anthem and Russian national anthemSlide28
Gioacchino Rossini
Italian composer
William Tell Overture
William Tell was a Swiss folk hero who helped to liberate the people from a tyrant.