2/19 The EnlightenmentMusic and the Human Experience with Professor KattariExtra credit: add 5 classical songs and movie autobiography report due March 31The Enlightenment Era- Objectivity and knowledge- Immanuel Kant (1784) – “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from self-incurred immaturity (dare to know)- Think, challenge, discuss- Salons – places where people go to engage in logical discussions- In-class 2 examples of paintings reflective of enlightenmentDemocratic Revolutions- Weakened French monarchy (Louis XIV d. 1715)- Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II (1765-1790) changed view of gov’t to “enlightened absolutism”- American Revolution (1775-1783)- French Revolution (1789-1799)- End of French monarchy and Roman EmpireRevolutionary context in Music- “God save the King (Queen)”o Anonymous melody (my country tis of thee)o 1744 Thomas Arne put words to the song to describe the Scot rebellion- “Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser” Protect monarch for Holy Roman Emperoro Haydno 1797 Austria/HRE threatened by French Revolutiono Song written for HRE Francis II- “Chester” Revolutionaryo William Billingso Bostono 1st American Songwritero Published hymn songbookso “Chester” (1770) – SATB Unofficial anthem of the Revolutionary war- “La Marseillaise” Revolutionaryo 1792 France under attack by Austria and Prussia Chaude Rouget de Lisle France’s first national anthem- In-class movie “Amadeus”- Haydn – “six quartets music for patrons and amateurs”- Mozart “wrote happy medium between what is too easy and too difficult” “easy on the ear” “music must never offend the
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