MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I Chopin and his Transcendental Music II Chopin s Compositional Style Outline of Current Lecture I Verdi Puccini and Popular Music II Nationalism and Viva Verdi in 1859 III Verdi s Compositional Process Current Lecture I Verdi Puccini and Popular Music a Popular Music a term used widely in everyday discourse music that is clearly identifiable but hard to define b Some music however resists popularity through musical and extra musical means c What then actually makes music or anything really popular i Can music be popular and Art II Nationalism and Viva Verdi in 1859 a Nationalism pride in one s country b A huge Risorgimento Resurgence movement sweeps across Italy in 1859 to unify the separate nation states of Italy i Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re d Italia Long live Victor Emanuele king of Italy becomes the battle cry for the Italian people during this movement as Verdi s music become connected in nationalism 1 Verdi s opera Nabucco written in 1842 in Milan contains the famous chorus Va Pensiero the chorus of the Hebrew slaves a When Nabucco premiered in Milan in 1842 Italians immediately identifies themselves with the Hebrew slaves because of their desire for freedom from the controlling Austrians who were ruling over Italy at the time b Written in AABA form the popular song form of the day III Verdi s Compositional Process a Verdi was in complete control of his Compositional Processes telling people how much he wanted to be paid and by taking his time composing i Verdi continued to gain monstrous amounts of popularity ii Verdi s popularity made him a big hit in the music world iii Verismo opera local color gritty realism and death of the main components
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