3/9Music and the Human Experience with Professor KattariExtra credit: add 5 classical songs and movie autobiography report due March 313rd Phase of Beethoven’s music (Avant-garde) (1815-1827)- Totally deaf by 1817o Held conversations with little bookso Heard music via vibrations and ear trumpets1) Grand expansion of Classical style in his public worksa. Symphony No. 9 (1824) “Choral” Symphonyi. Messes with traditional multi-movement cycle1. Allegro (sonata-allegro form with “wrong” key return in recap) 2. Scherzo & Trio Presto (in sonata form but super fast triple meter that almost sounds like a duple meter)3. Presto (“inner symphony” choir singing ode to joy)2) Very challenging and “hard to understand” intimate worksa. Grosse Fugue (1825)i. New music was darker, a different way of hearing1. People didn’t like it, pushing limits too far- “Enlightenment was Western civilization’s left brain, Romanticism’s the Right Brain”- Beethoven was the transition between Classical and Romantic- Romantic Era (failure of French Revolution and rise of Industrial Revolution)o Individualism Beethoven leads the way – individual and personal expression through art Different composers, variety of styles Bohemian artisto Extreme Emotional Expressiono Supernatural/Escape from Enlightenment Exoticism, fantasy, drugs, dreams Edgar Allen Poe’s Gothic Horror, Mary Shelly’s
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