3/24Music and the Human Experience with Professor KattariExtra credit: add 5 classical songs and movie autobiography report due March 31More Romantic Piano music composers- Franz Schuberto Viennao Overshadowed by Beethoveno Very prolific – wrote over 1000+, 600 were liedero Bohemian starving artisto Very personally expressiveo Wrote “Gretchen am Spinnrade, 1814” (17 years old) Based on a play by Goethe (Faust)- Selling soul to devil to be a rockstar, has one night stand with a girl then ditches- Protagonist is the pregnant womano Wrote “Erlkonig” (Elf-King) 1815 (18 years old) Set to Goethe’s poem - Boy talking to death, dad racing through woods to save the boy- Lieds – have piano and voiceMusic- Differentiation between Art, folk and popular is the transmission of music, music type, and how it’s supported- US Folk music in 1800s – about community, orally transmitted, anonymous authoro Native Americano European o African- US Art music – written scoreso Trained composer and performers; “advanced” musico Not overwhelmingly funded by public at large; need to support from state/ wealthy peopleo For highbrows European opera and art songs American Parlor songs- Middle-class amateurs- Voice and piano- Popular Music in US 1800so For lowbrows Popular European songs American minstrel songs o Minstrelsy – First distinctly American popular music 1840s – 1900 (slavery) Stage act w/ song, music, dance, and skits Stereotypical and supposed representations of black southern songs- “Ethiopian” shows Whites and later blacks in black face minstrel showso Music and lyrics Banjos, spoons, tambourines, fiddle Music sounds more European than African Usually about Love and theft- Set stereotypical characters- Embodied exotic traits- White working-class mocked rich whites- Minstrels were like the ventriloquist and dummy- Stephen Foster (1840s-1860s)o “Father of American Music” – professional songwritero Highbrow parlor songs “Jeanie”o Lowbrow minstrel songs “Oh! Susanna”o Plantation songs “Old Folks at home”o Poverty despite successo Tragic death (37 years