MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 26 Outline of Last Lecture I II Expressionism Arnold Schoenberg s Work with Expressionism Outline of Current Lecture I II Sergei Diaghilev 1872 1929 Expressionism and It s Opposite Current Lecture I Sergei Diaghilev 1872 1929 a Sergei Diaghilev a Russian with a skill for recognizing artists and musicians with talent and potential i Created and organized exhibitions concert series ii Known for fitting Russian culture into the French taste for the primitive and exotic 1 Created the Ballet Russes 1909 Polovtsian Dances a New colors in set new abstract ideas displayed through the costumes exotic new moves and abstract forms in dance b Featured the rise of the male lead dancer i Previously the female dancer was the lead while the male assisted her more complicated movements i e spins twirls lifts etc c New freedoms in female costumes i Female dancers were no longer forced to wear constricting corsets and tutu costumes that restricted and limited their movement to the legs and arms ii Now had the freedom to move more at the waist opening up the door to many new positions and forms in ballet dance II d Sets and backdrops to ballets and orchestral pieces were alive with color i Characterized by vivid and exotic settings that captured the imagination and caused it to go wild Expressionism and It s Opposite a Expressionism the opposite of Impressionism i The rejection of immediate perception and the breaking of rules to create an intense personal reality 1 This form of art was completely captured by the paintings and works of Pablo Picasso b Igor Stravinsky 1882 1971 i Stravinsky s Compositional Styles 1 Russian Period 2 Neo Classical Period 3 Serial Period ii Neo Classisism an anti expressionist aesthetic exhibited in Stravinsky s music 1 Both Petrouchka and Symphony in C were written during Stravinsky s Neo Classisist Period a Petrouchka characterized by crunching rhythmical dissonances and the tragic story of a clown b Symphony in C 1940 i Hearing the past as the past through 1 Tonality 2 Form 3 Tradition
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