MUS- M 402 1st Edition Lecture 26Outline of Last LectureI. ExpressionismII. Arnold Schoenberg’s Work with ExpressionismOutline of Current LectureI. Sergei Diaghilev (1872- 1929)II. Expressionism and It’s Opposite Current LectureI. 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 Dancesa. 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 danceri. 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 costumesi. 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.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!II. Expressionism and It’s Oppositea. Expressionism- the opposite of Impressionismi. The rejection of immediate perception and the breaking of rules to createan 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 Period2. Neo-Classical Period3. Serial Periodii. 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. Tonality2. Form3.
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