MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 27 Outline of Last Lecture I II Sergei Diaghilev 1872 1929 Expressionism and It s Opposite Outline of Current Lecture I II Identify the Four Musical Traditions that inform Ives compositions Describe the Role Irony Plays in Ives Compositional Style Current Lecture I Identify the Four Musical Traditions that inform Ives compositions 1 Protestant Hymnody the use of Protestant hymns in Ives works 1 These hymns were commonly known in America and used often in church 1 Probably the very first musical tradition that we can identify in musical composition as American 2 Included hymns such as 1 Nettleton Come Thou Fount c1812 2 In Sweet By and By Bennett Webster 1868 3 Crossing the Bar Ives c1894 2 American Popular Music 1 Included songs such as 1 Minstrelsy songs written to reflect Plantation life in the South 1 My Old Kentucky Home 2 Oh Susanna 2 American Parlor Song 1 I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 3 Tin Pan Alley 1 On the Banks of the Wabash Dressler 1897 4 Band Music 1 Dixie 2 The Battle March to Freedom 3 Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa 1897 3 Western Art Music Ives studies this under the instruction of Horatio Parker II 1 This became the art form her used most in all his compositions 4 Experimental Music stretching the ears with all sorts of new harmonies and experimentations just to see what happens 1 Presenting new material as a joke to audiences so they would receive and listen to it in an unjudgemental manner 1 Seen in The Unanswered Question written with 7 questions but only 6 answers 1 Composed in three sections 1 Fighting Answers atonal flutes 2 The Perennial Question of Existence Trumpets 3 Silences of the Druids G major Strings Describe the Role Irony Plays in Ives Compositional Style 1 Tonality Ives sees that the language of Western Music must involve some atonality He does this by re hearing the language of traditional harmonies from the past 1 Not completely atonal because Ives does se traditional harmonies that stem from traditional European art forms Ives simply re hears them in a way that is Western reflective of American traditions and new without being completely atonal and unfamiliar
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