THE USE OF DRAMATIC ELEMENTS IN THE DIES IRAE SEQUENCE OF THE REQUIEMS OF BERLIOZ AND VERDI Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts (1837) and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem (1874) are two of the most important and frequently performed requiem settings of the 19th century. Both are large-scale works calling for an enormous amount of instrumental and vocal musicians. These requiems caused controversy over liturgical bounds‚ with respects to both the rearranging of text and the numerous references to operatic
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1:25‚ Structures 3:45] Rachmaninov Track 2‚ Terpsichore 8 (Shakespeare)‚ Zappa 7‚ Duple: (ex. Handel Water Music CML #73) Triple: (ex. Mozart Minuet #74) Monophony - single voice (not necessarily one voice). . . unaccompanied melody PLAY CML – Kyrie (chant) Song Texture (Homophony) - single voice with accompaniment most familiar texture PLAY CML (Mozart Sym. #40) - medium PLAY CML (Ravel Pavane) – complex Chordal Harmony – all parts move together (familiar choir texture) PLAY CML Arise
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Throughout the centuries‚ composers have endeavored to capture human emotions in their work. Nowhere is this struggle more evident than in the works of operatic composers‚ who tailor their music to forcefully convey the poetry for which they write. An invaluable tool to these composers is harmonic language‚ helping to express desires and forces of good and evil underneath the plain and simple language of the text. Harmonic language encompasses several aspects of music‚ including the major or minor
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along with its detractors. In recent decades‚ an enormous amount of research has been conducted on specific ways in which sound‚ rhythm and music‚ in general‚ can improve human lives. Arguably‚ one of the most interesting of them all is the “Mozart Effect”.2 Supporters of this ‘phenomenon’ claim that listening to Mozart’s music can affect you positively in a number of ways. Mainly‚ it improves one’s spatial-temporal reasoning skills and that early childhood exposure is beneficial for mental
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Bibliography: Downs‚ Philip G. Classical music: the era of Haydn‚ Mozart and Beethoven. London & New York‚ 1992. Grout‚ Donald J. & Palisca‚ Claude V.. A History of Western Music 6th ed.. New York and London‚ 2001. Rosen‚ Charles. The Classical Style. London: Faber‚ 1971. _____________ The Romantic Generation. Cambridge
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Violin‚ Cor Anglais 3. Typical forms/structures: Opera‚ Music Drama‚ Programme Music‚ Song Cycles‚ Short Piano Pieces 4. Composers and their works/pieces: Weber – Der FreischÜtz Rossini – William Tell Wagner – The flying Dutchman Verdi – Aida Schubert – Die schÖne MÜllerin Chopin – Four Ballads and other piano music Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake and Symphony no.6 5. Other details: Romanticism in art‚ literature and music moved away from Classicism by allowing emotional content
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The History of Ballet The first experience of watching a ballet‚ for me or any little girl‚ can be fascinating and exhilarating. Wondering how a dancer can be so steady on her toes as she spins in circles and leaps through the air. Watching a ballet‚ there is a feeling of wanting to be graceful‚ as well as the warm sensation felt by a little girl as she slips into dream land. My mom had taken me to my first ballet when I was 11 years old. When we returned home home‚ she signed me up for classes
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appears again‚ but it has lost its character of nobility and shyness‚" "it is she‚ coming to join the sabbath.—A roar of joy at her arrival.—She takes part in the devilish orgy.—Funeral knell‚ burlesque parody of the Dies irae‚ sabbath round-dance. The sabbath round and the Dies irae combined." Berlioz was unbelievable when we wrote this piece. Every time I heard I imagined myself running away from the ghosts in a dark house. He made the listeners feel in the same situation that he was when he wrote
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as a Gregorian chant were popular. These consist of a single-line melody and monophonic texture lacking harmony and counterpoint. The Mass‚ a reenactment of the sacrifice of Christ‚ is the most solemn ritual of the Roman Catholic Church. Haec dies‚ from the Mass for Easter Day‚ serves as a fine example of
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named for its range of dynamic levels; it was smaller and less sonorous than the modern instrument. - Classical style: restrained‚ objective style of art. Classical refers to Western music characteristic of the period from 1750-1825. Composers: - Mozart: Invested much of his music with a degree of emotion expression unusual for his time. Never allowed emotion to dominate his art. - Haydn: Wrote pleasant‚ good-natured music throughout his long life. Wrote masses‚ oratorios‚ and other religious compositions
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