Introduction to Music

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Introduction to Music

• Clara Wieck Schumann
• Frédéric Chopin
• Program Music

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Clara Wieck Schumann

• A 19th C piano star
• Published a music newspaper!

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Log

• Schumann
• Liebst du um Schönheit (If you love for beauty)
• Art Song from Song Cycle
• I joint song cycle
• on love
• varied strophic form A-A1-A-A2

CD 3, Track 22
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Frédéric Chopin

• Virtuoso pianist
• Poles viewed C as nationalist composer
• Many pieces based on Polish national idiom, e.g.,
• 61 Mazurkas
• 16 Polonaises
• 19 Songs on Polish texts

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Log

• Chopin
• Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12
• (The Revolutionary)
• Miniature
• I etude a piece that addresses a specific
  technical difficulty

CD 3, Track 29
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Program music

• Music associated with non-music person, place,
  thing, idea
• NOT literal
• Romantic chic!
• Types
• program symphony
• concert overture
• symphonic poem (aka tone poem)
• incidental music