Reminders

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Reminders Alerts

• Opera Project information now on webMUH 3212
  - Opera (Video) Project (Spring 2009)Request
  title w/ at least 1-2 alternate
• Orlando Opera Company - Welcome To The OOC! Suor
  Angelica Cavalleria Rusticana (Fri-Sat-Tues)
• Continue work on Bibliography Project- Review
  instructions for all
• Finish Reading Chapters 17-18, start into 19-
  Lieder on Monday, then OPERA

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Bibliography Project

• Resources beyond books?- magazine/journal
  articles
• Start UCF Libraries Homepage use Articles
  Databases to access- JSTOR (under J) Full
  text Archival- Project Muse (under P) Full
  text Current publications (MLA Notes)
• Search for book reviews to validate titles and
  authors found elsewhere

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Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)

• Born Warsaw, Poland
• Tours to Vienna (unable to return home,
  revolution)
• To Paris (1831)(refuges)
• Salon performer teacher
• Composer for piano only
• exotic (Polish identity)- Mazurka (peasant
  dance)- Polonaise (court dance)
• Pianistic effects and unique harmonic language

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Chopin, Nocturne in Db Major, Op. 27, no. 2, NAWM
118

• Nocturne (from John Field, Irish composer)
• Vocally conceived (operatic) melody
• Pianistic accompaniment patterns
• Continual variation of melody (cf. mm. 26ff)-
  from abilities as improvising player
• Chromatic harmonies and melodic coloring
• Use of pedal to sustain or blur harmonies
• Technique for small hands (Moscheles Chopin
  looks like his music sounds. small, delicate
  person)

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)Souvenir de
Porto Rico, op. 31 NAWM 120

• American, born in New Orleans
• Paris from 1842, debut in 1849
• Creole compositions based on- Caribbean,
  Afro-Am influences- Parisian virtuoso technique
• Touring virtuoso- Europe (Switzerland, Spain)-
  multiple US tours (to west coast)- South America
  (dies in Brazil)
• 1st American composer/performer of international
  stature

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The German Art Song

• Das Lied (the song) (plural Die Lieder)
• Settings of poetry for voice piano
• Forms can be- Strophic- Through-composed-
  Modified Strophic
• Piano Accompaniment importantprelude and
  postlude
• Grouped in Song cycles (Lieder cycles)

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• 1st Master of the German Art Song (Lied)
• Over 600 Lieder
• Erlkönig YouTube - Schubert - Der Erlkönig ??
  (complete version.)- J.W. v. Goethe ballad- op.
  1 (1821)
• Importance of text to shape of songs
• Song cycles- Die schöne Müllerin- Winterreise
  NAWM 112

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A Schubertiad in the early 1800s(Schubert in
glasses at the piano) Hanning, p. 415