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HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC AMM3072

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND

One movement which is work with a storyline which is programmatic, with

different themes to represent characters or ideas Also called Tone Poem Mostly like opera, didnt use sung text but seems like drama and a union of music The content and form may be suggested by a picture, statue, play, poem, scene, personality, or something else but the subject is converted into music without specific reference to the details of the original. Grout (1996, p576)

Symphonic Poem is come from romantic period Symphonic Poem is created and composed by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) who wrote 12 symphonic poems between 1848 and 1858 and a 13th in 1881-82

 The genre of symphonic poem was taken up by such composers as Bedrich Smeta (Ma vlast), Cesar Franck (Psyche), Camille Saint-

Saens (Le Rouet dOmphale, Danse macabre), and Piotr I1yich

Tchaikovsky (Francesca da Rimini) Grout (1996, p579) Several of symphonic poems grew out of concert overtures Listzts Hunnenschlacht (The Battle of the Huns) is related to a mural painting, Mazeppa to a poem, Hamlet to Shake-speares hero, Prometheus to the myth and also to a poem by Herder Grout (1996, p577)

The best of Liszts symphonic poems isOrpheus and Hamlet

The most popular Liszts Symphonic Poem is Les Preludes

TYPE OF INSTRUMENT AND VOICES

Orchestra (woodwind, brass, string)

Piano
Solo instrument New instrument (tuba, saxophone, modern flute) Women voice (Dante Symphony)

STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS
Narrative, Programmatic Continuous form with sections contrasting in character and tempo, and a few themes are developed, repeated, varied or transformed Grout (1996, p576) Augmented triad Amorphous, like a prelude Lyrical Stormy Excited Chromaticism Use of rubato, appeggios, vibrato Martial Resolute A more distant metamorphosis introduction and Allegro (in sonata form) Andante (three part form) cherzo (three part form, followed by a long additional development and coda) Grout (1996, p579)

Most popular Liszts Symphonic Poem

Les prludes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5tz_ JSR_q4

The best of Liszts symphonic poem

Hamlet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkccQTbb_c

Orpheus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjc KhkCT_c

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Burkholder, J.P., Grout, D.J., Palisca, C.V. (1996). A history of western music. Fifth Edition. London: Norton. Burkholder, J.P., Grout, D.J., Palisca, C.V. (2010). A history of western music. Eighth Edition. London: Norton. Burkholder, J.P., Grout, D.J., Palisca, C.V. (2010). Concise history of western music. Fourth Edition. London: Norton.