Listening Guide, Chapter 19

 

#123 Composer: Gustav Mahler
   a. Title: Kindertotenlieder
     i. No. 1, Nun will die Sonn' hell aufgehen
   b. Text: by Rückert on the death of his two daughters from scarlet fever.
   c. Characteristics:
     i. Thin orchestration
     ii. chromatic harmony

#124 Composer: Richard Strauss
   a. Title: Don Quixote
   b. Form: Theme and Variations
   c. Themes:
     i. Don Quixote
     ii. Sancho Panza
     iii. Windmill
     iv. Sheep
       (1) fluttertongue
       (2) klangfarbenmelodie
   d. Genre: Symphonic Poem

#125 Composer: Modest Musorgsky
   a. Title: "The idle, noisy day is over" from Sunless
   b. Harmony: Harmonic successions are chosen for their color rather than direction.

#128 Composer: Claude Debussy
   a. Title: Nuages from Trois Nocturnes
   b. Genre: Symphonic Poem
   c. Techniques:
     i. fog motif represented by slow moving triplets
     ii. pentatonic scales
   d. Form: Ternary (ABA)

#129 Composer: Maurice Ravel
   a. Title: Le Tombeau de Couperin
   b. Form: Menuet
   c. Characteristics:
   d. Purpose:
     i. Tribute to Couperin
     ii. Tombeau is a Lamentation

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