- •Music in the Modern World western music of the twentieth century (general survey)
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Additional Assignments
- •Some twentieth-century composers arnold schoenberg (1874-1951)
- •The composer speaks: arnold schoenberg
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Bela bartok (1881-1945)
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Bartok
- •Discussion Points
- •Paul hindemith: his life and work (1895-1963)
- •The composer speaks: paul hindemith
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Electronic music
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Stravinsky
- •Additional Assignments
- •Britten's operas
- •The composer speaks: benjamin broten
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Britten
- •Additional Assignments
- •Menotti. The opera composer
- •The composer speaks: gian carlo menotti
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Michael tippett: a child of our time
- •30 Questions on the Text
- •Experimental (avant-garde) music
- •Olivier messiaen
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Additional Assignments
- •George ligeti (b. 1923)
- •Karlheinz stockhausen
- •35 Discussion Activities Questions on the Text about Ligeti
- •About Stockhausen and Experimental Composers
- •Questions about Western Music of the 20th Century
- •Points for Discussion and Written Compositions
- •Popular music rock
- •Points about rock
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Elvis presley - story of a superstar
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The beatles
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •English and American Musical History english music (general survey)
- •1. Opera.
- •2. Performing groups.
- •3. Festivals.
- •4. Education.
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •The golden age in england
- •The english virginal school
- •Virginal music composers. William Byrd (1542-1623)
- •Byrd in his time and ours
- •English madrigalists
- •"The british orpheus"
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •56 American music (general survey)
- •61 Charles ives, the first truly american composer (1874-1954)
- •Charles ives and american folk music
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The relation of jazz to american music
- •Louis armstrong
- •The swing era (duke ellington)
- •Spirituals
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The Art of Musical Interpretation the problem of interpretation
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Conducting
- •The art of conducting
- •Questions on the Text
- •Some musical encounters
- •Questions on the Text
- •86 Leonard bernstein
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Herbert von karajan
- •Interview with herbert von karajan
- •The art of piano playing: glenn gould
- •Interview with glenn gould
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The art of violin playing: eugene ysaye
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The world of opera handel in performance
- •Franco zeffirelli: the romantic realist
- •La divina: maria callas
- •Callas remembered
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Peter pears: ronald crichton speaks
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
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what they cannot possibly contact directly with their own ears or understanding - то, что они, по-видимому, не, могут воспринимать непосредственно с помощью слуха или разума
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Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1974) - English-born poet (later American citizen) and librettist. Wrote libretto for Britten's first opera Paul Bunyan (1941) and, with Chester Kallman, for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951).
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is a self-contained tableau - представляет собой самостоятельную зарисовку
his idiom modal. Имеется в виду, что композитор использует смешанную технику с обращением к старинным ладам.
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"permanent melody" - (зд.) лейтмотив
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libretto per se (Lat) - либретто как таковое
Götterdämmerung (Germ.) - «Сумерки богов», музыкальная драма Р. Вагнера (1869-74)
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Eliot, Thomas (1888-1965) - American-born English poet, critic, and playwright, a major figure in English literature
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Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918) - poet of World War I, killed just before the Armistice and before he was able to complete the book of poetry he had planned, of which he said in the preface "the subject of it is War and the pity of War". His Collected Poems were published in 1920 by his friend Sassoon. Britten's War Requiem uses the Latin Mass interspersed with the poems by Wilfred Owen.
Yeats, William (1865-1939) - Irish poet and playwright
Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) - Swiss psychologist. The terms extrovert and introvert which he introduced into his study of psychological types have become part of everyday language.
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trailblazer - (зд.) первопроходчик, новатор
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935) - French composer, music critic and teacher. His finest work is his opera Ariadne and Bluebeard. He was professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire from 1909 to 1935.
Dupre, Marcel (1886-1971) - French organist and composer; noteworthy improviser
Baudrier, Yves (1906) - French composer; founder of the group Young France
Daniel-Lesur (b. 1908) - French composer and organist, professor of counterpoint at the Scholar Cantorum (1935-1962)
Jolivet, André (1905-1974) - French composer; one of the founders of the Jeune France group; conductor and later music director of Comédie Française (1943-59)
La Jeune France (Fr.) - Young France, a group of French composers formed in Paris in 1936 to re-establish then unfashionable idea of "a personal message" in composition (members were Baudrier, Jolivet, Lesur, and Messiaen)
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Oiseaux exotiques (Fr.)-Exotic Birds
Catalogue d'oiseaux (Fr.) - Catalogue of the Birds, work by Messiaen for solo piano in 7 books (1956-58), based on birdsong as noted and remembered by the composer
modal progressions of chords - последовательности аккордов, соответствующие логике закономерностей старинных ладов
ondes Martenot - «волны Мартено» (электроинструмент, созданный Морисом Мартино в 1928 г.)
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Turangalîla-symphonie (Sanskrit) - symphony in 10 movements by Messiaen for large orchestra including ondes Martenot, piano, and section of pitched and unpitched percussion. Largest of 3 works inspired by the Tristan and Isolde legend. Written between 1946-1948.
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Atmospheres - Atmosphere, work for orchestra by Ligeti, composed in 1961, first performed at Donaueschingen
Lux aeterna - Eternal Light, work for 16-part choir by Ligeti, composed in 1966. The text is from Agnus Dei of the Requiem Mass.
Lontano - In the Distance, work for orchestra by Ligeti, composed in 1967, first performed at Donaueschingen