#Conversa caipira series#

You had been separated from your children, from your wife, from your parents. 'Get out!' Whether you slept or whether worries kept you awake the whole night. The day began as usual: Reveille when it still was dark. I remember only the grandiose moment when they all started to sing, as if prearranged, the old prayer they had neglected for so many years - the forgotten creed! But I have no recollection how I got underground to live in the sewers of Warsaw for so long a time. I must have been unconscious most of the time. from Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ( Bible, Old Testament) After the German soldiers angrily retaliated by burning the ghetto to the ground-building by building, those who survived escaped by living in underground sewage canals. Schoenberg wrote the text himself, based on direct reports from one of the few survivors of a 1943 Jewish rebellion in a Nazi concentration camp in Warsaw, Poland during World War II. Much of the time, the music is also strictly contrapuntal, with rapid canonic echoing at the 16th-note. It is similar in many ways to Pierrot lunaire (see example above), but it is even more highly structured by its use of 12-tone serialism-a compositional approach that Schoenberg developed in 1921 and used in various ways for the rest of his life. _ Arnold Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw 1947ДЄ Survivor from Warsaw is an atonal and expressionist cantata for solo voice (in Sprechstimme style) and orchestra. His head turns in ecstacy to the heavens,ДЄnd reeling, he slips and slurps the 'wine' that slakes his thirsting eyes. The poet, deep in devotion, grows drunk of the holy drink. Waves of 'wine' for thirsting eyes gush forth from the moon at night. Tremulous sighs travel up through the swell. 1, 'Mondestrunken' (Moondrunk), which is in ternary form :ДЄt night the moon drenches thirsting eyes, and a flood swells up on their still horizon. It is an expressionist work that depicts the psychological inner thoughts of a lunatic (literally, someone controlled by the cycles of the moon).ДЄs seen from the score excerpt and video clip, this is aВ highly-dissonant, intense and emotional atonalВ work, that uses excruciating instrumentalВ ranges and soundsВ to depict its psychotic text, as in Song No. Pierrot lunaire (The Sick Moon) is a cycle of 20 German Lieder for voice (in Spreschstimme style) and chamber orchestra (flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano). _ Arnold Schoenberg: 'Mondesdrunken' (Moondrunk) Song No. His unusual orchestral scoring of instruments in extreme registers is also a hallmark of this style. Stravinsky's musical scoe contains many novel features for its time including experiments in rhythm (pounding ostinatos with constantly shifting accents), melody, harmonic dissonance, and extended tonality (created by collage-layering of independent clashing melodies). Performance Notes: The Rite of Spring (a ballet focused on a ritual sacrifice in an ancient pagan society) was so shocking in its music and dance that there was a famous riot in the Paris concert hall the night it premiered in 1913. Igor Stravinsky: 'Adoration of the Earth' from Part I of The Rite of Spring 1913. all the various impressions and the special effects of light that the word suggests.Nuages' renders the immutable aspect of the sky and the slow, solemn motion of the clouds, fading away in grey tones lightly tinged with white.' Debussy illusttates this musically with cloud-like melodic 'planing' (lines moving up and down in parallel motion), whole tone scales, woodwind-predominated orchestral colors, and a usually subdued dynamic range with occasional swells. In his preface, Debussy says 'The title Nocturnes is to be interpreted here in a decorative sense. SirГЁnes (Sirens-as in the dangerous and beautiful creatures that lured sailors to their deaths inВ Greek mythology)

#Conversa caipira series#

Trois Nocturnes (Three Noctunes, 1899) is a 3-movement set of programmatic symphonic poems inspired by a series of impressionist paintings, also entitled 'Nocturnes' by James Whisler:ДЈ. The sound features whole-tone scales, chromatic Japanese-influenced melodies, and the predominance of woodwind colors and harp (instead of strings, or Wagnerian brass). Debussy fostered subtlety, flowing moods and colors in this new impressionistic style (named after the slightly earlier style of French painting by Claude Monet and others). Performance Notes: Impressionism was a direct reaction against the excessive Romanticism of Wagner and his followers. Early Modern Art Music Claude Debussy: 'Nuages' from Trois Nocturnes 1899.