MUS434-571.3
Music of the Modern Era
Folk, Jazz, & Modernity in Europe – Feb. 5, 2013
Paris – 1914
Paris – 1914
Stravinsky – Le Sacre du Printemps (1913)
•  Ballet Russes
–  Serge Diaghilev, impresario
–  Vaslav Nijinsky, choreographer
–  Nicholas Roerich, set and costume designer
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Subtitled “Pictures of Pagan Russia”
Folk influence
Attention to timbre
Bitonality
Additive Process
Cubism
Pablo Picasso – Woman Playing Mandolin
Paris – 1920
Dada
Marcel Duchamp – Fountain
Jean Arp – Collage Arranged
According to the Laws of Chance
Surrealism
Salvador Dali – Swans Reflecting Elephants
Futurism
Luigi Russolo – intonarumori
Satie – Parade (1917)
•  Ballet Russes
–  Serge Diaghilev, impresario
–  Leonide Massine, choreographer
–  Pablo Picasso, set and costume designer
–  Scenario, Jean Cocteau
•  Exoticism – Chinese, American
•  Vaudeville/cabaret influence, ragtime rhythms
•  Musical use of noise, sound effects created
with instruments
Jelly Roll Morton
Paris – 1925
Milhaud – Le Boeuf sur le Toit (1919)
•  Ballet (Farce Pantomime)
–  Scenario by Jean Cocteau
•  Subtitle “The Nothing-Doing Bar”
•  Quotes many Brazilian choros
–  Tango rhythms (varied 3+3+2)
–  Bitonality
–  Theme modulates to all twelve keys, satire
•  Bar opens 1921
Summary
•  Connections to contemporary art movements
•  Influence of folk and popular music, politics
•  Cosmopolitan Paris facilitates borrowing /
exoticism
•  Exploring timbre, sound sources, form, intent
–  Every day objects and ideas = art