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Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts Programme Music An Introduction 12 February 2018
Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts
Programme Music
An Introduction
12 February 2018
Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts
Study the images below, and interpret them. Write in some detail:
Listen to this extract and describe in detail what you hear. Creative writing—be brave!
Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts
Programme Music: The Details
Whose idea was Programme Music? Fill in his biographical details [no more than 200 words].
YouTube Video
This piece has this “programme.” According to legend, Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. He calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle. The skeletons dance until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves.
Summarise the intention of Programme Music in no more than 20 words [the shorter, the better].
List the characteristics of Programme Music in detail
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Listen again to the earlier audio clip. List the Elements of Music that create the graphic image the composer seeks to portray, and describe how the composer treats each Element to create that image.
Refer to the score of the piece, listen to it once more and check your responses.
Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts
There are 14 numbers in the score of Saint-Saëns’ Le carnaval des animaux. You have already identified No. 2. Now attempt to identify the other 13 movements, motivating your answer in each case. Remember, this is creative writing because you are still learning your craft. You may think as wildly as you like, but motivate your answers.
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 5
No. 6
No. 7
No. 8
No. 9
No. 10
No. 11
No. 12
No. 13
No. 14
Identify the era during which The Carnival of the Animals was written from what you have learnt about when the notion of Programme Music was first developed. Comment in detail on how this work conforms to the ideals of Programme Music.
Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts
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Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts
Music is at once the simplest and most complex of all the Arts
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