This fifth installment of the collection paints a broad panorama of a century and a half of the history of a world in the throes of upheavals of a scale and speed hitherto unknown. Advances in technical progress and in the means of communication, the advent of the industrial revolution but also the discovery of the notion of the right of workers profoundly alter the role and place of man in society. All artistic fields are also subject to this "acceleration of time" to embrace, also, the ambient evolution through a rich palette of currents that affect architecture, painting, sculpture and, of course, music.
By associating all the historical, cultural and artistic interpenetrations to be considered, this publication leads us to discover the different styles that are developing in Europe and more generally in the "West". The neoclassical, romantic, realistic and impressionist movements are discussed, as well as their relationship with the musical creations that have marked this period.
Hundreds of reproductions of monuments, paintings and sculptures, accompanied by commentaries, adorn the work in parallel with the presentations of great names in literature or works by emblematic composers.
Musical works proposed: - / Music in France at the time of the revolution (it will go!, La Marseillaise, The song of departure), - / The scholarly music at the end of the 18th century: Gluck (Orpheus and Eurydice), Haydn ( Stabat Mater, Cto for trumpet, 3rd mvt, The Creation ... relation certain canvases of Gainsborough and Constable), Mozart (Coronation Mass, Agus Dei, Cto for clarinet, 2nd mvt, Don Giovanni ... relation with certain works of Fragonard), - / Romantic music: Beethoven (Sonata N ° 30, 1st and 2nd mvt, 5 Variations on a waltz of Diabelli ... relationship with Goya's canvases), Schubert (lied - quintet Die Forelle), Chopin (study in E major, opu 10), Berlioz (Opening The Roman Carnival), - / The triumph of the Grand Opera: Rossini (Opening of William Tell pastiche of Spike Jones), Verci (La Traviata: Libiamo ne'lieti calici, Noi siamo zingarelle), Wagner (Opening of Tannhaüser), Offenbach (The Beautiful Helena: the judgment of Paris) - / L'orientalism and Hispanicism: Rimsky-Korsakov (The sea and the ship of Sinbad ... relationship with paintings of Ingres, Fromentin and Delacroix), Bizet (Carmen, The Habanera), Liszt (The Spanish Rhapsody ... relationship with paintings by Manet), - / instrumental works: Borodin (In the steppes of Central Asia), Debussy (Reflections in the water, Sails, The Sea ... corespondance with the work of Monet), - / Popular songs for the put into practice: La Habanera ("orientalizing" version, PB), Cherry time (PB tutti), the International.
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