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16 Cards in this Set
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What does Hanslick do?
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he's a music critic and a professor at university. he likes the music of Wagner and Tannhauser.
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Are Hanslick's ideas romantic, or antic romantic,
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Anti-Romantic.
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What's the title of his book?
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1854, "The Beautiful in Music"
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What isn't the role of music according to Hanslick?
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To imitate, it can only express itself, you can't explain music outside of the music.
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Music is for him?
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Now something which is completely autonomous, he tries to find out what music is?
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Does music have some emotions?
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It's only by accident that we feel emotions, the performer doesn't produce the emotions.
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What is the act of composing?
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It's the act of creation and form, the interpreter can add the emotion which he then transmits the music, waking up those feelings in the listener.
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In what way can the listener listen to music?
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The listener can listen in two ways
i) pathological (emotionally) ii) esthetically (intellectually) This can be seen in the way that different people listen to the same piece...it's the same concert. |
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Is music listened to esthetically?
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Yes, it's formal.
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What's the difference between natural sound (noise) and music, according to Hanslick?
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Sound (noise) is just vibrations, non-measurable abstract sounds, but music is measurable sound.
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He would say primordial sound is more random, what else?
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Music is far from primitive sound and develops due to culture. Primitive sound is just vibrations, but as it (we) developed the sounds became more structured. It starts as something as something imitative but develops via form.
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What is the composer?
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He puts together these sounds to make music. Music is a combination of sounds that are put together - such as the formalism or later the work of Schoenberg.
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Who is the ideal musician for Hanslick?
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Bach, very formal composition.
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Who is Franz Brendel
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the editor of Neudeutsche Schule
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Who composes music 'durable'?
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Brahms who says his music has no message.
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What was the war of the romantics?
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1st problem was a celebration of Neue Zeitschrift in the birth place of Schumann - but they forgot to ask some important people (Clara Schumann being one of them). Musicians on one side saw the dispute as pitting Brahms' effective and economical sonata and classical forms against some of Liszt's works which appeared in comparison almost formless. Those on the other saw, on the Lisztian side, musical form best fitting musical content, pitted against works reusing old forms without any feeling for their growth and reason.
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