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19 Cards in this Set
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What is interesting about the new repertoire of Musical Formalism?
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The pieces are played as a repertoire, from year to year. Unlike opera that was only played once. Concerts developed and music criticism develops.
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How does music criticism change?
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The critics develop and become professional.
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Who are the two people who become important at this period?
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Batteux and Chabanon
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What does Batteux believe - as a principle idea?
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If it doesn't imitate something it's boring! It has to have an esthetic to have value. He held that the fine arts are arts ("assemblages of rules for doing well"), for producing fine or beautiful things ("which please" of themselves), always "in imitation of la belle nature" and requiring genius.
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Batteux follow the idea that things have to imitate, what else does he say?
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An artist discovers what already exists by looking towards the past. L’artiste ne doit rien inventer, il ne fait pas exister mais découvre plutôt ce qui déjà existe
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Batteux believed what about art and nature - Plotinism?
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mimitism - art and nature copy each other. Art and nature become one - Plotinism - the possibility for the artist to make visible what is invisible. He held that Art consists in the faithful imitation of the beautiful in nature.
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Where does Batteux rank vocal music?
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As the best, he say instrumental music isn't so interesting as Vocal music imitates nature.
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What are Batteux's images of paintings?
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Some music is similar to landscape painting, others may express animate sounds which correspond to feelings, and so is more like portrait painting.
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Copying art is perfect say Batteux
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something that is a perfect copy of nature is perfect art. By looking at something like a piece of nature (or art) we understand what is the perfection of nature.
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What did Boyé write?
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L'Expression musicale mise au rang des chimères
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What did he believe?
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Music doesn't express emotion. We enjoy music via hearing the music as it is, it is the virtuosity, it is the melody. It's pure pleasure, not intellectual.
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What does he say about sad music?
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Just because it's sad does not mean anything. It's not the music its us!
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Who is Chabanon and what does he say?
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Music doesn't need to imitate nature, it is its own language. Music can be expressive he said. He was the first to understand the possibility of instrumental, non-programmatic music.
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What does Chabanon say about music?
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music is an autonomous art form. "le musique plaît independament de toute imitation".
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What does he say about music and esthetics?
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Music just is beautiful or not, it has no esthetic value.
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Chabanon turns the idea of Batteux around
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Music can be independent of imitation.
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who was Wackenroder?
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Precursor of German romanticism.
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He says music becomes a sort of experience, but what,
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Religious Mystical Experience.
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What does he say about Musicians and art?
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Only musicians and artists have access to the world of art.
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