HUM 112 week 6 Discussion

"Tchaikovsky and Women in Art" Please respond to one (1) of the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

· Select one (1) composition by Tchaikovsky that you enjoy. Describe the music and subject matter of that work, and explain why you enjoy it. Explain the key reasons why you believe that compositions by Tchaikovsky continue to be popular with contemporary orchestras and audiences. Passionate nationalism, like Tchaikovsky's for Russia, could be a feature of Romantic art and music and in the arts of the late 1800s. Give primary examples of music today (besides national anthems) that is characterized by nationalism.

· Select two (2) paintings depicting females by both a male artist and female artist named within the Explore section. Compare and contrast these two (2) depictions of women, and comment on any general tendencies that you detect among artists of that era in this respect. Compare this situation in the late 1800s to the way females are depicted in our own modern times, using at least one (1) specific modern example.

Explore:

Tchaikovsky

· Chapter 31 (pp.1039-1040), famous overture and ballet music compositions; review the Week 6 “Music Folder”

· Audio of musical compositions on Tchaikovsky webpage , Kennedy Center Website at  http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/C3651

· Video clip of Tchaikovsky (1812 Overture) at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrsYD46W1U0

  Artists’ Depictions of Women

· Chapters 31 and 32, depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas, Dewing, Eakins and by female artists Cassatt, Morisot, Haudecort-Lescot, Sara M. Peale

· National Museum of Women in the Arts at  http://www.nmwa.org/explore/collection-highlights/18th%E2%80%9319th-century

· National Gallery of Art (search by artist name) at  http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artists.html?pageNumber=1

HUM112 Music Clips for Week 6

This week's two music clips relate to chapters 31 and 32. 

1. Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture (chap. 31, p. 1039)  

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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrsYD46W1U0

. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkqC-i0G8s

. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82l3rEQSWk

   

Read carefully pp. 1039-1040 (in chap. 31) about the very interesting background of this composition, written in 1880 to commemorate Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812. Most people have heard this as background music to television shows or cartoons, or sometimes in movies. It is one of the most dramatic orchestral pieces ever composed.  It is hard to find a bad version of this, thus the three links above. Your choice.  Which is best? Why?

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2. Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag  (chap. 32, p. 1070)  

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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reI43yUCaUI  

Read carefully p. 1070 (in chap. 32) about "Ragtime music" as one of the earliest forms of JAZZ.   Scott Joplin (lived ca. 1867-1917) was an African American born just after the Civil War.  Read his biography  at   http://www.8notes.com/biographies/joplin.asp  (or at  http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/j/joplin/ ), and you will notice how his musicianship embraced many other forms of music as well, but his legacy would be in Ragtime.