Transcript Broadway Boogie Woogie

From Piet Mondrian
An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Boogie-Woogie
CM 2009-2010
MUS_ED 345-0: Music and the Interdisciplinary Curriculum
to Libby Larsen
Mr. Rathgeber
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Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red
Piet Mondrian, 1942
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Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune
Piet Mondrian, 1942
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Piet Mondrian
1874-1944
Dutch Painter and creator of the
Neo-Plasticism Style
- Arts should not represent anything in the real world.
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- Uses only straight horizontal or t lines
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- Uses only black, white, and primary colors
RED
BLUE
YELLOW
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Composition
Broadway
with Boogie
Yellow, Woogie
Blue, and Red
Piet Mondrian, 1942
1943
It had something to do with music…
It had something to do with
music…
Try to create music that you think would have inspired Mondrian
What happened to Mondrian?
Try to create music that you think
would have inspired Mondrian to
create Broadway Boogie Woogie
In 2 groups, create music that could go along with this painting.
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William “Count” Basie
1904 - 1984
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Famous American jazz
pianist, bandleader, and
composer.
Mondrian was inspired to
paint Broadway Boogie
Woogie after hearing music
like Basie’s in the jazz clubs
of New York.
Piet Mondrian
1874-1944
A Dutch Painter and creator of the
Neo-Plasticism
Created between 1942 and 1943. Mondrain
moved to New York after living in London.
moved to London to avoid the fascism
he found in France at the time.
Bands of colors made up of yellow, gray, red,
blue, and white rectangles. Some larger
rectangles disrupt the bands.
Painting (Oils on Canvas)
Broadway
Boogie
Woogie
What techniques did the creator use
to help us understand what is being
expressed?
Discovered a love of New York on his
evening. The fast pace, the racing taxis,
Soon fell in love with jazz and the style
of boogie-woogie. Wanted to express the
syncopation of the music and the bright
lights of the city. Lines of the buildings
New York City Night Life &
Boogie-woogie Jazz
What is being expressed?
Discuss Boogie Woogie…..
Walking Bass Line
“Riffing”
Syncopation
Teach a 2 bar representation of boogie-woogie
Play a “walking” bass line and improvise a “riff” over the top
What aspects of Count Basie’s
Boogie Woogie do you see in
Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie?
What ideas or themes was
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Mondrian trying to express?
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Compare your composition to what you now know about boogie-woogie?
Are there any similarities?
Did Mondrian effectively express boogie-woogie visually?
we have heard it in music
we have heard it in music
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and we have performed/improvised some boogie-woogie of our own,
Let’s hear what a modern classical
composer did with boogie-woogie
Let’s hear what a modern classical composer did with boogie-woogie
Now that we have seen boogie-woogie in art work
Libby Larsen
A living American composer born in 1950.
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Piano, Violin, Cello, and Double Bass in an
ABA form. Piano plays a walking bass line
while strings provide the melodic and
harmonic elements. Some use of Double
Bass as a rhythmic instrument. Pizzicato
A classical work for Piano and Strings.
Distorted ABA form….
Intro A B A riffing
Composed in 1983
Four
on the
Floor
Commissioned by the Minneapolis Artists
Ensemble.
Name refers to a stick-shift car (4
gears and the shifter on the floor)
Breakneck is theme of the piece, an
America that is speeding up
Faster and faster, jazzing into
eternity”
- Larsen (1983)
What techniques did the creator use to
help us understand what is being expressed?
What is being expressed?
In your groups, compare and contrast Broadway Boogie Woogie and Four on the Floor.
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Four on the Floor
- Did Mondrian’s painting effectively express boogie-woogie and the fast-paced life style?
In the end, what does Mondrian’s painting and Larsen’s composition have in common?
Both share common:
Foundational Elements
Thematic Elements
Texture
Cars
Fast-Paced Life
Rhythm
Syncopation
Boogie-woogie
Others?
Others?