Transcript 24 GM Day Twenty Four

1.
Bell
Work
How
To
Always LABEL you bell work with the date.
You may use the same page for several of your bell works.
3. ALWAYS use at least THREE complete sentences to
answer the question.
4. Save your bell work for bell work check in’s.
5. If you miss class, you may go onto Mrs V’s website to get
the missed bell work question. It is YOUR responsibility
to get the bell work completed.
2.
Bell Work #24
0Many popular children’s films involve
music. Some songs from these films
become quite popular. Some examples
include “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “The
Sound of Music,” “The Lion King,”
“Newsies,” and “Cinderella.” What is
your favorite “musical” film? Explain
why.
0Use three complete sentences!
Planner
0 Homework: No Homework
Today I will learn:
0 I will learn about Wagner and Tchaikovsky.
Richard Wagner
One of the greatest composers
of the Romantic era.
A few words used to describe the 19th century
German composer:
0Controversial
0Egotistical
0Racist
0Promiscuous
Memorial bust of Richard
Wagner in Venice.
Wagner’s life resembles the plot of a
soap
opera
__________.
He was constantly fleeing his native
Germany either to escape his enormous
debts
_____ or to evade a prison
______ sentence for
getting involved in radical political
activities.
He was also often in trouble for getting
involved with married women!
Wagner is best known for his operas, or
music
dramas as he preferred to call
____________,
them.
He wrote the scenario, the libretto and the
music all himself.
One of his most well-known works
4 music dramas called
is a series of ___
The
Ring Cycle
_____________.
•Took 26 years to write
•15 hours to perform
He was so particular about how it was to
be performed that he even constructed a
Bayreuth
specially designed theatre in __________
_________.
Germany
An annual Wagner festival is still held
there.
nationalistic
Wagner was fiercely _________________
and sought to express “the German spirit”
through his music.
Hitler
He was the personal hero of Adolph
___________.
Hitler had Wagner’s music played on loud
speakers as Jews were led to gas the
chambers.
Many Jewish people refuse to listen to
Wagner’s music and the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra refuses to play it!
Fast Facts:
Name: Richard Wagner
Dates: 1813-1883
Country of birth: Germany
Historical Era: Romantic
Contemporary Composers: Chopin, Liszt, Verdi
Contemporary Artists: Renoir, Turner
Other People/Events: Charles Dickens,
Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Abraham
Lincoln, invention of the telephone and the
light bulb
Fun Fact:
Have you ever heard the saying “it ‘aint
over until the fat lady sings”? It is a
phrase often used by sport commentators to
note the fact you can’t state the winner of a
game until it is finished. This saying is most
likely referring to one commentator’s view
that Wagner’s long, complex operas seem to
go on forever, but finally end with a solo sung
by a stout female singer!
“Bridal Chorus”
0Composer: Wagner
0Historical Era: Romantic
0Type of composition: Instrumental
& Vocal
0Genre: March
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for song!
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Over one hundred years ago,
Tchaikovsky composed the classic
Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker.
Russian Romantic composer born into a wealthy
Tchaikovsky was a ______________
family that wanted him to become a _______.
lawyer
He became very successful, acclaimed world wide, and was
honored by the
Tsar of Russia
__________.
He was invited to conduct some of his works at the opening of
Carnegie
__________Hall in New York in 1891.
Apart from Tchaikovsky’s orchestral music,
including concertos, overtures and
six symphonies, he also wrote:
•Solo piano works
•Chamber music
•Vocal music
•Opera
He is probably best remembered for his
The Nutcracker
ballets, which apart from ____________,
Sleeping Beauty
includeSwan
__________
Lake and _____________.
shy and
Tchaikovsky was a painfully ____
reserved
________ man.
His life was plagued with crises.
This often caused him to be intense and
emotionally
unstable
_________________.
After a failed marriage that only lasted
nine weeks, he tried to commit suicide.
Soon after, he had an unusual relationship
with a wealthy widow named
Nadezhda von Meck
________________.
She greatly admired his music and sent
him money so that he could devote more
time to composing, but only on the
never meet in person
condition that they _________________.
They wrote letters to each other, sharing
13 years
every aspect of their lives for _________,
and the abrupt and unexplained end to this
relationship left Tchaikovsky devastated.
Tchaikovsky died three years later at the
51
age of ___.
cholera
His official cause of death was ________,
contracted by drinking a glass of
unboiled
water
_____________.
Fast Facts:
Name: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dates: 1840-1891
Country of birth: Russia
Historical Era: Romantic
Contemporary Composers: Brahms, Mussorgsky,
Rimsky-Korsakov
Contemporary Artists: Monet, Van Gogh
Other People/Events: Friedrich Nietzsche
(http://www.timelineindex.com/content/
view/494), Thomas Edison, American Civil
War, invention of the telephone
Fun Fact:
Tchaikovsky had an unusual and irrational fear of
his head falling off his shoulders while conducting!
To prevent this from happening, he would often
hold his chin firmly with his left hand, whilst
conducting with his right!
Tchaikovsky’s signature
“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
0Composer: Tchaikovsky
0Historical Era: Romantic
0Type of composition: Instrumental
0Genre: Suite
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for song!
Exit Q & A
0 Use complete sentences.
0 1. What City and Country is the theatre Wagner
designed located?
0 2. What does the term nationalistic mean?