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Politics and Music: Class Meetings

Professor Courtney Brown

Meeting #6: Nationalist Music I
LECTURE NOTES
SELECTIONS played in class:
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 1
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 2
Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain
Mussorgsky: Polnaise from Boris Godunov
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, 4th Movement
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
QUESTIONS: What makes a "Nationalist" composer "nationalist?" What is in the music that you can identify with politics? Why was the politics of "nationalism" more important than "patriotism" in many countries in the 1800s? What is the relationship between culture and nationalism? Why is this different from the relationship between culture and patriotism?