THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSICESSENTIAL LISTENING

EDITION

by

Kristine ForneyAndrew Dell’Antonio

Joseph Machlis

SECOND EDITION

Lecture Slides

Chapter 53Extended Techniques: Crumb and the New

Virtuosity in America

The New Virtuosity of the Modern Age George Crumb (b. 1929) and Avant-

Garde Virtuosity • American composer• Emotional, dramatic,

expressive music• University of Pennsylvania• Federico García Lorca

“Music [is] a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.” —George Crumb

The New Virtuosity of the Modern Age Crumb’s Caballito negro

• Song, from Madrigals, Book II• Scored for soprano, piccolo, and metallic

percussion instruments• Text: Frederico García Lorca poem • Crumb alternated two refrains; image of

death• Ominous words, downward melodic line:

meurto (dead), negro (black), frio (cold), cuchillo (white)

Crumb’s Caballito negro (Little Black Horse—1965) (Listening Guide)

• A-B-A form• Regular pulsations, no sense of

meter• Opening: pounding rhythm, piccolo

and percussion• Disjunct vocal line• Extended technique: flutter

tonguing, glissandos, whispering• Return of A section: vocalist neighs

like a horse

“I feel that the essential meaning of this poetry is concerned with the most primary things: Life, death, love, the smell of the earth, the sounds of the wind and the sea.” —George Crumb

Caballito negro (Little Black Horse)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZbRADSP8k&index=10&list=PLxgWBmUi9H8Jzi4NNNlPrw1mOF5QDWJPH

by

Kristine ForneyAndrew Dell’Antonio

Joseph Machlis

Lecture Slides

THIRD EDITION

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