1. Chapter 15
Listen to
Programmatic Music

2. Programmatic Music Tells a story external to the music Symphonic Poems
Ballet
Film

3. Symphonic Poem
“One movement composition for symphony orchestra that portrays an external story through the music”

4. Symphonic Poem Franz Liszt (1811-1886) George Gershwin
Father of the Tone Poem
Hamlet
Orpheus
Prometheus
George Gershwin
( )
An American In Paris

5. Symphonic Poem Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Richard Strauss ( )
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Don Juan
Also Sprach Zarathustra
2001 Space Odyssey

6. Symphonic Poem
Biedrich Smetana ( )
Nationalism
Ma Vlast (My Country)
1. Vyšehrad (The High Citadel) 2. Vltava (River Moldau) 3. Šárka (Leader of Bohemian Amazons) 4. Z Ceskych Luhu a Háju (From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests) 5. Tabor (Stronghold of the Hussites) 6. Bláník (Valhalla of the Hussite heroes: a mountain in S. Bohemia)

7. “Vltava” or “The Moldau”
Two springs pour forth in the shade of the Bohemian forest, one warm and gushing, the other cold and peaceful. Coming through Bohemia’s valleys, they grow into a might stream. Through the thick woods it flows as the merry sounds of a hunt and the notes of the hunter’s horn are heard ever closer. It flows through grass-grown pastures and lowlands where a wedding feast is being celebrated with song and dance. At night, wood and water nymphs revel in its sparkling waves. Reflected on its surface are fortresses and castles—witnesses of bygone days of knightly splendor and the vanished glory of martial times. The Moldau swirls through the St. John Rapids, finally flowing on in majestic peace toward Prague to be welcomed by historic Vysehrad. Then it vanishes far beyond the poet’s gaze.

8. “Vltava” or “The Moldau”
Two Springs
The River
Hunting
Wedding Festivities
Wood and Water Nymphs at Night
The Rapids of St. John
Vysehrad, the Great Ancient Castle

9. Ballet Music -Often tones poems have stories to become ballet
-Ballet music often same characteristics as symphonic poems
Igor Stravinsky ( )
The Firebird
The Rite of Spring
Claude Debussy ( )
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

10. Ballet Music Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Appalachian Spring: Simple Gifts
Rodeo: Hoedown
Billy the Kid
Peter I. Tchaikovsky ( )
Swan Lake
Sleeping Beauty
The Nutcracker

11. Overture Prelude to opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
The Magic Flute
Don Giovanni
The Marriage of Figaro

12. Overture Ludwig von Beethoven (1770- 1827)
“Loenore” or “Fidelio”
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
The Thieving Magpie
The Barber of Seville
William Tell

13. Overture Independent Programmatic Composition Incidental Music
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

14. Music for Film Music for silent films Camille Saint-Saens
Piano
Organ
Camille Saint-Saens
1908 First music for film
L’Assassinat du Duc de Guise
Joseph Carl Breil
The Birth of a Nation

15. Music for Film Incidental Music in Film Underscoring Source Music
Type I: Newly composed to accentuate action
Type II:Music existing independently from the film
Source Music

16. Music for Film Leitmotif Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

17. Music for Film Leitmotif Richard Wagner: Opera Die Meistersinger
The Flying Dutchman
Logengrin
Tristan and Isolde
The Ring of the Nibelung
The Rhinegold
The Valkyrie
Siegfried
Twilight of the Gods

18. Music for Film Leitmotif The Valkyries Apocalypse Now
The Ride of the Valkyries (Prelude to Act III)
Apocalypse Now

19. John Williams (b. 1932) Julliard Conservatory U.S. Air Force
Composer
Arranger
Conductor
Boston Pops Orchestra: Conductor

20. John Williams (b. 1932) Gilligan’s Island
Fiddler on the Roof (Oscar: Best Score)
The Cowboys (1972)
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
ET, the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Indiana Jones: All
Jurrasic Park (1993)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)

21. Leitmotif in “Star Wars”
6 Lietmotifs or Themes
Luke Skywalker
Rebel Fanfare
Imperial/Darth Vader
Ben Kenobi
Princess Leia
Death Star

22. Leitmotif in “Star Wars”
Luke Skywalker
Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner
Rebel Fanfare
Imperial Attack

23. Leitmotif in “Star Wars”
Princess Leia/Ben Kenobi
Hologram/Binary Sunset
Leia’s Motif
Luke’s Motif
Ben Kenobi Motif
Rebel Fanfare
Kenobi Motif

24. Leitmotif in “Star Wars”
Imperial/Darth Vader Motif
“Imperial Attack”
Rebel Fanfare
Imperial/Darth Vader (incomplete fragments)
Vader Enters
Kenobi (pre-statement)
Princess Leia
Death Star (Timpani)
Leia
Vader
Imperial/Vader
Direct Death Star Fanfare

25. Leitmotif in “Star Wars”
Empire Strikes Back
Introduction of new Darth Vader Theme
“Vader Enters the Rebel Compound”
“Death of Darth Vader”
Dies and goes to heaven
Vader Enters at 3:40 in the youtube video

26. Summary Programmatic Music Symphonic Poem Overture Ballet Film Music
Leitmotif
Vader Enters at 3:40 in the youtube video