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199 See also: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 228–231 ■ Le Sacre du printemps 246–251 ■ November Steps 314–315 ■ L’Amour de lo ...

200 assembled by Achim von Arnem and Clemens Brentano in their collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn), publishe ...

201 five-note “pentatonic” scale (distinct from the Western seven- note scale), providing an element of local color that his Eur ...

NATION ALISM 1830 –1920 US_202-203_Chapter_Opener_Nationalism.indd 202 26/03/18 1:01 PM ...

NATION ALISM 1830 –1920 US_202-203_Chapter_Opener_Nationalism.indd 203 26/03/18 1:01 PM ...

A s the 19th century progressed, a growing mood of nationalism developed, and people sought individual identities as nations dis ...

nationalism with operas in his native language on Czech themes. Later Czech composers included Antonín Dvorˇ ák and Leoš Janá cˇ ...

206 See also: The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ The Barber of Seville 14 8 ■ Der Freischütz 149 ■ La traviata 174 –175 ■ The Ring Cycle ...

207 See also: Dvorˇ ák’s Symphony No. 9 212–215 ■ Le Sacre du printemps 246–251 ■ Romeo and Juliet 272 ■ Shostakovich’s Fifth Sy ...

208 I AM SURE MY MUSIC HAS A TASTE OF COD FISH IN IT PEER GYNT ( 1875 ), EDVARD GRIEG I ncidental music has probably existed as ...

209 See also: The Bartered Bride 206 ■ Pictures at an Exhibition 207 ■ Dvorˇ ák’s Symphony No. 9 212–215 ■ Finlandia 220–221 ■ A ...

210 I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT REQUIEM (1887–1890), GABRIEL FAURÉ I t is unlikely that Fauré wrote his Requiem in direct ...

211 See also: Canticum Canticorum 46–51 ■ Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott 78–79 ■ St. Matthew Passion 98–105 ■ Elijah 170 –173 ■ T ...

212 THE MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE IS LIKE A RARE AND LOVELY FLOWER SYMPHONY NO. 9, “FROM THE NEW WORLD” ( 1893 ), ANTONÍN DVORˇÁK B oh ...

213 See also: The Bartered Bride 206 ■ Finlandia 220–221 ■ The Lark Ascending 252–253 ■ Janá cˇ ek’s Sinfonietta 263 ■ Bartók’s ...

214 place in the theatre orchestra to concentrate on composition, and the critical success of his stirring hymn of Czech nationa ...

215 For his voyage to a new world, the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong took a recording of Dvorˇ ák’s Symp ...

216 MUSIC IS A LANGUAGE OF THE INTANGIBLE WOODLAND SKETCHES ( 1896 ), EDWARD MACDOWELL T he first music published in North Ameri ...

217 The MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, pictured here in 1948, has supported thousands of artists since MacDowell’s pianist ...

218 THE ART OF MUSIC ABOVE ALL THE OTHER ARTS IS EXPRESSION OF THE SOUL THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS ( 1900 ), EDWARD ELGAR I n 1898, ...