MUSI 112: Listening to Music
Lecture 06 - Melody: Mozart and Wagner. This lecture discusses melody and aesthetics; Professor Wright raises the question of what makes a melody beautiful, and uses excerpts from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro to explore this issue. Throughout the discussion, the foundations of classical phrase-structure and harmonic progressions are used to explain some of the choices these three composers made. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 06 - Melody: Mozart and Wagner |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. What Makes a Melody Beautiful? |
| [00:05:39] | 2. Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi": Cadences and Sequences |
| [00:13:27] | 3. Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde": Exploring Melodic Ascents and Descents |
| [00:32:18] | 4. Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro": Melodic Sequence Analysis |
| References |
| Lecture 6 - Melody: Mozart and Wagner Instructor: Professor Craig Wright. Resources: Music 06 - Credits [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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