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Peer Gynt Suite No. 1

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1. By Edvard Grieg. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Born in Bergen, Norway in 1843. His mother was a gifted pianist. She taught him music and piano. Grieg was a nationalist composer. He used Norwegian folk music in his compositions.

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Peer Gynt Suite No. 1

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  1. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 By Edvard Grieg

  2. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) • Born in Bergen, Norway in 1843. • His mother was a gifted pianist. • She taught him music and piano. • Grieg was a nationalist composer. • He used Norwegian folk music in his compositions. • He composed orchestral, chamber and piano music as well as 120 songs.

  3. Henry Ibsen asked Grieg to compose the music for his play Peer Gynt. • The premiere of this play was in 1876 • It was a huge success. • This made Grieg a well known national figure. • The incidental music from Peer Gynt was later arranged into a suite by Grieg. • Grieg died in 1907 after a long period of illness.

  4. The Story of Peer Gynt • Peer Gynt is a character from the 18thcentury. • Legend has it that he wasn’t invited to a wedding so he gate crashed it. • He took the bride and abandoned her in the mountains, making him a wanted criminal. • He took refuge in the underground caves in the land of the trolls

  5. He was attacked by the trolls. • He built a hut high in the mountains, with a village girl, Solveig who loved him. • He left her to visit his dying mother • He was still in risk of capture. • He also went to Morroco and met Anitra • She danced for him and stole everything from him. • Leaving him stranded in the dessert. • Finally he returned home where Solveig had been waiting for him.

  6. About Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 • It was originally Incidental Music: background music performed before and between acts of a play. • It was later arranged into a Suite: music originally composed for a ballet or play which a composer rearranges into for performance in a concert. • It is also Programme music which is music that tells a story.

  7. The Three Sections • Morning • Intended to introduce scene in the Sahara Desert. • It is influenced by the Norwegian landscape. • The sun rising over the mountains and fjords.

  8. The Three Sections • Anitras Dance • Anitra is a dancer who dances for Peer. • She then steals everything from him. • And leaves him stranded in the dessert.

  9. The Three Section • In the Hall of the Mountain King • The trolls emerge from the dark shadowy caves and surround Peer. • They dance and taunt him until he is terrified. • The tension is built up by a melodic ostinato, played 18 times. • It begins low and dark which is registered by the cellos, basses and bassoons. • The music builds to a high point in a dramatic crescendo.

  10. The Instruments

  11. Morning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya5ICVKUERg

  12. Morning • Time Signature: 6/8 • Key Signature: E major • Texture: homophonic-a melody supported by chords • Tempo: Allegretto pastorale, a little fast and pastoral. • Tonality: major • Form: Ternary: A B A Coda

  13. Morning: 4 Musical features • Ornamentation: decoration in melody e.g. grace notes (bar 2), trills (bar 72). • Antiphony: question and answer, the flute and the oboe have a “conversation” in bars 1-20. • Dynamics: capture the scene of the sunrise. • Sequence: the repetition of a melodic idea up or down a step bar 39.

  14. The Music in words • The movement begins with the (i)f_ _ _ _ playing the main 4-bar melody. This is repeated an (ii)o_ _ _ _ _ lower by another woodwind instrument the (iii)o_ _ _. These two instruments continue to share this theme, alternating with each other, at 4-bar, the 1-bar, then half-bar intervals. The (iv)s_ _ _ _ family then takes over the theme, playing (v)f_ _ _ _ (loudly). There is a crescendo building up to the highpoint in bar 30. • The next section begins with a dramatic flowing melody on a lower string instrument, the (i)c_ _ _ _. The (ii)d_ _ _ _ _ _ _ vary a lot, from piano to (iii)f_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. The strings have lots of (iv)s_ _ _-q_ _ _ _ _ _. The music in this section (v)m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (changes key) several times.

  15. At bar 50, the (i)h_ _ _ plays the main tune, now in the key of C major. This instrument belongs to the (ii)b_ _ _ _ family. A long chord follows on the (iii)s_ _ _ _ _ _. The (iv)c _ _ _ _, (v)b _ _ _ _ _ _ and (vi)o_ _ _ then take up the melody and it returns to E major. The (vii)h_ _ _ finishes this section with some long notes. • The coda begins quietly on the (i)s_ _ _ _ _ _, answered by a mellow-sounding woodwind instrument, the (ii) c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.Long sustained chords on the horn, with rallentando, lead to the (iii) f_ _ _ _ echoing the first two bars of the piece, followed by the (iv)b_ _ _ _ _ _. The final bars feature the strings and the full orchestra, (v)t_ _ _ _.

  16. Anitras dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6mzxQUQog

  17. Anitras Dance • Time Signature: 3/4 • Key Signature: A minor and D major • Texture: homophonic- melody supported by chords and polyphonic- more than one melody playing at the same time. • Tempo: Mazurka- lively • Tonality: modal, minor in section A and major in section B • Form: Ternary: A B A

  18. 4 Musical Features • It has only one percussion instrument, the triangle. The other instruments are from the string section the violin, viola, cello and double bass. • The stringed instruments play both pizzicato (plucked) e.g. bar 3 and arco (with a bow) e.g. bar 23. • Trills are rapid alternation between 2 notes, e.g. bar 9 and grace notes e.g. bar 54. • The tonality changes from minor (bars 1-38) to major (bars 39-41) and then minor again (bars 42-91), therefore it is modal.

  19. In the hall of the mountain king http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIYT-MrVaI

  20. In the Hall of the Mountain King • TimeSignature: 4/4 • Key signature: B minor • Texture: homophonic- melody supported by chords and polyphonic- more than one melody playing at the same time. • Tempo: allamarcia e moltomarcato: march like but marked • Tonality: minor • Form: ritarnello: which is a recurring passage of music

  21. 4 Musical Features • A 4 bar melody is repeated 18 times throughout the piece, this is a melodic ostinato. • An ostinato is a melodic or rhythmic pattern repeated over and over again. • The dynamics are gradually leading to a highpoint at the end therefore it is crescendo throughout the whole piece. • Sringendo al fine is written on this music, this means hurry to the end. • Tremolo: technic used on drums, if there are 2 lines on the note you quarter the value playing in the same time and if there is only 1 then you half it.

  22. By Éle, Emma and Orlaigh. 29th/10th/2012

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