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Exploring Programmatic Music: Characteristics and Emotional Depth

Discover the essence of programmatic music through Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." This introduction highlights the key characteristics that define programmatic music, such as tempo variations (slow, fast), dynamics (loud, soft), and articulation (smooth, accented). It invites listeners to engage with the emotional journey depicted in the piece, showcasing moments of leisure, briskness, and nostalgia. By examining elements like mood and emotion in each movement, participants are encouraged to create their own program, enhancing their understanding and appreciation of this evocative musical form.

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Exploring Programmatic Music: Characteristics and Emotional Depth

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  1. Program Music An introduction to the characteristics and requirements that make up programmatic music.

  2. Promenade 1 Slow / Fast (Andante / Presto) Loud / Medium / Soft (Forte / Mezzo Forte, Mezzo Piano / Piano) Smooth / Accented (Legato / Marcato) Long / Short (Tenuto / Staccato) Brassy / Reedy / String / Woodwind Light / Dark Consonant / Dissonant Mood: _________________ Emotion: _______________ In this piece Mussorgsky depicts himself "roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly in order to come close to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend."

  3. Program (n.) An ordered list of events to take place or procedures to be followed.

  4. What is Program music?

  5. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky 21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881 Pictures at an Exhibition: • Composed 1874 • The ten pieces to accompany eleven pictures by Hartmann.

  6. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks "Hartmann's design for the décor of a picturesque scene in the ballet Trilby."

  7. Slow / Fast (Andante / Presto) Loud / Medium / Soft (Forte / Mezzo Forte, Mezzo Piano / Piano) Smooth / Accented (Legato / Marcato) Long / Short (Tenuto / Staccato) Brassy / Reedy / String / Woodwind Light / Dark Consonant / Dissonant Mood: _________________ Emotion: _______________ Promenade #2

  8. DRAW YOUR OWN PICTURE!!!!

  9. The Old castle: Program • Stasov comment: "A medieval castle before which a troubadour sings a song." • This movement is thought to be based on a watercolor depiction of an Italian castle.

  10. Slow / Fast (Andante / Presto) Loud / Medium / Soft (Forte / Mezzo Forte, Mezzo Piano / Piano) Smooth / Accented (Legato / Marcato) Long / Short (Tenuto / Staccato) Brassy / Reedy / String / Woodwind Light / Dark Consonant / Dissonant Mood: _________________ Emotion: _______________ Promenade #3

  11. What is program Music? • It tells a story (Program) It elicits an emotion It creates a mood

  12. WRITE YOUR OWN PROGRAM!!

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