11/1/07.  Johann Strauß, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus: Musical Aspects

Film Clip: 2rd-Act Finale of Die Fledermaus, "Champagne..." [voice distribution]

III. Lecture:  Voice Distribution in Die Fledermaus

In-Class Writing Assignment: Did you listen to a recording of the Fledermaus yet? Did you enjoy the experience? Explain. Favorite tunes?

Lecture: Complementarity v. Modernism

Voice Complementarity:

video clip:  Merry Widow

        video clip:  Fledermaus —“Dieser Anstand, so manierlich"

cf. Act I, Scene 1 of Der Rosenkavalier (sound recording)

Film clip:  Rosenkavalier Act I. Scene 1.

Color Complementarity in Art:

•      Georg Emanuel Opitz, “Morning Concert in the Augarten” (1820)

•      Monet, detail of “Luncheon on the Grass” (1865)

•      Renoir, detail of “Dance at Bougival” (1883)

•      Fried. Wilh. Moritz, “Lake Geneva” (?)

•      Erasmus von Engert: “Viennese House Garden” (1828)

•      Gauguin, “Yellow Christ” (1889)

•     cf. works by Van Gogh [book]

•      Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer” (1907)

•      Schiele, “Embrace” (1915)

•      Kokoschka, “Dent du Midi” (1913) & “The Tempest” (1915)

Complementarity in Architecture

• O. Wagner, Apt. Bldg. Stadiongasse 6-8 (2x) (1879-1883)
• O. Wagner, Apt. Bldg. Neustiftgasse 40 (1909-10)
• A. Loos, Apt. Bldg. Michaelerplatz (1910) = “House without eyebrows”