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第二期：What is American Music? 概要 这期为大家梳理了美国音乐的历史和特点。美国作为一个年轻的移民国家，和拥有悠久历史的欧洲，阿拉伯等其他地区拥有延续了很久的nationalistic music不同。伯恩斯坦将美国音乐的发展历史大致分为以下几个阶段：1）幼儿园阶段，模仿欧洲古典音乐传统；2）文法学校阶段，以化用（或“杜撰”）原住民和非裔民间音乐为特色，该风潮由捷克作曲家德沃夏克引发，但由于美国的移民和原住民、非裔其实并不分享相同的文化根基，这股风潮还是显得很刻意；3）高中阶段，开始引入爵士元素，不过此时还是比较“机械、刻意”地引入；4）大学阶段，爵士元素已被吸收，成为一种习惯。在这个主线之外，伯恩斯坦还提到了美国音乐的一些其他特质，包括了年轻，乐观，粗犷，孤独，如赞美诗般的简单，如某些流行乐般的满怀柔情的等等，在这一大堆的“报菜名”后得出结论：美国音乐是极其多元的，这也与它大熔炉般的人口构成有关。节目最后请来了Copland亲自指挥他的Symphony No.3，该作品包含了爵士，赞美诗，乐观等等众多美国元素。 喜欢的quote Because you can't just decide to be American; you can't just sit down and say, "I'm going to write American music, if it kills me." You can't be nationalistic on purpose. There are as many sides to American music as there are to the American people—our great, varied, many-sided democracy. Maybe that's the main quality of all — our many-sidedness. 曲目 1. Gershwin: An American in Paris 2. Chopin: Mazurka No.5 in B Flat, Op.7 No.1 3. Tarantella from Italy 4. Ireland: Washerwoman 5. Ravel: Spanish Rhapsody 6. Brahms: Hungarian No.5 7. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 (fourth movement "The title birch tree") 8. George Chadwick Melpomene 9. Dvorak: Symphony No.9 10. Edward MacDowell: Indian Suite 11. Henry F. Gilbert: Dance in Place Congo 12. Aaron Copland: Music for The Theater 13. Gershwin: Rhapsody in blue 14. Roger Sessions: Chorale Prelude 15. Beethoven:Symphony No.3 16. Morton Gould: Interplay 17. William Schuman: American Festival Overture 18. Roy Harris: Symphony No.3 19. Copland: Billy the Kid 20. Virgil Thomson: The Mother of us all 21. Randall Thompson: Symphony No.2 22. Aaron Copland Symphony No.3 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ht411E7rB #YPC