Lecture 6. Melody: Mozart and Wagner

Listening to Music (MUSI 112) 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. 00:00 - Chapter 1. What Makes a Melody Beautiful? 05:39 - Chapt