JOURNAL – DOES IT MATTER WHERE WE
LIVE?
How can places we live impact our social life, work habits, relationship to nature, personality, values, etc.? Would you be a different person if you grew up in a rural area with few people
around compared to a large populated city? Do our surroundings help shape the person we become? Explain. Also, have you given up someone or something to move somewhere
else?
“A WAGNER MATINEE”
Vocabulary:ExcruciatinglyMyriadSordidTentativelyTrepidation
“A WAGNER MATINEE”
By Willa Cather
Read & discuss biography page 692
Read story pages 694-702
Have paper ready for musical interludes – write down your thoughts & feelings with each song & consider the main character’s thoughts & feelings also
RICHARD WAGNER
European composer
Born in Germany 1813
Died in Italy 1883
Operas Tristan and Isolde, Ring Cycle,
The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser
NEBRASKA VS. BOSTON 1900
MUSICAL INTERLUDES
Robert Schumann “Joyous Farmer” p. 697 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmpQjjQOBA
Carl Maria von Weber “Euryanthe” p. 698 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLHQwXIxGM
Giacomo Meyerbeer “Huguenots” p. 698 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6D4Inc031Y
Richard Wagner “The Flying Dutchman” p. 698 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohmtsWhmoE
A WAGNER MATINEERameses p. 699 Monet Impressionist painting p. 699
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MUSIC INTERLUDESWagner’s “Tannhauser” Overture p. 699 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTM7E4-DN0o
Mozart operas and Verdi melodies mentioned p. 700
Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” p. 700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF4zN-Okonc
Wagner’s “Prize Song” p. 700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BNFHbNm6Y
Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” p. 702 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tewlEED6g
FINALEWagner “Ring” p. 702 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HujjNQPv2U
Wagner Siegfried’s funeral march p. 702 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uka8ykFDw2U
LITERARY ANALYSISMake Inferences p. 703 #5Contrast Settings p. 703 #7Make Judgments p. 703 #8Biographical Context p. 703 #9 – Examine the IMAGERY and FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE used to describe the people and scenes of Nebraska. How might Cather’s relatives be offended by the description?Explore Metaphor: In lines 223-227, Cather compares music in the concert hall to flowing water. Identify key words and phrases in the metaphor and the qualities they convey.