Nationalism

1. Nationalism

2. • Why would one express Nationalism?
• How would one express Nationalism?

3. Food for thought: Is
Nationalism the same
thing as Patriotism?
• 1) Yes
• 2) No
• 3) I’m not sure

4. Nationalism in music--How?
• Use indigenous music or fake it
• folk songs, dances, patriotic songs
• Program music
• national stories, scenes, history
• Opera & song: nat’l history/subjects
• vernacular style

5. Some reasons for
Nationalistic Music
• “Official” use
• Response to Threat
• Establish / celebrate identity
• Preservation

6. “America”
My country, ‘tis of thee
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died
Land of the pilgrim’s pride,
From ev’ry mountainside
Let freedom ring

7. “America”
My country, ‘tis of thee
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died
Land of the pilgrim’s pride,
From ev’ry mountainside
Let freedom ring

8. “America”
My country, ‘tis of thee
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died
Land of the pilgrim’s pride,
From ev’ry mountainside
Let freedom ring

9. God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.

10. God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.

11. God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.

12. Hungary

13. Bela Bartok

21. The song “America”
uses an American folk
tune as its basis
• 1) True
• 2) False

22. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

23. Sergei
Prokofiev

24. Alexander Nevsky

25. Alexander Nevsky

26. Alexander Nevsky

27. Bohemia Smetana

28. The Moldau

29. The Moldau

30. The Moldau

31. Program music...
• 1) Is music with no relation to anything
besides itself
• 2) portrays or suggests a specific person,
place, thing, etc.

32. 1812 Overture

33. 1812 Overture

34. 1812 Overture