"Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk. The poles are clear enough, but the middle tends to blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930’s for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music--folk themes--in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different one: he took a popular genre-bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of nineteenth-century opera) and, without altering its fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. This remains one of the greatest achievements in music, and one that cannot be fully appreciated without recognizing the essential trashiness of the genre.
As an example of such a transmutatio
A. a survey of drama music
B. about the elements in popular music
C. a review of popular art
D. about dramatic economy and effectiveness
"Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk. The poles are clear enough, but the middle tends to blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930’s for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music--folk themes--in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different one: he took a popular genre-bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of nineteenth-century opera) and, without altering its fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. This remains one of the greatest achievements in music, and one that cannot be fully appreciated without recognizing the essential trashiness of the genre.
As an example of such a transmutatio
A. a survey of drama music.
B. about the elements in popular music.
C. a review of popular art.
D. about dramatic economy and effectiveness.
| "Popular an" has a number of meanings,
impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk. The
poles are clear enough, but the middle tends to blur. The Hollywood Western of
the 1930’s for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to
high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high arc
The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high
art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music--folk
themes--in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different
one: he took a popular genre--bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate
definition of nineteenth-century opera) and, without altering its fundamental
nature, transmuted it into high art. This remains one of the greatest
achievements in music, and one that cannot be fully apprecia A. the works produced in the 18th century can be all considered as trash. B. the achievements of the two artists overshadow that of Verdi. C. popular music could be applied to compositions intended as high art. D. the term of popular music is susceptible to many definitions. [简答题](46) "Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk, with poles being clear enough but the middle tending to blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930’s, for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music—folk themes—in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different one: he took a popular genre—bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of nineteenth-century opera)—and, without altering its fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. (47) This remains one of the greatest achievements in music, and one that cannot be fully appreciated without recognizing the essential trashiness of the genre.
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