Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)
9 e moll "Z nového světa"), also known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895.[3] Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a tape recording including the New World Symphony along during the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, in 1969.The exposition's closing theme in G major is known for being similar to the African-American spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".[1] Then a solo cor anglais (English horn) plays the famous main theme in D-flat major accompanied by muted strings.The movement's middle section contains a passage in C♯ minor evoking a nostalgic and desolate mood which eventually leads into a funeral march above pizzicato steps in the basses.After a brief introduction, the horns and trumpets declare the movement's main theme against sharp chords played by the rest of the orchestra.Following the recapitulation which begins in the unexpected key of G minor but later corrects itself back to the original key, the movement reaches its climax in the coda, in which materials from the first three movements are reviewed for a final time while the Picardy third is expanded after the orchestra triumphantly plays a "modally altered" plagal cadence.[12] In a 2008 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, prominent musicologist Joseph Horowitz states that African-American spirituals were a major influence on Dvořák's music written in North America, quoting him from an 1893 interview in the New York Herald as saying, "In the negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.Michael Steinberg writes[14] that a flute solo theme in the first movement of the symphony resembles the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".[1] At the premiere in Carnegie Hall, the end of every movement was met with thunderous clapping and Dvořák felt obliged to stand up and bow.[2] In the UK, the largo became familiar to the general public after its use in a 1973 television advert directed by Ridley Scott for the Hovis bakery.
New World Symphony (orchestra)Symphony of the New WorldAntonín DvořákE minorCarnegie HallAnton SeidlNew York PhilharmonicNational Conservatory of Music of AmericaBily Clocks MuseumSpillville, IowaNeil ArmstrongApollo 11English hornflutespiccoloclarinetsbassoonstrumpetstrombonesTimpaniTriangleCymbalsStringsmovementsD♭ majorC♯ minorScherzoC majorFinalesonata formString Quintet No. 3 in E♭ majorHumoresque No. 1Swing Low, Sweet ChariotD-flat majorHarry BurleighpizzicatoHenry Wadsworth Longfellow'sThe Song of HiawathaHeinrich MarschnerNative American musicspiritualsHarry T. BurleighNegro melodiesNew York HeraldcounterpointcantataLongfellowHiawathamusic of Scotlandpentatonic scaleThe Chronicle of Higher EducationmusicologistJoseph HorowitzAfrican-AmericanSlavonic DancesMichael SteinbergspiritualLeonard BernsteinBeethovenSchubertChoral SymphonyAlexander MackenzieLondon Philharmonic Society1973 television advertRidley ScottWilliam Arms FisherPiano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)Cross, MiltonGutmann, PeterKansas City StarGelpi, AlbertCambridge University PressThe Musical QuarterlyOxford University PressHorowitz, JosephWallis WillisFisk Jubilee SingersKurt HonolkaInternational Music Score Library ProjectYouTubeNew York Festival of SongIsabella Stewart Gardner MuseumList of compositions by Antonín Dvořák(by genre)AlfredKing and Charcoal BurnerThe Stubborn LoversThe Cunning PeasantDimitrijThe JacobinThe Devil and KateRusalkaArmidaNo. 1 in C minorNo. 2 in B♭ majorNo. 3 in E♭ majorNo. 4 in D minorNo. 5 in F majorNo. 6 in D majorNo. 7 in D minorNo. 8 in G majorA Hero's SongCarnival OvertureCzech SuiteScherzo capricciosoHussite OvertureIn Nature's RealmLegendsMy HomeNocturne in B majorOthello OvertureSerenade for Strings in E majorSuite in A major (American)Symphonic VariationsThe Golden Spinning WheelThe Noon WitchThe Water GoblinThe Wild DoveTragic OvertureCello Concerto in B minorCello Concerto in A majorPiano Concerto in G minorViolin Concerto in A minorRomance in F minor for violin and orchestraMoravian Duets