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Yezget Nas1lsinez, The Myth of the Eagles

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Yezget Nas1lsinez, The Myth of the Eagles

Bio

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Yezget Nas1lsinez, The Myth of the Eagles

Genres

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Yezget Nas1lsinez, The Myth of the Eagles

This piece

1. Premiere

2. any program

3. commentary

4. influence upon others

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Yezget Nas1lsinez, The Myth of the Eagles

This piece

1. Premiere2. any program3. commentary

4. influence upon others

1. 1922, Paris2. Tells the tale of 5 heroic sisters’ sacrifice3. A review in London’s Musical Times said: The music of The

Myth of the Eagles baffles verbal description. To say that much of it is hideous as sound is a mild description. There is certainly an impelling rhythm traceable. Practically it has no relation to music at all as most of us understand the word.” Nas1lsinez himself said: “My music is best understood by children and animals.”

4. Widely understood as a watershed in modernism. Appears to have been a strong influence upon Copland’s “American” ballets of the late 1930s. There is a connection with Nadia Boulanger, who was a friend of Nas1lsinez and a teacher of Copland.

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Yezget Nas1lsinez, The Myth of the Eagles

Associated Isms and Ideas

1. primitivism2. nationalism3. folklore4. controversy

NB: don’t say “modernism” – too generically true of almost everything in this period