Running head: MUSIC 15 1 Music 15 Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Date MUSIC 15 2 Music 15 The works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht were often concerned with issues of social responsibility. Discuss this using The Threepenny Opera. How does the work engage with ideas of social responsibility? What is the work’s goal? How do Weill and Brecht try to accomplish this goal? How specifically does the music help to further these goals? The works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht revolved around New Objectivity. Fundamentally, this entailed a specific style of music, engrained in a play which placed facts and objectivity above emotions and taste. Besides that, the style delved on bringing the music closer to the audience by employing teaching approaches, and it gave them a profound sense of responsibility mainly through the strategy it pursed. The Threepenny Opera employed a range of instruments, and it gave the audience an experience detached from personal encounters. The lyrics were also impersonal, and the music utilized different new musical elements including the popular jazz style and rubato. It was dedicated to portraying and describing different social issues whil ...
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