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M100: Music Appreciation Discussion Group Ben Tibbetts, T.A. benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com Welcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room. Thursday March 7, 2013. Today’s Agenda. Collect Haydn/Mozart homework Collect Listening Logs #1 Pages 215-223 Pass back stuff.
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M100: Music Appreciation Discussion GroupBen Tibbetts, T.A.benjamintibbetts@yahoo.comWelcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room. Thursday March 7, 2013
Today’s Agenda • Collect Haydn/Mozart homework • Collect Listening Logs #1 • Pages 215-223 • Pass back stuff
Collect Haydn/Mozart homework Collect Listening Logs #1
Head’s Up • Concert Report #1 due next Tuesday • Classical test Thursday • No class March 16-24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Austrian composer/pianist
Just to warm up… Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement This movement’s in sonata-allegro form: • Exposition • Exposition again • Development • Recapitulation—long, in this case
Opera seria – “Italian for ‘serious opera’; Italian Baroque opera on a serious subject, typically consisting of alternating recitatives and da capo arias.” Opera buffa – “Italian for ‘comic opera’; a genre that uses many of the same conventions as serious opera….but with plots revolving around believable, everyday characters rather than mythical or historical figures.” ~from page 517
music from The Marriage of Figaro an opera buffa from the end of the first act
Characters in this scene: Susanna -maidservant Count Almaviva –married to the Countess, (but has crush on Susanna) Basilio –court music teacher Cherubino –page boy
Final Reminders / Homework • Concert Report #1 due next class • Questions? Email: benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com