1 / 46

Listen to the Music

This course provides an introduction to the fundamental elements of music and explores various genres and styles of music from different periods of Western civilization. Learn about monophonic chant, polyphony, opera, ballet, instrumental music, and more. Discover the music of different cultures, including the Middle East, Africa, and Oceana. Dive into the music of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras.

barnhill
Download Presentation

Listen to the Music

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Listen to the Music Craig E. Ferrin

  2. Chapter 1 Introduction

  3. Course Overview • Listening to the Fundamental Elements of Music • Listening to Music with Words • Listening to Referential Music • Listening to Absolute Music • Listening to Music of Non-Western Cultures • Listening to the Music of Western Civilization 

  4. Unit 1: Listening to the Fundamental Elements of Music

  5. Unit 2: Listening to Music with Words Popular Song Monophonic Chant Early Polyphony Opera Oratorio Cantata

  6. Unit 3: Listening to Referential Music Folk Music Poetry Dancing Ballet Programmatic Music Stage and Film (titles)

  7. Unit 4: Listening to Absolute Music Instrumental Solo Music Concerto Chamber Music Symphony Experimental Music Avante Garde’ (titles)

  8. Unit 5: Listening to Music of Non-Western Cultures Africa Orient Middle East Oceana Indigenous Western Hemisphere

  9. Unit VI: Listening to the Music of Western Civilization Antiquity (Before 400 AD) Middle Ages (400-1400) Renaissance (1400-1600) Baroque Era (1600-1750) Classical Era (1750-1827) Romantic Era (1800-1900) Modern Era (1900-Present) The Future?

  10. Antiquity Before 400 CE Sumerians Babylonians Shutterstock 38550676 Greeks Shutterstock 39514015 Hebrews

  11. Oral Tradition (Aural Tradition) • Mouth to Ear

  12. Middle Ages (Medeival Era) 400-1400 CE Council of Nicea 325 Unification of Christianity Christianity established in the Roman Empire Charlemagne (768-814) Norman Conquest (1066) The Crusades (1096-1270) The Black Plagues (1300s)

  13. Music Monophonic Chant Mass Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) use website http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/hildegarde.html "Beata Nobis Gaudia" by Hildegard von Bingen

  14. Music Polyphony Organum Cantus Firmus Magnus Liber Organi Leonin (1163-1190) Perotin the Great (ca. 1200)  "Leonin-Perotin: Repons: Et Valde, Organum À Deux Voix”

  15. Music Troubadours Trouveres http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8&feature=PlayList&p=52C7B8620EDCB464&index=7 (Brave Sir Robin) Minniesingers Minstrels Guillaume de Machaut "Agnus Dei" by Guillaume de Machaut

  16. The Renaissance (1400-1600) “Rebirth” Florence

  17. VIP Very Important People • Copernicus (1473-1453) • Calileo Galilei (1564-1642) • Botticelli (1445-1510) • Michelangelo (1475-1564) • Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519) • William Shakespeare (1564-1616) • Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) • Martin Luther (1483-1546) • Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

  18. Major Events • Johannes Gutenburg (1400-1468) • Gutenberg Press (1440) • Ottaviano Petrucci (1466–1539) • Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (1501) • Discovery of the Western Hemisphere (1492) • Protestant Reformation (1517) (need picture of Luther and the Wittenburg Cathedral) • Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

  19. Music • Polyphony • Imitative Polyphony • Mass • Motet • Magdrigal

  20. VIM Very Important Musicians • Josquin des Prez (ca. 1440–1521) •  "Ave Maria" by Josquin des Prez  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) • "Sicut cervus" by Giovanni da Palestrina  • Giovanni Gabrielli (ca. 1555-1613) •  "Canzon XII" by Giovanni Gabrieli

  21. The Baroque Era (1600-1750) • Advent of Opera (ca. 1600) • Death of Johann Sebastian Bach (1750) • Baroque • Portuguese: Barroco • “Pearl of irregular or bulbous shape” (Palisca)

  22. Major Events • Colonization and Imperialism • Reign of Louis XIV • Versailles • Thirty Years War (1618-1648)

  23. VIP Very Important People • Johannes Keppler (1571-1630) (astronomy) • William Harvey (1578-1657) (biology) • Isaac Newton (1643-1727) (gravity) • Antonio Stadivari (1644-1737) • Perfected the violin

  24. VIM Very Important Musicians Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Francois Couperin (1668-1733) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) Gerg Phillip Teleman (1681-1767) George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

  25. Music Genre Concerto Concerto Grosso Opera Oratorio Cantata Dance Suite

  26. Music  'When I am laid in earth' from "Dido and Aeneus" by Henry Purcell   "Allegro" by Arcangelo Corelli   "La primavera - Spring con 1 in E Major" by Antonio Vivaldi   "Ballet for the Sun King: Ouverture" by Jean-Baptiste Lully "Courante" by Francois Couperin"Air gracieux" by Jean-Philippe Rameau "Gigue" by Johann Sebastian Bach"We Praise Thee, Oh God" by George Frideric Handel

  27. The Classical Era (1750-1825) • 1750 Death of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi • 1825 Death of Beethoven, Schubert • A Time of great social change

  28. Major Events • American Revolution • French Revolution • Napoleonic Wars • Beginning of the Industrial Revolution

  29. Age of Invention • Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin • James Watt: Steam Engine • Edward Jenner: Small Pox Vaccination • Benjamin Franklin: Harnessing Electricity • Bartolomeo Christofori: Piano

  30. Music • Formal Structures • Without external reference • Musician Independence -- $

  31. Classical Genre • Concerto • Sonata • String Quartet • Symphony • Opera

  32. Centered in Vienna • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (nobility) • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (nobility—independence but…) • Marriage of Figaro • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (made it!$$) • Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) (after death) • Erlkonig

  33. Romantic Era (1800-1900) • Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars • Democracy or Monarchy • Imperialism • Industrial Revolution • Factories • Steam Manufacturing

  34. Social Changes • On the Origin of Species • The Communist Manifesto • Nationalism

  35. Music • Emotional underpinnings • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (1803 – ‘Eroica’ -- transitional figure) • Formal structures broadened • Nationalism

  36. Musicians France Hector Berlioz Georges Bizet Germany Richard Wagner Felix Mendelssohn Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Gustav Mahler

  37. Musicians Hungary Franz Liszt Poland Frederic Chopin Bohemia Biedrich Smetana Antonin Dvorak Russia Peter Tchaikovsky Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Italy Guiseppe Verdi

  38. Selected Music Examples •  "Symphonie Fantastique - IV: March To The Scaffold" by Hector Berlioz "Carmen: Habanera & Seguidille" by Georges Bizet"A minor, Op. 54 - I: Allegro affetuoso" by Robert Schumann"Hungarian Dance No.5 In G Minor" by Johannes Brahms"Die Walkure: Ride Of The Valkyries" by Richard Wagner"Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2" by Frederic Chopin "Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95: II. Largo (excerpt)" by Antonin Dvorak"The Bartered Bride - Overture" by Bedrich Smetana"Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: IV. Finale (Allegro con fuoco)" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky"Capricho Espanol Op. 34" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov"Otello: Act 1: Inaffia l'ugola" by Guiseppe Verdi

  39. The Modern Era (1900-Present) • A Century of Great Change • Transportation • Horses to Space Travel • Communication • Telephone • Television • Satelites • Internet • Medicine

  40. Social Change • World War I • Bolshevik Revolution • The Great Depression • World War II • Cold War • Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s • War on Terror

  41. Music • Impressionism • Expressionism • Modernism • Neo-Classicism • Serialism • Jazz • Tango

  42. Popular Music "Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23 - Walzer (Waltz)" by Arnold Schoenberg   "Stompin' At The Savoy" by Benny Goodman"All I Ask of You" by Andrew Lloyd-Weber"Something's Coming" from "West Side Story" by Leonard Bernstein"Do-Re-Mi" from "The Sound of Music" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein"Javert's Suicide" from "Les Miserables" by Claude-Michael Schonberg and Alain Boublil  "Ain't She Sweet" by The Beatles"Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley

  43. Art Music • \"Voiles" by Claude Debussy"Symph. No. 5: I. Trauermarsch" by Gustav Mahler"The Rite Of Spring: Part I - The Adoration of the Earth - Dance of the Adolescents" by Igor Stravinsky"Heftig bewegt" by Anton Webern"Scene 3 - Tavern" from "Wozzeck" by Alban Berg"Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland"Rhapsody In Blue" by George Gershwin"Raiders March" by John Williams"First Interlude" by John Cage"Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by John Adams

  44. Art Music Composers • Claude Debussy • Igor Stranvinsky • Arnold Schoenberg • Aaron Copland • George Gershwin • John Williams • John Cage • John Adams

  45. The Future • Continued technological change • Electronics • Communication • Music researchers

  46. The Educated Consumer The Opportunity to Choose

More Related