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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. Tuesday March 12, 2013. Today’s Agenda. Mostly logistical stuff… Collect Concert Reports Baroque Tests Classical Test prep.
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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. Tuesday March 12, 2013
Today’s Agenda Mostly logistical stuff… • Collect Concert Reports • Baroque Tests • Classical Test prep. • Final project proposals guidelines And… • Other composers/music • ASAPScience Video
pass back: • Tests • Take-home assignments
Listening that might appear on the Classical Test: • The first movement of Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 in G Minor • Cosa sento from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro • The second movement from Haydn’s Symphony no. 94 (Surprise) Review the material in the book And slides on Moodle
Baroque Test SECTION A • Bach’s Fugue in G Minor (polyphonic) • Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (soloists: harpsichord, violin, flute) • Dido’s Lament (aria) from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (opera) (homophonic)
Baroque Test SECTION B • False • True • False
Baroque Test SECTION C • Basso continuo – plays throughout a work, provides bass line & harmonies, etc. Cello, Bassoon, Harpsichord, Organ, Lute, Guitar, Bass viol, Harp
Baroque Test SECTION C 2. Ritornello principle – alternating ritornello/solo sections in concerto
Baroque Test SECTION C 3. Subject in a fugue – main theme, layered over itself, imitative counterpoint
Baroque Test SECTION C 4. Oratorio - opera for church, not staged, etc.
Baroque Test SECTION C 5. Recitative – dialogue/monologue between singing & speaking, etc. Aria - song
Baroque Test SECTION C 6. Program music – instrumental music associated with story/event/idea/text i.e. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Baroque Test SECTION C 7. Castrati – man with high singing voice, castrated Coveted for soprano/mezzo-soprano/contralto parts, flexible voice, etc.
Baroque Test SECTION C 8. Word painting – how sung music imitates/describes imagery in text, etc.
Baroque Test SECTION C 9. Middle entry – music in middle of fugue where subject appears Episode – music in middle of fugue without subject
Baroque Test SECTION C 10. Timbre – character/quality of sound In Baroque music, often separates highly contrasting sections, etc.
Baroque Test SECTION C 11. Solo concerto – one soloist Concerto grosso – multiple soloist
Baroque Test SECTION C 12. Homophony – in operas, allows one character to take precedence In concertos, allows one soloist to take precedence
SECTION D Essay [or other] questions? See me after class
Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377 French composer/poet (The Medieval Era)
Guillaume de Machaut Ars nova – “a style of music of the 14th century, characterized by great freedom and variety of rhythm and melody contrasted with the strictness of the music of the 13th century” -Collins English Dictionary
Machaut’s Rose, liz, printemps, verdure Rose, liz, printemps, verdure. Fleur, baume et tres douce odour. Belle, passes en doucour. Et tous les biens de Nature Avez, dont je vous aour. Rose, liz, printemps, verdure. Fleur, baume et tres douce odour; Et quant toute creature Seurmonte vostre valour. Bien puis dire et par honnour: Rose, liz, printemps, verdure. Fleur, baume et tres douce odour. Belle, passes en doucour. Rose, lily, spring, greenery. Flower, balm and sweetest perfume Beauty, you surpass them in sweetness. And all the gifts of nature You have, for which I adore you. Rose, lily, spring, greenery. Flower, balm and sweetest perfume And since all creatures You surpass in worth I must say in all honor: Rose, lily, spring, greenery. Flower, balm and sweetest perfume Beauty, you surpass them in sweetness.
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina 1525-1594 Italian composer (The Renaissance)
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina • Composed sacred music • Renaissance polyphony
The Agnus Dei I from Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
“Master Musicians of the Ikuta-ryu” Pages 181-186
“Master Musicians of the Ikuta-ryu” Pages 181-186 Pentatonic scale – “A scale consisting of five tones.” –p. 517 Koto – “a Japanese musical instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.” -Dictionary.com Unabridged
Cherry Blossom, Japanese folk tune (recorded ca. 1965)
Final Reminders / Homework • Classical Test next class covering pages 166-180, 187-206, and 215-223 • Questions? Email: benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com