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Music History Lesson Blog
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Projects
- Topics
- Introduction to Class
- Why Learn about Music History?
- Music of Today vs. Classical Music
- What has changed?
- What hasn't changed?
- Terms Mentioned in Class
- Music Listened in Class
- Assignment (due January 22)
- How did Guido d'Arezzo & Charles Martel Radically
influenced Rock & Roll?
- Topics
- Two Dead-White-European Males that Radically Influenced Rock
& Roll
- Guido d'Arezzo (991– 1033)
- Charles Martel (714 -741)
- PowerPoint
- Terms Mentioned in Class
- Music Listened in Class
- Assignment
- Topics
- What Inspires Composers to Compose?
- How Do Composers Compose?
- The Four "Types" of Composers
- PowerPoint
- Terms Mentioned in Class
- Music Listened in Class
- Mozart: Symphony
#1, movement 1 (1762)
- Beethoven: Für Elise (1805)
- Arnold Schoenberg: A Survivor From Warsaw (1947)
- Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231
- Johann Stamitz: Symphony No. 1, movement 1
- Project #1: Listening Reflection
- Listen to a selection of your choice from the Music Listening
Library & write a reflection
- Due Friday, January 25
- Topics
- Musical Element: Melody
- Musical Element: Harmony
- Musical Element: Rhythm
- PowerPoint
- Term Mentioned in Class
- Motif (also called Motive)
- Phrase
- Half Cadence
- Authentic Cadence (also called Whole Cadence)
- Period
- Major Scale
- Minor Scale
- Octave
- Tonic
- Dominant
- Narrow Range
- Wide Range
- Conjunct
- Disjunct
- Duple Meter
- Triple Meter
- Irregular Meter
- Syncopation
- Opus
- Music Played in Class
- J.S. Bach: Minuet
in G Major, from "Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook"
- The Glenn Miller Band: In The Mood
- Franz Josef Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 3, "The
Joke" movement 4
- Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
- Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
- Pierre Max Dubois: Quatour Pour Saxophones, movement 1, Ouverture Brillante
- Assignment
- Project #1 Due
- Topics
- Musical Elements: Form
- Musical Elements: Texture
- Musical Elements: Tone Color
- PowerPoint
- Terms
- Binary
- Ternary
- Rondo
- Monophonic
- Homophonic
- Polyphonic
- Music Played in Class
- Topics
- The Musical Eras
- What Causes a Change in Era?
- Medieval Sacred Music
- Gregorian Chant
- Early Organum
- PowerPoint
- Music Played in Class
- Assignment
- Topics
- Medieval Sacred Music
- Medieval Secular Music
- Medieval Instrumental Music
- PowerPoint
- Terms
- Troubadours
- Trouvčres
- Minnesingers
- Drone
- Rhythmic ostinato
- Fixed Forms
- Non-Fixed Forms
- Medieval Dances
- Medieval Instruments
- Shawm (oboe)
- Crumhorn (clarinet)
- Sackbut (trombone)
- Lizard (trumpet)
- Serpent (tuba
- Lute (guitar)
- Rebec (violin)
- Viol da gamba (cello)
- Dulcimer (piano)
- Recorder (flute)
- Organetto (organ)
- Hurdy Gurdy
- Project #2: Medieval Program Notes
- You are the musicologist of the Culver "Early Music
Consort." They are preparing to give a recital of five
selections of diverse music from the Medieval & Renaissance
eras. Your job is to write program notes for this recital.
- You choose the music, with the following parameters
- The music must come the Fine Arts Listening Library
- A least one selection from the Medieval Era
- A least one selection from the Renaissance Era
- A least one vocal selection
- A least one instrumental selection
- A least one secular selection
- A least one secular selection
- A least one to whom we know the composer
- Write a minimum of one paragraph for each selection and
include:
- Stylistic traits of that particular genre
- Text (if available)
- Types of musical instruments
- Relevant historical background
- This Project is due Tuesday, February 5, at the beginning of
class
- Topics
- Major events that lead to the Renaissance Era
- Stylistic traits of renaissance Music
- PowerPoint
- Topics
- Renaissance Sacred Music
- Catholic Genres
- Protestant Genres
- Renaissance Instrumental Music
- PowerPoint
- Terms
- Ordinary of the Mass
- Proper of the Mass
- Chorale
- Anthem
- Strophic Form
- Vernacular
- Council of Trent
- Dynamics
- Music Played in Class
- Homework
- Project #2, due February 5, at the beginning of
class
- Topics
- Renaissance Secular Vocal Music
- PowerPoint
- Terms
- Chanson
- Lied
- Ayre
- Italian Madrigal
- English
- Word Painting
- Chromatic
- Through Composed Form
- Fa La La Refrain
- Music Played in Class
- Giaches de Wert: Un jour je m'en allais
- John Dowland: Now, O now, I needs must part
- Heinrich Issac: Innsbruch, Ich Muss Dich Lassen
- John Farmer: Faire Phyllis
- Thomas Morley: Now Is the Month of Maying
- Topics
- The Baroque Era
- Events that led to the Baroque Era
- Stylistic Traits of Baroque Music
- PowerPoint
- Terms
- Dualisms
- Chromatic Harmony vs. Tonal Harmony
- Free Rhythm vs. Regular Rhythm
- Improvisation vs. continuous melody
- Strong Melody vs. Firm Bass
- Loud vs. soft (terraced dynamics)
- Simple Textures vs. Complex Textures
- Modulation
- Equal Temperament Tuning
- Counterpoint
- Figured Bass
- Ground Bass
- Passacaglia
- Chaconne
- Binary Form
- Rounded Binary Form
- Idiomatic Writing
- Music Played in Class
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