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Emus 1832 004 Appreciation of Music
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| Date | 23.10.2016 | | Size | 7.11 Kb. | | #317 |
| - Rebecca Maloy, Instructor
COURSE MATERIALS - TEXTBOOK Machlis/Forney THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC Shorter (8th edition),
- CDS The Norton Recordings
- Course Syllabus, Activity forms (3)
GRADING - Exams: 60% (3 @20% each)
- Quizzes: 10%
- Activities: 20%
- Concert report 10%)
Exams - Multiple choice questions, true & false questions, listening section
- Quizzes
- Based on the music on the CDs
- Listening (active listening!)
- identify & know historical information
- know what to listen for--the musical components you hear
- Be sure to keep up with your listening (on syllabus)
- For LG# (Listening Guide) see Machlis inside covers
Activities (1-3): Number 1 - Interview with a Musician
- Due 1/30
Second Activity - Music Journal
- for 4 days you record the times you hear music
- fill out the form and
- attach a 1-2 page typed commentary (see instructions)
- Due 3/20
Third Activity - Viewing Opera or Musical Theater from Home due 4/10
Concert Report - Attend a concert of western art music
- There are many free concerts on campus this term
- Turn in a 2-3 paged, typed essay on the music and musical experience
- Discuss elements and
- the relationship of works (music) you hear to the works we studied in class
- Due 4/24
Concert announcement - WHEN: Thursday, January 16, 2003 @ 7:15PM
- WHERE: CU-Boulder Macky Auditorium
- WHAT: Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra Open Rehearsal
- TICKETS: $1 per ticket, available at the door
Contact information - Office: N 147
- Office hours: W 3-4, TH 2:30-3:30
- (and by appointment)
- Office Phone: (303)492-8219
The ELEMENTS of MUSIC - MELODY
- RHYTHM
- HARMONY
- TEXTURE
- FORM
- DYNAMICS/TEMPO
- TIMBRE
- succession of single tones (pitches) the mind perceives as a unit
- Horizontal element (what you usually end up humming)
- Range-- distance between lowest and highest notes
- Wide range: “Star-Spangled Banner”
- Narrow range: “Shall we Gather at the River”
- Shape-- direction (up, down, wave, arch)
- “Joy to the World” opens with?
- …descending/ascending
- Barber’s Adagio
- … long arch
- Conjunct : stepwise movement
- “Joy to the World” conjunct
- Disjunct: leaps between pitches
- Brahms “Violin Concerto” (first you hear conjunct, then disjunct)
- Phrase: a unit of meaning (like a sentence)
- Symmetrical (balanced)
- Asymmetrical (unbalanced)
- The phrase ends with (and therefore is defined by) cadences (like a period)
- Cadences: musical points of rest
- Usually governed by rhythm and harmony
- “Amazing Grace”
- 4 phrases (with 4 cadences)
- Rhythm-how music is organized in time
- 1. beat-or pulse, basic unit of length, regular clocklike pattern
- 2. meter- the measurement of time in music: groupings of beats with accented patterns
- a) duple meter-ONE two : ONE two … etc.
- b) triple meter- One two three: One two three …etc.
Triple meter More sextuple meter What kinds of meter are these? - Sousa, Stars and Stripes Forever
- Star Spangled Banner
- Upbeat, a phrase begins on the last beat of a measure (or on a part of it)
- see “America, the Beautiful”
- Syncopation, accent occurs on weak beat, or anywhere unexpected
- Very prominent in Folk, Ragtime, Jazz, Rock
- 20th century music of Western tradition (Stravinsky, Bartok-- both influenced by Folk music)
- Example: Cakewalk
- Non-metric, music that defies meter
- Example: Gregorian Chant
- Example “Haec dies”
- Polyrhythmic, simultaneous use of different rhythmic patterns
For next class - Read assigned pages in book on elements of music.
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