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Bakst, Leon, 1866-1924 Credits: from ARTSTOR http://www.artstor.org |
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Welcome, introduction, about the course, about projects. >How to listen? >Music vocabulary building >Understanding music elements >Music instruments >Important questions to think about while reading & listening.
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Major resources introduced; handouts will be handed out as follows: a) Syllabus (tentative, online); b) Projects described and explained; c) How to listen: a guide; d) Cheat sheet: music elements. Honor code, in-class discussions. Listen to music excerpts to illustrate music elements styles. Getting ready: Listening Kamien (on reserve in library) review part I (elements). Friday (1/11) Explore on your own about INTRODUCING COMPOSER X. |
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#3: 1/21/08
#4: 1/28/08 |
>18th to 19th c. transitions in different musical cultures, e.g. L. van Beethoven (1770-1827), Austria, Prussia, Russia, American Rev. (1776), French Rev. (1789) & Napoleonic Wars; Congress of Vienna (1814); literature & visual arts (David, Delacroix, Goya); influence on musical expression, vocabulary, and genres.
Reports of Project #1 DUE Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday Quiz #1 (1/28) Popular vs classical music. >Does the music have to be "beautiful"? >19th to 20th: Stravinsky(1882-1971) "The Rite of Spring" (1913). Cultural context: Picasso, Kandinsky; Kafka, Eliot, Joyce, Faulkner, Camus. >WWII to 2000: US history, Pollock, Warhol, Hockney, Morrison, Rowling + music scene after the WWII - . |
Continue to listen to the music from week #1. Skim Kamien: part III (Baroque) Read Kamien: part iv (Classical)
Listen to Beethoven's Eroica, live performances by SFS. (put on reserve)
Project #1 DUE (soundtrack) Read Kamien: part V (Romanticism) Listen to E. Kissin, DVD
Read Kamien: part VI (The Twentieth Century) Listen: Igor Stravinsky, Omens of Spring -- Dances of the Youths and Maidens. Project #3 approved: Live concert |
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#6: 2/11/08
#7: 2/18/08
#8-9: 2/25-3/3 |
Discussion of the American Music: our roots, music forms, composers, and styles. Project #2 INTRODUCING...
Quiz #2 (2/11)
World Musics Hear Prof. Nettl's talk at: http://videolectures.net/ff07_nettl_cwt/ http://videolectures.net/Bruno_Nettl/ Continuation Individual presentations: Project #3 (Performance review -- live concert attended and critiqued) WRAP-UP of the class |
Listen: Copland and the American Sound
Project #2 DUE: INTRODUCING...
To be announced |