WWU Music 104  Fall 2009
The Art of Listening to Music Dr. John Friesen
Tues./Thurs. 10:30-11:50 am PAC155 Office: PAC 137 
3 Credits- HUM: Phone 650 7379

Course Schedule- Fall 2009


 
09/24 Introduction to the Art of Listening- Classical Music in Perspective. 
 See Study Guide for important terms 
9/29 Sound, Pitch, Dynamics, Tone Color, Voices and Instruments, Rhythm
10/1  Melody, Harmony, Key, Texture
Form, Intro to the Musical Style Periods-  See Study Guide for important terms 
10/6 Music of the Middle Ages  Chant, Organum, The Mass, Hildegard Von Bingen
10/8 Quiz 1 The Elements of Music; Music of the Middle Ages 
10/13 Music of the Renaissance and Music of the Baroque Period- IntroMusic of the Baroque Period  The Music of Bach (Brandenurg Concerto #2, etc.) The Suite (Yo-Yo Ma-DVD) and/or Goldberg Variations (Gould-DVD)Kamien Chap. 3
10/15 The Baroque Concerto (Vivaldi- Winter Concerto) The Baroque Fugue (Bach- Little Fugue in G minor)
10/20 Baroque Choral Music: (Cantata #140 Wachet Auf 1V, V11) Oratorio (Handel- Messiah, Halleluja Chorus) 
Review for Quiz 2
10/22 Quiz 2-Music of the Renaissance; Music of the Baroque Period
(Online Quiz for Renaissance and Baroque due today also)
10/27 Music of the Classical Period The Classical Period, The Classical Symph., The Minuet - DVD- Amadeus

 
 
 

10/29


 
Sonata Allegro Form (Mozart- Symph. #40)

Minuet and  Rondo Form (Haydn- Symph. 102) The Classical Concerto (Mozart- Piano Concerto in A)

11/3 Classical Opera- Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
The Music of Beethoven 
11/5 Music of the Romantic Period  The Art Song- Schubert- Erlking-  Chopin- Mazurka
11/10  Quiz 3 Music of the Classical Period and beginning of Romantic Period
11/12 Romantic Program Symphony- Berlioz Syphonie Fantastique etc., Romantic Symphony- The Music of Brahms, (Symph. #4)
11/17  Dvorak (String Quartet) The Music of Wagner (Valkyrie) Romantic Opera- Verdi: La Traviata
11/19 **No Class due to Choir Festival*** However- May do a Concert Review of a minimum of 2 choirs (total 40 min) performing in the concert hall during this time. *NOTE: Under no circumstances may you enter or exit in the middle of a choir's performance/clinic
 11/24 20th Century Music- Overview + Debussy (Impressionism), Schoenberg (Expressionism)
12/1  Both Concert Reviews Due- Nationalism- Copland- Rodeo, "Hoe-Down, Primativism (Stravinsky The Rite of Spring, Part 1) Minimalism (Glass- Knee Play) Review for Quiz 4
 
12/3 Quiz 4  Music of the Romantic (Romantic Part 2) and 20th Cent. Style Periods

 

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