Listen to the Music Craig E Ferrin Chapter

Listen to the Music Craig E. Ferrin

Chapter 1 Introduction

Course Overview Listening to the Fundamental Elements of Music Listening to Music with Words Listening to Referential Music Listening to Absolute Music Listening to Music of Non-Western Cultures Listening to the Music of Western Civilization

Unit 1: Listening to the Fundamental Elements of Music Elements of Sound Duration Pitch Volume Timbre Elements of Music Rhythm Melody Harmony Dynamics Form Timbre Texture Synthesis Style Instruments Ensembles

Unit 2: Listening to Music with Words Popular Song Monophonic Chant Early Polyphony Opera Oratorio Cantata

Unit 3: Listening to Referential Music Folk Music Poetry Dancing Ballet Programmatic Music Stage and Film (titles)

Unit 4: Listening to Absolute Music Instrumental Solo Music Concerto Chamber Music Symphony Experimental Music Avante Garde’ (titles)

Unit 5: Listening to Music of Non. Western Cultures Africa Orient Middle East Oceana Indigenous Western Hemisphere

Unit VI: Listening to the Music of Western Civilization Antiquity (Before 400 AD) Middle Ages (400 -1400) Renaissance (1400 -1600) Baroque Era (1600 -1750) Classical Era (1750 -1827) Romantic Era (1800 -1900) Modern Era (1900 -Present) The Future?

Antiquity Before 400 CE Sumerians Babylonians Shutterstock 38550676 Greeks Shutterstock 39514015 Hebrews

Oral Tradition (Aural Tradition) Mouth to Ear

Middle Ages (Medeival Era) 400 -1400 CE Council of Nicea 325 Unification of Christianity established in the Roman Empire Charlemagne (768 -814) Norman Conquest (1066) The Crusades (1096 -1270) The Black Plagues (1300 s)

Music Monophonic Chant Mass Hildegard von Bingen (1098 -1179) use website http: //www. fordham. edu/halsall/med/hildegarde. ht ml "Beata Nobis Gaudia" by Hildegard von Bingen

Music Polyphony Organum Cantus Firmus Magnus Liber Organi Leonin (1163 -1190) Perotin the Great (ca. 1200) "Leonin-Perotin: Repons: Et Valde, Organum À Deux Voix”

Music Troubadours Trouveres http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=BZwu. To 7 z. KM 8&feature =Play. List&p=52 C 7 B 8620 EDCB 464&index=7 (Brave Sir Robin) Minniesingers Minstrels Guillaume de Machaut "Agnus Dei" by Guillaume de Machaut

The Renaissance (1400 -1600) “Rebirth” Florence

VIP Very Important People Copernicus (1473 -1453) Calileo Galilei (1564 -1642) Botticelli (1445 -1510) Michelangelo (1475 -1564) Leonardo Da. Vinci (1452 -1519) William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -1527) Martin Luther (1483 -1546) Christopher Columbus (1451 -1506)

Major Events Johannes Gutenburg (1400 -1468) Gutenberg Press (1440) Ottaviano Petrucci (1466– 1539) Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (1501) Discovery of the Western Hemisphere (1492) Protestant Reformation (1517) (need picture of Luther and the Wittenburg Cathedral) Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

Music Polyphony Imitative Polyphony Mass Motet Magdrigal

VIM Very Important Musicians Josquin des Prez (ca. 1440– 1521) "Ave Maria" by Josquin des Prez Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 -1594) "Sicut cervus" by Giovanni da Palestrina Giovanni Gabrielli (ca. 1555 -1613) "Canzon XII" by Giovanni Gabrieli

The Baroque Era (1600 -1750) Advent of Opera (ca. 1600) Death of Johann Sebastian Bach (1750) Baroque Portuguese: Barroco “Pearl of irregular or bulbous shape” (Palisca)

Major Events Colonization and Imperialism Reign of Louis XIV Versailles Thirty Years War (1618 -1648)

VIP Very Important People Johannes Keppler (1571 -1630) (astronomy) William Harvey (1578 -1657) (biology) Isaac Newton (1643 -1727) (gravity) Antonio Stadivari (1644 -1737) Perfected the violin

VIM Very Important Musicians Claudio Monteverdi (1567– 1643) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750) Henry Purcell (1659 -1695) Arcangelo Corelli (1653 -1713) Antonio Vivaldi (1678 -1741) Jean Baptiste Lully (1632 -1687) Francois Couperin (1668 -1733) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 -1764) Gerg Phillip Teleman (1681 -1767) George Frederic Handel (1685 -1759)

Music Genre Concerto Grosso Opera Oratorio Cantata Dance Suite

Music 'When I am laid in earth' from "Dido and Aeneus" by Henry Purcell "Allegro" by Arcangelo Corelli "La primavera - Spring con 1 in E Major" by Antonio Vivaldi "Ballet for the Sun King: Ouverture" by Jean-Baptiste Lully "Courante" by Francois Couperin "Air gracieux" by Jean-Philippe Rameau "Gigue" by Johann Sebastian Bach "We Praise Thee, Oh God" by George Frideric Handel

The Classical Era (1750 -1825) 1750 Death of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi 1825 Death of Beethoven, Schubert A Time of great social change

Major Events American Revolution French Revolution Napoleonic Wars Beginning of the Industrial Revolution

Age of Invention Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin James Watt: Steam Engine Edward Jenner: Small Pox Vaccination Benjamin Franklin: Harnessing Electricity Bartolomeo Christofori: Piano

Music Formal Structures Without external reference Musician Independence -- $

Classical Genre Concerto Sonata String Quartet Symphony Opera

Centered in Vienna Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 -1809) (nobility) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791) (nobility— independence but…) Marriage of Figaro Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 -1827) (made it!$$) Franz Peter Schubert (1797 -1828) (after death) Erlkonig

Romantic Era (1800 -1900) Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars Democracy or Monarchy Imperialism Industrial Revolution Factories Steam Manufacturing

Social Changes On the Origin of Species The Communist Manifesto Nationalism

Music Emotional underpinnings Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (1803 – ‘Eroica’ -transitional figure) Formal structures broadened Nationalism

Musicians France Hector Berlioz Georges Bizet Germany Richard Wagner Felix Mendelssohn Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Gustav Mahler

Musicians Hungary Franz Liszt Poland Frederic Chopin Bohemia Biedrich Smetana Antonin Dvorak Russia Peter Tchaikovsky Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Italy Guiseppe Verdi

Selected Music Examples "Symphonie Fantastique - IV: March To The Scaffold" by Hector Berlioz "Carmen: Habanera & Seguidille" by Georges Bizet "A minor, Op. 54 - I: Allegro affetuoso" by Robert Schumann "Hungarian Dance No. 5 In G Minor" by Johannes Brahms "Die Walkure: Ride Of The Valkyries" by Richard Wagner "Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2" by Frederic Chopin "Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95: II. Largo (excerpt)" by Antonin Dvorak "The Bartered Bride - Overture" by Bedrich Smetana "Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: IV. Finale (Allegro con fuoco)" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky "Capricho Espanol Op. 34" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Otello: Act 1: Inaffia l'ugola" by Guiseppe Verdi

The Modern Era (1900 -Present) A Century of Great Change Transportation Horses to Space Travel Communication Telephone Television Satelites Internet Medicine

Social Change World War I Bolshevik Revolution The Great Depression World War II Cold War Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s War on Terror

Music Impressionism Expressionism Modernism Neo-Classicism Serialism Jazz Tango

Popular Music "Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23 - Walzer (Waltz)" by Arnold Schoenberg "Stompin' At The Savoy" by Benny Goodman "All I Ask of You" by Andrew Lloyd-Weber "Something's Coming" from "West Side Story" by Leonard Bernstein "Do-Re-Mi" from "The Sound of Music" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein "Javert's Suicide" from "Les Miserables" by Claude. Michael Schonberg and Alain Boublil "Ain't She Sweet" by The Beatles "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley

Art Music "Voiles" by Claude Debussy "Symph. No. 5: I. Trauermarsch" by Gustav Mahler "The Rite Of Spring: Part I - The Adoration of the Earth - Dance of the Adolescents" by Igor Stravinsky "Heftig bewegt" by Anton Webern "Scene 3 - Tavern" from "Wozzeck" by Alban Berg "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland "Rhapsody In Blue" by George Gershwin "Raiders March" by John Williams "First Interlude" by John Cage "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by John Adams

Art Music Composers Claude Debussy Igor Stranvinsky Arnold Schoenberg Aaron Copland George Gershwin John Williams John Cage John Adams

The Future Continued technological change Electronics Communication Music researchers

The Educated Consumer The Opportunity to Choose