BY: S ATINE A MELIE French Music

HISTORY OF MUSIC The M iddle Ages The Renaissance The Baroque Period The Classical Period The Romantic Period The Twentieth Century

THE MIDDLE AGES ( ) The Gregorian Chant Latin text Hear us, O Lord, and have mercy, because we have sinned against Thee. Monophonic texture Free flowing rhythm

CHURCH & MUSIC St. Augustine (600) ~ Worried that the worshippers would be ‘more moved by the song than by what is sung.’

SACRED VS. SECULAR

THE RENAISSANCE ( ) Humanism “Universal man” Better pay and recognition Word Painting Polyphonic textures Fuller sound

THE BAROQUE PERIOD ( ) Time of unity One mood Opera People believed that music could move the listener in more ways than one

Contrast of mood Dynamic changes Comique opera Enlightenment Control over their music THE CLASSICAL PERIOD ( )

FRENCH WRITERS ON NATURAL EXPRESSION IN MUSIC “Nature and expression are the two primary qualities of music; …I have told you that the melody must travel to the auditor’s heart. But how does it get there? By way of the ear. The ear is, in music, the door to the heart. To open this door wide, to flatter the ear, is thus the musicians third task; but it is only the third. The requirements of being natural and being expressive come first.”- Jean-Laurent Lecerf de la Vieville.

Emotional Overload Individual style and expression Timbre and chromatic harmonics Nationalism and Exoticism THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( )

HABANERA ”CARMEN” Opening dialogue When will I love you? Good Lord, I don't know, Maybe never, maybe tomorrow. But not today, that's for sure.

Percussion instruments Consonant and Dissonant Major and Minor Unpredictability Jazz, country, and other styles. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ( )

THE STUDY OF EMOTION IN MUSIC “Emotion and Meaning in Music” by Leonard B. Meyer 1956 “ Any discussion of the emotional response to music is faced at the very outset with the fact that very little is known about this response and its relation to the stimulus. Evidence that is exists at all is based largely upon the introspective reports of listeners and the testimony of composers, performers, and critics.”

EMOTION AND MOOD Psychologist H.P. Weld “The emotional experiences which our observers reported are to be characterized rather as moods than as emotions in the ordinary sense of the term…The emotion is temporary and evanescent; the mood is relatively permanent and stable.”

FRENCH WRITERS ON NATURAL EXPRESSION IN MUSIC “To successfully paint the passions, you must study the movements that they inspire. For example, observe…what the voice does when it is overcome by sorrow, or struck by the sight of a shocking thing. There nature reveals herself to you; you have only to follow her.”- Francois Fenelon.

Mon Chien Sport!

MON CHIEN SPORT!

FRERE JACQUES English Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping? Brother John? Morning bells are ringing, Morning bells are ringing. Ding dang dong, Ding dang dong. French Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques Dormez-vous? Sonnez les matines, Sonnez les matines Ding Dang Dong, Ding Dang Dong

JENA LEE- ”MON ANGE” I fade on my cloud My blackened sky gives me the worst storms (hate your picture) Pluck the arrow that struck me Set my tears free, destroy me in order to keep me My love has killed a part of me, Forgive me, but my love is you Help me Give me less attention Do me bad without a reason, Say my name wrong, My angel, be my demon Don't love me forever My angel fool me one time, Be my beautiful disappointment Forget about the angel and become my demon I need to find my blackness To feel alive I lost myself seeking so much for happiness I'm not made for him My life is on a cloud I have everything that a girl of my age could dream of Yet, my desires are black When everything goes well I feel nothing My happiness has killed a part of me Forgive me, but my happiness is you Help me