M100: Music Appreciation Discussion Group Ben Tibbetts, T.A. Welcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room. Thursday March 5, 2013
Today’s Agenda Baroque Tests Pages
Concert Reports –some clarification
pass back tests
Baroque Test SECTION A 1.Bach’s Fugue in G Minor (polyphonic) 2.Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (soloists: harpsichord, violin, flute) 3.Dido’s Lament (aria) from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (opera) (homophonic)
Baroque Test SECTION B 1.False 2.True 3.False
Baroque Test SECTION C 1.Basso continuo – plays throughout a work, provides bass line & harmonies Cello, Bassoon, Harpsichord, Organ, Lute, Guitar, Bass viol, Harp
Baroque Test SECTION C 2. Ritornello principle – alternating ritornello/solo sections in concerto
Baroque Test SECTION C 3. Subject in a fugue – main theme, layered over itself, imitative counterpoint
Baroque Test SECTION C 4. Oratorio - opera for church, not staged
Baroque Test SECTION C 5. Recitative – dialogue/monologue between singing & speaking Aria - song
Baroque Test SECTION C 6. Program music – instrumental music associated with story/event/idea i.e. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Baroque Test SECTION C 7. Castrati – man with high singing voice, castrated Coveted for soprano/mezzo- soprano/contralto parts
Baroque Test SECTION C 8. Word painting – how sung music imitates/describes imagery in text
Baroque Test SECTION C 9. Middle entry – music in middle of fugue where subject appears Episode – music in middle of fugue without subject
Baroque Test SECTION C 10. Timbre – character/quality of sound In Baroque music, often separates sections
Baroque Test SECTION C 11. Solo concerto – one soloist Concerto grosso – multiple soloist
Baroque Test SECTION C 12. Homophony – in operas, allows one character to take precedence In concertos, allows one soloist to take precedence
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Franz Joseph Haydn Austrian composer
Listening today to Haydn’s Symphony No. 20 Four movements Pick one for listening log
The Classical Symphony (and other large works) Three or four movements, usually like this: Form:Tempo: 1.Sonata-allegro formmoderate 2.(Theme & Variations)slow 3.Minuet & Triomoderato 4.(Rondo)fast
The Classical Symphony (and other large works) Three or four movements, usually like this: Form:Tempo: 1.Sonata-allegro formmoderate 2.(Theme & Variations)slow 3.Minuet & Triomoderato 4.(Rondo)fast
Sonata-allegro form Large, complex form in three basic parts: ExpositionDevelopmentRecapitulation
Sonata-allegro form Exposition – Stable. Introduces themes. Repeated. Development – Unstable. “Develops” (fragments, modulates, generally messes with) themes. Recapitulation – Stable. Repeat of the exposition. Musical material is transposed to home key. ============================================== In some pieces, development/recapitulation pair is repeated. Some pieces end with a coda after the recapitulation.
Haydn’s Symphony No. 20 movement 1 Exposition Exposition (repeated) Development Recapitulation
The Classical Symphony (and other large works) Three or four movements, usually like this: Form:Tempo: 1.Sonata-allegro formmoderate 2.(Theme & Variations)slow 3.Minuet & Triomoderato 4.(Rondo)fast
Second movements aren’t always theme and variations, but they are almost always played at a slow tempo
Haydn’s Symphony No. 20 movement 2 (form: AABABA or rounded binary) A B A
The Classical Symphony (and other large works) Three or four movements, usually like this: Form:Tempo: 1.Sonata-allegro formmoderate 2.(Theme & Variations)slow 3.Minuet & Triomoderato 4.(Rondo)fast
Minuet and Trio Dance, French origin. Always in ¾ time. Large ABA. AThe minuet proper BThe Trio AThe return of the minuet proper
Minuet and Trio AThe minuet proper In binary form – two sections, each repeated BThe Trio Also in binary form – two sections, each repeated Contrasting mood AMinuet proper (again) This time, sections aren’t repeated
Haydn’s Symphony No. 20 movement 3 Minuet proper (sections each repeated) Trio Minuet proper (sections not repeated)
The Classical Symphony (and other large works) Three or four movements, usually like this: Form:Tempo: 1.Sonata-allegro formmoderate 2.(Theme & Variations)slow 3.Minuet & Triomoderato 4.(Rondo)fast
Rondo form In Italian, rondo means “round dance” Usually in duple meter A B A C A D A etc. (or A B A C A B A or similar)
Fourth movements aren’t always rondos, but they are almost always played at a fast tempo
Haydn’s Symphony No. 20 movement 4 A B A C A B A
Final Reminders / Homework Thursday: Listening Log Collection #1 Read pages Questions?