M100: Music Appreciation Discussion Group Ben Tibbetts, T.A. Welcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room. Thursday March 7, 2013
Today’s Agenda Collect Haydn/Mozart homework Collect Listening Logs #1 Pages Pass back stuff
Collect Haydn/Mozart homework Collect Listening Logs #1
Head’s Up Concert Report #1 due next Tuesday Classical test Thursday No class March 16-24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian composer/pianist
Just to warm up… Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement This movement’s in sonata-allegro form: Exposition Exposition again Development Recapitulation—long, in this case
Opera seria – “Italian for ‘serious opera’; Italian Baroque opera on a serious subject, typically consisting of alternating recitatives and da capo arias.” Opera buffa – “Italian for ‘comic opera’; a genre that uses many of the same conventions as serious opera….but with plots revolving around believable, everyday characters rather than mythical or historical figures.” ~from page 517
music from The Marriage of Figaro an opera buffa from the end of the first act
Characters in this scene: Susanna -maidservant Count Almaviva –married to the Countess, (but has crush on Susanna) Basilio –court music teacher Cherubino –page boy
“Cosa sento” from The Marriage of Figaro
pass back stuff
Final Reminders / Homework Concert Report #1 due next class Questions?