1. Friendly Alert # 1
Test # 1: MONDAY, 5 March 2018 (five days from today)
During regular class time
Covers Chapters 1 – 8 (See Review Sheets for Details)

2. Friendly Alert # 2
Instructions for the “Music Description Project” are now posted on the course web site
Reminder 1 : Deadline has been revised Reminder 2 : Choices must be made by 9 March

3. Friendly Alert # 3 Listening Quiz # 1 Friday, 9 March 2018
During Regular class Time
May include any LG Item from Chapters 1 through 8

4. “To Stretch Our Ears” : Classical Music Comes of Age
Chapter Eight
“To Stretch Our Ears” : Classical Music Comes of Age

5. Charles Ives ( )
George Ives (father) - Civil War Bandmaster - “…to stretch our ears…”
Yale University - Horatio Parker, teacher
Ignored as composer
Ives & Merrick Insurance
Composed for self - often unperformed - numerous revisions
Uniquely AMERICAN composer

6. Ives – Music Examples SONGS
Jerry Hadley - The Circus Band - Charles Ives
The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Things Our Fathers Loved (LG 8.3)
INSTRUMENTAL
Ives: Variations on "America" (1891)
Charles Ives - Symphony No. 2 (Houston Sym Note)
Ives: "The Unanswered Question"
Charles Ives - Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord"
Charles Ives - Decoration Day (1912)

7. TEST # 1 Materials END Here
Nothing after this slide will be used on Test # 1 (5 March ‘18)