1. M100: Music Appreciation Discussion Group Ben Tibbetts, T.A. benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com Welcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room. benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com Thursday March 7, 2013

2. Today’s Agenda Collect Haydn/Mozart homework Collect Listening Logs #1 Pages 215-223 Pass back stuff

3. Collect Haydn/Mozart homework Collect Listening Logs #1

4. Head’s Up Concert Report #1 due next Tuesday Classical test Thursday No class March 16-24

5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Austrian composer/pianist

6. 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

7. 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

8. music from The Marriage of Figaro an opera buffa from the end of the first act

9. Characters in this scene: Susanna -maidservant Count Almaviva –married to the Countess, (but has crush on Susanna) Basilio –court music teacher Cherubino –page boy

10. “Cosa sento” from The Marriage of Figaro

11. pass back stuff

12. Final Reminders / Homework Concert Report #1 due next class Questions? Email: benjamintibbetts@yahoo.combenjamintibbetts@yahoo.com