1. Music Theory 9/10/10

7.  What are they?  How do they differ from each other?  How do you differentiate?

8.  Pieces composed for a group of wind/string instruments (varying sizes and arrangements)  System of staff notation  Technically demanding  Popularized originally by the upper classes

9.  Gregorian Chants  Renaissance  Baroque  Romantic/Late 18 th century  19 th and 20 th century

10.  Beethoven  Mozart  Handel  Schubert  Brahms

11.  1770-1827  9 symphonies, 11 overtures, incidental music to plays, violin concerto, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 9 piano trios, 10 violin sonatas, 5 cello sonatas, 32 large piano sonatas, many sets of piano variations, an oratorio, an opera, and two masses, etc.  “They are roused by moods which in the poet’s case are transmuted into words and in mine into tones, that sound, roar and storm until at last they take shape for me as notes.”  First period: assimilating  Second period: rugged individualism  Third Period: reflective and introspective  “One of the great disruptive forces in the history of music”  What is he most famous for?

12.  Schiller’s Ode to Joy as music  Emphasizes universal fellowship through joy, and its basis in the love of an eternal heavnely Father

13.  “I must live alone like one who has been banished, I can mix with society only as much as true necessity demands. If I approach near to people a hot terror seizes upon me and I fear being exposed to the danger that my condition might be noticed. Thus it has been during the last six months which I have spent in the country…what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard a sheperd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair, a little more of that and I would have ended my life—it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me…Oh Providence—grant me at last but one day of pure joy—it is so long since real joy echoed in my heart…”

15.  For homework, you need to do a detailed breakdown of a musical genre including the following:  Instrumentation  Different periods and way the music changed  Famous singers/composers  Representative singer/composer and details on that individual