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MU218 Listening for Style and Structure
Cal Poly Pomona Winter 2018

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medieval music notation

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Class Topics, Readings, Listening, and Vocabulary

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INTRODUCTION: THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
Textbook readings: pgs. 1-40

listenings:
an example of monophonic texture
an example of homophonic texture
an example of polyphonic texture
an example of heterophonic texture


32-bar song form examples:
It Don't Mean A Thing by Duke Ellington

Modified 32-bar song form example:
Send In the Clowns by Stephen Sondheim (6-6-9-8 measures)

12-bar blues examples:
​The Thrill is Gone by B.B.King
Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry

Phrase analysis:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen

form and phrase analysis:
De Ushuaia a la Quiaca from "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Gustavo Santaolalla
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PART I: MEDIEVAL MUSIC
Textbook readings: pgs. 16-46, 52-53

medieval Estampie
Gregorian Chant: Alleliua (Caro Mea) (in Revel ebook)

Hildegard von Bingen: Play of Virtues excerpt (in Revel ebook)
Hildegard von Bingen:  O Successores a chant
organum music of Perotin 
F. Landini: "Behold, Spring" (in Revel ebook)
G. de Mauchet: "No More Than One Man Could Count the Stars" (in Revel ebook)

World music connections: Native American: Eagle Dance (in Revel ebook)



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PART II: RENAISSANCE MUSIC
Textbook readings: pgs. 54-58, 65-70, 78-84

John Dowland "Flow My Tears" lute ayre
John Dowland, a Galliard for solo lute
consort music of the Renaissance court

Thomas Weelkes: "As Vesta was Descending". A six-voice madrigal
Thomas Weelkes: "Since Robin Hood" (in Revel ebook). A three-voice madrigal
Carlo Gesualdo madrigal

Giovanni da Palestrina: Kyrie from the "Pope Marcellus Mass" A movement from a mass
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Giovanni da Palestrina: O Magnum Mysterium 6-voice motet (SSAATB)
Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria. a four-voice motet




​TEST NO. 1 (Introduction, Medieval, Renaissance) WEDNESDAY WEEK 4

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PART III: BAROQUE MUSIC
Textbook readings: pgs. 85-97, 118-159

C. Monteverdi: "Orpheus" selection from Act II (in Revel ebook)
​Henry Purcell: Dido's Lament aria, from the opera "Dido and Aeneas"

A Vivaldi: "Spring" 1st movement from the Four Seasons (with structural analysis)
A. Vivaldi "Summer" 3rd movement, from "The Four Seasons" (with score)
A. Vivaldi: "Winter" 1st movement, from "The Four Seasons" (in Revel ebook)

J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F major, finale (inRevel ebook)
​J.S. Bach: Brandenberg Concerto no. 5
J.S. Bach: Little Fugue in G minor, organ (also in Revel ebook)
J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor, organ
J.S. Bach: Prelude from Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied cello
J.S. Bach: Bourree from Lute Suite BWV 996
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A. Corelli: Trio Sonata in D major, OP. 3, No. 2

G.F. Handel: Hallelujah chorus from The Messiah
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short video about the da capo aria form (ABA)

​World music connections: Music of the Mbuti pygmies "Marriage Celebration Song" (in Revel ebook)
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PART IV: CLASSICAL ERA MUSIC
Textbook readings: pas 160-217, 225-226

F. Haydn: String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, no. 3, second mvmt. (in Revel ebook) (an example of theme and variations form)
W.A. Mozart: Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je maman" (an example of theme and variations form)
J. Haydn: Symphony No. 102
, third and fourth mvts. (in Revel ebook) (examples of minuet and trio and rondo forms)
L.v. Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4, 4th mvt. (an example of rondo form)
L.v. Beethoven: 5th Symphony, 1st mvt. (in Revel ebook)
W.A. Mozart: Symphony no. 40, 1st mvt. (in Revel ebook) (an example of sonata form)
W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto in A major, 1st mvt. (in Revel ebook) (an example of double-exposition concerto form)
W.A. Mozart: Requiem Mass excerpt: Lacrimosa
W.A. Mozart: "Queen of the Night" aria from "The Magic Flute"

​Scenes from "Amadeus" #1, #2, #3


TEST NO. 2 (Baroque, Classical) MONDAY WEEK 8

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PART V: THE 19TH CENTURY
Textbook readings: pgs. 227-248, 255-260, 272-278, 286-310, 320-328

L.v Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata 
L.v. Beethoven: 9th Symphony 4th mvt.
F. Schubert: Erlkonig (in Revel ebook)
N. Paganini: Caprice No. 24 for solo violin 
F. Chopin: Mazurka in B-flat Major, Op. 7, no. 1 (in Revel ebook)
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture excerpt
G. Verdi: "La Donne e Mobile" from Rigoletto
R. Wagner: The Valkyrie, Act III "Wotan's Farewell" (in Revel ebook)
R. Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra 
​Dies Irae theme as it is used in the opening of the Stanley Kubrick film "The Shining" and in the 5th mvt. of H. Berlioz's Symphony Fantistique


World music connections: Master musicians of the Ikuta-ru (LTT. pg 178)
Japanese Gagaku music (traditional court music of Japan)




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PART VI: SINCE 1900
Textbook readings: pgs. 329-368, 426-462

C. Debussy: Clair de Lune
C. Debussy: Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun
A. Schoenberg: 4th String Quartet
A. Schoenberg: excerpt from Pierrot Lunaire
I. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring excerpt (LTT pg. 364)
I. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring complete, in graphic notation
John Cage: Sonata II from Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (LTT pg. 455)
John Cage: 4'33" 
K. Pendereski: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Philip Glass: "Knee Play 1" from Einstein on the Beach (LTT pg. 460-461)
P. Glass: Koyaanisqatsi excerpt





TEST NO. 3 (19th/20th/21st Century) FRIDAY WEEK 10


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Vocabulary:
homophonic/monophonic/polyphonic/heterophonic
syncopation and accent
​tempo
meter
musical phrase
cadence
intervals
chord
​major/minor keys
tonic/dominant
motive
conjunct/disjunct melodic motion


Forms (popular song forms):
32-bar song form (AABA) (and modified AABA)
verse-chorus form
12-bar blues






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Vocabulary:
Dionysian/Apollonian meta-context
minstrel & troubadour/trouvere
​Estampie
Gregorian chant/plainchant
neume
church modes
organum (parallel and free)
drone
the Ars Nova
cantus firmus technique

Composers:
Hildegard von Bingen
Leonin and Perotin
Francesco Landini
Guillaume de Mauchet
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Vocabulary:
counterpoint
imitative counterpoint
elision/elided cadence
homorhythmic
word painting
consort
​Renaissance dances (Gavotte, Pavane, Galliard)
chanson, air (ayre), aria, cancion

Forms:
strophic form
through-composed

Musical Genres:
lute ayre
madrigal
mass
motet

Composers:
John Dowland
Giovanni da Palestrina
Josquin Desprez
Thomas Weelkes

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Vocabulary:
chamber music
movement
tutti
concertino 
recitative and aria
libretto
basso continuo
​ornamentation
​ground bass
cadenza
​hocket

Musical Genres:
concerto & concerto grosso
suite
​prelude
toccata
​trio sonata and solo sonata
oratorio
opera

Forms:
ritornello
fugue
binary form
ternary form (da capo aria)

Composers:
Claudio Monteverdi
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Georg Fredrich Handel
Arcangelo Corelli
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Vocabulary:
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pre-classical/galant/rococo style
symphony
string quartet
sonata
​antecedent/consequent phrases
requiem mass
opera seria/opera buffo

Forms:
sonata-allegro form
minuet and trio form
rondo form
theme and variations form
​double exposition concerto form

Composers:
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven



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Vocabulary:
programmatic music
nationalism
leitmotif
character piece
rubato
mazurka, caprice, nocturne
Gesamtkunstwerk
​Dies Irae theme

Musical Genres:
lied (German art song)
song cycle
programmatic symphony

Composers:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Hector Berlioz
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Frederic Chopin
Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
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Vocabulary:
impressionism
expressionism
symbolist poetry
modernism
post-modernism
chromaticism
atonality
​sprechstimme
12-tone (dodecaphonic)
polychord
avante garde
prepared piano
graphic score
aleatoric
minimalism
irregular rhythms and meters

Composers:
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
John Cage
Philip Glass















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