Super Quiet Un-Interupted Listening Time

Super Quiet Un-interrupted Listening Time

Listen to the music with your eyes closed and concentrate.


"For music is surely among the most baffling of the arts in its power to move people profoundly...It moves people involuntarily, even subliminally, and yet all this is done by means of the most apparently precise and rational techniques. If a few combinations of pitches, durations, timbres, and dynamic values can unlock the most hidden contents of a [human's] spiritual and emotional being, then the study of music should be the key to an understanding of [human] nature."

Nicholas Cook, A Guide to Music Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2009. p1.

Baroque Era (1600-1750)

Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto # 5

Bach, J.S. Badinerie from Orchestral Suite #2

Handel Two Allemandes Handel

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon)

Handel Royal Fireworks Music

Handel Selections from Messiah

Vivaldi “Autumn” from The Four Seasons

Vivaldi “Spring” from The Four Seasons

4 Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

Dynamics

How loud is the music?

  • Very Soft Pianissimo

  • Soft Piano

  • Medium Soft Mezzo Piano

  • Medium Loud Mezzo Forte

  • Loud Forte

  • Getting Louder Crescendo

  • Getting Softer Decrescendo

  • Subito (suddenly)

Classical Era (1750-1820)

Beethoven Symphony #5, mvmt. 1

Beethoven Für Elise

Beethoven “Emperor” Piano Concerto

Beethoven Ode to Joy (w/bonus Chalk Pastel lesson)

Haydn Surprise Symphony

Haydn Symphony #88

Mozart A Musical Joke

Mozart 12 Variations on a French Nursery Theme

Mozart Turkish March

Rhythm

What does note values and combinations are used in this music?

  • See if you can draw the rhythms.

  • Semi-breve (whole notes)

  • Minims (half notes)

  • Quavers (quarter notes)

  • Semi-Quavers (sixteenth notes)

  • Dotted quaver - semiquaver

Romantic Era (1820-1900)

Brahms Hungarian Dance #5

Carreño, Teresa The Little Waltz

Chopin Black Key Etude

Chopin Military Polonnaise

Chopin Two Waltzes for Piano

Debussy Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children’s Corner)

Debussy The Snow is Dancing (Children’s Corner)

Debussy Golliwog’s Cakewalk (Children’s Corner)

Debussy Arabesque #1

Grieg Anitra’s Dance from Peer Gynt

Mendelssohn, Fanny Notturno in G minor

Ravel Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty (Mother Goose Suite)

Ravel Empress of the Pagodas (Mother Goose Suite)

Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee

Saint-Saens The Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

Saint-Saens The Elephant (Carnival of the Animals)

Saint-Saens Kangaroos (Carnival of the Animals)

Strauss Pizzicato Polka

Tchaikovksy Selections from The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky Theme from Swan Lake

Tchaikovsky Dance of the Little Swans From Swan Lake

Tempo

What is the Tempo (Speed and character) of this music doing?


Changing?

  • Accelerando – speeding up (abbreviation: accel.)


Slow Beat

  • Grave – very slow (25–45 bpm)

  • Largo – broadly (40–60 bpm)

  • Lento – slowly (45–60 bpm)

  • Adagio – slowly with great expression (66–76 bpm)

Medium Beat

  • Andante – at a walking pace (76–108 bpm)

  • Marcia moderato – moderately, in the manner of a march (83–85 bpm)

  • Moderato – at a moderate speed (98–112 bpm)

Fast Beat

  • Allegro moderato – close to, but not quite allegro (116–120 bpm)

  • Allegro – fast, quickly, and bright (120–156 bpm) (molto allegro is slightly faster than allegro, but always in its range)

  • Vivace – lively and fast (156–176 bpm)

  • Presto – very, very fast (168–200 bpm)

  • Prestissimo – even faster than presto (200 bpm and over)

Twentieth Century (1900-present)

Adams, John Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Anderson, Leroy The Waltzing Cat

Bernstein Mambo from West Side Story

Bernstein Overture to Candide

Boulanger, Nadia Prelude in F minor

Copland, Aaron Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring

Copland, Aaron Fanfare for the Common Man

Ellington, Duke

Fitzgerald, Ella

Foster, Stephen O, Susanna!

Gillespie, Dizzy Salt Peanuts

Grainger, Percy Harvest Hymn

Ives, Charles Variations on “America”

Joplin, Scott Maple Leaf Rag

Jessel, Leon Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

Prokofiev Dance of the Knights from Romeo & Juliet

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3

Rutter Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

Sands, Christain If You’re Happy and You Know It

Sousa Washington Post March

Stravinsky Tango

Trombone Shorty

Williams, John Movie Score Composer Study

Zimmer, Hans Movie Score Composer Study

Listening Log Level 1

Copy of Listening Log.pdf

Listening Log Level 2

Listening Log.docx

Listening Log Level 3

Advanced Musicology analysis Comparative Musical Elements Chart.doc