Unity and Variety
Define dynamics
Type of Soloist in this video?
Violin soloist with accompaniment
Binary Form
Binary Form:
Musical Connotation
Connection between music and its function
Name and composer of this work
Frederic Chopin
Nocturne op.9 No.2
Define timbre
The quality of a sound; that component of a tone that causes different instruments (for example a guitar and a violin) to sound different from each other while they are both playing the same note.
Musical Form is:............
Musical Phrase is:......
Musical Form:
- reveals how sound is organized in time
- uses durations, pitches, timber, and volume to form a coherent whole
- refers to the architecture of music, dealing with shape, organization, patterns, and relationships
- is rooted in and expands on our need of unity and variety of music
- examples include binary and ternary form
Musical Phrase:
- Musical idea that obtains complete meaning by coming to a natural resting point or cadence.
Ternary Form
Ternary Form:
What did music absolutists believe?
Absolutists believe that to understand a piece of music, one must focus solely on the nature and interplay between the sounds that make up a piece of music. For this group, the purpose of music lies in the interactions of the musical elements themselves, apart from any extra-musical context, including utilitarian purposes and musical connotations.
Frederick Chopin.....
was a Romantic composer born near Warsaw, Poland, most known for his hauntingly beautiful piano compositions.
What is the difference between homophony, monophony, and polyphony?
Monophony:
Polyphony:
Homophony:
What is musical interpretation in performance?
The term interpretation refers to how a performer chooses to communicate the artistry of the music to the audience. In every aspect of the performance, a performer makes choices on how to present the musical material. A performer may give extra weight to a particular passage by playing or singing more softly or more loudly; more quickly or more deliberately; with more control or more abandon; by letting a note linger; or even by using silence, among many available techniques. When a performer conveys an authentic interpretation, one in which it seems like the person is truly experiencing, appreciating, and understanding the music, we often say that the individual is performing “from the heart.”
Is this example binary or ternary?
Chopin - Nocturne in E Flat Major (Op. 9 No. 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p29JUpsOST
Most Chopin nocturnes are in ternary form (ABA'), whereas Chopin adopted a rather special rounded binary form (ABB'+Coda) for his Op. 9 No. 2
Free Form
Think back to our Drum Circle experience in class. Do a Google Search on the history of drum circles. Then present your findings to the class on the following guidance:
What are some historical examples of the purpose of music, as expressed in the experience of Drum Circles around the world?
Free Form/Research
Revolutionary Etude:
It was said that this composer wrote his Revolutionary Etude as a reaction to the Russian occupation of Warsaw when the news reached him in Paris on September 1831.
Unity and Variety in a Musical Excerpt:
Stand up and do a short presentation analyzing live elements of unity and variety as they interplay to create the musical flow in this chosen composition:
Handel's 'Hallelujah!' Chorus live at the Sydney Opera House
Free Response
Free Form Reflection:
Think back to your experience as a performer during our class recital. Reflect back to your role then. What was the experience like?
Free Form
Binary or Ternary?
Chopin - Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1
Music Therapy:
What are some of the therapeutical properties of music?
Researchers have been able to document the neurochemical mechanisms by which music has an effect in four domains: management of mood, stress, immunity, and as an aid to social bonding. Music has been found to ease pain, increase workout endurance and motivation in athletes, speed up post-workout recovery, improve sleep quality, enhance blood vessel function, induce meditative states, relieve symptoms of depression, elevate mood, improve cognitive performance, relax patients before surgery, and elevate mood while driving. Music benefits both mental and physical health, as listening to and playing music can lower levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.
Music is one of the few activities that involves the use of the whole brain, particularly for those who play an instrument or sing, as opposed to those who just listen. Using both sides of the brain maximizes learning and retention of information.
This composer was a German-British Baroque composer who served at the court of the King of England. He composed the Messiah oratorio, containing the Hallelujah chorus. He also composed the Hornpipe from Water Music, and the Royal Fireworks. An eye surgery left him practically blind during his late years.
George Frederic Handel
Unity and Variety in Your Favorite Music :)
Stand up and do a short presentation analyzing live elements of unity and variety as they interplay to create the musical flow in a composition of your choice!
Free Flow
Class "Yes And"
Starting from Bach's (Jr.), continue with "yes and".....
"Since a musician cannot otherwise move people, but he be moved himself, so he must necessarily be able to induce in himself all those affects which he would arouse in his auditors; he conveys his feelings to them, and thus most readily moves them to sympathetic emotions."
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Free Flow
Binary or Ternary?
Chopin's Revolutionary Etude Op. 10 No. 12
Music as language
Many cultures use music as a language. For them, music is a language. If it is true that "music is the universal language of mankind," as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetically wrote, then what does music exactly communicate, and is communication music's main function? What purpose is served by the experience of music and music-like communication?
Free Form/Reflection
What is the name and composer of this work?
(Players should hear, not see the work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg6Q9tkHOw0&t=192s
Handel- London Symphony