Terminology Quiz

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Terminology Quiz

• NEXT Friday, 19 Sept 08, 930 1020 am
• Bring Scantrons pencils, Picture ID, PID
• Covers textbook, chapters 2-3-4-5-6
• Definitions of music terms (no listening)
• Approximately 40-50 multiple choice or T/F
  questions
• Review sheet on course web site also use
  textbook (glossary) publisher web site
• Counts 10 of course grade

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Todays materials are not on the Terminology Quiz

• Anything after this slide is on Midterm 1

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Putting Things Together Listening to Music
Examples

• Listen actively for understanding
• It takes multiple hearings to know a piece
• FOCUS on the music (no multi-tasking)
• Shift your attention in each rehearing
• Isolate the basic elements in
• Use the background information to understand what
  you hear

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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

• Composed 1808( Classical era)
• Large work for Orchestra
• 4 movements (opening of first played)
• Based on a motive(short musical idea)
• Guide p. 9

b. 1770, Bonn d. 1827, Vienna
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What do you hear?

• Timbre What instruments? How used?
• Pitch Melodies? Harmony?
• Rhythm Meter? Tempo?
• Dynamics Loud or soft?
• Other elements?- Texture (monophonic/polyphonic?
  How so?)- Form (what comes next? How
  organized?)- Mood?

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Peter Ilyich TchaikovskyPiano Concerto No. 1

• Composed 1875( Romantic era)
• Work for Soloist and Orchestra
• 3 movements(opening of first)
• Elements of competition and virtuosity
• Guide p. 10

b. 1840, Vyatka provinced. 1893. St. Petersburg
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What do you hear?

• Timbre What instruments? How used?
• Pitch Melodies? Harmony?
• Rhythm Meter? Tempo?
• Dynamics Loud or soft?
• Other elements?- Texture (monophonic/polyphonic?
  How so?)- Form (what comes next? How
  organized?)- Mood?

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Richard StraussAlso sprach Zarathustra

• Composed 1896( Late Romantic)
• Tone Poem (one-movement work for Orchestra)
  (opening)
• Tells a story or connects to external object
• Based on writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beginning Sunrise
• Guide p. 11

b. 1864, Munichd. 1949, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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What do you hear?

• Timbre What instruments? How used?
• Pitch Melodies? Harmony?
• Rhythm Meter? Tempo?
• Dynamics Loud or soft?
• Other elements?- Texture (monophonic/polyphonic?
  How so?)- Form (what comes next? How
  organized?)- Mood?