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Third Six Weeks Assignment - listening assignment

Turn in documentation of 3 hours of tutoring choir students (Honors Choir Tutoring Log)

Begin preparation for Solo & Ensemble

Observe/critique community choir concert (prior approval required by director)
  • Conducting students only: turn in conducting critique

Begin Medieval/Renaissance listening (on website) and make any notes that would be helpful (put in portfolio)
  • Listen to the musical examples of Medieval and Renaissance music below 
  • Create as many flashcards as necessary covering information about Medieval and Renaissance music
  • During class at the end of the 3rd Six Weeks, students will listen to examples of Medieval and Renaissance music and determine the time period in which it was written and/or the specific composition.

If Ye Love Me by Thomas Tallis circa 1560

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Homorhythmic
Anthem
Kyrie from Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli

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Free composed
counterpoint
Ave Maria set by Josquin de Prez early 16th Century

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Point of Imitation
Guillaume Dufay Mass setting of Kyrie circa 1430

Helpful words to know:
cantus firmus
14th Century setting of Kyrie 
from Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame


Helpful words to know:
Mass Ordinary
Tenor (not the voice)
Polyphony
Circa 12th Century Chant based on the Alleluia text

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Organum duplum
Circa 11th Century Chant based on the Kyrie text
by Hildegard von Bingen

Helpful words to know:
Chant



FOURTH SIX WEEKS ASSIGNMENT

Prepare for and perform at Solo and Ensemble & S&E Recital; submit Honors Choir Practice Log and judges’ comment
sheets

Work on project #1; submit notes in your portfolio

Turn in documentation of 2 hours of tutoring choir students (Honors Choir Tutoring Log)

Conducting students only: turn in conducting critique

Begin Baroque/Classical listening (on website) and make any notes that would be helpful (put in portfolio).



FIFTH SIX WEEKS ASSIGNMENT

Baroque/Classical listening test

Turn in draft of project #1

Turn in documentation of 2 hours of tutoring choir students (Honors Choir Tutoring Log)

Observe/critique high school or community choir concert (prior approval required by director)


FIFTH SIX WEEKS LISTENING

Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers 1610

Words to Know:

Basso Continuo
Concerted
Henry Purcell - Hear My Prayer, O Lord 1681

Words to Know:

Unprepared Dissonance
JS Bach - BWV 4 Christ lag in todesbanden 1707
Den Tot niemand zwingen & Chorale

Words to Know:

Cantata
Chorale
WA Mozart "The Marriage of Figaro" 1786

Words to Know:

Opera
Libretto
Joseph Haydn "The Creation" - The Heavens Are Telling 1796

Words to Know:

Oratorio
Fugue
Franz Schubert - Die Nacht 1817

Words to Know:

Lieder
Art Song


SIXTH SIX WEEKS ASSIGNMENT

Romantic/20th Century listening and test (below)

Turn in project #1 -  5-page research paper with a bibliography.  One major work from a different era than the previous subject.  Paper should be typed and double-spaced with a 12-point font and one-inch margins covering aspects of the subjects such as (a) stylistic/technical demands of the music, (b) the composer’s biographical data, and/or  (c) historical, economic, and political backgrounds of the period in which the composition was written and their effects on the music.    

Turn in documentation of 2 hours of tutoring choir students (Honors Choir Tutoring Log)

Observe/critique professional choir concert (prior approval required by director)

Conducting students only: turn in conducting critique


SIXTH SIX WEEKS LISTENING ASSIGNMENT

Gabriel Fauré - Agnus Dei from Requiem 1887

Words to know:

romantic chromaticism
motif
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Hymn of the Cherubim 

Words to Know:

modulation
suspended harmonies
Claude Debussey - Sirenes from Trois Nocturnes 1900

Words to know:

impressionism
tone poem
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Nyne otpushchayeshi from All-Night Vigil  1915

[LISTEN UNTIL THE VERY END]

Words to know:



nationalism
basso profundo
John Tavener - The Lamb 1982


Words to know:

inversion
retrograde
Morton Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium 1994


Words to know:

polychordal
extended harmonies
Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst 1992

Words to know:

pan-diatonicism
aleatoric
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