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)
Begin Medieval/Renaissance listening (on website) and make any notes that would be helpful (put in portfolio)
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.
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If Ye Love Me by Thomas Tallis circa 1560
Helpful words to know: Homorhythmic Anthem |
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Kyrie from Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli
Helpful words to know: Free composed counterpoint |
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Ave Maria set by Josquin de Prez early 16th Century
Helpful words to know: Point of Imitation |
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Guillaume Dufay Mass setting of Kyrie circa 1430
Helpful words to know: cantus firmus |
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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 |
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Circa 12th Century Chant based on the Alleluia text
Helpful words to know: Organum duplum |
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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
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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).
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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)
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
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Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers 1610
Words to Know: Basso Continuo Concerted |
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Henry Purcell - Hear My Prayer, O Lord 1681
Words to Know: Unprepared Dissonance |
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JS Bach - BWV 4 Christ lag in todesbanden 1707
Den Tot niemand zwingen & Chorale Words to Know: Cantata Chorale |
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WA Mozart "The Marriage of Figaro" 1786
Words to Know: Opera Libretto |
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Joseph Haydn "The Creation" - The Heavens Are Telling 1796
Words to Know: Oratorio Fugue |
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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
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
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Gabriel Fauré - Agnus Dei from Requiem 1887
Words to know: romantic chromaticism motif |
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Hymn of the Cherubim
Words to Know: modulation suspended harmonies |
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Claude Debussey - Sirenes from Trois Nocturnes 1900
Words to know: impressionism tone poem |
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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Nyne otpushchayeshi from All-Night Vigil 1915
[LISTEN UNTIL THE VERY END] Words to know: nationalism basso profundo |
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John Tavener - The Lamb 1982
Words to know: inversion retrograde |
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Morton Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium 1994
Words to know: polychordal extended harmonies |
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Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst 1992
Words to know: pan-diatonicism aleatoric |
