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There will be music posted here this year for you to listen to that will help you prepare for our rehearsals and concerts.

2015-16 In-class Directed Listening... 

Parade - Christmas Spectacular
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2014-15 In-class Directed Listening...FORM of Music

Understanding the FORM of a piece of music - this deals with understanding the layout of a piece of music. How a piece starts, changes, and ends. Are there large patterns in the music? Does the song start and end with the same musical themes/melodies. 

Music forms we are exploring include:
  1. Strophic (A A A A A A)
  2. Binary (A || B)
  3. Rounded Binary (A || BA)
  4. Ternary (ABA)
  5. Sonata Allegro (A-B-A) ...a much larger form of Ternary
  6. Rondo (A B A C A B A)
  7. Theme and Variations (A A' A'' A''' A'''' A''''')

So far, we've listened to (and you can click on the title to listen/watch it again):
  • The first movement of "Beethoven's 5th Symphony" - Sonata Allegro form (to 7:47)
  • Variations on Happy Birthday - solo violin
  • "Ah, vous dirai-je maman" - by Mozart - Theme and Variations form
  • The third movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata, the "Rondo Alla Turca" -  Rondo Form
  • The third movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (K622) - Rondo Form (starting at 19:21)
  • Carnival of Venice - for Flute and Orchestra - Theme and Variations
  • Carnival of Venice - for Violin and Orchestra - Theme and Variations
  • Concerto in E minor by Mendelssohn - First Movement (to 7:55) - Sonata Allegro Form
  • Viola Concert in D by Hoffmeister - First Movement - Sonata Allegro Form
  • Concerto for Alto Saxophone by Glazunov - Sonata Allegro Form
  • Hungarian Rhapsody for Cello by David Popper - (Alex Hunn) 
  • Gabriel's Oboe by Ernesto Morricone - Ternary Form
  • Trumpet Concerto in Eb - by Haydn - First Movement - Sonata Allegro Form
  • Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov - A Symphonic Suite that is considered "Programmatic" or tells a story. 
             i. through composed A B C A1 B1 C1
             ii. sort of Ternary form (ABA)    
             iii. sort of Ternary (ABA)
             iv. loosly Rondo form A B [AC] A B A

The opposite of programmatic music is called absolute music. For example, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is absolute music vs. his 9th Symphony, "Pastorale" which is programmatic - telling a story about nature.

Remember - a Concerto is a work for solo instrument and accompaniment. At some point in either the first or last movement (usually in Sonata Allegro Form) there is a Cadenza - a completely solo section for the soloist to "show off" in. 

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