MUSC B22 Music Appreciation

MUSC B22 Music Appreciation

Concert Attendance Report Guidelines

General Information: (read carefully)

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  Concert MUST BE one of the live concert options listed in syllabus
  

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  Include a ticket stub, receipt, or concert program along with the report.
  
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  Papers that do not meet the following requirements will be rejected without a grade:
  
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    turned in as “hard copies;” no email papers allowed.
    
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    3-4 pages in length, typed, and double spaced, times new roman, font size 12 with one-inch margins. You will not receive full credit for 2 ½ pages or altering any sizes or margins.
    
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    written in essay format with an introduction (including a concise thesis statement), body paragraphs and a conclusion.
    

Concert Reports Should Include:

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  Basic Information about the concert: title, date, and location. Why did you choose this concert? What soloist or ensemble performed? Describe the physical aspects (concert hall, dress, lighting design, kinds of people present, etc.) and how it affected your listening experience. (5 points)
  
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  Discuss the works of the concert and their respective composers. Which musical period does each work in the concert represent (you can find this by looking up composers)? (10 points)
  
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  Take one of the composers listed in your program and research the life of the composer and the piece performed. During what part of the composer's life was this piece written. What else was the composer working on during this period? Where was the composer living during this time? Correctly cite information described. Cite your sources in Chicago style or MLA. (10 points)
  
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  Musical observations: quality of performance, type of music, i.e., orchestral, vocal, etc. Use a minimum of ten (10) terms introduced in class lectures and/or the text to describe the music and to demonstrate your understanding and appreciation of the music performed. Underline or bold face the 10 terms. (10 points)
  
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  Were there any explanations given concerning the works performed? If so, were the comments given orally during the concert or in the form of program notes included in the program folder? What was the overall impact of the music performed on the attending audience? Detail your overall impressions of the effect of the entire concert in view of your answers to the bullets above. In all cases be specific. (5 points)
  
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  Correct spelling, grammar, usage of words, overall clarity. (10 points)
  

SUCCESS TIPS FOR MUSIC APPRECIATION

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  Listen, listen, listen. Start now and do a little every day.
  
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  Be prepared. Read. Study for the tests throughout the semester—not the night before.
  
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  Come to class and participate (take notes, ask questions, discuss, get to know each other).
  
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  Keep an open mind. Enjoy the music!
  

Music Appreciation Exam 1 Study Guide
Test Question Information:

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  5 listening examples (2 points each—10 total points)
  
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  2 short answer questions (5 points each—10 total points)
  
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  30 questions—multiple choice, true and false, matching (1 point each—30 total points)
  
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  Total=50 points
  

Listening Exam Information: (2 points each) (Know Composer and Title)

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  George Gershwin: Summertime (1)
  
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  Tyagaraja: Manasu visaya (excerpt) (2)
  
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  Russell – Farrell: Hang on Sloopy (excerpt) (3)
  
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  Anon.: Kyrie eleison (4)
  
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  Palestrina: Missa Pape Marcelli, Kyrie (excerpt) (5)
  
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  Traditional: Amazing Grace (excerpt) (6)
  
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  Traditional: His First Hunt (7)
  

Short Answer Questions: (5 points each—10 points total)

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  Select one of the six historical periods in Western Art Music. Describe what was going on in the world, at least three musical characteristics of the period and identify one significant composer.
  
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  Name the 6 elements of music described in the textbook and select one element to describe in detail. Include at least 2 vocabulary words listed in the study guide in your syllabus to complete your answer.
  

Chapter 1 Experiencing Music:

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  Power of music
  
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  Music and the brain
  
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  Culture
  
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  Musical culture
  
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  Three categories of music
  
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  World music
  
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  Popular Music
  
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  Western Art Music
  
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    Medieval
    
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    Renaissance
    
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    Baroque
    
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    Classical
    
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    Romantic
    
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    Twentieth Century
    

(know characteristics and composers)

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  Info from video: Clavichord to Piano
  

Musical Symbols and Note Reading

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  Treble Clef
  
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  Bass Clef
  
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  Time Signature
  
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  Grand staff
  
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  Word for spaces in right hand
  
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  Sentence for lines in right hand
  
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  Sentence for spaces in left hand
  
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  Sentence for lines in left hand
  
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  Rhythm (Whole note, half, quarter, eighth)
  
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  Be able to identify notes in both the treble and bass clef
  

Instruments and Voices

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  Order of voices (high to low)
  
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  4 categories for classifying instruments based on method of tone production
  
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    Aerophones
    
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    Chordophones
    
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    Idiophones
    
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    Membranophones
    
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  Western instrument families
  
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    Strings (violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, guitar)
    
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    Woodwinds (flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, sax)
    
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    Brass (trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba, bugle, fluegelhorn, euphonium)
    
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    Percussion (timpani, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel)
    
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    Keyboard (piano, organ, harpsichord)
    
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  Identify instruments by picture
  

Musical Ensembles

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  a cappella
  
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  The role of the conductor (baton)
  
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  Conducting patterns (2, 3, 4)
  

Chapter 2 Listening to Music:

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  Three steps to active listening
  
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  6 elements of music
  

1. Melody (what is it?)

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  interval
  
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  range
  
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  conjunct
  
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  disjunct
  
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  phrase
  
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  cadence
  
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  Scale (major, minor, chromatic)
  
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  Half step, whole step, octave
  
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  Sharp, flat
  

2. Rhythm

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  beat
  
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  meter and meter patterns
  
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  downbeat/upbeat
  
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  duple, triple and quadruple meter
  
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  tempo
  
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  Italian terms (adagio, andante, allegro)
  
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  Basic note values: whole, half, quarter, eighth
  

3. Harmony

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  consonant
  
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  dissonant
  
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  chord
  
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  triad
  
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  tonality
  
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  tonic, subdominant and dominant chords
  

4. Timbre (color)

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  combination of three factors
  

5. Texture

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  monophony
  
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  heterophony
  
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  polyphony
  
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  homophony
  

6. Form

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  binary and ternary form
  
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  rondo
  

Other

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  Dynamics (f, mf, mp, p)
  
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  Musical terms
  
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    Song
    
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    Symphony
    
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    Concerto
    
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    Sonata
    
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    Opera
    
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    Chamber music
    

Music Appreciation Exam 2 Study Guide
Test Question Information:

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  15 listening examples (2 points each—10 total points)
  
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  1 short answer question (10 points each—10 total points)
  
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  35 questions—multiple choice, true and false, matching (1 point each—35 total points)
  
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  Total=75 points
  

Select 25 Listening List: (2 points each—Know Composer and Title)—15 of 20 will be on test

Chapters 1-2

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  George Gershwin: Summertime (1)
  
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  Tyagaraja: Manasu visaya (excerpt) (2)
  

Chapters 3-7

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  Traditional: Nesaza Shirabe
  
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  Over the Rainbow (Garland)
  
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  Over the Rainbow (Art Tatum)
  
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  Traditional: Kelefaba/Kuruntu Kelafa
  
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  Ellington: Caravan
  
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  Still: Afro-American Symphony, I
  
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  Bartok: Allegro barbaro
  
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  Redding: Respect
  
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  Bizet: “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (Habanera) from Carmen
  
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  Wagner: Siegfried, Act II, Scene 2
  
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  Mozart: “Non so piu cosa son” from The Marriage of Figaro
  
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  Traditional: Amazing Grace (Bernice Johnson Reagon)
  
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  Traditional: Amazing Grace (Robert Shaw Festival Singers)
  
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  Traditional: Amazing Grace (Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee)
  
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  Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Kyrie
  
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  J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, excerpts from Part II
  
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  Schoenberg: Kol Nidre, Op. 29 (excerpt)
  
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  Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 in D minor, IV (excerpt)
  

Short Answer Questions: (10 points total)

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  Select and discuss one of the pieces of music from the listening list (or CD’s). Describe the piece (in detail), its composer and/or performer and explain how it applies to the specific chapter (Music and Ethnicity, Spirituality, Politics, etc.)
  

Chapter 3 Listening to Music

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  J.S. Bach background info & importance
  
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  Shakuhachi flute (what is it, who played, etc.)
  
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  Judy Garland
  
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  Art Tatum
  
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  Compare/contrast “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
  

Chapter 4: Music & Ethnicity

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  What is ethnicity
  
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  Jali/Jalou
  
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  Jalolu music
  
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  Kora playing
  
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    Kumbengo
    
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    Birimintingo
    
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  The Blues
  
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    Roots and influences
    
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    Standard blues form: 12-bar blues
    
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  Harlem Renaissance
  
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  Duke Ellington
  
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  William Grant Still
  
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    “Afro-American Symphony”
    
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  Sonata Form (3 main sections)
  
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  Salif Keita
  
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  Bela Bartok
  
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    What did he do for folk music?
    
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  The piano (when invented)
  
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  Klezmer music
  

Chapter 5 Music & Gender

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  Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
  
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  Early rock ‘n’ roll (who dominated)
  
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  Girl groups in the 1960s
  
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  Aretha Franklin
  
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  Balinese gamelan
  
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    Men’s and Women’s (differences)
    
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    Instruments (arranged & tuned)
    
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  Women’s laments
  
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  Habanera from the opera, Carmen
  
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  Richard Wagner
  
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    leitmotives
    
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  Gender confusion in opera
  
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    Castrato
    
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    Pants roles
    
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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
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    Cherubino from Marriage of Figaro
    

Chapter 6 Music & Spirituality

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  Tibetan Buddhist Chant
  
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    Why?
    
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    Harmonic Singing
    
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  “Amazing Grace”
  
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    Lining out
    
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    A cappella
    
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    “Sacred harp”
    
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    Compare 3 recordings
    
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  Music in Early Christian Church: Medieval
  
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    Plainchant
    
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    Gregorian Chant (Pope Gregory I)
    
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    Conjunct
    
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    Melismatic
    
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  Music in the Catholic Church: Renaissance
  
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    Ordinary of the Mass
    
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    5 sections of the Ordinary (Kyrie, etc.)
    
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    Difference between Ordinary & Proper
    
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    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
    
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  Music of the Protestant Reformation
  
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    Martin Luther
    
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    Chorales
    
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  Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
  
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    Oratorio (Passion)
    
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    What does it represent?
    
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  Yoruba of Nigeria
  
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    Drummed music (“speak”)
    
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  Yom Kippur
  
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    Kol Nidre
    
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    Shofar
    
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  Arnold Schoenberg
  
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    Kol Nidre in g minor (was it played as intended?)
    

Chapter 7 Music & Politics

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  National Anthems
  
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    “The Star Spangled Banner”
    
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    “The Southern Cross”
    
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    “La Marseillaise”
    
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    “Nkosi Sikelil’ iAfrika”
    
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  19^th Century Nationalism in Europe
  
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    Nationalism
    
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    Nationalist composers (used?)
    
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    Program music
    
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  Jingju (Beijing Opera)
  
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    What does it include
    
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    Written in?
    
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    4 main character types
    
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  Chinese Opera during Cultural Revolution
  
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    Yang Ban Xi
    
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      What did it consist of
      
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      Revised characters
      
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      Dialects
      
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      The Red Lantern
      
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  Folk music (p. 107)
  
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  Bulgarian Concert Folk Music
  
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    Traits
    
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    How revived
    
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    Professional choirs
    
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  Ludwig van Beethoven
  
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  Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
  
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    Central theme
    
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    Performed in what political contexts
    
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    Final movement uses a setting of what poem
    

Music Appreciation Final Exam Study Guide
Final Exam Question Information:

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  20 listening examples (2 points each—40 total points)
  
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  2 short answer question (10 points each—20 total points)
  
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  40 questions—multiple choice, true and false, matching (1 point each—44 total points)
  
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  Total=100 points
  

Select 25 Listening List: (2 points each—Know Composer and Title)—20 of 25 will be on final exam (40 points total)

Chapters 1-2

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  George Gershwin: Summertime (1)
  

Chapters 3-7

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  Traditional: Nesaza Shirabe
  
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  Judy Garland: Over the Rainbow
  
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  Traditional: Kelefaba/Kuruntu Kelafa
  
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  Ellington: Caravan
  
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  Still: Afro-American Symphony, I
  
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  Bartok: Allegro barbaro
  
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  Redding: Respect
  
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  Bizet: “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (Habanera) from Carmen
  
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  Wagner: Siegfried, Act II, Scene 2
  
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  Mozart: “Non so piu cosa son” from The Marriage of Figaro
  
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  Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Kyrie
  
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  J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, excerpts from Part II
  
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  Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 in D minor, IV (excerpt)
  
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  Moore: Ballad of the Green Berets
  

Chapters 8-13

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  Britten: Agnus Dei from War Requiem
  
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  Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
  
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  Puccini: “Un bel di, vedremo” from Madama Butterfly
  
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  Kern: Act I, Scene 1, from Showboat
  
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  Bernstein: Quintet, finale to Act I from West Side Story
  
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  Stravinsky: The Augers of Spring from The Rite of Spring
  
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  Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo
  
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  Vivaldi: Concerto in E major, Op. 8, “La Primavera” (Spring)”, I
  
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  Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, I
  
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  Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, “The Joke”, IV
  

Short Answer Questions: (20 points total)

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  Select and discuss your favorite composer studied in this course. Describe the composer, the historical period they represent and why they are significant. Be sure to include at least one of their significant works.
  
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  Our study this semester included thirteen chapters. Select your favorite chapter—one that had the most significant impact on you personally. Discuss the specific ways in which the chapter impacted you and be sure to include at least one of the works discussed in the chapter.
  

Chapter 8: Music and War

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  John Philip Sousa (nickname, etc.)
  
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  “Ballad of the Green Berets,” Sadler
  
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  Lowell Mason
  
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  Ghost Dance (Wovoka)
  
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  Music of the Holocaust
  
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  3 composers responses to WWII
  
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    Messiaen: “Liturgie de cristal”
    
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    Britten: Agnus Dei from War Requiem
    
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    Penderecki: Threnody….Hiroshima
    

Chapter 9: Music and Love

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  Medieval French troubadours & trouveres
  
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  Lied
  
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  Franz Schubert
  
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    How many compositions?
    
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    “Gretchen am Spinnrade”
    
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  Opera
  
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    Aria
    
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    Recitative
    
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    Puccini: “Un bel di, vedremo”
    

Chapter 10: Music and Broadway

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  5 characteristics the 3 musical have in common
  
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  Sweeney Todd: the Demon….
  
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    Composer
    
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    Plot
    
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    Characters
    
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  The Black Crook
  
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  Black-face minstrelsy
  
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  George M. Cohan
  
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  Outstanding composers
  
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    Irving Berlin
    
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    Cole Porter
    
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    George Gershwin
    
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  Show Boat
  
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    Jerome Kern
    
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    Hammerstein
    
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    Story
    
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    What does it deal with?
    
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    How was it a new kind of musical theater?
    
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    Musical styles
    
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  Rodgers and Hammerstein (what musicals?)
  
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  West Side Story
  
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    Leonard Bernstein
    
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    Stephen Sondheim
    
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    Updated version of what?
    
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    Quintet, finale to Act I
    

Chapter 11: Music and Film

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  How does music in “Titanic” reflect social levels
  
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  Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds
  
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  Leitmotifs
  
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  John Williams
  
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    The man & the music
    
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  Disney’s full-length animated film musical
  
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  Sound of Music
  
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  Early 19^th century short films—did music add?
  
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    Musical cue sheets
    
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    Improvised music
    
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  The Jazz Singer
  
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  Golden Era of Hollywood Films
  
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    Broadway Melody
    
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    Important stars
    
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  Race films
  
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  Playback singers
  
  • 
    Marni Nixon
    
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    Singin’ in the Rain
    
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  India film industry
  
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  The Lord of the Rings
  
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    Based on
    
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    Howard Shore
    
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    Letimotives (Fellowship motive)
    

Chapter 12: Music and Dance

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  Tango
  
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    Origins
    
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    Bandoneons
    
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    Characteristics
    
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  Astor Piazzolla
  
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  Capoeira: Brazil
  
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    Characteristics (roda)
    
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  Baamaya: Ghana, West Africa
  
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    Characteristics
    
  • 
    Costumes
    
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  European Dance in the Renaissance
  
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    Social skill
    
  • 
    Arbeau: Orchesography
    
  • 
    Branle
    
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  Classical Ballet
  
  • 
    Beginnings
    
  • 
    Combination of?
    
  • 
    Early
    
  • 
    Later
    
  • 
    Mid-19^th century
    
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    Various centers
    
  • 
    Marius Petipa
    
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    Diaghilev (Ballet Russes)
    
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  Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
  
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  Modern Dance
  
  • 
    Isodora Duncan
    
  • 
    Martha Graham
    

Chapter 13: Music and Concert

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  Symphony Orchestra standard program
  
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  Aaron Copland
  
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  Antonio Vivaldi
  
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    “La Primavera” (“Spring”)
    
  • 
    Concerto
    
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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
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  Standard order of the movements of a symphony
  
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  Sonata Form
  
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  Chamber music
  
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  Franz Joseph Haydn (Rondo form)
  

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