Monday, September 26, 2016
Music111 D1W5 & D2
Middle Ages
-reading
•passed generation to generation
-then written down
•Roman Catholic church in charge of music
-everyone went to church
-no individualism
-fear based
•protestant was created
•Deism
-sacred music
-developed music
-peasants pay to church and state
•Monophonic
•polyphonic
•homophonic
-Study all of the music
•20 songs from Wentz’s Top 20
•Musical Eras (very important to know)
-Middle Ages
-Renaissance
-Baroque
-Classical
-Romantic
-20th century
-#10 Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah)
•George Frederick Handel
•Based on the Messiah (story of Jesus in the New Testament Bible)
•original lent (Easter) mostly now advent (Christmas)
-Group Projects - hypothetical situation
•Create a civilization
•Dawn of time nomad who want to create a society
-cultural norms
-music
-religion
-how do we make music
-how do other aspects influence the music
•environmental influence
-Our Civilization
•by the ocean
-topical island
•political
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•social
-bunched together
-smoke signals
•signal when lost
-buildings out of banana leaves
-start fires with rubbing sticks
-make boats
•use banana leaves as sails
•got there by crashing a boat
-write on tree bark
•using charcoal
•religious
-praise the monkeys
-tiki carvings
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•cultural
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•music
-fish scales
-monkey screams
-use coconuts with different holes for drums
-pluck fish ribs
-clank on shells
-bang on old ship
-straws to make flutes
-empty bottles with different water levels
•need leaders for each group
-Lecture notes – Wednesday, September 28th
-#9 Symphony No. 9 Ode to Joy
•Ludwig Van Beethoven
-master of instrumentation
•4th and final movement is the most famous
•multi-movement symphony
•European anthem
•Crescendo
-change in volume upward
-has a build up
•subito piano
-suddenly quiet
-#8 Also Sprach Zarathustra
•Also speaks Zarathustra
•Richard Strauss
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-Enjoyment of music
•Practice tests online
•linked on Canvas
•wwnorton.com
•ebook
•Unit one and two are free game for the test on Monday
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-The Middle Ages and Renaissance
•Roman empire fall
-starts middle ages
•Renaissance
-French for “rebirth”
•first born with Greeks
•Music become a social event
-enhances communication
•notation: sounds to paper
•music is commodity
-preserved taught bout sold
-secular
•From antiquity to the Middle of Things
-Mediterranean cultures
•founded western music
-476 beginning of middle ages
•after fall of Roman Empire
-Early middle ages 500-1000
•power from kings
-Later middle ages
•universities founded
•cities emerged
•cathedrals: Notre Dame in Paris
-music center early polyphonic composition
•markets and courts
-feudal society
•later middle ages
-trade routes throughout Europe
•music crucial commodity
-crusades: era of violence
•knights: age of chivalry
•cult of Mary raised status of women
•court (and traveling) minstrels: secular music
-songs about romantic love
-music of vernacular (language of people)
-brought back Arab and Turkish music and instruments
-Music in medieval and renaissance society
•musicians were supported by public institutes and aristocrats
-Voice and Worship
•Life of the medieval Cloister
-monastery
•men
-convent
•women
-Plain Chant
•monophonic
•early church music
•non-metric
•Latin text
•liturgy
•Gregorian chant
•Classes of chant (on test)
-syllabic
•every syllable gets a note
-Neumatic
•Mixture of syllabic and melismatic singing
-Melismatic
•many notes per syllable
•early notation
-neumes
-modes
-Hildegard of Bingen
•First (and one of the only) great females in music history
•wrote tons of music
•prophecies
•science
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