Monday, March 14, 2011

Junior High Trimester 3 assignment 2

Assignment: Listen to the following pieces and list which instruments are used for each piece. Also, be prepared for a quiz.

Due:March 22

Eine Kleine Nachmusik


Piano Concerto No. 21


Requiem Mass


Aria from the opera "The Magic Flute"

Monday, March 7, 2011

High School Trimester 3 Assignment 2

Assignment: Listen to the following pieces. For the Rondos, give the musical structure (eg. "ABABA"). For the Themes and Variations, explain how each variation differs. (eg. Variation 2: slower, different instruments, different rhythm)

Due: March 21st

1. Variations on a Theme by Paganini by Johannes Brahms


2. Variations on a theme from Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" by Beethoven

Part 2:


3.Rondo from "Eine Kleine Nacht Musik" by Mozart


4.Rondeau from "Sinfonie de Fanfares" by Jean-Joseph Mouret

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Music test





A marvelous piece. Thirty-six voice canonic variation on the text "Deo gratias".

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

High School Music Listening List

Music Appreciation Listening List 2010-2011

Beethoven:
5th Symphony movement 1
6th Symphony movement 1
9th Symphony movement 2
Piano Sonata “Pathetique”

Chopin:
Nocturne in C sharp minor
Nocturne in E flat major
Funeral March

Prokofiev:
Peter and the Wolf
“Dance of the Knights” from Romeo and Juliet

Ralph Vaughan Williams:
The Lark in Flight
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Benjamin Britten:
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Ceremony of Carols

Rachmaninoff:
Piano concerto 3
Rhapsodie on a Theme by Paganini

Schubert:
Piano Sonata in A

Liszt:
Hungarian Rhapsody

Schumann:
Der Tod und das Madchen
Traumerei

Brahms:
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Lullaby

Grieg:
In the Hall of the Mountain King

Dvorak:
New World Symphony 2nd Movement-Largo
Saints-Saens:
Carnival of the Animals-the elephant
Carnival of the Animals-the swan
Carnival of the Animals-the Kangaroo

Hayden:
Emperor’s String Quartet

Bach:
Tocatta and Fugue in D minor
Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 and 5

Mozart:
Marriage of Figaro Overture
La Donna e Mobile
Requiem
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik

Tchaikovsky:
5th Symphony movement 1 and 3
Swan Lake Overture
1812 Overture Finale

Sibelius:
Finlandia

Felix Mendelssohn:
Songs without Words No. 2 in A minor
Fingal’s Overture
Midsummer Night’s Dream overture

Wagner:
Flight of the Valkyries
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

Handel:
Water Music
Music for the Royal Fireworks

Purcell:
Be Welcome Then Great Sir
If Music Be the Food of Love
Hear My Prayer O Lord

Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons
Corelli:
Christmas Concerto

Telemann:
Flute Sonata Canonic Sonatas

Gustav Holst:
The Planets-Jupiter