M100: Music Appreciation Discussion Group Ben Tibbetts, T.A. [email protected] Welcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room. Thursday March 7, 2013
Dec 31, 2015
M100: Music Appreciation Discussion Group
Ben Tibbetts, [email protected]
Welcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room.
Thursday March 7, 2013
Today’s Agenda
• Collect Haydn/Mozart homework• Collect Listening Logs #1• Pages 215-223• Pass back stuff
Collect Haydn/Mozart homework
Collect Listening Logs #1
Head’s Up
• Concert Report #1 due next Tuesday• Classical test Thursday• No class March 16-24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791Austrian composer/pianist
Just to warm up…
Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement
This movement’s in sonata-allegro form:• Exposition• Exposition again• Development• Recapitulation—long, in this case
Opera seria – “Italian for ‘serious opera’; Italian Baroque opera on a serious subject, typically consisting of alternating recitatives and da capo arias.”
Opera buffa – “Italian for ‘comic opera’; a genre that uses many of the same conventions as serious opera….but with plots revolving around believable, everyday characters rather than mythical or historical figures.”
~from page 517
music from The Marriage of Figaro
an opera buffa
from the end of the first act
Characters in this scene:
Susanna -maidservant
Count Almaviva –married to the Countess, (but has crush on Susanna)
Basilio –court music teacher
Cherubino –page boy
“Cosa sento” from The Marriage of Figaro
pass back stuff