Class #1: Course introduction, musical meaning, elements of music

Lecture slides: 01 intro – C3A

Handout, online discussions: https://drjonesmusic.me/online-discussion-participation/ 

 

Class #2: Melody, texture, dynamics and introduction to the Baroque era

Lecture slides: 02 – melody texture C3A

Handout, syllabus questions: Syllabus questions

In-class worksheet, Vivaldi: 02 Vivaldi worksheet

 

Class #3: Rhythm, harmony and introduction to the Romantic era

Lecture slides:  03 rhythm romantic C3A

Music played in class:

• Béla Bartók, String Quartet No. 4, IV. Allegro pizzicato (1928): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LP5oZyle84
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 in F Major “Pastoral,” Op. 68, IV. Thunder, Storm (1808): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZVdVuskkKU 
• Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in E Major, La Primavera, Op. 8 No. 1 (1725): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsKBLYmwo5U

 

Handout, Course Intro Essay: https://drjonesmusic.me/course-intro-essay-fall-2017/ 

 

Class #4: Instruments, voice types, and introduction to the 20^th century

Lecture slides: 04 instruments

Handout, editing suggestions for the Course Intro Essay: CIE general feedback

Music played in class:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91), Die Zauberflöte, K.620 (1791), “Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpVV9jShEzU
• Georges Bizet (1838-75), Carmen (1875), “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2snTkaD64U
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Rigoletto (1851), “La donna è mobile”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM
• Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, Show Boat (1927), “Ol’ Man River”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s
• Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (1875)
  • I. Morning Mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS7-Gwz1Zio
  • IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsFYKzhk5E
• Claude Debussy, La Mer, I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer. Très lent. [From dawn to midday on the sea. Very slow.] (1905): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlR9rDJMEiQ
• Benjamin Britten, Four Sea Interludes, I. Dawn, Op. 33A (1945): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht9mQE6X0C0
• John Luther Adams, Become Ocean (2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGva1NVWRXk
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Der Erlkönig (1815)
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaBNUzVSnj8
  • Jessye Norman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8noeFpdfWcQ

Class #5: Introduction to musical analysis 1: Lieder and Franz Schubert

Lecture slides: 05 analysis 1 schubert

Handout, in-class listening and writing: 05 in-class analysis handout

Handout, examples of student essays: 05 in-class essay analysis – essays

Piece played in class: Franz Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)

Handout, Student Blog Post assignment prompt: https://drjonesmusic.me/student-blog-post-fall-2017/ 

 

Class #6: Introduction to musical analysis 2: Form

Lecture slides: 06 analysis 2 pop song and opera

Handout, student explanations of musical analysis: 06 Musical analysis definitions

Handout, text of piece played in class: 06 text – Reznor

Handout, how to submit your Course Intro Essay paragraph: CIE how to post

• See also the Course Intro Essay info page, with all handouts, prompts, and rubrics for this assignment: https://drjonesmusic.me/course-intro-essay-fall-2017/

Handout, midterm review: Fall 2017 midterm review

• See also the exam prep page on the class website: https://drjonesmusic.me/exam-review/

 

Music played in class:

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Trepak” from The Nutcracker (1892):

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K.527 (1787): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp11bweiOA8

The other pieces played in class are examples of pop music and are readily available on YoutTube, Spotify, Pandora, etc:

• Jackson 5, “I Want you Back” (1969)
• Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe” (2012)
• Journey, “Any Way You Want It” (1981)
• Murphy Lee, “What the Hook Gon’ Be” (2003)
• Nine Inch Nails, “Hurt” (1996)
• Johnny Cash, “Hurt” (2002)

Class #7: Richard Wagner

Lecture slides: 07 wagner

Handout, Wagner’s writings: 07 Wagner writings

Handout, Liebestod text and translation: 07 Liebestod text

Music played in class:

• Richard Wagner, Prelude to Lohengrin, Act III (1850)

• Wagner, “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde (1865)

 

Class #8: Musical celebrations in the Baroque period

Lecture slides: 08 baroque celebrations

Handout, Wagner follow-up: 08 Wagner follow-up

Music played in class:

• Jean-Baptiste Lully, Gavotte from Atys (1676)
  • Ballet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9b6ldKKqu0
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (1721): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSRIDtwsfM
• Georg Philipp Telemann, Tafelmusik (1733)

• Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (1689)
  • “Come Away, Fellow Sailors”

 

 

• • “When I Am Laid in Earth”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeB4cpRq16M

 

Class #9: The Enlightenment and the string quartet

Lecture slides: 09 Classical

Handout, Johann Sebastian Bach’s contract with the town of Leipzig:  bach-duties-in-leipzig

Handout, Enlightenment excerpts: 09 enlightenment writing

In-class reading, blog/analysis example: http://www.alicehjones.com/thoughts/pop-music-romance-and-the-male-ego

Music played in class:

• Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1, Fugue No. 2 in C minor: 
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545, I. Allegro: 
  • Visual depiction of harmony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5O1LuItrs
• Joseph Haydn, String Quartet Op. 76, No. 3, “The Emperor,” I. Allegro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHJolteDIzc&t=140s

Class #10: The symphony

Lecture slides: 10 symphonies

Handout, a composer’s view of the symphony: Puts 2013 Why Write Symphonies_ _ Deceptive Cadence _ NPR

• Online version: https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2013/08/05/208280751/a-pulitzer-winner-asks-why-write-symphonies

Handout, how to submit your SBP: https://drjonesmusic.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/sbp-how-to-post.pdf

Music played in class:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545, I. Allegro: 
• Mozart, Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201, I. Allegro moderato:
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major “Eroica,” I. Allegro con brio: 
• Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, I. Allegro con brio: 
• Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F Major, I. Allegro: 
• Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F Major, II. Andante: 
• Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 46 in B Major, III. Menuet: 
• Emilie Mayer, Symphony No. 7 in F minor, IV. Allegro vivace: 

Video played in class, minuet dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yurw5Cf4HY

 

Class #11: The Black experience in America

Lecture slides: 11 Black experience

Handout, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, A General History of Music, Volume I (1788-1801): 11 Forkel

Handout, texts of recordings made by Alan Lomax: 11 Lomax texts, 11 Early in the Mornin

Handout, Robert Johnson, Cross Road Blues text: 11 Robert Johnson, Cross Roads Blues

Handout, Langston Hughes, “I, Too, Sing America”: 11 I, Too by Langston Hughes _ Poetry Foundation

Handout, Dead Prez, Hell Yeah text: 11 Dead Prez – Hell Yeah

Music played in class:

• “No more, my lord” (recorded 1947-48) 
• “Rosie” (recorded 1047-48) 
• “Early in the mornin'” (recorded 1947-48) 
• Robert Johnson, Cross Roads Blues, take 1 
• Robert Johnson, Cross Roads Blues, take 2 
• Cream, Crossroads 
• Duke Ellington, Cotton Club Stomp (1929) 
• Paul Whiteman, Dardanella (1928) 
• William Grant Still, Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major “Afro-American”, I. Moderato 
• Dead Prez, Hell Yeah (2003) 

 

Class #12: Impressionism and Expressionism

Lecture slides: 12 impressionism expressionism

Handout, music and identity follow-up: 12 Music and identity follow-up

Handout, Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire text and translation: 12 pierrot texts

In-class project, creating an opera: 12 in class writing – creative opera

Music played in class:

• Claude Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894): 
• Debusy, La mer (1905)
  • I. From dawn to noon on the sea: 
  • II. Play of the waves: 
• Maurice Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe (1912): 
• Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire (1912)
  • Movements 1 and 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6JCGB2kxI
  • Movement 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhwy3mk5jhY

 

Class #13: Minimalism

Lecture slides: 13 minimalism

Handout, texts of music played in class: 13 minimalism texts

Music played in class:

• Johannes Brahms, String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2 (1873) 
• Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 2 “Company”, I. (1983) 
• Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 5, III. (1991) 
• Anton Webern, String Quartet, Op. 28 (1937-38) 
• Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk
• Meredith Monk interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R36Vh37-OQ4
• Steve Reich, Clapping Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1y_oWgIkgE
• Steve Reich, Drumming, part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2swfLur5WQ
• Frederic Rzewski, Coming Together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSwxZVxtjs

 

Class #14: Experimentation and virtuosity

Lecture slides: 14 experimentation and virtuosity

Handout, Mu 101’s working definition of music: 14 definition of music follow-up

Handout, historical definitions of music: What is music

Music played in class: George Crumb, Black Angels (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11o8nHk-l_o&t=1075s