MUSI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Western Canon, Richard Strauss
25 May 2016
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Office hours: loeb a 902 on thursdays, 11:00am-1:00pm. Use listening guide to study for listening tests. Identify stylistic features, genre/form, and provide historical context. Identify instrumentation a) b) c: describe the texture. Often referred to as high art music or learned music. Often regarded as old music, written by dead white men, however . Primarily instrumental with meaning communicated through musical sounds and gestures. Can be long and contain many different moods. A genre, or type, of music for orchestra, divided into several pieces called movements . Typically, classical symphonies have 4 movements, tempos: fast, slow, moderate, and fast. Each movement has its own tempo and mood. Aside from symphonies, it also plays concertos, overtures, and dance suites. A short, distinctive musical figure that can stand by itself. A short unit (in biology it is like an amino acid!) A genre of music in which there are soloists playing against the full orchestra to demonstrate competition and virtuosity.
