MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vibrato, Active Listening, Plainsong
16 Nov 2014
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Active listening: must practice active listening, must have good concentration, must be willing to listen to the piece more than once. Instrumentation: major key (happy) or minor key (sad) Th symphony: main four-note theme, staccato short. Legato smooth: crescendo () getting quieter. 1912 (modern era: composed by arnold schoenberg, atonal not in a key, dissonance / atonal, pizzicato short notes on strings, polyphonic, wide range. 1461 (early renaissance: composed by johannes ockeghem, mass for the dead (agnus dei section, example of plain chant / gregorian chant, modal, monophonic. Low pitch: slow / moderate, conjunct, acupela all vocal. 1996 (postmodern era: composed by bang on a can (new york based group, syncopation used mostly in jazz, crescendo in the beginning, staccato, the cello was legato, disjunct, sax vibrato. 1936 1839 (romantic era: composed by fryderyk chopin, slow tempo, e minor key, pianissimo (pp, gradual crescendo, use of accents, change of tempo, homophonic, conjunct.
