Rachel Johnston Jessica Hodge Matt McCoy

1. Rachel
Johnston
Jessica
Hodge
Matt
McCoy

2.  “An art of sound in time that expresses ideas
and emotions in significant forms through
the elements of
rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.”
 Expressing emotions through sounds
 Creating a story within a piece
◦ Appalachian Spring

3.  Staff
◦ 5 Lines
◦ Bass or Treble Clef
 Accidentals
◦ Sharps
◦ Flats
 Time Signatures
 Key Signatures
 Rhythm
 Accents
◦ Tenuto
◦ Staccato
◦ Marcato

4.  A sequence of musical notes in ascending
and descending order
 12 Major Scales
◦ Circle of Fifths
 12 Minor Scales
◦ Harmonic
◦ Melodic
◦ Natural

5.  Harmonic set of two or more notes that is
heard as if sounding simultaneously
 Root, Third, Fifth
 Dissonance and Consonance
 Major (B♭ D F)
 Minor (B♭ D♭ F)
 Open Fifth (B♭ F)

6.  Classical Period
 Romantic Period
 Modern Music

7.  1750 to 1830
 Mozart and Beethoven
 Enlightenment inspired
 Structural clarity
 “Easy to remember” melodies
 Sonatas
 Valued simplicity over complexity

8.  1756 – 1791
 Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus
Mozart
 Child prodigy
 Over 600 composed works
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT7_Y1pIBb4

9. 1770-1827
Transitional composer between classical and
romantic
Modulation
Began to lose his hearing by 1800
Composed 38 piano sonatas and 9 symphonies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVW8tgGY_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wod-MudLNPA

10.  1830 to 1900
 More artistic freedom, experimentation and
creativity
 Increased use of dissonance
 Different sounds created more color

11.  Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The
Nutcracker
 Lots of operas and dramatic music
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8At8zfh_o3E

12.  Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich
 Plays with tempo modulation and dissonance
 Often almost uncomfortable to listen to
 Aaron Copland
 Plays with variations on a repetitive melody

13. Heavily influenced by his hatred of Soviet
communism
Rite of Spring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M16zasqydUE&feature=relmfu

14.  Also heavily influenced by his hatred for
communism
 Angry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvTTfbpWjY
 Lamenting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I

15.  Appalachian Spring
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiLTwtuBi-o skip to 1:00