Maestro Music: Musical Pictures
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The document discusses Leonard Bernstein's overture to the operetta "Candide", which was based on a 1759 novel by Voltaire. While the operetta itself was not successful, the overture became instantly popular. It is considered Bernstein's most famous orchestral work. The document examines two musical techniques, syncopation and hemiola, used prominently in the overture and provides a listening guide to analyze the structure and characteristics of the different sections.
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Classic Combo Plate
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Music Selection parameters
Column A Classic era composers are limited to the big three we have covered already this term:
Franz Joseph Haydn b. 1732
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. 1756
Ludwig van Beethoven b. 1770
Choose just one movement of one piece by one of these "big three" composers.
Column B classic era composers are listed at the page linked below. Scroll to find the birth years you need for a match.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Classical-era_composers#Middle_Classical_era_composers_(born_1730%E2%80%931750)
Choose just one movement of one piece by one of the other classic era composers that you find at this page.
Reply post:
After completing your main post,
make an interactive reply post to another student's main post.
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Classic Combo PlateDirectionsBefore there were all th.docx
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Directions:
Before there were all the cart options, I remember going to the cafes near campus that offered combo menus. For a reasonable price, the menu usually had two lists of items and you would choose one from column A and one from column B for a very satisfying lunch.
For our musical version of the combo plate, you are asked to select one composer from column A (just the big three) and one composer from column B (a very long Wikipedia page with composers listed by birth year)
Both composers must share the same, or nearly the same, birth year
. The latitude for this is no more than + or - 10 years. We want to place both of them solidly within the Classic era and also within roughly the same generation.
Find one movement of a piece of music by each. that is a total of two tracks for this assignment. Include a link to that specific movement of each piece so that readers of your post can quickly click it to listen. You may use Naxos (a bit easier to pinpoint the exact movement in a longer piece) or YouTube but you are responsible for providing the accurate url. Please be careful in YouTube that your music link takes your reader to exactly the movement you write about.
For each of these two tracks provides clearly the full title of each piece and the exact movement title or number if these are from multi-movement works.
Provide background information on both of the movements of music you have selected and some bio information on the lesser known composer from "column B". Include musical observations
based on your own listening
as you compare the two tracks. You may find it easier to make a targeted comparison if you select works of a similar genre (for instance, the first movement of a piano sonata by each composer, or the slow movement of a symphony by each, or the minuet movement of a string quartet, or a soprano aria from an opera by each......)
Interesting "fun facts" might include: did the two ever meet? Where did they live, did they study with the same teacher? Were they both performers as well as composers? Did each have a patron?
Music Selection parameters
Column A Classic era composers are limited to the big three we have covered already this term:
Franz Joseph Haydn b. 1732
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. 1756
Ludwig van Beethoven b. 1770
Choose just one movement of one piece by one of these "big three" composers.
Column B classic era composers are listed at the page linked below. Scroll to find the birth years you need for a match.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Classical-era_composers#Middle_Classical_era_composers_(born_1730%E2%80%931750)
Choose just one movement of one piece by one of the other classic era composers that you find at this page.
Reply post:
After completing your main post,
make an interactive reply post to another student's main post.
An interactive reply post shows you've listened to the music they wrote about (supply track timings for your musical obse.
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- 2. Bernstein Overture to ‘Candide’ Leonard
- 3. EXPLORE ‘ Candide’ is an operetta (a light, comic opera) premiered in 1956 based on a novel by Voltaire from 1759
- 4. EXPLORE ‘ Candide’ is an operetta (a light, comic opera) premiered in 1956 based on a novel by Voltaire from 1759 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) wrote the music and whilst the show was a flop, the overture was an instant success
- 5. EXPLORE ‘ Candide’ is an operetta (a light, comic opera) premiered in 1956 based on a novel by Voltaire from 1759 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) wrote the music and whilst the show was a flop, the overture was an instant success It is Bernstein’s most popular orchestral work
- 6. EXPLORE ‘ Candide’ is an operetta (a light, comic opera) premiered in 1956 based on a novel by Voltaire from 1759 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) wrote the music and whilst the show was a flop, the overture was an instant success It is Bernstein’s most popular orchestral work He was a conductor as well as a composer and conducted some of the world’s greatest orchestras
- 7. Listen to Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic on this recording of the Overture to ‘Candide’: click here EXPERIENCE
- 8. Listen to Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic on this recording of the Overture to ‘Candide’: click here EXPERIENCE Listen again to the beginning of the overture and you will hear two musical effects that feature prominently throughout the piece.
- 9. SYNCOPATION In this example you can see how Bernstein has moved the strong beat of the bar in the bass line parts to the last beat of the bar and tied the note across the bar line creating a very jazzy feel. This sets the character for the whole piece: Bar 10, six seconds in
- 10. HEMIOLA Bernstein uses this rhythmic device a lot to make the music sound as if it has changed from triple time to duple time. It happens very quickly as in the example below so be careful not to miss it! Bar 25, twenty seconds in You can see and hear how the syncopation from the beginning continues throughout this section.
- 11. RESPOND What is an Overture?
- 12. RESPOND What is an Overture? The music of four songs is used in the overture. Let’s call them A, B, C and D – listen again and write down the structure.
- 13. RESPOND What is an Overture? The music of four songs is used in the overture. Let’s call them A, B, C and D – listen again and write down the structure. Which musical form is this structure?
- 14. RESPOND What is an Overture? The music of four songs is used in the overture. Let’s call them A, B, C and D – listen again and write down the structure. Which musical form is this structure? Compare sections A and B – they are opposite in character. Which two words could you use to describe their characters?
- 15. RESPOND What is an Overture? The music of four songs is used in the overture. Let’s call them A, B, C and D – listen again and write down the structure. Which musical form is this structure? Compare sections A and B – they are opposite in character. Which two words could you use to describe their characters? Section B has two time signatures which alternate every other bar – what are they?
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