Transcript 2013-03-07

M100: Music Appreciation
Discussion Group
Ben Tibbetts, T.A.
[email protected]
Thursday March 7, 2013
Welcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room.
Today’s Agenda
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Collect Haydn/Mozart homework
Collect Listening Logs #1
Pages 215-223
Pass back stuff
Collect Haydn/Mozart homework
Collect Listening Logs #1
Head’s Up
• Concert Report #1 due next Tuesday
• Classical test Thursday
• No class March 16-24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791
Austrian composer/pianist
Just to warm up…
Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement
This movement’s in sonata-allegro form:
• Exposition
• Exposition again
• Development
• Recapitulation—long, in this case
Opera seria – “Italian for ‘serious opera’; Italian
Baroque opera on a serious subject, typically
consisting of alternating recitatives and da capo
arias.”
Opera buffa – “Italian for ‘comic opera’; a genre that
uses many of the same conventions as serious
opera….but with plots revolving around believable,
everyday characters rather than mythical or
historical figures.”
~from page 517
music from The Marriage of Figaro
an opera buffa
from the end of the first act
Characters in this scene:
Susanna -maidservant
Count Almaviva –married to the Countess,
(but has crush on Susanna)
Basilio –court music teacher
Cherubino –page boy
“Cosa sento” from The Marriage of Figaro
pass back stuff
Final Reminders / Homework
• Concert Report #1 due next class
• Questions? Email: [email protected]