Reminders

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Reminders Alerts

• Opera Project information now on webMUH 3212
  - Opera (Video) Project (Spring 2009)Request
  title w/ at least 1-2 alternate
• Orlando Opera Company - Welcome To The OOC! Suor
  Angelica Cavalleria Rusticana(Fri-Sun-Tues
  Thurs dress)
• Listening Quiz next Wednesday- see following
  slides for details

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Listening Quiz 2

• Wednesday, 8 April 09, beginning of class
• Covers most items used in class after Beethoven
  up through piano music
• Same rules as LQ 1- know specific work
  titles (unique to the item)- know composer names
  (spelled properly)
• See following slide for list of possible items-
  NAWM items as marked- additional items on
  YouTube or Classical Music Library (UCF Articles
  Databases)

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• Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 8 in B min,
  Unfinished, 1st mvt
• Felix Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture
• Johannes Brahms, Variations on Theme by Haydn,
  op. 56a
• J Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E min, op. 98, 4th
  mvt-NAWM 132
• Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, 5th
  mvt-NAWM 121
• Franz Liszt, Les Préludes
• Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke, op. 12, nos. 2
  3(NAWM 116a-b) two separate items, know by
  titles
• Clara Schumann, Piano Trio in G min, op. 17, 3rd
  mvt-NAWM 123
• Frédéric Chopin, Mazurka in Bb Maj, op. 7, no.
  1-NAWM 117
• F Chopin, Nocturne in Db Maj, op. 27, no. 2-NAWM
  118
• Nicolò Paganini, Caprices, op. 1, no. 24
• Franz Liszt, Un sospiro-NAWM 119
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Souvenir de Porto
  Rico-NAWM 120

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Bibliography Project(last comments)

• Read Instructions note- required distribution
  of items from sources- limits on types of
  items- required annotations
• Formatting citations see examples on following
  slide or style sheets (APA, Chicago)
• Annotations justify inclusion of this
  particular item for your specific project- see
  rationale on following slides

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Formatting citations

• Every item includes Author, Title, Publication
  info- How can an interested reader FIND the item
  (anywhere)?
• Book Hanning, Barbara Russano. Concise History
  of Western Music, 3rd ed. New York W.W. Norton
  Co, 2006.
• Article (include volume, year, and pages in
  item) Warfield, Scott. The Autograph of
  Strausss Festmarsch, o.Op. 87 (T 157). Richard
  Strauss-Blätter 27 (June 1992) 60-79.
• Book Chapters Warfield, Scott. From Hair to
  Rent Is Rock A Four-Letter Word on Broadway?
  In The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, rev.
  sec. ed. William Everett and Paul Laird, eds.
  Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press,
  2008.
• Variations are possible (and allowed), but BE
  CONSISTENT

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Annotations

• Justifies the value of the item to your project
• Reputation of author (expert on subject, etc.)
• Recent publication, major press, etc.
• Topic of item is direct match to project
• Good review(s) be specific
• Variety (different viewpoint)
• Important study (NGD or other Biblio cites)
• Other reasons?

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The German Art Song

• Das Lied (the song) (plural Die Lieder)
• Settings of poetry for voice piano
• Forms can be- Strophic- Through-composed-
  Modified Strophic
• Piano Accompaniment importantprelude and
  postlude
• Grouped in Song cycles (Lieder cycles)

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Gretchen am Spinnrad, D. 118NAWM 111

• Composed October 1814, publ. as op. 2 (1821)
• First on text by J.W. von Goethe
• Gretchen - character in Faust legend
• Strophic poem set in modified strophic form
• Text painting (obvious!) in piano accomp.
• Key areas for character reflection
• Melodic high points match story highpoints

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Im wunderschönen Monat MaiNAWM 113

• Robert Schumann, Liederjahr (1840)
• Dichterliebe, Op. 48 Song cycle- 16 songs on
  texts from Heinrich Heine- selected and ordered
  by Schumann
• Traces course of love affair
• Strophic form (2 quatrains)
• off-tonic beginning, ambiguous key
• Final sonority (w/ 7th) connects to Song 2

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Opera in the 19th Century

• Distinct national styles reflect regional
  aesthetics- more than just language
• Italy (opera in every town)- opera industry
  creates product efficiently- bel canto
  (beautiful singing)
• France (Paris is center of opera world)- Grand
  opera spectacle - Opéra comique lighter,
  includes spoken dialogue
• Germany (very Romantic style)- emphasis on
  folklore, legends, mythic- Wagner and music
  drama remakes opera