This course fosters the development of aural skills that lead to an understanding of Western music. The musical novice is introduced to the ways in which music is put together and is taught how to listen to a wide variety of musical styles, from Bach and Mozart, to Gregorian chant, to the blues.
Introduction
Introduction to Instruments and Musical Genres
Rhythm: Fundamentals
Rhythm: Jazz, Pop and Classical
Melody: Notes, Scales, Nuts and Bolts
Melody: Mozart and Wagner
Harmony: Chords and How to Build Them
Bass Patterns: Blues and Rock
Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven
Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations
Form: Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations (cont.)
Guest Conductor: Saybrook Youth Orchestra
Fugue: Bach, Bizet and Bernstein
Ostinato Form in the Music of Purcell, Pachelbel, Elton John and Vitamin C
Benedictine Chant and Music in the Sistine Chapel
Baroque Music: The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Mozart and His Operas
Piano Music of Mozart and Beethoven
Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo
The Colossal Symphony: Beethoven, Berliotz, Mahler and Shostakovich
Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet
Modernism and Mahler
Review of Musical Style