Music from Sibelius to Schoenberg with the Music Historians, with Jennifer Tejada along for the show, the plan as follows...
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Classroom Observation Plan
(To be completed by the evaluatee prior to the classroom visit)
Course: Music Appreciation - Music 110 Section: 9031
Room: W212 Time of Class: 11:00am-12:20pm Day of Class: MW
Date of visit: 11am, Monday, March 20
Number of students enrolled: 29
Evaluatee: Mark Alburger
Evaluator: Jennifer Tejada
Please attach your course syllabus.
1. State the objective(s) of the class session.
To prepare for the first half of Quiz 9 - 20th-Century Music I (details under item 3. below)
New vocabulary - Whole-Tone Scale / 12-Tone Row
New ensemble - Pierrot Quintet
Music by composers born between 1872-1874 (w/ background on those b. 1865-1871)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Charles Ives
Arnold Schoenberg
(Aural identification of three selected works
+ a cornucopia of possibilities re writing about same)
2. How do you plan to achieve this/these objectives(s)? What teaching methods/activities will you use?
Assignment Blog - Typescript / Photos re all material
Board / Keyboard / Singing re Scale
Book Blog re selected composers / works
Class Participation in wind machine / contrary musics /
generation of a communally-derived tone row
Discussion as arising re all material
Listening to select pieces in audio-video performances, supplemented by projected scores
3. Explain how the context of this session fits into the student learning outcomes for the course.
A. Utilize a basic vocabulary for the appreciation of music.
Vaughan Williams - Exoticism, Nationalism, Modes, Post-Impressionism (review)
Ives - Eclecticism / Polyrhythm / Polytonality (new) / Spatial Music (review)
Schoenberg - Post-Romanticism / Expressionism (review) / Atonality / 12-Tone Music /
Serialism (new)
B. Aurally identify performance media and musical genres.
Performance Media
Vaughan Williams - Opera / Orchestra (review) / Wind Machine (new)
Ives - Chamber Orchestra (review)
Schoenberg - Pierrot Ensemble (new)
Musical Genres
Vaughan Williams - Opera (review)
Ives - Program Music (review)
Schoenberg - Canon / Passacaglia / Song Cycle (review)
C. Aurally identify Western classical music styles and major works from each stylistic period
re 20th-Century (Ia)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Riders to the Sea: Maurya's Aria
(IX. They Are All Gone Now) (1927 / 37)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) - The Unanswered Question (1908)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) - Pierrot Lunaire: IX. Night (Passacaglia) (1912)
D. Discuss the contributions of major composers to Western classical music literature
Discuss works of above three composers re
Rhythm, Pitch, Dynamics, Timbre (Tone-Color), Texture, Harmony, Form, and Context
Compare / Contrast with others of the time - selected from below, perhaps others added...
Jan Sibelius (1865-1957)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
W.C. Handy (1873-1958)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) - The Planets: I. Mars (review)
E. Relate a historical/social perspective to the development and evolution of
Western classical music styles
re Vaughan Williams / Ives / Schoenberg et. al w/r/t
World War I (1914-1918)
Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
Great Depression (1929-1939)
World War II (1939-1945)
F. Relate Western classical music styles to stylistic movements in art and literature
Exoticism, Nationalism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism (review)
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) - Riders to the Sea (1904)
Eclecticism / Transcendentalism (new)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nathanial Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Luisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Henry David Thoreau (1843-1916)
Post-Romanticism / Expressionism (review)
Albert Giraud (1860-1929) - Pierrot Lunaire (1884)
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) - The Scream (1893)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) - The Blue Rider (1903)
G. Compare and contrast Western classical music styles to Western popular music styles and
various non-Western musical traditions
Chinoiserie (review) - Busoni
Anglo-American Folk Music / Ragtime / Blues (review) - Joplin, Vaughan Williams, Handy,
Ives, Holst
Turkish / Islamic Music - Schmitt
Russian Folk Music (review) - Rachmaninoff
Austrian / German Folk Music (review) - Schoenberg
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64th
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of
spring,
high 64 locally and in Pleasant Hill
(62
in
San
Ramon / Pinole), .72 additional precip, for total of 40.20 since July 1...
always with more delights ahead... beginning an orchestration of John Cage's The Perilous Night: VI as Op. 265...
