Listening to Music
Jeff Lauritzen, Instructor

Listening to Music Assignment Schedule

(Scroll down to find the Concert Schedule)

 

Listening to Music Assignment Schedule

Aug. 12-15      Elements of Music (Part I)                                                    Pages 1-73
                        NOTE: QUIZZES FOR THIS UNIT IS ON YOUR BOOK CD.
                        YOU DO THESE ON YOUR OWN!
                                   Listening to Music
Rhythm
                                    Melody
                                    Harmony
                                    Dynamics and Color
                                    Form
                                    Musical Style

August 19:  Elements of Music quizzes due!

Aug. 19-Sept. 5:  The Middle Ages and Renaissance (Part II)                    Pages 74-107
                                    Medieval Music
Renaissance Music

September 5: Unit Test

Sep. 9-26:        The Baroque (Part III)                                                          Pages 121-192
                                    Introduction to Baroque Art and Music
                                    Early Baroque Vocal Music
                                    Middle Baroque Instrumental Music
                                    The Late Baroque: Bach
Sept. 11:          Bach Video
                                    The Late Baroque: Handel
Sept. 18:          Handel video
           
September 19 and 23:  Les Miserable preview
September 24:  Les Miserables (Broadway musical), Fox Theater, Atlanta.

September 26: Unit Test

Oct. 6-10         Interlude I: The American Musical-II                                  Pages 439-442
                                    The Wizard of Oz

Oct. 21-Nov. 25          The Classical Period (Part IV)                                  Pages 170-249
                                    The Classical Style
                                    Major Classical Composers: Haydn and Mozart
Nov. 3-7          Movie: Amadeus (edited edition)
Classical forms: Ternary and Sonata-Allegro
                                    Classical forms: Theme and Variations, Rondo
                                    Classical Genres: Instrumental Music
                                    Classical Genres: Vocal Music
                                    Beethoven: the Bridge to Romanticism.
                                    Ludwig van Beethoven
Nov.18 :          Beethoven video
November 25:            Unit Test

December 2-12:           Interlude III:  The Nutcracker Ballet and other holiday music
At some point during this time you will attend the Nutcracker Ballet either in Chattanooga or in Atlanta.  If you wish another Atlanta excursion, I will make those arrangements.

Dec. 15:                      Semester Listening Test. (not on reading material)

                                    (End of first semester)

Jan. 6-13                      World Music / Multicultural Music

Jan. 13:                       Unit Test                    

Jan 15- Mar. 19            The Romantic Period (Part V)                                   Pages 250-337
                                    Introduction to Romanticism
Jan. 20:                       Rossini video
                                    The art song
                                                Franz Schubert
                                                Robert Schumann
                                                Clara Wieck Schumann
                                    Program Music
Piano Music
Frederic Chopin
                                                Franz Liszt
Jan. 27            :           Rhapsody Rabbit video
Feb. 3:             Liszt video
                                    Felix Mendelssohn
Feb. 10:           Strauss video
                                    Hector Berlioz
                                    Nationalism in 19th century music         
                                    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
                                    Bedrich Smetana
                                    Antonin Dvorak
                                    Johannes Brahms
Feb. 17            Bizet video
                                    Opera

March 19:                   Unit Test

Mar. 20-31      Interlude IV:  Selected Broadway Musical or Opera

Apr. 2-May 2   Modern and Postmodern Music (Part VI)                Pages 393-512
                                    Musical styles: 1900-1945
                                    Music and musicians in society
Apr. 3:             Sergi Prokofiev video
                                    Impressionism and symbolism
                                    Exoticism
Apr. 7:             Gustav Holst:  The Planets video
                                    Modernism in Music and the Arts
                                    Early Twentieth-Century Modernism
Apr. 14:           Igor Stravinsky video
                                    Russian and Eastern European Modernism
                                    Three American Modernists
Apr. 21:           Aaron Copland video
                                    Postmodernism
           
 Apr. 24-May 1:  Gershwin movie, Rhapsody in Blue (maybe)

APRIL 20:  DEADLINE FOR PROJECTS (FOR FULL CREDIT)                               

May 5  Unit Test

May 7:  FINAL LISTENING TEST

SAU Grades Due May 7!!  All work must be in.

May 8-18:                    Jazz/Rock/Popular Music                                          Pages 418-447
                                    Rock/popular Styles
                                    Rock/popular music in American Society
                                    Survey of rock music
                                    The Beatles

                                    End of second semester

Concert List for Listening to Music

Note: Chattanooga Symphony concerts begin at 8 p.m. at the Tivoli Theater in downtown Chattanooga.
There is a charge for their concerts.
Students with a current school ID card can purchase Rush Tickets for $15 at the box office beginning at 6 p.m. on the night of the concert,
OR you can purchase online for $12 (and pick them up at the student will call window the night of the concert).
One ticket per ID card; you must make the purchase yourself.

Listening to Music Concert List, 2008-2009

Concerts on this list are considered concerts I pick.  More may surface later; check with me before you attend a concert not on this list.

Between now and May, you will attend ten concerts (five each semester). Of those ten, pick AT LEAST:

September 24 (Wed): Les Miserables (Broadway musical) Fox Theater, Atlanta. FIRST LTM FIELD TRIP! $80 includes transportation, theater ticket, and supper at The Old Spaghetti Factory.  Leave CA at 3:15 p.m., arrive back at CA at 12:30 a.m.

September 25, 26 (Thurs/Fri):  Chattanooga Symphony. Beethoven Choral Fantasy and Ninth Symphony.  Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga. $15 student rush.  8 p.m.

October 5 (Sun):  SAU Symphony Orchestra.  Church. 7:30 p.m.  Free

October 11 (Sat):  CA Choirs Evensong.  7 p.m. Church.  Free

October 12 (Sun):  SAU Wind Symphony (Band).  Church.  7:30 p.m.  Free.

October 14 (Tues):  Nathaniel Dett Chorale.  7:30 p.m. Church. Free with SAU/CA ID

October 27 (Mon):  Latin Duo: Calle Sur 7:30 p.m. Ackerman. Free with SAU/CA ID

November 6, 7 (Thurs/Fri):  Chattanooga Symphony.  Grieg: Peer Gynt, R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, Stravinski: Firebird. Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga. $15 student rush.  8 p.m.

November 16 (Sun):  SAU Symphony Orchestra.  Church.  7:30 p.m.  Free

November 25 (Tues) Annie (Broadway musical). Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga. 7:30 p.m.  Price TBA.

December 6, 7 (Sat/Sun):  CA Opus: Lessons and Carols Evensong.  5 p.m. Sat at Church/Sun at Christ Church Episcopal, Chattanooga.  Free.

December 6 (Sat):  SAU Wind Symphony Christmas Concert.  Iles PE Center, SAU.  8 p.m.  Free

December 10 (Wed):  CA Band Concert.  CA Auditorium. 7 p.m.  Free.

December 11 or 18 (Thurs):  Nutcracker Ballet.  Fox Theater, Atlanta.  SECOND LTM FIELD TRIP!  $45 included transportation, supper at The Old Spaghetti Factory, and theater ticket.  Leave CA 3:00, return by midnight.

December 13: (Sat):  SAU School of Music Christmas Concert.  Church. 4 p.m.  Free.

December 14: (Sun):  CA Choirs and Orchestra Christmas Concert.  Church.  7 p.m.  Free

January 15, 16: (Thurs/Fri): Chattanooga Symphony.  Rossini: Barber of Seville; Dohnanyi: Violin Concerto No. 1; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4.  Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga. $15 student rush.  8 p.m.

January 25 (Sun):  SAU Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert.  7:30 p.m.  Church. Free

January 31, February 1 (Sat/Sun)  Hairspray (Broadway musical).  Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga.  7:30 p.m.  Price TBA

February 5, 6 (Thurs/Fri): Chattanooga Symphony.  Copland: Fanfare for the common Man, and Lincoln Portrait; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5.  Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga. $15 student rush.  8 p.m.

February 14 (Sat):  CA Opus, Cathedral Music Evensong. 6 p.m. Church. Free

February 21 (Sat):  Honors Music Festival Concert.  4 p.m. Church. Free

February 26, 28 (Thurs/Sat): OPERA.  Chattanooga Opera.  Puccini: La Boheme. Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga. $15 student rush.  8 p.m.

March 19, 20 (Thurs/Fri):  Chattanooga Symphony.  Brahms Symphony No. 4; Dvorak: Cello Concerto. Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga. $15 student rush.  8 p.m.

March 22 (Sun): SAU Symphony Orchestra.  7:30 p.m.  Church. Free.

March 29 (Sun):  SAU Wind Symphony.  7:30 p.m.  Church.  Free

April 5 (Sun):  I Cantori (SAU select choir) spring concert.  7:30 p.m. Ackerman. Free.

April 6 (Mon):  Otis Murphy, Saxophone.  7:30 p.m. Ackerman.  Free with SAU/CA ID

April 16, 17 (Thurs/Fri):  Bernstein:  On the Town, Candide, West Side Story. Tivoli Theater, Chattanooga. $15 student rush. 8 p.m.

April 18 (Sat):  SAU School of Music presents Handel’s Messiah.  4 p.m. Church.  Free.

April 18 (Sat):  CA Choirs and Orchestra Evensong.  Beethoven: Choral Fantasy. 7:30 p.m.  Church.  Free.

April 21 (Tues):  Japanese Drums: San Jose Taiko. 7:30 p.m. Iles PE Center. Free with SAU/CA ID.

May 12, 13 (Tues/Wed):  CA Choirs Spring Concert.  7 p.m.  Ackerman.  Free.