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.