Lecture 9 -- Wednesday, October 5, 2011 ⢠Happy ...
Lecture 9 -- Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Happy birthday o Meter: triple o Accent falls on main beat most of the time Polyphonic – many sounds If many songs work together = quodlibet or partner song o 2 or more songs that are performed together o Things that only have 5 notes tend to fit o With 5 tones called pentatonic o Quodlibet can be accomplished as long as the songs are pentatonic and the songs are in the same key One of the pieces on the Italian concert we heard was a piece by Verdi o Giuseppe Verdi in Italian means Joe Green in English :-) o Verdi was a very popular composer in Italy in the 19th century, when Italy was in political turmoil o Giuseppe Verdi birthday: October 10, 1809 o Politically, his name became a slogan “Viva Verdi” = slogan Royalists that wanted to give their support for the king Each letter became a word: V E R D I V: Vittorio E: Emanuele R: Re D: D’ I: Italia Means: long live the king Vittorio Emanuele of Italy Viola – bigger than a violin (has more wood) o Viola has 4 strings that tune: C G D A o Violin has 4 strings with a 5th higher: G D A E Tema con Variationi – theme with variation Minuet – meter: triple Polonaise – meter: triple; 3-4 time Tune of song heard in class: o Twinkle twinkle little star o Bah bah black sheep o Mozart’s arrangement: French folk song o Meter: 4-4 time; duple o Disjunct versus conjunct Scale Word borrowed from Italian (La Scala – the ladder) Ladder has steps on it; when you have scales you go by individual rungs of the ladder o Many variations in the melody – when the tempo picks up Each one has a lot more notes One of the ways of varying a melody is to make more notes It still comes in the original notes but has a lot of filigree around it Complex as far as a meter goes: not divisible by 2 or 3 o Example: 5
Mozart’s version of “Ah, vous,dirais jo, maman” (twinkle twinkle..) o Instruments: piano o Polyphonic: melody and piano o After a while becomes contrapuntal o Repetition and contrast The theme comes in every time but have to listen hard for it under the filigree Contrast comes in with the variations in the notes however has the same underlying melody Second song listened to – Johan Pachelbel “Cannon” (chaconne): o 8 notes played on the bass line o Bass line theme Accompaniment is a scale coming down on another instrument (i.e. organ) o Homophonic One instrument Then many instruments come in and they are still in the same rhythm so they are still considered homophonic o Gets more and more complex as the song goes Textures begin to interweave o Stays simple duple the whole time Contrapuntal: example with clapping the hands in the class o Compound – duple with triplet underneath the beat o Simple and compound duple going at the same time Mozart’s horn o No valves o If wanted a different notes you use different lengths of crooks which were additional loops of tubing stuck in at mouthpiece end If you change the lengths, you change the frequency (pitch) Fipple flute o Edge-vibrated aerophone recorder-like slide whistle o As you lengthen the air column with the stopper, the frequency decreases (pitch goes down) Like the alp horn Piano horn (another plastic Dollar Store item) o When you push the keys it's like a reed and it changes the tone Baby rattlers -- shakers, maracas o Idiophone Whistle o Fipple aerophone o Gets a rattily sound from ball inside Finger symbols o Idiophone Comb and paper o Buzzy sound o Mirliton or kazoo o Membrano-aerophone -- another example of a hybrid classification
Happy birthday o Meter: triple o Accent falls on main beat most of the time Polyphonic – many sounds If many songs work together = quodlibet or partner song o 2 or more songs that are performed together o Things that only have 5 notes tend to fit o With 5 tones called pentatonic o Quodlibet can be accomplished as long as the songs are pentatonic and the songs are in the same key One of the pieces on the Italian concert we heard was a piece by Verdi o Giuseppe Verdi in Italian means Joe Green in English :-) o Verdi was a very popular composer in Italy in the 19th century, when Italy was in political turmoil o Giuseppe Verdi birthday: October 10, 1809 o Politically, his name became a slogan “Viva Verdi” = slogan Royalists that wanted to give their support for the king Each letter became a word: V E R D I V: Vittorio E: Emanuele R: Re D: D’ I: Italia Means: long live the king Vittorio Emanuele of Italy Viola – bigger than a violin (has more wood) o Viola has 4 strings that tune: C G D A o Violin has 4 strings with a 5th higher: G D A E Tema con Variationi – theme with variation Minuet – meter: triple Polonaise – meter: triple; 3-4 time Tune of song heard in class: o Twinkle twinkle little star o Bah bah black sheep o Mozart’s arrangement: French folk song o Meter: 4-4 time; duple o Disjunct versus conjunct Scale Word borrowed from Italian (La Scala – the ladder) Ladder has steps on it; when you have scales you go by individual rungs of the ladder o Many variations in the melody – when the tempo picks up Each one has a lot more notes One of the ways of varying a melody is to make more notes It still comes in the original notes but has a lot of filigree around it Complex as far as a meter goes: not divisible by 2 or 3 o Example: 5
Mozart’s version of “Ah, vous,dirais jo, maman” (twinkle twinkle..) o Instruments: piano o Polyphonic: melody and piano o After a while becomes contrapuntal o Repetition and contrast The theme comes in every time but have to listen hard for it under the filigree Contrast comes in with the variations in the notes however has the same underlying melody Second song listened to – Johan Pachelbel “Cannon” (chaconne): o 8 notes played on the bass line o Bass line theme Accompaniment is a scale coming down on another instrument (i.e. organ) o Homophonic One instrument Then many instruments come in and they are still in the same rhythm so they are still considered homophonic o Gets more and more complex as the song goes Textures begin to interweave o Stays simple duple the whole time Contrapuntal: example with clapping the hands in the class o Compound – duple with triplet underneath the beat o Simple and compound duple going at the same time Mozart’s horn o No valves o If wanted a different notes you use different lengths of crooks which were additional loops of tubing stuck in at mouthpiece end If you change the lengths, you change the frequency (pitch) Fipple flute o Edge-vibrated aerophone recorder-like slide whistle o As you lengthen the air column with the stopper, the frequency decreases (pitch goes down) Like the alp horn Piano horn (another plastic Dollar Store item) o When you push the keys it's like a reed and it changes the tone Baby rattlers -- shakers, maracas o Idiophone Whistle o Fipple aerophone o Gets a rattily sound from ball inside Finger symbols o Idiophone Comb and paper o Buzzy sound o Mirliton or kazoo o Membrano-aerophone -- another example of a hybrid classification
