Music Lab students click here!Assignment for Jessie's Music Lab students: Become familiar with all of the selections on this list. There will be several ways you can build your listening into your daily life between now and the exam on April 20: 1. There will be two listening stations available at the MET on Mondays—One CD player and one iPod dock. The iPod dock can accommodate more than one listener at a time, where as the CD player is a solo listening experience. 2. If you bring your iPod to class, you can plug in to my computer and download the Music Lab Listening Playlist, and have it handy at ALL TIMES! 3. There will be a copy of the Music Lab Listening CD’s at the office library on Westminster Street. If you are in the neighborhood, waiting for a meeting or at the office for any reason, you can take some time to listen in the library or you can check out the CD as reference and listen on one of the computers or CD players in the office. Find out whatever information you can about the composers and the music you are listening to. Look up the artists online or in A BOOK or a LIBRARY, (ok, fine—you’ll probably stick to online references…), to find out biographical information, when they were popular, their musical style/influences. For composers like Mozart, Brahms, Britten, Shostakovich, Bernstein and Reich, you should be able to name their period-style, i.e. “classical”, “romantic” “modern”, etc. Bring the information you find to class, either printed out, or recite it out loud. I will collect what you bring and use it on the test. Please take note of the reference you used. I recommend… When seeking out references, I encourage you to look up and listen to other music of an individual composer so that you might familiarize yourself with their musical style in general. YouTube is a good resource for this… Ex) Music for 18 Musicians can be found in performance on YouTube. It’s incredible to watch people execute this music with such precision. It puts a different perspective on the listening experience Please try your best with this list this year. If you do well, you WILL BE REWARDED!!—WITH HEIGHTENED MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE!!—ok, and also with an awesome material gift that you will, no doubt, hold at equal value to your new found brilliance… Click here -Jessie Mongtomery, PSQ Concerts: **Sunday, April 5, 3:00, the Lincoln School Auditorium, 301 Butler Ave, on the East Side: PSQ performs with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Community Orchestra—Jessie and Sebastian play Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, and Jesse and Sara play Brahms Double Concerto. |
