Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' title='Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' />MUSI 1. Lecture 1. Chapter 1. Introduction to Listening to Music 0. Professor Craig Wright Okay. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Craig Wright and this is Listening to Music, the most basic course that the Department of Music has to offer. Its aim is to teach you how to listen to music. Wait a minute, you say. Thats preposterous. I listen to music all the time. Ive got, what, my i. Pod, Im downloading mp. Ive got my car What do we call those things in the automobile where you Is it a DAT tape that you can take your i. The Quartet in A minor, Op. Ludwig van Beethoven, was written in 1825, given its public premiere on November 6 of that year by the Schuppanzigh Quartet and. Maestro Zubin Mehta, who has served with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for the past 47 years, will complete 50 years of working with the orchestra. MIDI files of the composers less famous compositions. Misc. Notes These files are part of the Orchestra Parts Project. Because the original instrumentation calls for alto trombone, optional changes have been made to the. Pod and plug it in to the your the stereo system in your car Ive got that. I listen to music in my dorm room off my computer, in the bookstore, wherever. I bet I listen to a lot more music than you do, you old goat. And youre right. The String Quartet No. B major, op. 130, by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in November 1825. The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the. You probably do. But what kind of music are you listening to Well, probably pop music and thats fine thats okay, fair enough, pop music. But are you getting the most out of this particular experience Are you getting the most out of your listening experience I contend that perhaps you are not, that you are not maximizing the time, using that time most profitably. How do I know thisLooking for characters from ScoobyDoo Mystery Incorporated, Be Cool, ScoobyDoo or the DirecttoVideo series Visit their character pages here, here and. Lecture 1 Introduction Overview. Professor Wright introduces the course by suggesting that listening to music is not simply a passive activity one can use to. What makes me think that you are not getting as much as you possibly can out of your music Well, experience, to some degree, but also an experiment that I did just last weekend. Vista Spyder 344 Price Software. I have four children. The last of the four has now turned seventeen so I said last weekend hes always with the i. Pod on Chris, what are you listening to Go away. Youre bothering me. Okay. Youre ruining my life again. So laughter Well now, come on. Let me listen to this. Let me listen to it. What are you listening to So I listened to it and I said, All right. Here, you listen to this and tell me what youre hearing. And what did what was he tracking He was tracking the text he was tracking the beat of the piece. I asked him, Well, whats the mode of the piece Whats the meter of the piece Whats the bass doing Can you follow the bass line there Can you identify any chords in this particular piece Nothing. Zero. And this from a reasonably sophisticated kid whos had twelve years of serious cello lessons, and that brings up, I suppose, a point that although I dont know much about your music I think I can teach you a great deal about your music by using the paradigms of classical music. R/dqz6p8da.png' alt='Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' title='Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' />So Im going to tell you a lot about classical music in here Mozart, Bach, Beethoven. It will be the locus of our course. How many of you already listen to classical music Raise your hand. Okay. Great. A lot of you and thats wonderful. Id be interested to know, gentleman down here, how do you do thisIs it streaming off of your computer Are you downloading mp. How Tell me. How do you do it Student I just go to You. Tube. Professor Craig Wright You go to You. Tube. All right. Very interesting. I should have known that but I didnt. You go to You. Tube and you listen there. Anybody else do it a different way Yes Student On the radio. Professor Craig Wright On the radio. Okay. Thats interesting. Well come back to that point. Anything else, anybody Yes Student My parents CDs or records. Professor Craig Wright Okay. Your parents CDs or records. Thats wonderful. They have sort of the old technology here but some of those old recordings might be very, very good. Chapter 2. Why Listen to Classical Music Now here is a question for you. Why would we want to listen to classical music Why do why who just answered a question for me, those folks who raised your handWhat gentleman here again. Ill youre my sacrificial lamb this morning. Why do you like to listen and why would you want to listen to classical music Student It relaxes me. Professor Craig Wright Okay. Very interesting. National Public Radio asked exactly this question in a survey a year or so ago and they got the following principal responses back. Why do people listen to classical music One, it helps them relax and relieve stress, so this is perhaps the principal reason. Two, it helps us center the mind, allowing the listener to concentrate. Three, classical music provides a vision of a better world, a refuge of beauty, of majesty, perhaps of even of love and sometimes, at least for me personally, it suggests that there might be something out there, God or whatever, bigger than ourselves, and it asks us to think sometimes, think about things. Thats what I think these great fine arts do, great literature, poetry, painting, music. They show what human beings can be, the capacity of the human spirit. They suggest to us as indicated maybe there is something, a larger spirit out there than ourselves, and they get us to think. They get me to think frequently about what Im doing on this earth. What are you doing on this earth Dont answer that. What am I doing on this earth with regard to this particular courseWhat am I trying to accomplish in here Well, maybe two things. One, change your personality. I want to make you a richer person, a broader person, by instilling you with an unending deep and abiding understanding of classical music, so thats part of this, and not just here for Yale but for your life after Yale. I would hope that how you lead your life ten years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years from now, would have been significantly influenced by this particular experience in this course. And secondly, if Im successful in my teaching I will accomplish this second aim here. I will impart to you a love of classical music. You, through, later on after Yale, your attendance at concerts, buying of one fashion or another, downloading mp. Tunes or whatever it happens to be, maybe being members of your local symphony board, opera company, something like that, maybe giving music lessons to your children, you will become the purveyors of classical music thereafter. You, the intelligentsia of the next generation, will be those that preserve this great treasure of Western culture and it is a great treasure of Western culture. Okay. How are we going to do all of this How are we going to accomplish these two things on our list of agenda here What are the mechanics of the course Did you all get a syllabus Everybodys got a syllabusThe first three or four weeks or so well be following the elements of music rhythm, melody and harmony and then a test. Next we will deal with whats the arguably the single most important thing when we listen to any piece of music and that is its musical form. Here is a question for you. I was thinking about this the other day as I was preparing the lecture for today. Whats the most common type of musical form in pop music When you listen to pop music do you ever think about the form of the musicCan anybody name a form of pop music, any one form Well, maybe verse and chorus Think about that. That shows up in a lot of stuff and well come back to that. Well talk about verse and chorus when we get to the issue of form. And then toward the end of the course we will turn to the question of musical style. How does a piece of pop music differ from a piece of classical musicWe sort of all know this intuitively but can we articulate why This particular difference about musical style was driven home to me the other day. It was last Friday. I was walking across the campus maybe you saw this too, corner of Elm and College. String Quartet No. BeethovenThe String Quartet No. B major, op. 1. 30, by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in November 1. The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the order of its publication it is actually Beethovens 1. It was premiered in March 1. Schuppanzigh Quartet and dedicated to Nikolai Galitzin on its publication in 1. MovementseditIts original form consisted of six movements totaling approximately 5. Adagio, ma non troppo  Allegro in B flat major. Presto in B flat minor. Andante con moto, ma non troppo. Poco scherzoso in D flat major. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai in G major. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo in E flat major. Groe Fuge Grande Fugue Op. Ouverture. Allegro  Meno mosso e moderato  Allegretto  Fuga. Allegro  Meno mosso e moderato  Allegro molto e con brio  Allegro in B flat major. Nomenclature danza tedesca means German dance, Cavatina a short and simple song, and Groe Fuge means Great Fugue or Grand Fugue. The work is unusual among quartets in having six movements. They follow the pattern of movements seen in the Ninth Symphony and occasionally elsewhere in Beethovens work opening, dance movement, slow movement, finale, except that the middle part of the cycle is repeated opening, dance movement, slow movement, dance movement, slow movement, finale. Final movementeditAfter the works first performance, mixed reactions and his publishers suggestion convinced Beethoven to substitute a different final movement, one much shorter and lighter than the enormous Groe Fuge. This new finale was written between September and November 1. Beethoven completed before his death. Serial Number Net Support School Tutorial'>Serial Number Net Support School Tutorial. This movement is marked 6. Finale Allegro in B flat major. Beethoven never witnessed a performance of the quartet in its final form it was premiered on 2. April, 1. 82. 7, almost a month after his death. The original finale was published separately under the title Groe Fuge as opus 1. Modern performances sometimes follow the composers original intentions, leaving out the substitute finale and concluding with the fugue. Beethoven composed several fugues in his later years others can be found in the final movements of the Hammerklavier Sonata, the Ninth Symphony, the Fifth Cello Sonata and the Piano Sonata No. In mediaeditThe Cavatina performed by the Budapest String Quartet is the final piece on the Voyager Golden Record, a phonograph record containing a broad sample of Earths sounds, languages, and music sent into outer space in 1. Voyager probes. 3 It immediately follows after the gospel blues song Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson, a blind and a deaf musician side by side. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2. Voyager 2 is expected to do so around 2. The Cavatina also appears in Love and War, an episode from the sixth season of MAH, in the background as Hawkeye has dinner with an aristocratic Korean woman. 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