| Class 3 | UR: Thursday, February 14 at 6:05 (= "Class 5/6") |
Class Notes for Session 3
Website News
Most of you know that I've been having a serious problem with our website since Wednesday. Happily I think things are getting pretty stable, so we can remove the emergency photo of a dog on a computer.
Assignments 1-4 and the Texture Practice should all be functional, now.
The profile page is back as well, so you can look and verify that you've got all of your homework grades. (They should all be there - I don't think this problem actually affected our data, just the code that accesses it.)
I'm sure there are things I've overlooked. If you find an error please email me.
Homework #2: The Three Textures
Web Homework No. 2 asks you to listen to some musical clips and determine whether they are monophonic, polyphonic, or homophonic. Remember that we also have an Extra Practice Assignment that is not graded and can be done multiple times.
This exercise is now due before Class 4 (Feb 21).
Homework #3: Palestrina
This assignment takes a piece that I used to discuss in class and throws it online. First, read our web unit on Palestrina and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Then, you can open homework exercise number three and answer ten questions about this material.
The questions follow the sequence of the discussion pretty closely, so I would recommend opening each link in its own tab and flipping back and forth, answering the questions as you read.
This one is due before Class 4 (Thurs, Feb 21).
Homework #4: Quiz One Preview
The quiz one preview assignment gives you a randomized selection of fifteen real questions that may appear on the test. It can't do everything we do on the real thing - there are no fill-in-the-blanks and no "mystery" track, but other than that it should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.
It is due before the quiz (Thurs, Feb 21).
Our first quiz date
Our first quiz comes up kind of quickly - it will be here on Thursday, Feb 21 (= Class 4). It will cover the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Our study guide and complete class notes are now up on our documents page, and let me put the playlists here for your convenience:
Medieval Unit: YouTube / Spotify / Apple Music
Youtube Playlist for Phones (Medieval + Renaissance)
If you are keeping up in the textbook you could read pp. 68-81 in the eighth edition, or pp. 74-85 in the seventh on Renaissance sacred and secular music.
This is the recording Craig Wright chose for our textbook, so you should be able to follow along with his timed notes on pp. 70-71 eighth edition, 77-78 seventh.
Track Links: Spotify Naxos YouTube
In class we looked at this interesting animated version from youtube. It is particularly useful for seeing the imitation between voices.
This piece has it's own online lecture, and is the subject of homework assignment #3.
Track Links: Naxos Spotify YouTube
I couldn't get the book's choice of Pavane and Galliard, so I found a new pair from a different recording, and I made this video with some basic info about the pieces.
I like this youtube with the score in it and audio by the King's Singers.
That audio is a somewhat obscure live performance, ripped from a DVD they made. For spotify linkage etc we can use a slightly slower and more careful performance by the same guys:
Neither of these are the official book version, but you could easily digest Craig Wright's notes (on p. 79 in the eighth edition, pp. 83-4 seventh) by following the words.
Renaissance Unit: YouTube / Spotify / Apple Music
Reading Assignment
The Renaissance and Sacred Music
Josquin Ave Maria
Album Links: MusicBrainz Spotify Google Play iTunes Naxos
Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass: II. Gloria
Album Links: Naxos Spotify Amazon Mp3 Google Play
Secular Music in the Renaissance
Anonymous Pavane and Galliard
Track Links (Pavane): Spotify
Track Links (Galliard): Spotify
Album Links: MusicBrainz Google Play Amazon Mp3 Spotify iTunes
Weelkes, "As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending"
Track Links: Spotify Naxos
Album Links: Amazon Mp3 Spotify iTunes Amazon CD Naxos Google Play