M100: Music Appreciation Discussion Group

Ben Tibbetts, T.A.benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com

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Thursday March 7, 2013

Today’s Agenda

• Collect Haydn/Mozart homework• Collect Listening Logs #1• Pages 215-223• Pass back stuff

Collect Haydn/Mozart homework

Collect Listening Logs #1

Head’s Up

• Concert Report #1 due next Tuesday• Classical test Thursday• No class March 16-24

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756-1791Austrian composer/pianist

Just to warm up…

Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement

This movement’s in sonata-allegro form:• Exposition• Exposition again• Development• Recapitulation—long, in this case

Opera seria – “Italian for ‘serious opera’; Italian Baroque opera on a serious subject, typically consisting of alternating recitatives and da capo arias.”

Opera buffa – “Italian for ‘comic opera’; a genre that uses many of the same conventions as serious opera….but with plots revolving around believable, everyday characters rather than mythical or historical figures.”

~from page 517

music from The Marriage of Figaro

an opera buffa

from the end of the first act

Characters in this scene:

Susanna -maidservant

Count Almaviva –married to the Countess, (but has crush on Susanna)

Basilio –court music teacher

Cherubino –page boy

“Cosa sento” from The Marriage of Figaro

pass back stuff

Final Reminders / Homework

• Concert Report #1 due next class• Questions? Email: benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com