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Listening to Music

Yale, , Prof. Craig Wright

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

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Introduction - Introduction to Instruments and Musical Genres - Rhythm: Fundamentals - Rhythm: Jazz, Pop and Classical - Melody: Notes, Scales, Nuts and Bolts - Melody: Mozart and Wagner - Harmony: Chords and How to Build Them - Bass Patterns: Blues and Rock - Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven - Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations - Form: Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations - Guest Conductor: Saybrook Orchestra - Fugue: Bach, Bizet and Bernstein - Ostinato Form in the Music of Purcell, Pachelbel, Elton John and Vitamin C - Gregorian Chant and Music in the Sistine Chapel - Baroque Music: The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach - Mozart and His Operas - Piano Music of Mozart and Beethoven - Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo - The Colossal Symphony: Beethoven, Berlioz, Mahler and Shostakovich - Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet - Modernism and Mahler - Review of Musical Style

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Lecture 21: Musical Impressionism and Exoticism Debussy, Ravel and Monet

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Listening to Music (MUSI 112)In this lecture, Professor Wright teaches the students about musical Impressionism. While his discussion focuses on the music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, he nonetheless draws examples from other composers, as well as painters and poets who worked with a similar aesthetic style during the same time period. The class concludes with a performance of Ravels "Ondine" by guest pianist Naomi Woo.0000 - Chapter 1. Introduction to Musical Impressionism0900 - Chapter 2. Debussys Musical Responses to Mallarmes Poetry2700 - Chapter 3. La Cathedrale Engloutie -- Interactions between Impressionist Painters and Musicians3518 - Chapter 4. Ravels Ondine A Violin Performance by Naomi WooComplete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpoyc.yale.eduThis course was recorded in Fall 2008.