Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Music111 D2W4
Orchestra- Wednesday October 19th 4:00p.m.-5:00p.m.
-A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
•Benjamin Britten
-Baroque era
-Tutor Dynasty
•coming to an end
•England begins to fall back to other countries
-nothing late baroque
-Organization of the orchestra
•Violin 1
•Violin 2
•Viola
•Cello
•Bass
•Flute
•Clarinet
•Oboe
•Bassoons
•Contra-bassoons
•Trumpet
•French horn
•Trombone
•Percussion
-timpani
•pulls the drum head for higher pitch
-Famous Music
•#12 Les Toreadors
-Georges Bizet
•from the opera Carmen
-French opera in Spain sung in French
-Carmen works in a cigarette factory
-fling with bull fighter
• Suite #1
-frequently preformed across the world
•#11 Wedding March
-Felix Mendelssohn
-“A Midnight Summer Dream” based on the Shakespeare play
•First presented
-Voices and Instrument Families
•Musical Timbre
-Tone, color, sound quality
-Determined by size shape proportions of an instrument
•instrument mechanism that generates musical vibrations
-registers melodic range (mid, low, high)
•Soprano
•Mezzo-soprano
•Alto
•Tenor
•Baritone
•Bass
-The world of Musical Instruments
•Aerophones
-air used to make sound
•Chordophone
-chords used to make sound
•Idiophone
-full body shakes
•Membranophones
-membrane used to make a vibration
-over open space to amplify
-Western Musical Instruments
•guitar
-fretted
-6 strings
•Violin
-no frets
-can play microtones
-plucking strings
•different style
•pizzicato
•organ
-multiple manuals
-aerophone
-combination of pipes
-baroque
•orchestra for one
-piano at your feet
•Bowed String Family
-Legato
-Staccato
-Vibrato
-Glissando
-Tremolo
•woodwind instruments
-Flute
•piccolo
-Oboe
•English horn
-Clarinet
•bass clarinet
-Bassoon
•contrabassoon
-Saxophone
•tenor
-Brass instruments
•trumpet
•french horn
•trombone
•tuba
•cornet
•bugle
•flugelhorn
•euphonium
•sousaphone
-Percussion instruments
•pitched
-timpani or kettledrums
-xylophone
•indefinite pitch
-snare drum
-tenor drum
-bass drum
-tom-tom
-Other instruments
•piano
-musical ensembles
•choral groups
-a cappella
-chorus
•instrumental chamber ensembles
•western symphony orchestra
•bands
-wind
-marching
-rock
-jazz
-Roll of conductors
•leaders of large ensembles
•time and tempo
•baton
•interpret
-says how the music needs to be
•the concertmaster
-first chair best of instrument
-tunes the orchestra
-The orchestra in action
•Fugue
-multiple lines of equal importance
-style and function of music in society
•churches
-no music outside of the church
•oral tradition passed down music
•musical styles in history
-in the book there is a chart
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