When The Notes Ran Out: MUS144G

Exactly what is music?

- Like dancing about architecture – A stupid thing to want to do Elvis Costello

- An authoritative definition or a properly comprehensive treatment of the
concept of music at all times in all places and in all senses
- It encompasses several fields yet imposing a single definitions flies in the face
of the broadly relativistic, intercultural and historically conscious nature of this
dictionary

Notation:

Mensural Notation: refers to the ability to descriptive precisely measured rhythmic

durations in terms of numerical proportions between note values

Action Notation: Expansions of the verbal directions

Graph Notation: Strives to stimulate without constricting the imagination.

Theoretically, any type of visual pattern may be used, though a certain degree of
influence of conventional notation often seems evident, particularly in the choice of
shapes associated with articulation and dynamics, and in the idea that a score
represents a graph with a pitch range as its vertical axis and a time-scale as its
horizontal axis

Exam Prep:

Section 1:

- 12 listening based questions

- Q 1-10 multi-choice
- Q 11 and 12 are two parts: The first part is multiple choice and
involves correctly identifying the work, composer or technique the
second part requires a paragraph answer to a question based on
that work

Revise first cyclic French Composer Machaut (complete) mass

Q1-10 based on material from the 2nd half of the course –
Beethoven, Wagner Stravinsky and 20th Century music
Revise Beethoven Symphony 6 and 9
Haydn Symphony No.6 in D “Le Matin”
Haydn wrote this for his new master vice kappelmeister (Prince Esterhazy). This is
his first work for the prince and the first performance of his new work by the new
orchestra he has recruited. He can also slyly test the new orchestras skill by giving
them solos. One aspect of this symphony that makes it unusual is that it has a title
“Le Matin”. It has a characteristic and depictive quality to it. It represents a sunrise in
a pictorial sense. It opens with a flute solo accompanied by 2 violins. Unusual in a
sense that it doesn’t have the grand opening that a symphony has. The prince was a
fan of Italian music and thus, he favoured Italian music – an act of musical diplomacy
building relationships with the Prince and between his orchestra.

Section 2: Matching

Match the Composer with their work

Section 3: Essay Writing

- Know Beethoven, Wagner and Stravinsky in depth