UAB Music Appreciation Podcast

MU120podcast5

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:28:11 -0500

Hello and welcome to the final podcast for UAB’s Music Appreciation class. All listening examples come from the CD set that corresponds with the text. The titles and composers names will be provided. This podcast only provides short examples of each piece that will be on the test. Let’s begin.

1. Prelude To "The Afternoon Of A Faun" by Claude Debussy  (Impressionism)
2. Pierrot Lunaire, No. 18 “Der Mondfleck” by Arnold Schoenberg  (Expressionism)
3. The Rite Of Spring, Part I, Dance Of The Adolescents by Igor Stravinsky  (Primitivism)
4. Concerto For Orchestra, IV Interrupted Intermezzo by Bela Bartok
5. Billy The Kid, Street In A Frontier Town by Aaron Copland
6. Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin
7. Billie's Blues by Billie Holiday
8. A Night In Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie
1. West Side Story, Mambo by Leonard Bernstein
10. West Side Story, "Tonight" Leonard Bernstein
11. Raiders March From Raiders Of The Lost Ark by John Williams

MU120podcast4

Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:03:31 -0500

Hello and welcome to the 4th podcast for MU120 section 4. Contained in this podcast are musical samplings for the listening portion of Exam 4. Most of the music listed come from your CD set and I have provided mp3 links to music you do not have. We begin with a piano work by Chopin, Polonaise in A major followed by the March to the Scaffold from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.
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Our next example is from the Moldau by Smetena
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Next is Brahms Symphony No. 3 movement 3
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We will now listen to two Opera examples, the first is the Aria “La Donna E Mobile” by Verdi followed by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly
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Next we have a short sample from Strauss’s Don Juan and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.
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Our last two examples are from Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov and the Overture from the Flying Dutchman by Wagner.

1. Polonaise In A Major, Op. 40, No. 1 "Military" by Chopin
2. Symphonie Fantastique movement 1: Reveries-Passions
Symphonie Fantastique movement 2: Un Bal
Symphonie Fantastique movement 3: Scene aux champs
Symphonie Fantastique mvmt. 4: Marche au Supplice
Symphonie Fantastique movement 5: Songe d'une Nuit du Sabbat
by Berlioz

3. The Moldau by Smetena

4. Symphony No. 3 In F Major, Op.90 3rd Movement by Brahms

5. Aria, "La Donne E Mobile" by Verdi
6. Madame Butterfly "Un Bel Di" by Puccini

7. Don Juan op. 20 by Strauss
8. Romeo and Juliet- Fantasy Overture by Tchaikovsky 
1. Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship by Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival in Bagdad

10. Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)-Overture by Wagner

MU120podcast3

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:19:53 -0600

Welcome to the 3rd podcast for UAB’s music appreciation MU120 section 4A. Provided are musical examples from your CD set along with a few from my own collection. There are fewer works listed, however, like Exam #2 the test will still consist of 10 examples matching titles with the audio plus providing the names of the composers for each example. This podcast will provide you with a sampling of what will be on the test. You will need to listen to the complete work that your CDs provide to study for the test. Let’s begin.

We will start with the opening of Beethoven’s famed Symphony No. 5 and continue with a short example from the second, third and fourth movements. Following the symphony will be a short example of his Moonlight Sonata

1. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 movement 1 - Beethoven
2. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 movement 2 - Beethoven
3. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 movement 3 - Beethoven
4. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 movement 4 - Beethoven
5. Piano Sonata In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight", movement 1 - Beethoven

Next, we will listen to Mozart’s music beginning with his Piano Concerto in G major, K453, movement 1 followed by the opening of his Symphony No. 39 and Requiem Nos 6 and 7.

6. Piano Concerto in G major, K 453, movement 1 - Mozart
7. Symphony No. 39- 1. Adagio - Allegro - Mozart
8. Requiem No. 6. Sequence: Confutatis Maledictis - Mozart
9. Requiem No. 7. Sequence: Lacrimosa - Mozart

We will finish up this podcast with two selections from Mozart’s comic opera The Marriage of Figaro

10. Le Nozze Di Figaro, "Non So Piu" - Mozart
11. Le Nozze Di Figaro, "Cosa Sento"

MU120Podcast2

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:44:50 -0600

Hello and welcome to the second podcast for UAB’s Music Appreciation-MU120. Today we will be listening to a few examples of Baroque music. For the test you are required to provide the full title and the composer’s last name for the listening portion of the exam. Lets begin.

1. L'incoronazione Di Poppea, Act III, Scene 3, "Innocente Son Io"
by Claudio Monteverdi
2. L'incoronazione Di Poppea, Act I, Scene 4, "Speranza, Tu Mi Vai"   by Claudio Monteverdi
3. Dido and Aeneas - Atto III, Scena II: Dido's Lament   by Henry Purcell
4. Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Chaconne   by Henry Purcell
5. Cantata No. 140, Wachet Auf, BWV 140, "Gloria Sei Dir Gesungen"   by Johann Sebastian Bach
6. Orchestral Suite No. 2 In B, BWV 1067, "Badinerie"   by Johann Sebastian Bach
7. Flute Sonata No. 2 In E Flat, BWV 1031, "Siciliano"   by Johann Sebastian Bach
8. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude And Fugue No. 1 In C, BWV 846, Prelude   by Johann Sebastian Bach
9. Messiah, No. 9, "O Thou That Tellest"   by George Frideric Handel
10. Samson, "Let The Bright Seraphim"   by George Frideric Handel
11. Violin Concerto In E, Op. 8/1, RV 269, "The Four Seasons (Spring)" - 1. Allegro   by Antonio Vivaldi
 Most of the musical examples provided are found in your CD set that goes with the text. I have provided a link to mp3s of the musical examples not in the CD set. Those links are underlined within the above text.

MU120podcast1

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:59:48 -0600

Hello, welcome to the first podcast for UAB’s Music Appreciation Class MU120. Contained in the podcast are all the Listening Examples for Exam #1
As a reminder, for the exam, you will be required to identify the Title and Composer of the musical example. For this podcast I have provided additional information to assist you in relating the terms covered in class to the musical examples. The musical examples come from the Enjoyment of Music 4 CD set, the Enjoyment of Music Student Resource DVD, and my personal library. Let’s begin...

1.“Greensleeves.mp3” (a folksong). (Note the piece begins on an upbeat, is in sextuple meter and is an example of Binary Form.)

2. Beethoven Symphony No. 9.mp3“Ode to Joy” (conjunct melody with a wavelike contour)

3.Ride of the Valkyries.mp3 by Richard Wagner. (disjunct melody)

4.Surprise Symphony No. 94.mp3 in G Major by Franz Joseph Haydn, “Surprise Symphony”. (the piece begins in Major w/ the melody outlining the tonic triad.)

5. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.mp3 (an example of minor tonality)

6. Kyrie.mp3 by Hildegard von Bingen (A monophonic piece: a singular melodic line without accompaniment also non-metric)

7. When the Saints.mp3 Go Marching In (an example of Heterophonic music)

8. Brahms Violin Concerto.mp3 In D, Op. 77, III, by Brahms (an example of Homophonic music)

9. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.mp3 No. 1 by J.S. Bach (an example of a multi-voiced Polyphonic texture)

10. Alla Hornpipe.mp3 from “Water Music” by Handel (an example of a Homorhythmic texture)

11. Unsquare Dance.mp3 by Dave Brubeck (an example of additive meter)

12. The Art of Fugue.mp3: Contrapunctus 1 by J.S. Bach (an example of imitation)