Tasks for this week:
** Reminder: all term work due Friday May 17

Monday
- email Ms. Simmons your paragraph planning your Romantic Tone Poems
- continue work on Romantic Tone Poems

Tuesday
- activity on 12-tone music
- continue work on Romantic Tone Poems

Wednesday
- continue work on Romantic Tone Poems

Thursday
- continue work on Romantic Tone Poems

Friday
- LAST DAY FOR ALL TERM WORK
- sharing Romantic Tone Poems

Here is our plan for this week:

Monday
- finish last week's Reading (Romantic Era) and previous Listening (Baroque/Classical)
- Year 1: wrap-up Progression compositions (no, seriously)
- Year 2: finish up Recording projects

Tuesday
- lesson on Romantic Era
- Year 1: introduction to Romantic Tone Poem composition
- Year 2: begin editing and sequencing of Recording projects

Wednesday
- Year 1: work on Romantic Tone Poem composition
- Year 2: work on editing and sequencing of Recording projects

Thursday
- New Listening Portfolio: Romantic and 20th Century Music
- continue work above

Friday
- FIELD TRIP to The Audio Recording Academy
- meet at 10AM in lobby by Eglinton doors --> bring lunch and TTC fare
- done at 2:30 PM

Tasks for Today

• finish up late Listening and Reading Responses
• Year 1: prepare Melody and Chord Progressions for performance ASAP
• Year 2: continue Recording Projects to wrap up this week
• work on Bonus Assignment (O Canada REMIX) below

Happy Friday! Continue Work on the following:

• Listening Portfolio #4 assigned yesterday, due today
• Year 1 Chord Progressions and adding melodies (for performance next week)
• Year 2 Recordings (to be wrapped up next week)
• Studying for Quiz Monday, below

REMINDER History Quiz on Monday, April 30

 

Know eras and definitions for the following terms:

 

Medieval

• lute
• neumes
• plainchant
• modal
• Pope Gregory
• monophonic
• parralel chant
• secular
• sacred

Renaissance

• madrigal
• motet
• Palestrina
• Josquin des Prez
• mass
• word painting
• polyphonic

Baroque

• opera
• oratorio
• harpischord
• Bach
• Handel
• Vivaldi
• chorale
• concerto
• fugue

 

NOTE: History Quiz on Monday, April 30

Know eras and definitions for the following terms:

Medieval

• lute
• neumes
• plainchant
• modal
• Pope Gregory
• monophonic
• parralel chant
• secular
• sacred

Renaissance

• madrigal
• motet
• Palestrina
• Josquin des Prez
• mass
• word painting
• polyphonic

Baroque

• opera
• oratorio
• harpischord
• Bach
• Handel
• Vivaldi
• chorale
• concerto
• fugue

This week:

Monday
- complete last week's Reading on Baroque/Classical era

 Year One:

• play the I-vi-IV-ii7-V-V7-I progression for Ms. Simmons
• work on your own progression using these chords and show it to Ms. Simmons when complete

Year Two recording: JJZ

Tuesday
- lesson on Baroque era
- continue tasks above
Year Two recording: JJZ

Wednesday
Year One:

• lesson on adding melody to chords
• work on adding melody to your own chord progression

Year Two recording: DGNK



Thursday
- Listening Portfolio #4 (Baroque/Classical) assigned, due Friday
- continue work on tasks above
Year Two recording: DGNK


Friday
- complete Listening Portfolio #4
- Year One: complete your chord progression and melody for Monday, April 30

Your tasks for today:

• complete the modal compositions if you haven't already (first year)
• complete your recording proposals if you haven't already (second year)
• complete the listening portfolio due today

If you've finished all the above, consult the following web resources as pre-reading for your next compositions:

- Four Part Harmony

- Principles of Four Part Writing

- Four Part Writing Handout

And here's a song I like by a Canadian band called the Great Lake Swimmers.