A Song to Share (for Valentines Day or whatever)

Today:

- theory quiz
- discussion on melody (first-year students) in preparation for next composition
- continued time to work on Listening Portfolio #1 (due Wednesday)

DUE TODAY: Reading Response #1

DUE TOMORROW: Composition #1

NOTES (ha) on THEORY

Many of you have studied music (and theory!) with me (or elsewhere) before. If you have not studied music theory before, don't be worried, you just have a bit of catching up to do. As this is a Grade 11/12 Music credit, there are a few basics you are expected to know.

I'll be handing out a review worksheet package for THREE different levels:
Beginners - Know basics up to and and on your way to major key signatures.
Advanced - Know minor key signatures, all intervals, on your way to triads

If you prefer to work through computer games to cover this material (and who wouldn't?), you can use the Music Ace 2 game found in your My Applications folder in the following levels...
Beginners - Level 1-18
Advanced - Level 19-24

I'll ask you to work through these packages on your own and we'll have a THEORY QUIZ NEXT TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12 to see where you're at. 

B - QUIZ ON WHOLETONES/SEMITONES
A - QUIZ ON TRIADS

NOTES (ha) ON KEYBOARD EXERCISES


As a way to review music theory, I'll be handing out a score that I'd like you learn to play on the piano keyboard. For many of you this will be easy, but for some it might require practice. I'll ask you to work on having it ready to play for me by THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14  in class.

Welcome Back!

Welcome new and returning Leaside Musicians for another year of Music at Leaside!

Here are some important upcoming dates:

Music Info Meeting - Monday Sept 10 at lunch

First Band Rehearsal - Tuesday Sept 11 at lunch

First Choir Rehearsal - Wednesday Sept 12 at lunch

We hope to see you there!

HISTORY EXAM REQUIREMENTS

SENIOR YEAR 1

Know the basic characteristics of music in each era, plus definitions/significance of the following terms:

Medieval: neumes, modal, chant, Pope Gregory, sacred, secular, lute, 

Renaissance: madrigal, motet, word painting, Palestrina, Tallis, patronage system

Baroque: opera, oratorio, concerto, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, harpsichord, 

Classical: absolute music, symphony, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven

Romantic: programme music, tone poem, art song/lieder, ballet, piano, virtuoso/virtuosity, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Berlioz

20th Century: 12-tone, atonal, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Debussy

SENIOR YEAR 2

All of the above, plus be able to trace the transformation of various forms of music across the eras.

Theory Exam Requirements

Beginners

- names of notes/flats/sharps/piano keyboard

- rhythm concepts up to 16th notes/rests

- tones/semitones

- major scales

- key signatures

- intervals (MAJOR and PERFECT)

Intermediate

- above, plus...

- minor scales

- minor, diminished and augmented intervals

Advanced

- above, plus...

- major, minor, augmented, diminished triads

- chords in key (I, IV, V)

EXAM TAKES PLACE THURSDAY JUNE 14 IN CLASS.

Today's Google (in Japan/Australia) is pretty... cool.

Bonus marks to anyone who can tell what it is/why it's there...

http://www.google.co.jp/