introduction to music listening

• How did we get to where we are now?• Guitars, Drumkit,

Voice, Bass, Keyboard?

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC LISTENING

• Have a brief understanding of music and its development throughout the last 600 years.

• Be able to identify the Baroque orchestra and its components

• Have an understanding of the instrument of the Harpsichord

BY THE END OF THIS LESSON YOU WILL:

TIMELINE

Periods of music• Medieval 0 – 1400• Renaissance 1400 – 1600• Baroque 1600-1750• Classical 1750-1820 • Romantic 1820-1900• Twentieth Century 1900-

2000

COPY DOWN

• We will start at where we first have music being written down and preserved.

• The renaissance period• http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvEttR6HTY

WHERE TO START?

• Renaissance music was usually based on folk tunes, and used to dance to

• Only the rich would have many instruments together and play as an ‘orchestra’

• There are many vocal works from this time such as Nunc Dimittis by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina(1524?-1594).

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4VoKso5ERI

RENAISSANCE1400-1600

TIMELINE

• Baroque Music• Music composed between 1625

and 1750 approximately. It includes the music of composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

• There are many different types of music from this time which saw the development of many new forms in music such as opera, concerto, sonata, fugue, the suite and oratorio. (We’ll learn about these later)

BAROQUEPERIOD1600-1750

• Listen to this example by Vivaldi, from a concerto called ‘Spring', one of a group of four concertos called 'The Seasons'. This was one of the first pieces of music written to tell a story which tries to portray the words of a poem in music.

• Notice that the music is very dance-like, as was the custom at this time, that it is written for string orchestra.

• The bright character of the music is made possible by the music being written in a major key and it has four beats in a bar.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRhfOWm_CXc&feature=bf_prev&list=PL33598478A62762FC&lf=results_video 3:00

VIVALDISPRING

• Stringed instruments– 12 Violins – 4 Violas– 2 Violoncellos (Cello’s)– Bass– Harpsichord

• Woodwind – Bassoon– Oboe

• Brass – Natural Trumpets

• Percussion– Timpani

THE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

TASK:COPY OUT THE PICTURE OF THE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

THE BAROQUE ORCHESTRAHARPSICHORD

• A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.

• Watch how a harpsichord s played in this clip.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAUX783S94Y

THE BAROQUE ORCHESTRAHARPSICHORD

• We have looked at the Baroque orchestra today.

• The different techniques that these instruments use are:

• Blowing – The method by which woodwind, brass and pipe instruments are played by blowing across or into a mouthpiece.

• Bowing – The method used to play certain string instruments, including the string instruments of the orchestra, by drawing a bow across the string.

• Striking - The method mainly used to play percussion instruments.

TECHNIQUES OF PLAYING