VPMA93H3 Midterm: Listening List MIDTERM 2018
2 Sep 2018
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Listening List:
1) Joseph Kosma, Autumn Leaves
• vibraphone
• shimmering timbre of this instrument produced by discs at the end of resonators
• According to hornbostel sachs classification- idophone with definite pitch
2) Jean Ritchie, Shady Grove
• Appalachian Dulcimer, strummed with a quill,
• Drone: a continous sound on one or more fixed pitches
• zither
3) François Couperin, Les Baricades Mistérieuses
• play with piano or harpsichord
• wide compared to human vocal, narrow as instrument
• lot up and down motion
• lightly ornamented
• baroque-late 1700s -1800s
• variations: heavily ornamented
• medium to narrow range
• wavely contour undulating,
• small leaps and steps: conjunct and disjunct
• ornamentation end of phrases
• regular phrase
• have motive ( leap up and down)
• no word painting
• major
• rondo
4) Henry Cowell, The Banshee
• a wailing female spirit
• chordophone
• sweeping fingers across strings
• rubbing along strongs with flesh of fnger
• plucking strings with finger (pizzicato (0:51)
• rubbing along length of string with back of fingernail (1:08)
5) Richard Strauss, Don Quixote, Variation II
• Program music
• Theme:wide
• Brass instrument piece deicts the sheep
• Major
• Flute part
• Flutter tonguing part
• Single pitch at a time
• Klangfarbenmelodie
• Richard Strauss, Don Quixote, Variation II (1897) (“The victorious struggle against the army of
the great emperor Alifanfaron”)
• Characters:
• Don Quixote (cello)
• Sancho Panza (bass clarinet, tenor tuba, viola)
• 0:00 Don Quixote’s theme (Sancho Panza’s theme joins in at 0:11)
• 0:20 Our heroes encounter a flock of sheep
• 0:38 The flock slowly moves and the sounds of the sheep grow louder as the Don and Sancho
draw near
• 1:00 Don Quixote charges the sheep
• 1:13 Don Quixote’s theme returns triumphantly after the sheep scatter
6) Edgard Varèse, Poème électronique
• 0:00 Large bell toll, buzzes, squeals
• 0:44 Rattling sounds
• 0:52 Blips, squawks
• 0:56 Three-note chromatic ascent heard three times
• 1:11 Drill pitches, rattling chains, “bassoon”
• 1:31 Blips
• 1:34 Three-note chromatic ascent, followed by blips and squawks
• 1:47 “Seagulls”
• 2:04 Percussion instruments, electronic sliding sounds
• 2:38 Large bell returns, sustained tonesEtc.
• Vocal sounds begin at 3:41; “you oughtta know” at 4:27
7) Anon., Gaude virgo salutata
• Christian church, religious melody
• Monophony -single line one meonic line
• Narrow range (small)- 5 pitches/frequencies up and down wavy
• undulating motion
• no ornamentation
• conjuct motion no leaps moving by step
• phrasing is regular
• no motives or word painting
8) Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Over the Rainbow
- undulating – wavey ( cdedc)
• Disjunct and conjuct motion b/c of big leaps
