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Welcome to Music Appreciation!


This page is intended to help you track your grades throughout the semester and access the class syllabus along with any updates. You will find all of these in the form of attachments at the bottom of the page.

New grade sheets will be attached every time a new assignment is graded.

For extra help and information you can access the Internet Public Library. You can read the selections that correspond to the era in which we currently discussing. The following are links to the various essays which include listening examples and pictures:

The Baroque Age
The Classical Period
The Romantic Era
The Twentieth Century


Here are some links to various musical organization which you may find helpful
1. TheNew World Symphony
2. The Adrienne Arsht Center
3. The Frost School of Music at UM
4. Florida Grand Opera
5. TheNew Times
6. Broward Center for the Performing Arts


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The Baroque Era 1600-1750
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Westminster Abbey Organ
Listen to the Westminster Abbey Organ in London


Listen & Watch an Italian group performing Vivaldi's Double Mandolin Concerto RV 558 with traditional scoring; strings & recorder


Listen to another version of Vivaldi's Double Mandolin Concerto RV 558 scored for strings, horns & harp by Leonard Bernstein

Listen and watch the all boys choir of St. Thomas in Leipzig, Germany where Bach was once Kapellmeister. There are several videos here where they areperforming St. Matthew's Passion.

Here is a video of Bach's famous Tocatta & Fugue in d minor. There is some great footage of the wonderful organbeing used.

This is a modernized twist on Bach's Toccata & Fugue performed by Vanessa Mae on electric-acoustic violin.
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The Classical Era 1750-1820
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Child Prodigy from the US! Watch the video of Emily Bear HERE!Vienna, Austria

Listen and Watch a Mozart Medley of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), Rondo alla Turca, etc. by Andre Rieu

Previously unknown melody composed by Mozart discovered in a library in Nantes, France.
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The Romantic Era 1820-1900
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Paris from atop Notre Dame
Click HERE to watch and listen to the world's fastest banjo player from Palm Bay, Florida. Afterwards you can listen to Gottschalk's piece "the Banjo" and decide how closely he was able to imitate the banjo on the piano (keep in mind, these are different styles of music).
Performance of Gottschalk's The Banjo

Listen and watch Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra (JSO) performing the overture to the opera "Carmen".

Listen and watch video of a Strauss Medley put together by Andre Rieu

The Radetsky March by Strauss



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Spotlight on Andre Rieu & World Music
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Beethoven's 5th & Salsa
Andre Rieu
Hava Naguila (a traditional Jewish song)

Sirtaki (A Greek dance- with mandolin solos)

Andre & the Dubliners (Irish music)

Andre & DJ Otzi(Austria's favourite pop musician)


**Take a look at that 1667 Stradivarius violin he's playing!**

Andre Rieu webpage
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Word Document music appreciation syllabus summer A 2009 M,W.doc (Word Document - 64k)
posted by KFR   May 10 2009, 10:04 PM EDT
syllabus
Word Document Style Chart Example.doc (Word Document - 38k)
posted by KFR   Sep 11 2008, 4:17 PM EDT
Sample Style Chart