Surname 1 [11] Your online class experience isn’t complete without first some clickbait, and second, some internet cat memes. Ok, no cats, but throughout history, composers have used music to portray animals and to tell stories. 1.) El Abejorro (Bees) on guitar, played by me in my mid-20’s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcFMZN9KBQg (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. In music we use letters to designate different sections to help us understand structure. (Section A, B, C, etc.) In this short piece, composer Emilio Pujol is describing a bee. I’ve marked the different sections for you. Listen to the piece a few times and construct a story or describe the events that this bee may be going through. How to do the sections differ or change in mood? (0:03) A (0:13) B (0:22) A (0:33) C (0:53) B (1:01) A-Coda 2.) Remember the early assignment on transcriptions? Here’s the “Flight of the bumblebee” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Guitar duet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzOLp_LeTk (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Surname 2 Piano transcription: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yZPrrboTkY (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Orchestral version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. In both 1.) and 2.), part of the music is about the performing showing off great technique and a bit of humor. At the same time, a composer has to be wildly creative to paint a portrait of a flying insect using music. What does Rimsky-Korsakov do to portray his version of the bumblebee? What’s the story? What’s the atmosphere? 3.) “Carnival of the Animals” by Camille Saint-Saens. Surname 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LOFhsksAYw (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. First, read the description of the piece in the information below the video. There are 14 movements in this work. Listen to the entire work. Pick three movements are the most effective in portraying the animals? Why? Discuss the various elements of the music that make it effective using concepts like tempo, instrumentation, rhythm, texture, color, register, pitch, dissonance, etc. You’re welcome to compare this music with other kinds of music that you’re familiar with that conjures up similar feelings/images. Movement 1: Movement 2: Movement 3: Extra credit (up to 5 points) 4.) “Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofiev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfM7Y9Pcdzw (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. I don’t want a summary of this piece. I want to know that you’ve listened to it and thought about it. You may use the questions in 3.) to jumpstart your thinking or to take it in any other direction you feel appropriate. Surname 4 [12] Igudesman & Joo - Making fun with classical music Aleksey Igudesman, violinist, composer Hyung-ki Joo, pianist, composer What would happen if classical music could have all of the professionalism of virtuosic performing but none of the stereotypical uptightness? What if classical music met SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit and took a page from South Park? 1.) Introduction: Igudesman & Joo solve all of classical music’s problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tgYh93cuQ (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. 2.) Original: Bach-Gounod version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyUhEjtlDLA (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Surname 5 Igudesman & Joo: Being John Sebastian Bach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A95yzVgBTs (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. 3.) Original: Rachmaninoff Prelude Op 3 No 2 in C Sharp minor, performed by Evgeny Kissin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCm9O2KNEX4 (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Igudesman & Joo: Rachmaninov had big hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Surname 6 4.) Original: La Cucaracha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_7aieGEMQ (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Gipsy Kings version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VILr1xH3io (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Igudesman & Joo: Violin Duet: La Cucaracha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj8iDDx1k38 (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Surname 7 5.) Mozart will Survive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS1-lxD9Cbs (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. 6.) Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecG6c30THp0 (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Assignment: First, I hope you found some humor in all of this. Clips 1-4 will introduce you to who Igudesman & Joo are and what they are doing. Clip 5 is one culmination of their work. Clip 6 is an interview that starts off rambling a bit, but it does get good after a point. Part of the process appreciating music appreciating the process, so I’d like you to go through it. Write something that has Surname 8 coherent thought. As with so many of the open-ended assignments that I give, you’re welcome to take the responses in any direction you feel appropriate. Your responses should demonstrate that you’ve thought about the clips, not just passively consumed it. Extra Credit: Watch and reflect. Respond as you did in the assignment above. Extra credit (up to 2 points): What Bose Headphones can do for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGwWnpKqHI (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Extra credit (up to 2 points): Vogue the Violin - Funk the String https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a0mlf69-34 (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Extra credit (up to 2 points): The Cyber Conductor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFltd2838gc (Links to an external site.) Surname 9 Links to an external site.
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