Week Five: Romantic

LISTENING QUIZ PIECE: GRETCHEN AM SPINNRADE














LISTENING QUIZ: CLAIR DE LUNE

Week Four: Classical (NOT ROMANTIC!)

Wowsers, we listed to a LOT of music in class this week! I hope you enjoyed (at least some of) it. :-)













LISTENING QUIZ PIECE: AVE VERUM







How impressive is this young lady!! LISTENING QUIZ PIECE: SONATA NO. 8




Uber-famous pianist and conductor.




And now for something COMPLETELY different... :-D

Week Three: Baroque

How discerning was your ear?  Did you get any or all of them right?  Here are clips to today's songs.  We'll start with Winter...this violinist is quite amazing!




Summer, just one movement; the Presto as we heard today.  Can you guess that Presto means fast!?!




Springtime! LISTENING QUIZ PIECE: SPRING





Thought it was about time we should hear from a male violinist. :-)  Here is Autumn.





Vivaldi's Gloria: This is actually the entire thing (12 movements).  We only heard a bit of the opening in class; go ahead and listen to at least the entire first movement.





I love these graphic depiction videos of music.  And it's got a moving score too!! LISTENING QUIZ PIECE: AIR ON THE G STRING



We will finish up Bach next week my friends!

~Mrs. Kent

Week Two: Renaissance

Today we studied Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.  Here's that really cool version of his 40 voice Motet, Spem in Alium.  Interestingly, this song has been rediscovered recently and used for the soundtrack of the series "The Tudors". LISTENING QUIZ: BOTH SONGS FOR TALLIS AND BYRD







Here's that Opera chorus that I didn't quite get to play for you!

Week One: Medieval

This week we studied Pope Gregory and his Plainchant, Hildegard von Bingen and Guillaume duFay.
Here are our music clips from class.  Enjoy! LISTENING QUIZ: GREGORIAN CHANT








And I know you're just dying to get dancing to this one....