COURSE FINAL GRADE

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COURSE FINAL GRADE

• Terminology Quiz 10
• Best TWO of the THREE Midterms-
  Medieval/Ren/Baroque (1)- Classic (2)- Romantic
  (3) currently being graded
• 2 Midterms _at_ 25 each 50 of grade
• 60 earned to date
• See Syllabus for details
• Reminder EC for Pre- and Post-Tests

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FINAL EXAM700 950 am (Friday, 12 Dec 08)

• NO EXEMPTIONS failure to take the Final grade
  of F for entire course
• NO MAKE-UP TIMES AVAILABLE grades must be
  calculated immediately
• 100 question Comprehensive Test covers
  materials from entire semester
• Post-Test (EC) precedes Final
• Bring 2 scantrons (and a few extras?)
• NB. CAH Deans office says buses will run early

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Final Exam (2)

• Test questions content to be drawn from
• General Pre-test (approx. 15 questions)
• Terminology Quiz (approx. 10 questions)
• All three midterms (15 questions each 45)
• Chapters covered last two weeks (10 questions)
• 10 basic listening items (20 questions)-
  (identify style period/composer/genre)
• Final Exam Review Sheet to be posted

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Reviewing Your Old Tests

• Available only in my office (Colbourn 210 J)
  during scheduled office hours
• You may take notes, but you may not photocopy or
  take away the test questions
• Additional Times for MUL 2010 only- 10 Dec 08
  (Wed), 200 400 pm- 11 Dec 08 (Thurs), 1200
  noon 300 pm
• NO Other Times Available

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Béla Bartók (1881-1948)

• Hungarian composer, ethnomusicoloigst, pianist,
  teacher
• Folk-song collector
• Influence of ethnic sources in own music
• Concerto for Orchestra (1943) (YouTube - bartok
  concerto for orchestra mvt 4)
• U.S. (1940-48)

Transylvania in 1907
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Charles Ives (1874-1954)

• Father town bandmaster
• stretch his ears
• American materials (folk songs, hymns, etc.)
• Collage technique
• Polytonality, polyrhythm
• wrong notes rhythms
• Insurance executive independently wealthy
• Putnams Camp (YouTube - LSSO plays Putnam's Camp
  by Charles Ives 1978)

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Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

• French avant garde
• U.S. (1915-1965)
• Search for new sound sources - percussion
• Ionisation (1931) (YouTube - Varèse - Ionisation
  - Boulez, Ensemble InterContemporain)
• Tape recording
• Musique concrète
• Poème electronique (YouTube - Varèse Poème
  électronique)

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John Cage (1912-1992)

• American
• 12-tone abandoned
• Search for new sounds
• Prepared piano
• Chance Music (I ching)
• I have nothing to say, and I am saying it
• Beethoven was wrong
• Water Walk and 433 (YouTube - John Cage)

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

• Booklyn born to Jewish immigrant parents
• Trained in US Paris
• Music for the masses
• Appalachian Spring(ballet, 1944)
• The American sound
• Greatest native-born composer

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939)

• Born in Miami
• Florida State U
• Professional violinist
• Pulitzer Prize (1983)(1st woman to win it)
• Borrowing and reuse of older materials
• Concerto Grosso 1985 (after Handel)

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John Adams (b. 1947)

• Classically trained
• Influenced by pop music, etc.
• Minimalism and post-minimalism (ostinatos!!)
• Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) (YouTube -
  Adams' Short Ride...)
• Roadrunner (1992) (YouTube - Adams Chamber
  Symphony (3rd mvmt)