1. Studying the genres of music.
Music appreciation
Studying the genres of music.

2. Goals for this class:
Listen to and create an understanding and appreciation of different types of music.
Learn famous musicians from each of the genres.
Learn some different sub-genres.
Learn some interesting history about different musicians and types of music.

3. How to listen to music clips:
Get the I-tunes app on your phone or go to I-tunes on the internet.
Click on I-tunes Store
In upper right hand corner is the search icon
Type in the highlighted music clip that was discussed in class.
It should be close to the same number it was when we searched it up in class.
Click on it and listen to it as many times as needed.
We will use the same clip for the quiz.

4. Genres of music include:
Classical
Jazz
Blues
Rock
Latin
Electronic
Country
Musicals
Hip-hop

5. List of music for quiz:
Vivaldi: Four Seasons: Spring (#1 on list) - Strings
Handel: Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus (#1 on list) - Choir
Bach: Toccata and Fuge in D Minor (#1 on list) - Organ
Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F Minor (#1 on list) – Harpsichord
Mozart: 5 Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (#1 on list)
Mozart: Serenade in G Major “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (#1 on list)
Beethoven: Fur Elise (#2 on list)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (#5 on list)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (#2 on list)

6. Classical music Composers Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi Handel Bach Mozart
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Antonio Vivaldi
1678 – 1741
Born in Venice, Italy
He was an Italian Baroque Composer

7. III. George Frederic Handel 1685 – 1759
As a child he was considered a virtuoso violinist.
Known for his instrumental concertos, especially the violin.
After his death, his music went into obscurity until the 20th century.
III. George Frederic Handel
1685 – 1759
Born in Germany but family moved to England in 1712.
He was known as a British Baroque composer.
Famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 – 1750
Born in Eisenach, Germany
The entire Bach family were musicians for two hundred years.
Known as a composer, organist, harpsichordist, and violinist of the Baroque period.
He was not recognized as a great composer during his time.
He died due to poor health and blindness in 1749.
The piano became popular in the 1840s, so his harpsichord music was not as popular any more.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
Born in Salzurg, Austria

9. He composed “Twinkle, Twinkle” at the age of 6.
As a child, Mozart was considered a prodigy, and performed for European royalty from the age of 7.
He composed “Twinkle, Twinkle” at the age of 6.
He moved to Vienna, Austria at the age of 17.
Musicians were considered servants, but since he had been performing for royalty from a young age he didn’t like that. So, he decided to become an independent musician (not work for anyone) and sell his music to publishers.
His first two financially successful operas were (and are famous to this day):
The Marriage of Figaro
Don Giovanni
He died mysteriously very young.

10. Ludwig Van Beethoven
1771 – 1827
Born in Bonn, Germany
He started music lessons at the age of 4, his father was his teacher. He wanted him to be a prodigy like Mozart.
In 1787 he traveled to Vienna in hopes of studying with Mozart (age 17) but he had to return to Bonn because his mother died.
Beethoven’s first public performance in Vienna wasn’t until Shortly after, he became financially successful and began composing more.
After Mozart died, he became even more popular.
At the age of 26, however, he began to lose his hearing and by he was completely deaf.

11. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840 – 1893
Born in present day Udmurtia, Russia.
Both of his parents were well educated and as a child he had a French governess (nanny).
His mother died when he was 15 and it affected him the rest of his life.
He was the first Russian composer whose music made an international impression.
He performed his compositions in both Europe and America.

12. Composers
Dates
Vivaldi
Handel
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky

13. Periods and eras of Western classical music
Early
Medieval
500–1400
Renaissance
1400–1600
Common practice
Baroque
1600–1760
Classical
1730–1820
Romantic
1780–1910
Impressionist
1875–1925
Modern and contemporary
Modern
High modern
1890–1975
20th-century
(1900–2000)
Contemporary
Postmodern
1975–present
21st-century
(2000–present)

14. Classical music project
Research a classical composer during the common practice time period.
Write a one page report or create a short “Power Point” (or other) presentation.
Be ready to present it to the class at the end of this unit.
Along with your project you will make a collage of classical music or of just the one you researched. Usually pictures you find on the internet, printed, cut out and glued on construction paper.