Weadock, Daniel 2018 The Romantic Period Listening Journal

2018 Romantic Period Listening Journal Student Name: Daniel Weadock Romantic Period Listening Journal Grade Sheet ● Journal #1 ● Journal #2 ● Extra points - 5 Total points: Score Average: Comments: Resubmit for a better grade by:

2018 Romantic Period Listening Journal 2018 Romantic Period Listening Journal Do not alter the format of this document! 1. The listening Journals are due at the same time you take your unit quiz. The listening journals require reflection and should be started at the same time you view the lecture and readings where the music is discussed. Completing the listening journals will help you with the quiz, so finish the listening journal before taking the quiz. 2. Instructions for submitting your listening journals: a. Download the listening journal from Canvas and save-as a google docx in editing mode. b. I need to be able to write comments on your paper. c. Use the following format for renaming your file: i. Last name, First name Listening Journal File.docx ii. EX. 2017 The Middle Ages Listening Journal.docx will become Doe, John 2017 Middle Ages Listening Journal.docx. ° If you do this you will receive 5 extra points on your paper. Submit on Canvas by the end of Week 7. Instructions on how to re-submit your paper for a better grade: ❖ You will receive an initial grade for your listening journal. ❖ After receiving your corrected paper, you can make your corrections and resubmit for a better grade. 1. Do not remove any of my comments or markings from your document revisions. I use them for re- grading your paper. 2. Make your corrections a. Resubmit on Canvas by the following Sunday b. No corrected journals will be accepted after this date! 3. Things to correct: a. Incorrect information i. Incorrectly identifying genre. Exactly what kind of piece is it. Is it a Gregorian Chant or a symphony? Remember, not everything is a song! ii. Confusing form or texture with genre. For example, saying the form of a fugue is polyphonic. The term polyphonic is a texture not a form. The textbook listening guides will help with this. iii. Incorrect tempo and meter. Again look in the textbook for this information. Tempo refers to the speed of the piece. How fast is it? Always us the appropriate Italian terms for tempo . Meter refers to the organization of beats. Is it in duple or triple meter? Look at the time signature in the musical examples found in the textbook to help you with this. The top number in the time signature tells you if it is duple or triple meter. Ex. 3/2 is triple meter, 4/4 is duple meter. iv. Incorrect style period. A student might write Late Baroque when they should have written Early Baroque . Always be as specific as possible. Giving me a date does not tell me the style period. 4. Response is too short. I need you to elaborate your answers. Remember, anytime I ask for a description or a comparison it will not be a one-sentence answer. Be thorough in presenting the details. Most answers need 75-100 words. 5. You have plagiarized material. It’s very easy to copy and paste. It is harder to put ideas and concepts into your own words. This is what I expect. If you answer is highlighted, this is a plagiarized sentence that you need to rewrite with your own words. Rewriting is not the same as changing the order of words in the sentences. If you do that it’s still plagiarized. As my mother always said, “use your words!” The Romantic Period Listening Journal Assignment 1

2018 Romantic Period Listening Journal The Romantic Period Listening Journal Assignment 2 Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique 4 th and 5 th movements Basic Information In this section, provide basic information about the selection you heard. Where possible, use the vocabulary you have learned in the course. 1. What are the Performing Forces/Instrumentation or voices used? Symphony Orchestra 2. What is the musical genre? (I.e. what kind of piece is it?) Programmatic Symphony 3. What is the musical form? 4th Movement Sonata 5th movement - A B A B A Coda 4. What is the tempo (how fast is it, use Italian terms) and meter ? (look at the time signature in the musical example found in the textbook) 4th Movement Tempo- Allegretto Meter- Common time 5th movement Tempo- Larghetto/Allegro Meter- 4/4 5. What is the style period? Indicate if it is early or late in the period. Early Romantic Period Listening Critically (Answers should be between 75-100 words) 1. The movements of this program symphony have descriptive titles. In your opinion , does the music you hear in the fourth and fifth movements match the titles Berlioz chose? Describe what you do or do not hear in the music to support your answer. 4 th Movement- “March to the Scaffold” This movement starts off with ominous music. The timpanis are playing and it makes it sound like a man walking to the noose. The strings then play a scale that is descending and it makes it seem like all hope is lost. The brass and woodwinds give a little hope back after their turn, but the end of this movement ends in a sinking feeling. Yes it does match the title.

2018 Romantic Period Listening Journal 5 th Movement- “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” This movement starts off with a high tremolo by the strings, followed by descending staccatos also by the strings. Then finishes off with a low chord and repeated sounds by the woodwinds. This first part of the piece sounds what you would hear in a suspenseful or scary movie. It then moves to a faster upbeat piece that still has a sinister feel to it. You can imagine witches dancing around a fire. The strings are playing together and they are joined by the brass and woodwinds. You can easily picture his dream with this piece playing. Yes it does match the title. 2. Berlioz incorporated a number of playing techniques into the fifth movement for to create musical effects. List three of those techniques, the instruments used, and tell me what sound or effect was produced by them. Describe how those effects help to create a sense of the macabre for the listener. 1. Eerie Tremolos 2. Menacing low tones 3. Quick, sudden accents The tremolos were used by the strings, the low tones used by the brass ad woodwinds, and the quick sudden accents by the brass and percussion. These techniques bring the scary, intense, and suspenseful part of music. The tremolos are eerie and scary. Low tones by the brass cause people to brace for something that could happen and the accents change it so you don’t know what to expect next. 3. Some critics accused Berlioz of heresy because of his use and treatment of the religious Gregorian chant, Dies irae. Why do you think Berlioz chose to include the Dies irae in the fifth movement? I believe he included Dies irae because its specifically a chant for the dead. There’s no better way to incorporate witches and death into a piece of music than by using a chant that was intentionally made for dead people. The melody of Dies irae fits in perfectly with the mood he’s trying to portray in this 5 th movement.