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Sociology. Monday – Wednesday – LGO 9 – Due Wednesday end of class (get binders ready too) Thursday – Review LGO – Test card – Chapter 9 Binder check Friday – Chapter 9 Test Monday – On demand testing Tuesday – No school Wednesday – Chapter 9 make-up tests - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Sociology Monday – Wednesday – LGO 9 – Due
Wednesday end of class (get binders ready too)
Thursday – Review LGO – Test card – Chapter 9 Binder check
Friday – Chapter 9 Test Monday – On demand testing Tuesday – No school Wednesday – Chapter 9 make-up tests Thursday – May 22 – Collect Books – Make-
up work
Humanities Thursday – Romantic music examples Friday – US History EOC/Make-up work Monday – On Demand Testing Tuesday – No School Wednesday – Romantic/Realism Music and art
review Thursday – Romantic/Realism Identification test Friday – Romantic/Realism Make-up Identification
test Monday – No School
Romantic MusicTchaikovsky and Wagner
General Info Very diff. from Neoclassical – emotion,
adventure, and imagination Beethoven inspired composers to become self-
supported Opera very popular Soft/dreamy music accomplished by:
• Chromatic scale – moving in half steps• Dissonance – harsh sounds to the ear• Modulations – change from one key to another
General cont. Composers focused on melodies and
themes Cycle – complete story told w/ several
related songs Improved range power of
piano/improvements to orchestral instruments
Tchaikovsky Studied music as a child At 21 entered the St.
Petersburg Conservatory/ studied composition
Graduated and taught theory and composition at Moscow Conservatory
Tchaikovsky cont. Mme. Von Meck – contributions allowed
him to dedicate himself to his music Best remembered for his ballets:
Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty
Performed 6th symphony (Pathetique) as the opening concert for Carnegie Hall in 1891 – died a few days later
Tchaikovsky’s Music Symphony #6, "Pathétique" Symphony #5 – Finale Symphony #2, "Little Russian" – Finale The Nutcracker – Trepak – (Russian Dance) The Nutcracker – Waltz of the Flowers Sleeping Beauty – Panorama Sleeping Beauty – Pas de Deux Swan Lake – Introduction to Act II Swan Lake – Danse des Cygnes 1812 Overture
Wagner Born in a theatrical
family Began composing at
17 Chorus master for
several theatres Built his own theatre
(Das Festspielhaus) in 1872
Wagner Cont. Most significant works – Tristan and Isolde and
Ring Cycle (covers German and Scandinavian mythology – over 16 hrs.)
Leitmotif – assigning short melodies to people or ideas in operas (used in many 20th century films)
Adolf Hitler well known admirer of Wagner and adopted much of his work for the Nazi party
Wagner Music Prelude to Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg Overture to Tannhäuser The Ride of the Valkyries Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin Tristan and Isolde: Prelude to Act 1
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