January 5, 2015

Period 3 Midterm Exam: Monday, January 12 at 8:00 a.m.


§  Performance of Harry's Wonderous World by John Williams on SmartMusic (due 1/14/15) – 30 points.

§  Understand MAJOR and relative MINOR scales and keys.
 
§  Identify Time Signatures and note values in 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8.

§  Be able to count measures written in various time signatures.

§  WBe able to discuss musical listening excerpts using musical terms

§  English composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams wrote Fantasia on Greensleeves for the opera “Sir John in Love.”

§  In Fantasia on Greensleeves, Vaughan-Williams used two English folk melodies: Greensleeves and Lovely Joan.

§  Albert Hague wrote the music for “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and Dr. Seuss wrote the lyrics.

§  White Christmas was written by Irving Berlin for the movie “Holiday Inn.”  According to the Guinness World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.

§  A composition will be at the end.  It will be in a minor key in 6/8. 

 

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