oct 27 | Week 10

Shake the sand off your slippers and immerse yourself in the music of the Classical Era.

First Viennese School

Overview

We continue with the First Viennese School. Our aim is to become au courant with the lives and works of these composers. Later this week, celebrate with Quiz, Enlightenment!

Music Listening

Symphonies and operas were designed to fill an evening of entertainment, so even a single movement by Mozart or Beethoven can be 10 or 15 minutes in duration.

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his career as a child prodigy, bedazzling wealthy aristocrats. His life was tragically cut short, but not before creating some of the world's greatest masterworks.

3. Mozart

Concerto

The Classical era concerto was a flashy work for virtuoso instrumental soloist and orchestra.

4. The Concerto

Joseph Haydn

Haydn lived a rags to riches story: homeless Vienna street kid overcomes obstacles and claws his way to wealth and fame!

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Haydn is not kin of George Washington, albeit they had similar fashion tastes.

5. Joseph Haydn

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Quiz, Enlightenment

Take a quiz over the Music In The Age of Enlightenment unit up to and including Joseph Haydn:

Quiz, Enlightenment: 10/31 to 11/02

No Quiz Makeups

Late or makeup quizzes are not accepted.

Play Guitar or 'Ukulele

Learn to play guitar or ‘ukulele in MUS 121D, Guitar 1, or MUS 121Z, ‘Ukulele 1, next semester. Get real hands-on instruction in a classroom. We teach basics of technique, notation, and music playing. You’ll strum, pick, solo, and jam with others in no time!

Ciao, Peter