music – week 6
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Music – Week 6. Humanities – G 125 Rasmussen College Paige Shreeve Welle. Objectives for tonight:. Listen to something out of the ordinary! Learn about different styles of music Understand that music is good for your health – mental and physical! Love Phantom of the Opera like I do . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Music – Week 6
Humanities – G 125Rasmussen CollegePaige Shreeve Welle
+Objectives for tonight:
Listen to something out of the ordinary!
Learn about different styles of music
Understand that music is good for your health – mental and physical!
Love Phantom of the Opera like I do
+Music Quiz
Music Questionnaire: 1. On average, how many hours per day do you listen to
music you enjoy? How about per week?
2. How often do you listen to music without doing any other activity?
3. Do you ever listen to music to change the mood you are in?
4. Do you feel like music speaks to you personally?
5. Do you ever make your own music?
6. Would you rather pay for music you enjoy, or get music which you might not enjoy as much free?
7. Do you feel that music can be a force for change in the world?
+Fun facts about Music
The only guy in ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank Beard.
The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
Before composing Beethoven dipped his head in cold water.
At age 4, Mozart composed a concerto for the clavier.
Termites will eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.
When Madonna was 15 years old, she got grounded for the whole summer, for sneaking out to see David Bowie in concert.
Make music not war: Monaco’s national orchestra is bigger that its army.
When Billy Crystal was a child, his babysitter was the legendary Billie Holiday.
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
+What does the research say?
“Music is the best Medicine”
“Think Tank”
“Time to Make a Song and Dance with the Kids”
“That Would Make Music the Best Medicine”
Go to website for articles
+Musical Varieties
Classical
Folk songs
Spirituals
Ragtime
Jazz
Blues
Rock
Hip Hop
+Classical Music
The Transformative Power of Classical Music
Classical Music 101: Fast, Frenetic, Chase Scene Music
How many do you recognize?
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Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827Beethoven short bio
Beethoven’s 7th Symphony
Beethoven’s 9th
Symphony—Ode to Joy (Flashmob style) Played at the fall of the Berlin Wall, conducted by Bernstein in 1990
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Johann Sebastian Bach1685 - 1750Bach short Biography
“Air” by Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor in Aviator scene.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756 - 1791Mozart short bio
“Play Salieri. That’s a Challenge” (start at 3:27)
The magic flute
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Opera
The Paris Opera House
An art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto = little book) with a musical score in a theatrical setting.
Mozart had a huge influence on opera, bringing it back to popularity in the 1700s
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William Tell OvertureListen to the song
What have people done with it?
Commercials start at 1:33
Comedy
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Carmen by Song
Used in commercialsDoritos
Pepsi Cocoa Puffs Comcast
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Commercials using OperaRice Krispies
J G Wentworth
Pepsi (Michael J. Fox)
Reeses Peanut butter cups
Nissan
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Ragtime1900ishScott Joplin most famous Ragtime musician
Maple Leaf Rag
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Jazz“Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains”Duke Ellington
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
Jazz = New Orleans
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BluesDifferent from Jazz because of it’s sadder tone. “Blues is almost always about the empty aftermath of a once burning passion.
Often associated with Memphis TN
Bessie Smith – “Nobody Knows when You’re Down and Out”
Etta James “At Last”Bessie Smith 1894 – 1937
+Folk Music
Bobby Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe”
No expert musical accompaniment or trained voices
Often tell stories, some with different versions.
Commemorative songs are considered folk songs also.
“Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie” – about the death of Buddy Holly and Richie Valens.
“We will Rock You” by Queen”
•Brother Where art Thou? – “I am a Man of Constant Sorrow”
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Music of protest
Marian Anderson – told she couldn’t sing at Lincoln Memorial—corrected by Eleanor Roosevelt
“Ohio” by Crosby Stills and Nash – Kent State University Shooting
“Fortunate Son” by CCR
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Music in Movies
Across the Universe
“Roxanne” by The Police
Moulin Rouge “El Tango de Roxanne”
+The Phantom of the Opera
In 30 minutes or less
+The Story:
Phantom of the Opera: Christine’s father dies, leaving her destitute and living in
the opera house under the protection of the dressmaker The Phantom lives in the opera house secretly in the depths
beneath the house. He hears Christine sing and “forces” the owners to let her star in productions.
Raoul is Christine’s childhood sweetheart who wants to marry her and take her away.
When Christine first hears the phantom, she thinks it is her father who promised her he would send her an “angel of music”
+Who will Christine choose?
1. “The Phantom of the Opera” (Scene 9)
2. “Music of the Night” (Scene 10)
3. “All I ask of You” (Scene 18-19)
4. “Wishing you were here again” (Scene 24)
5. “Point of No Return” (Scene 32)
+Are you ready to listen to music that might be a little out of your comfort zone?
I hope so !!!!
