A Person Wrote The Piece You Hear and Play
CYM Piano Faculty Maria Constantine presents Music History: Learning About Music and the World – Saturday, August 20th! Explore the societal happenings of each musical period and discover how people expressed and healed themselves and their communities, as they listened to and created music. Interactive interludes will break up the lectures so you can quickly identify musical attributes. Activities will include Guidonian Hand movements, Affetti, waltz dancing, and how to mentally organize aural patterns while listening.
What signals can you listen for that will help to remember the changes that took place in music through each era: the Early/Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Periods? What were people going through at the time they were inspired to write? How did particular compositional techniques come to be? In addition to analyzing music’s structure and treatment, the course will introduce relevant art works and famous influencers. And you will “get to know” a few composers – their works and quirks.
Everyone will listen and move to music, and also complete a hands-on project. Maria can’t wait to share her new course! It is sure to invigorate home practice and public performance. Topics may change depending on participant’s ages – check out the overview here:
- How many solfege syllables did Guido use?
- How and why did people use the Guidonian Hand to teach music?
- How was it used differently in rehearsals and in concerts?
- What is “Affetti” and why is it important?
- What instruments were used in the Baroque and Early Music era and who played them?
- What are Classical Era “salons” and who attended?
- What was music’s purpose in the Classical Era? in the Romantic Era?
- How and why was music revolutionized in the Romantic Era?
- How did people respond as they heard changes in music (in any of these time periods) for the first time?
We hope to see you there! Click here to register – Music History: Learning About Music and the World