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Explore Classical Music: Haydn, Mozart, and Opera Forms

Join our Music Appreciation group led by Ben Tibbetts for an engaging discussion on Haydn and Mozart. We will collect homework, review listening logs, and delve into Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and the nuances of opera serias and buffas. Learn about character dynamics in "The Marriage of Figaro" and prepare for an upcoming concert report and classical test. Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of classical music!

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Explore Classical Music: Haydn, Mozart, and Opera Forms

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  1. M100: Music Appreciation Discussion GroupBen Tibbetts, T.A.benjamintibbetts@yahoo.comWelcome! Please sign the attendance at the front of the room. Thursday March 7, 2013

  2. Today’s Agenda • Collect Haydn/Mozart homework • Collect Listening Logs #1 • Pages 215-223 • Pass back stuff

  3. Collect Haydn/Mozart homework Collect Listening Logs #1

  4. Head’s Up • Concert Report #1 due next Tuesday • Classical test Thursday • No class March 16-24

  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Austrian composer/pianist

  6. Just to warm up… Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement This movement’s in sonata-allegro form: • Exposition • Exposition again • Development • Recapitulation—long, in this case

  7. Opera seria – “Italian for ‘serious opera’; Italian Baroque opera on a serious subject, typically consisting of alternating recitatives and da capo arias.” Opera buffa – “Italian for ‘comic opera’; a genre that uses many of the same conventions as serious opera….but with plots revolving around believable, everyday characters rather than mythical or historical figures.” ~from page 517

  8. music from The Marriage of Figaro an opera buffa from the end of the first act

  9. Characters in this scene: Susanna -maidservant Count Almaviva –married to the Countess, (but has crush on Susanna) Basilio –court music teacher Cherubino –page boy

  10. “Cosa sento” from The Marriage of Figaro

  11. pass back stuff

  12. Final Reminders / Homework • Concert Report #1 due next class • Questions? Email: benjamintibbetts@yahoo.com

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