Summit Chorale Fall Season 2020
September 8 - Welcome Back!
Introductions
Plan for the Season
Warm-up Videos
Fundraiser!
Viewing of “The Lord Bless You and Keep You”
The Materials of Music: Part One Rhythm/Melody/Harmony
Performance by Beth Robin
September 15 - Introduction to Sight Reading and Musicianship
Further discussion of Rhythm
Discussion of the Key Signatures/ the Major and Minor Scales, solfege
Learning to write solfege into your melodies
The Materials of Music: Part Two - Texture and Musical Terms; Voice Types;Presentation on Instruments
Performance by Beth Robin
September 22 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 1
Continue to work on rhythms, write solfege in melodies, identify key signatures
Discussion of Intervals
Presentation on instrumental families and the orchestra
Benjamin Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”
Performance by Beth Robin
September 29 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 2
The Renaissance Period - Overview of musical terms and styles, the development of the Renaissance Motet, focus on Palestrina, Victoria and Lassus
Discussion on how to record videos
Performance by Beth Robin
October 6 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 3
The Baroque Period Part One: The Early Baroque - The Venetian School, the Bardi Camerata and the creation of Opera, Claudio Monteverdi in Italy, Heinrich Schütz in Germany and the Thirty Years War.
October 13 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 4
The Baroque Period Part Two: The Middle Baroque and the Music of Henry Purcell: Choral Music and Dido and Aeneas; the creation of the English Masque
Performance: Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
October 20 - Concert One Videos Due
The Baroque Period Part Three:Johann Sebastian Bach
Part One of the Mass in B Minor
October 27 - Concert One Videos Due
The Baroque Period Part Four: George Frederic Handel:
Movie!: Farinelli
November 3 - Election Day; No Meeting
November 10 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 5
The Classical Period Part One: Introduction to Terminology, philosophy and style; Franz Joseph Haydn, his piano works, string quartets, symphonies and The Creation
November 17 - The Classical Period Part Two: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Choral Music
Movie! Amadeus Part 1
November 24 - Discussion of Holiday Videos
The Classical Period Part Three: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Operas
Movie! Amadeus- Part 2
December 1 - Final Meeting; Holiday Videos Due
September 8 - Welcome Back!
Introductions
Plan for the Season
Warm-up Videos
Fundraiser!
Viewing of “The Lord Bless You and Keep You”
The Materials of Music: Part One Rhythm/Melody/Harmony
Performance by Beth Robin
September 15 - Introduction to Sight Reading and Musicianship
Further discussion of Rhythm
Discussion of the Key Signatures/ the Major and Minor Scales, solfege
Learning to write solfege into your melodies
The Materials of Music: Part Two - Texture and Musical Terms; Voice Types;Presentation on Instruments
Performance by Beth Robin
September 22 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 1
Continue to work on rhythms, write solfege in melodies, identify key signatures
Discussion of Intervals
Presentation on instrumental families and the orchestra
Benjamin Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”
Performance by Beth Robin
September 29 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 2
The Renaissance Period - Overview of musical terms and styles, the development of the Renaissance Motet, focus on Palestrina, Victoria and Lassus
Discussion on how to record videos
Performance by Beth Robin
October 6 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 3
The Baroque Period Part One: The Early Baroque - The Venetian School, the Bardi Camerata and the creation of Opera, Claudio Monteverdi in Italy, Heinrich Schütz in Germany and the Thirty Years War.
October 13 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 4
The Baroque Period Part Two: The Middle Baroque and the Music of Henry Purcell: Choral Music and Dido and Aeneas; the creation of the English Masque
Performance: Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
October 20 - Concert One Videos Due
The Baroque Period Part Three:Johann Sebastian Bach
Part One of the Mass in B Minor
October 27 - Concert One Videos Due
The Baroque Period Part Four: George Frederic Handel:
Movie!: Farinelli
November 3 - Election Day; No Meeting
November 10 - Sight-Reading and Musicianship 5
The Classical Period Part One: Introduction to Terminology, philosophy and style; Franz Joseph Haydn, his piano works, string quartets, symphonies and The Creation
November 17 - The Classical Period Part Two: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Choral Music
Movie! Amadeus Part 1
November 24 - Discussion of Holiday Videos
The Classical Period Part Three: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Operas
Movie! Amadeus- Part 2
December 1 - Final Meeting; Holiday Videos Due