Latest News: Final Exam, Listening, grades.....

The final exam has been graded - you can pop into WebCT to check your score.

Final Grades won't be posted for a few days - there's a lot of data to mes with, and I have a recording session and a performance this Friday.

THANK YOU to everyone for your patience - we still don't know where the scheduling mixup occurred, but I'm thankful you guys were willing and able to go with the flow!

LISTENING <-- Click if you want to hear it again.

1. Check your audio - obviously, one of the class piece recordings - the aleatoric one. CLICK HERE if you'd like to listen to ALL the things we recorded.

2. One - "Hotter Than That", Louis Armstrong. Jazz!

3. Two - Weelkes, "As Vesta Was Descending". NOT "Vespa" - they didn't have Italian-made scooters back then! Renaissance, word painting, polyphonic, a cappella, a madrigal.

4. Three - Bartok Concerto for Orcehstra (II. Game of Pairs), towards the end. 20th Century, some dissonance. This is actually "NeoClassical".

5. Four - I had mistyped something in the code, which is why it wasn't working - everyone got the 10 points as a patience/Christmas bonus. You can hear it now - [it's on your CDs as well].

6. Five - the class minimalism piece - so 21st c., minimalistic, not much variation, noise as a sound source.

I'll post again when the grades are put into the system. Next Wednesday is the Deadline, so they'll definitely be done before then!

OOPS.....the class recordings!

Just discovered the class recordings didn't post correctly. That has been repaired, and you can now download our recordings and bestow them on posterity or to annoy the rodents in the neighborhood.


CLICK HERE and select the track to download!

Who says Classical is boring?

Something to make you smile - the Calgary Chorus took the music to "O Fortuna" [you'll recognize it when you here it] and asked their audience to tweet in their suggestions for keeping warm up there.

The original article is at
http://gizmodo.com/5865380/tweeted-tips-for-staying-warm-as-sung-by-the-calgary-philharmonic-orchestra

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The Class Recordings are Ready [finally!]

http://www.last.fm/music/Tom+Rule/Music+Appreciation+Experiments

You can listen to them online, or download them. They are 320 bitrate MP3s, so can be played on any mp3 player/computer, etc.

Aleatoric 2 probably sounds the best.

So, I have to ask: IS THIS MUSIC?

[and was it fun to create?]