Thursday, December 08, 2011

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!