2) I am CURVING this test. (Don't get used to it, though!) In the spreadsheet where you are keeping track of your scores, INSTEAD of setting this test worth 92 points, make it worth 82 points.
3) The gradebook will be updated by the time you read this with current attendance, concert report grades, and presentation grades.
3) Next week: JAZZ. This will be outside the book, mostly. I strongly suggest you take notes. It WILL be on the final exam.
Here is everyone's comments - an interesting panoply of opinions!
What was most surprising about the 20th C music to you?
Kind of strange how the first half, everything sounded so distorted and uncomfortable, and then near the end people got sick of it (thank God) and went back to tonality. It's almost like it was two different eras.
It surprises me that 20 Century music hasn't gone out of style. You still hear it today in commercials, on the radio, and in movies; sort of multi purpose.
There seemed to be such a huge step apart from "classical" sounding compositions.
It jumped quickly to change.
The odd sounds that they considered to be "music" no matter how dissonant they sounded!!
How atonal and dissonant it was. I was thinking it would be more similar to the late 20th Century music.
The Most Interesting would be the fact that it so different and open ! There is true expression and none sounds alike I love this era !
I was surprised by the fact that it didn't sound pretty. All of the music that I listen to sounds good, some of the 20th Century just sounded like noise to me.
Where a lot of songs I have heard before came from.
The sharp sounds, the music that sounded like it was from a sci fi movie or slasher flick.
Nothing really.
How there were so many sounds involved. Also how quickly the technology developed. And what was surprising they was how they still didn't use the sound effects that much until later on.
The way in which they just changed from the norm of every other era of music. The completely overhauled the system just because they could. I was shocked at how they changed sounds by destroying a perfectly good piano, or how they flipped scales to make more of a certain tone. everything dealing with the 20th C shocked me, because I was expecting more of a gradual step to modern music.
Having the different sounds and how it was all structured surprised me. I thought some of it was sort of weird but as i focused more on it all they wanted was something new that can fit in the music
The most surprising part of the 20th C music to me was, that I’m surrounded by it in everyday life and never realized how weird and different it sounds. 20th C music has taken music to greater standards of music.
Most surprising about the 20th C music is the prepared piano. How could composers just stick any and everything they got their hands on and insert it into the piano. To me it's disrespectful to a pianist to tamper with the sound but I also can understand that they were trying out new ways to change sound like no other composer before them have attempted to try. Composers in the 20th C were bold and I applaud them for that.
How much I wanted to go back to Classical music. The listening had been improving consistently up until Romantic and 20th century, I didn't like it so I listened to the pieces a lot less. It surprises me that people would pay to listen to this stuff.
personally, it wasn't very surprising to me. I guess living in the 20th century and 21st century exposes me to many of the different techniques and styles used in early 20th century music
I was surprised at how much music was out there that I didn't particularly care for. I am a lover of music, and I'm up for giving anything a try, but this music was hard for me to take at time. I did love the Jazz portion of 20th century music, but all of the atonal, dissonant, crazy music that was all over the place (particularly Schoenberg's) was not music to my ears at all. Other than that I was surprised to learn how wide of a variety of music there was. I consider myself to be pretty well rounded when it comes to instrumental music, but there was a lot of stuff I had never heard of that we listened to for this unit.
