HOWEVER:
- All the grades - even the Kamien Connect grades, are in the Vista gradebook. You can type them into the downloadable gradebook [an excel spreadsheet I've placed in Vista]
- The final exam has been graded as well.
- The concert reports that were turned in have been graded - they are all in my mailbox in the MCA office, inside a folder. Ask the secretary about them - and be nice. She has a difficult week this week with all the end-of-semester stuff she has to handle!
THE LISTENING:
- Slow Ride in a fast machine by John Adams - on your CDs. 20th C. The syncopation and instrumentation were clues, as was the use of the synth [but that's a bit tricky to hear] .
- "Great is Thy Faithfulness" on piano - JAZZ. I mentioned to someone that it was my recording, but that is NOT true [ I forgot which file I'd uploaded]. This is a recording by a phenomenal pianist named Cyrus Chestnut. Check him out @ http://www.cyruschestnut.net!
- Concerto Grosso #1 1985 by Zwilich-Taffe. 20th C, built around a theme by Haydn... so is a mix of 20th C. and Baroque [a.k.a. "quotation music"].
- "Mars", from THE PLANETS by Holst. This is late Romantic orchestral music, but does foreshadow some 20th C techniques, as some of you heard. Many of you saw it as a movie score - a very programmatic thing!
- Minimalism #2, by.......THIS CLASS! This was the recording we did the other day. I was a bit surprised at the number of people who DIDN'T catch that. See http://www.last.fm/music/Tom+Rule/Music+Appreciation+Experiments to listen to all we recorded that day.
