Composer Study Term 1 2010-11

Beethoven!

Listening selections:
    Piano Sonata 8 (Pathetique) Opus 13
    Piano Sonata 14 (Moonlight) Op 27
    Symphony No. 3 (Erocia-meaning 'heroic') Opus 55
    String Quartets opus 59, no.1-3 (Razumovsky Quartets)
    Piano Concerto 5 (Emporer) Op 73
    Symphony No. 9 (the one with Ode to Joy at the end) Opus 125

We have some of these on CD's but for those we don't:

http://www.dsokids.com/listen/ComposerDetail.aspx?composerID=13

www.pandora.com

http://www.classicalconnect.com/#/browse/composer/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

Composer Study April-May-June 2010

Edvard Grieg (1890) & Jean Sibelius (nationalists)



Listening selections for this term:
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite no 1

Grieg - Piano Concerto in A

Grieg - Norwegian Dance no 2

Sibelius - Finlandia

Sibelius - Symphony 1 (4 weeks)

1st movement

2nd movement

3rd movement

4th movement

Hymn Study All the Way my Savior Leads Me

Traditional Version


Modern Version

Folk Song Follow the Drinking Gourd

Bach Composer Studies

Biographical Info on Johann Sebastian Bach

Magnificat in D


Chaconne


Cantata~ Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring


Brandenburg Concerto no. 6


Art of the Fugue played by Nageeb Gardizi


Or to listen toArt of the Fugue On Organ

"Composer Study Thursday"

Richard Wagner

Siegfried