Sample Lesson Plan Lesson Plan for 9/22/2010 Music History Lecture Lesson Objective and Standards:  The students will be given an outline of music history as it coincides with artistic and worldly history.  Content Standard 4: All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts. o ART.IV.M.HS.1 Classify by genre or style and by historical period or culture unfamiliar but representative aural examples of music and explain the reasoning behind their classifications. Materials:  Pencil  iPod o Playlist including at least one or two pieces from each musical period  Mass for Christmas: Kyrie by Unknown  Motets on Tenor Dominus: Fole Acostumance by Unknown  Ave Maria by Josquin des Prez  Pope Marcellus Mass: Agnus Dei by Giovanni Da Palestrina  The Triumphs of Oriana: As Vesta Was by Thomas Weelkes  Le Musiche sopra “Euridice”: Aria: Nel pur Ardo by Jacobi Peri  The Four Seasons: Spring by Antonio Vivaldi  Toccata in D minor by J.S. Bach  Marriage of Figaro Overture by W.A. Mozart  Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 by Beethoven  Trois Etudes de Concert, No. 3: Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt  Hungarian Dances No. 5 in G minor by Johann Brahms  …Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Oest by Claude Debussy  Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky  Ornithology by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie  Improvisation 1 by Ryo Noda  Love Me Do by The Beatles  Speakers/Sound System  Hand out on musical periods Sample Lesson Plan Procedures:  Once the seniors leave the room, the rest of the class will face towards the speakers/sound system.  Each student will receive a hand-out.  I will begin by introducing the rationale of this subject, which is for the students to have mastery over all aspects of music and that this lecture will help them connect musical events with worldly and artistic events.  I will play the pieces as I go in depth on each of the musical periods, pointing out specific techniques for each period and how they developed starting with Gregorian chants and ending with Rock-and-Roll.  At the end of the lecture, students will be told what to expect on the test. Assessment:  Formal Assessment: The students will have a short test on Monday asking them to name the dates for each musical period, one or two composers from each period, one or two worldly occurrences from each period, and also one artistic period/artist for each musical period. Sample Music History Handout Music History Timeline Musical Period Middle Ages (500-1430) Dates Music Events ca. 500 De Institutione musica by Boethius ca. 590-600 Gregorian chant established in the Frankish Empire Historical Events Important Art Fall of Rome and the rise of Byzantine Art Gregory the Great is elected Pope 800s Earliest notated manuscripts of Gregorian chant. Music begins to move from monophony to polyphony Charlemagne crowned emperor by pope 1000 Monks at St. Gall compose tropes and sequences Normans invade England Lindisfarne Gospels Romanesque art becomes popular Bayeux Tapestry 1025 Guido of Arezzo, an Italian monk, devises a method for learning music by ear (The Guidonian Hand) 1200s Motets created by adding French or Latin words to the upper voice Early 1300s Mid 1300s Early 1400s Ars Nova (New Art) movement in France Magna Carta is signed Gothic art and architecture Pope John XXII Black Plague Holy Roman Empire Early Renaissance begins Sample Music History Handout Early to mid 1400s Increase in secular music and four-part harmonies Death of Joan of Arc Leonardo de Vinci Late-1400s Josquin des Prez becomes a leading figure in music Beginning of the Tudor dynasty in England. First voyage of Columbus to America Michelangelo 1500s Giovanni Da Palestrina satisfies Pope Pius IV’s strict rules for nonsecular music Pope Pius IV’s Counterreformation Raphael Late 1500s Thomas Morley and Thomas Weelkes ar major proponents of English music Queen Elizabeth I rules England and with her death, ends the Tudor dynasty Early 1600s Beginning of Opera with Jacopo Peri’s Dafne and L’Euridice Shakespeare dies in 1616 and the Thirty Years War begins in 1618 Mid-1600s Instrumental music is becoming more recognized Galileo proves the Earth is round and is charged with heresy Late 1600s Handel, Vivaldi and J.S. Bach are born Charles the II reigns in England Early 1700s Concertos become a new category for instrumental First daily newspaper printed in England Renaissance 1430-1600 Baroque 1600-1750 Rembrandt Rise of the Rococo period Sample Music History Handout music Mid 1700s Classical 1750-1820 Late 1700s 1732-1809 1756-1791 1770-1827 Early 1800s Romantic 1803-1910 Mid-1800s Music develops into new styles: Opera develops into Opera Buffa (comedy) and Opera Seria (dramatic), and Sonata form is developed Premiere of Orfeo et Euridice by Gluck. J.C.Bach and C.P.E. Bach compose pieces for keyboards. First volume of the French Encyclopedie published. Voltaire writes Candide Haydn composes over 100 symphonies Mozart composes many operas, symphonies, concertos, and other forms of music Beethoven has three distinct periods of his compositions Hector Berlioz composes Symphonie Fantastique and Schubert focuses on melody in lieder Liszt tours Europe and Schumann composes Dichterliebe George III rules England from 1760-1820 Reign of Louis XVI in France from 1774-1792 American Revolution and Declaration of Independence signed. Napoleon crowns himself emperor in 1804 Neo-classicism period End of Neoclassic period Beginning of Romanticism and Realism in early 1800s Napoleon defeated at Waterloo Victoria named Queen of England Tube paints become popular Sample Music History Handout Late 1800s Early 1900s Modern/20th Century 1908-present Mid-1900s 1940s 1950-60s Clara Schumann returns to being a performer after Robert’s attempted suicide. Brahms was a leading composer in all but opera. Impressionist music from Ravel and Debussy. Post-tonal music by Schoenberg and Arnold. Russian period by Stravinsky. Sousa becomes a major factor in the creation of the modern band. The beginning of Jazz Hindemith composes several neo-classical pieces. Carl Orff composes Carmina Burana Bebop becomes a new style of jazz, influenced heavily by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie Avant Garde music Rock and Roll Lincoln is assassinated Impressionism World War I Art Nouveau World War II Cubism, Abstractionism End of World War II Expressionism and Surrealism Korean War and Vietnam War Pop Art Sample Music History Handout 1970s Rock develops and gains subgenre, such as: blues rock, hard rock, etc. Watergate scandal 1980s Hair bands Berlin Wall is torn down 1990s Today Boy bands Rap, R&B, Pop, Alternative Rock 9/11/2001, Iraqi War, Barack Obama is elected President Street Art Sample Music History Quiz Name: ______________________________Date: _____________Hour: _____________ Musical Period Composer(s) Historical Event(s) Middle Ages _______ to ________ 1. ___________________ 1. _______________________ _______________________ Renaissance _______ to_________ 1. _____________________ 1. 2. _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ 2. _____________________ _____________________ Baroque _______ to ________ 1. 1. _____________________ 2. _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ 2. _____________________ _______________________ Classical _______ to ________ 1. 1. ____________________ 2. _____________________ _______________________ _____________________ 2. _____________________ _______________________ Romantic _______ to ________ 1. 1. _____________________ 2. _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ 2. _____________________ _______________________ Modern/20th Century _______ to ________ 1. 1. _____________________ 2. _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ 2. _____________________ _______________________