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Marsalis on Form

Main Topic - Form in Music - Schedule of events- the way we organize musical events.

Main ideas - Form can make sense of long pieces - capturing the hamster

Sonata Form - Statement - Fantasia - Restatement Themes - Transitions - Intros & Endings "Classical Symphony" 1st Movement by Prokofieff

AABA - | A-8m | A-8m | B-8m | A-8m | - "I've Got Rhythm" George Gershwin 32 bar song - chorus format - choruses are "stacked" - skyscraper types of choruses - melody, sax solo, ensemble "Cottontail" by Duke Ellington

Theme & Variations - changes details but basic shape remains the same "Variations on "America"" by Charles Ives

The Blues - | I-4m | IV-2m | I-2m | V-1m | IV-1m | I-2m | uses "stacked" choruses Other types of choruses - Call and Response, Riff "Happy Go Lucky Local" by Duke Ellington

General ideas - Twisting Musical ideas within a song. Form a "building" of music (floors, elevators, escalators). Listen for clues to the form. Learn how to listen so that you can group different parts of the song or separate them. Music as a story.

Vocabulary - Composition, composer, Jazz, Classical, conductor, form, Prokofieff, Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, major key, minor key, sonata form, statement, fantasia, restatement, theme, transition, intro, ending, AABA, 32 bar song, bridge, chorus format, stacked choruses, sax solo, ensemble, theme and variations, blues, I, IV, V, call and response, riff, chords, maestros, form, dissonant, William Schumann

Problems or Questions - Trying to figure if its played in the same key. What are the characters going to do (in a story)? Transitions. How do we get from one place (theme) to another? Understanding sections of music. How to identify important themes. Tell when you hear second theme.

Who is on the show? - Wynton Marsalis (emcee), Seiji Ozawa (orchestra conductor), Tanglewood Orchestra, Wynton's Jazz Orchestra, a few hundred kids