《Lecture 14耶鲁大学开放课程《聆听音乐》讲稿 》.pdf

Yale University Listening to Music Lecture 14 Professor Craig Wright: All right. Let us begin, please. Were going to get started to stay on track for this morning. Dont forget, of course, that we have this exciting event next Tuesday, which is our second test. There will be--I know. Curb your enthusiasm. There will be a review section for that, indeed three of them, next Monday night as we did last time. Theyll be in room 207 of WLH again this Monday: seven, eight and nine respectively, and yours truly will be there. Well also have Monday afternoon. If you want individual help, you can come to my office and one of the TAs will be covering a run of about four or five hours there Monday afternoon probably starting around one oclock, and of course Ill be sending you a prep sheet on this so that you will know how to prepare for this test just as we prepared for the last test. The test itself will be very similar to the first test except we--when we get to the listening pieces, then we will not be so much concentrating on individual isolated aspects of melody, rhythm and harmo ny but these broader questions of form. What is the form? Where are we in the form? Thats the essence of the assignment there. Were working here with form and its very important. It brings, I think--my guess is in all of the listening that youve been doing, pop music, classical, whatever it is, how many when you were listening ever thought about form? Did you ever think about it, any of you? Okay. One person I see raised their hand, and maybe Roger raises his hand but not too enthusiastically. Yeah, its the kind of thing that you could do a lot of playing and listening to music. You could take as my seventeen-year-old, maybe seventeen-year-old, maybe twelve, thirteen years of cello and I could ask him, What form do we have? Where are we in the form? and he wouldnt really know because he hasnt been exposed to tha