《Lecture 23耶鲁大学开放课程《聆听音乐》讲稿 》.pdf

Yale University Listening to Music Lecture 23 Professor Craig Wright: All right. Lets proceed with our discussion of musical style. And this is going to be mostly a comparison of musical style in different style periods. And weve put the titles of those style periods up on the board there. Once again, this is a typically Western exercise that we are dealing with here. We love to organize material so that we can simplify it and we can deal with it--whether its attributing to an individual, things that a large number of people do, whether its grouping random units of pulses into meter, or whether its taking a highly complex group of phenomena and putting them particular style periods, we like to do that because it allows us to deal with the material in some kind of organized fashion. So weve got our various periods up here. As mentioned though, we wont going into the post-modernist in any significant way here. Now what youll be asked to do is identify the period in which a particular piece is written, and if it turns out that on our final test, we happen to play for you a piece thats on the list of pieces that we give you, then youre responsible for identifying the name of the composer and the name of the piece. If the piece we play is not on your list, then all you would be asked to do is identify the style period. However, youre asked to do something even more important than that and thats to tell us why its in this particular style period. It does no good--I dont think--just to say Romantic and then going to walk away from it. What I would ask you to do is give us three or four specific points that you hear in the music that corroborate your decision with regard to the style period. Now, you may wish to take a look at your textbook there, around page sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, where theres an introduction to musical style and a checklist,