《Lecture 2耶鲁大学开放课程《聆听音乐》讲稿 》.pdf

Yale University Listening to Music Lecture 2 Professor Craig Wright: Okay. Good morning. Over the weekend, you were assigned material from chapter one of the text and it dealt really with three famous beginnings of pieces of classical music. Somebody tell me at the outset: what were those three famous pieces? Young lady down here. Student: The first was Beethovens. Professor Craig Wright: Okay, Beethovens Fifth Symphony. What was the second one? Student: I believe it was Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto Number One. Professor Craig Wright: Yeah, Piano Concerto Number One of Tchaikovsky, and the third one? Student: [inaudible] Professor Craig Wright: Yeah, this piece by Richard Strauss with this funny sounding German name. Well just call it Zarathustra, this prophet, Zarathustra. So those are the three pieces and the issues there had to do with musical genre that were going to talk a little bit more about in a moment, and the instruments. And you went ahead and worked with the Listening Exercises nine through eleven to engage the musical instruments a bit in those particular exercises, and we have performers here today that are going to, as you can see, demonstrate some of these instruments for us. Lets make one point very clear at the outset. Oftentimes I get student papers that refer to Beethovens fifth song or Tchaikovskys first piano song. Is that right? No, thats not good at all. Are these songs? What do you have to have to make something a song? Student: Lyrics. Professor Craig Wright: Lyrics. Youve got to have a text and so we dont have--in eighty percent of classical music--we dont have lyrics; we dont have a text. Well, yes, with opera of course, but the other eighty percent is purely instrumental music. It works its magic, again, through purely instrumental means, so we cant really call those song