First Nights - Handel's Messiah and Baroque Oratorio
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The Syllabus
- How do we talk about music? (5 Questions)
- Messiah's Performance Tradition (2 Questions)
- What's an Oratorio? (6 Questions)
- Discussion - Staging Oratorio?
- Musical Styles in Opera & Oratorio (2 Questions),
- Recitative (9 Questions)
- Choruses (11 Questions)
- Songs/Arias (3 Questions)
- Lecture (1 Question)
- Performance
- Discussion - Authentic Performance?,
- The Words and the Shape (2 Questions)
- Handel's Dublin and the Fishamble Street Music Hall (3 Questions)
- Handel's Audience (2 Questions)
- Performers, Preparations, and the First Performance (3 Questions)
- Game: Identifying Selections from their Introductions (1 Question)
- Reactions to the First Performance
- Activity: Explore a piece from Messiah on your own
- Messiah - Unit Final Quiz
- End of Course Survey
- Introduction to the First Nights Modules
- The Second Point - The Culture
- The Third Point, the Listener - How Do We Describe Music?
- Introduction to Music Theory
- Pitch Basics
- Musical Time
- Pitch Structure
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