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During our third quarter, students in the MS class will continue to
discuss the music of the Baroque period. We will complete the
J.S. Bach unit during the first week, and will take the final quiz over
this material. After this discussion is complete, we will begin
discussing another of the great composers of this period, Antonio
Vivaldi. Students can plan on lecture/discussion of this
material two periods per week, and can plan on a final quiz at the end
of the quarter.
We will also continue our study of key signatures, chords, chord
qualities, etc. Students can plan on this discussion once a week
with periodic trial quizzes. We will have the final quiz over
this material at the end of February.
As during the first semester, students will present their student
presentations on Fridays. Students have been quite
successful with this presentation, and we look forward to hearing
more. Students may choose any topic they feel might be of
interest to our class. There are three elements that must be
presented: an oral report, a visual element that can include
pictures, posters, diagrams, etc., and a listening element that can be
performed on the equipment available in the piano classroom (Ipods
often don't work on our machinery). Students will receive a
Pass/Fail grade on this assignment. Any student not
satisfactorily completing this assignment will receive a Fail grade and
an Incomplete for the semester.
I will also be presenting now and then about various topics that I feel may be of interest to our students.
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