HOW TO LISTEN TO CLASSICAL MUSIC

Listening for Expression and Emotion

Experience has
something to do with
the connection to
music
They complement and
enhance each other

Musical movement
It can be upward
movement then
returns to origin then
upward again
 Its best term as
musical metaphor to
capture the its emotion
relayed

This identify the

connection whether it
is wrong or right.
Connection of you to
the music

This prepared us to the

climax
 Sympathetic response
is when we share with
the emotion within the
piece

Emotions in
understanding one’s
self (personal qualities)

Musical Seed, Arguments and Structure

This format is use any

debates, essays and alike.
 This is same as through
in music, that you’ll going
to introduce, then develop
and finally conclude

Musical Prelude is also

term as musical seed

This only applies to

traditional classical piece
but as it develops themes
becomes complex

the prelude is very simple

that is it only a C and a B

But the chord is becoming

lower and deeper until it
is develop
The deep and lower
chords is still going down
until it goes to a dramatic
resolution

This musical argument is

applicable to all, they just
varies in how they are
preluded and develop
including resolution. It
can as simple or as
complex as the composer
desire.
 Tonality

It is in his time that

tonality has flourish and
his tonality is that
famous and widely use.

Determine the theme of

the musical piece

This is Beethoven’s piano.

It is unconventional key
characters as to compare
to the modern piano that
has similar and even tone
Tonic is also term home
key

Is the home key

Dominant key
 Home key / tonic

Modulation

Dominant key

Development

The entire succeeding key

has some relation to the
tonic key
 Mostly his baroque music
is too far from tonic that
miraculously come home in
the recap

The father of wertern tonality

Ludwig treated the C major

and minor including A
minor / major as identical
tonic relation that makes it
easy to bring it home
together

In listening to musical
piece, it not necessary that
must all know they key
therein rather at least you
can identify the
introduction, development
and recapitulation and how
the musical piece coming
home
Sonata Form

The first group will always be in the

HOME KEY while the second key in in
contrasting key

This is not essential in sonata

form
 In a home key

Then it goes to two or more key

higher

It gives us calmer, scaling and

contrasting feel

Codetta is repeated to show

finality of the music but not
always
 Aside from these, there is no
rules involve in the development
section

Just like this image, you broke

but still put together and always
go back to home tonic

In the developmental area, you

can introduce ANOTHER
THEME to add another
dimension
 It is here where the
dramatization took place and the
introduction of another theme

Changes in keys will dictates the

emotion and the ending of the
music whether it is joyful to
tragic

This part gives a dramatic

ending

You can shift keys but always

repose with home key/tonic

Group Activity

Let analyze and recognize the elements of a classical music of the

following composer.
Group 1:
Group 2:
Group 3:
Group 4:
Group 5:

Beethoven Johannes Brahms Franz Schubert

Chopin