Chapter 3 Helpful Resources

Chapter 3 Helpful Resources

Interactive Listening: The Classic Period (http://interactivelistening.com/music-history/classical-music-history/) This website provides videos, music analysis, extra listening, and information about literature, art, and architecture for the Classical period. This is an excellent resource that focuses on Mozart and Haydn and helps listeners better understand their musical styles.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, movement 1: Graphic Score (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgXUFnfKIY) This YouTube video shows the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as a graphic score with various colored bars representing the themes and pulsing lights showing rhythms. While the recording quality is not very high, the visual mapping is helpful in understanding how the themes interact, the various stages of the sonata form, and when themes return or are used in part during the development section.

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