Alison Baker
US Arts and Ideas, 6th Period, 2007-08
alison.baker@ssfs.org
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Click here for your homework ......... Click here for powerpoints

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..........................What separates ART from the EVERYDAY?
.....................................................MUSIC from NOISE?

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.WEEKLY OVERVIEW AND HOMEWORK......

May 19-23

Monday DADA---and Picasso Ragtime/Jazz
Tuesday more Jazz, Gershwin, O'Keeffe, Stravinsky
Wednesday
no class
Thursday
WW II art, Martha Graham, Minimalism, Pop Art
Friday and the weekend: look at powerpoints on Modern/ listen to music

May 27-30

Monday NO SCHOOL
Tuesday wrap up MODERN
Wednesday
no class
Thursday study for final
Friday and the weekend: reading day...anytime after 10am

CLICK HERE:---Cross-Cultural Slide Presentation of the 18th Century

Geographical Areas Selected:
India - Eamon
Africa-Nora K and Sydni
Australia-Nora S
Japan-Charlie
United States (music?)-Gus
China-Sang Mi
Russia-Jennifer
Brazil (South America)-Ariel
Caribbean-Brian
Mid-East-Sam

Helpful Handouts and Resources:

CD labels

Review sheet --Modern

Welcome to ISMs---Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism

Turn of the Century--all things modern

Powerpoints and music selections:

OVERVIEW

Looking at Art

Elements of Design website --Cornell University

MIDDLE AGES

Before the Fall (of the Roman Empire)

Early Christian

Byzantine

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art and Architecture

Middle Ages Powerpoint----terms and views that you need to know---Grotto to Giotto

Humanism and Giotto---Medieval literature

Women of the Middle Ages through Renaissance--powerpoint

How to read and create Gregorian Chant

RENAISSANCE

Florentine Renaissance---art and architecture

High Renaissance powerpoint

Northern Renaissance powerpoint

BAROQUE

Baroque --- Counter Reformation and Aristocratic

Baroque --- Northern and Rococo

Baroque Music

Baroque Art Powerpoint

CLASSICAL

Neo-Classical Art and Architecture powerpoint

Classical Music powerpoint

Mozart's 40th Symphony in G minor---Sonata-Allegro form, 1st movement

Schubert's Trout (Die Forelle) --lied

Schubert's Trout (Die Forelle)--Piano Quintet

Beethoven's Fur Elise a bagatelle

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata --1st movement,adagio (!), breaks traditional form

von Paradis---Sicilienne

ROMANTIC

intro to the Romantic Era

ROMANTICS --- powerpoint

PRE-RAPHAELITES --- powerpoint

Daumier--powerpoint

Romantic Musical Selections to Know:

Music-Paganini -Caprice #24---played by Heifitz on YouTube

Music-Mendelssohn, Wedding March from Midsummer Night's Dream

Music-Chopin, Minute Waltz

Music- Chopin Scherzo #1 ---YouTube played by JONATHAN CAMBRY

Music---Schumann Traumerei (Dreaming), Horowitz in Russia...YouTube

Music-Brahms Lullaby

Music-Liszt-Transcendental Etude #4

Music Liszt Transcendental Etude #10---YouTube played by JONATHON CAMBRY

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique---idee fixe
................1st movement---Reveries
................2nd movement--at a Ball
............... 3rd mov.--in the Country
............... 4th mov. --March to the Guillotine
................5th mov.--Witches' Sabbath

Music-Bizet Carmen (Habanera) L'Amour (1875) ---YouTube, sung by Maria Callas

Music Puccini- Tosca--(1900) versimo opera...the ugly and vulgar

Verdi's Anvil Chorus in 2 versions:

Verdi-YouTube, Il Trovatore, ("The Troubadour") Anvil Chorus

Verdi-YouTube, Anvil Chorus in Smashed Glass

3 examples of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries (from the Ring of the Nibelung opera cycle):

Music---Wagner...YouTube...Ride of theValkryies from the Ring operas

Music---Wagner, YouTube...Valkries in Apocalypse Now

Music----Wagner, YouTube....Valkyries...Kill da Wabbit (with Bugs and Elmer)

The Russians do Fantasia:

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite-dancing mushrooms

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite-dancing flowers

Mussourgsky Night on Bald Mountain

MODERN

Photography---the Beginning

Realism---Moving into the 20th Century

Impressionism powerpoint

Post-Impressionism powerpoint

Symbolists and Art Nouveau powerpoint

More ISMs

DADA powerpoint

Early Modern Music powerpoint

Gershwin

Art Deco

Minimalism

Martha Graham and Aaron Copland

Schoenberg

Picasso

Mondrian

Duchamp

MODERN MUSIC

Stravinsky-Rite of Spring 1--Intro

Stravinsky- Rof S 2 --Dance of the Young Girls

Stravinsky Rof S 14 Sacrifical Dance

Satie Gymnopedies

MISC.

Military Information

Alison's Portfolio

Helpful Links:

www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

National Gallery of Art--Washington, DC

Phillips Collection

Arts and Ideas - Resource site

SSFS Library