Japanese music instruments

Rethinking traditional Japanese instruments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09vfa4vuHFY

Chinese Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTixDAJNwo&feature=related

Challenge yourselves - Identify the instruments used! Watch and listen carefully!

Identify the Indian instruments

Challenge yourselves!

1. Name the instruments

2. Identify the tradition they are from

3. Provide 2 physical descriptions of the instrument and how it is played.

Instrument 1

Instrument 2

Instrument 3

Instrument 4

Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor

A Requiem Mass in the Roman Catholic tradition is a service designed to pray for the souls of the departed. The parts of the liturgy that are meant to be sung are what constitute all Requiem Mass compositions, including Mozart's.

The structure is as follows:
1. Introit
2. Kyrie
3. Sequence: a. Dies irae b. Tuba mirum c. Rex tremendae d. Recordare e. Confutatis f. Lacrimosa
4. Offertory: a. Domine Jesu Christe b. Hostias
5. Sanctus
6. Benedictus
7. Agnus Dei
8. Lux Aeterna

Mozart died before finishing the Requiem Mass, and his wife Constanze gave the task of finishing the work to a pupil of Mozart's named Süssmayr. From the Sanctus onward, the Requiem is the creation of Süssmayr, though he did use portions of the Introit and Kyrie for the Lux Aeterna.

Despite, or maybe partially because of, the controversy surrounding this Requiem Mass, it is widely regarded as Mozart's greatest masterpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88xIIRDI9U&feature=search

John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir.

Below is the Latin and the English translation for the Introit and Kyrie.

Introit

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine
Eternal rest grant unto them, Lord
Requiem æternam dona eis
Eternal rest grant unto them
et lux perpetua
and perpetual light
et lux perpetua luceat
and perpetual light shine
luceat eis.
shine on them.

Te decet hymnus Deus
A hymn comes to you
in Sion
in Zion
et tibi reddetur votum in Ierusalem.
and to you a vow shall be repaid in Jerusalem.
Exaudi Exaudi Exaudi
Hear, hear, hear
orationem meam
my prayer
ad te, ad te
to you, to you
omnis caro veniet.
all flesh will come.

Requiem æternam dona eis,
Requiem æternam dona eis,
Domine et lux perpetua
et lux perpetua
et lux perpetua
luceat eis.
luceat eis.

Kyrie

Kyrie eleison, eleison.
God have mercy.
Kyrie eleison, eleison.
Kyrie eleison, eleison.

Christe eleison, eleison.
Christ have mercy.
Christe eleison, eleison.

Kyrie eleison.
God have mercy.

Harmony Rules II

IMPERFECT CADENCES
• The imperfect cadence always ends with chord V. It gives the feeling of a half-close in the music, like a comma. The most common imperfect cadence is I – V. This is written exactly like the Perfect cadence but backwards. Other common Imperfect cadences are II – V & IV – V.
• Watch the leading note carefully, it will fall from the tonic. Don’t forget in a minor key to raise the leading note.
• In II – V try to make the soprano & bass move in contrary motion. Only use II – V in a major key.
• In VI – V don’t forget to double the 3rd in chord VI and make two voices rise and two fall. One of the voices falling will be the tonic to leading note.
• In IV – V the bass will often rise and all the other 3 parts fall. This is to help avoid consecutive octaves between the two roots.

INTERRUPTED CADENCE
• The Interrupted cadence is chords V – VI and has a very unfinished sound, like a question mark in the music, leading it on to something more.
• Double the 3rd in chord VI.

• The bass will move up a step. The leading note must rise to the tonic. The other two parts will fall.

Singapore Lyric Opera Performance!

Singapore Lyric Opera presents

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Step into the fantasy world of Die Zauberflöte - where fairy tale ingredients blend with Mozart’s finest melodies:

• Love story of Prince Tamino and Princess Pamina and the tests they have to go through
• High-drama tension between The Queen of the Night and Sarastro, the High Priest
• The hair-raising coloratura dementia – The Queen of the Night's murderous, and murderously difficult 'Die Holle Rache'
• The outrageously silly exchanges between the lovelorn bird catcher Papageno and Papagena – hear them sing 'Pa-pa-pa' (more like gasping) for about 48 times

Mozart wrote more than 20 operas throughout his life. Die Zauberflöte, the Singspiel (an 18th century German musical comedy with spoken dialogue) written just before his death, is probably his most popular operatic work. It is this masterpiece which perhaps turned a page in arts history, the first work to be made accessible not just to the aristocrats, but also to the masses.

Whether or not you are an opera fan, Die Zauberflöte is one opera you should not miss!

Date	:	23,24, 26 and 27 July 2010
Time	:	8.00pm
Venue	:	Esplanade Theatre, Singapore
Language	:	Sung in German, Dialogue in English, with English and Chinese surtitles
Tickets	:	SISTIC, (65) 6348 5555
Enquiry	:	(65) 6336 1929

Ticket Price(s)

Standard - S$130, S$110, S$88, S$68, S$58, S$48, S$30, S$15
Price(s) exclude SISTIC fee.
No entry for infants in arms and children below 8 years old
Children from 8 years old will require a ticket for entry

15% discount to:

• SLO Friends
• SLO Choir and Orchestra members (password)
• Kinokuniya Privilege card
• NTUC Union card
• All other OCBC credit cards
• Full-time students with student pass
• Full-time Nsmen
• Senior Citizens (62 yrs and above)
• Singapore Press Holdings' Staff Pass holder

The Magic Flute Video 2

From The Magic Flute, a duet between Papageno and Papagena.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liDTdbqljo4&feature=related