PowerPoint presentations posted

All remaining PowerPoint presentations have been posted to Blackboard.

Final exam review

The final exam review is now posted.

The Rite of Spring video

Reconstruction by the Joffrey Ballet of 1913 premiere staging of ballet The Rite of Spring:

• Part 1: prelude through beginning of "Round Dances of Spring"
• Part 2:

• 0:00 Continuation of "Round Dances of Spring"
• 0:37 End of excerpt in Listen.
  
• 0:37 "Ritual of the Rival Tribes"
• 2:52 "Procession of the Sage"
• 3:55 "Adoration of the Earth"
• 4:15 "Dance of the Earth"
• 5:28 End of act I

• Part 3: 6:32 to end for "Sacrificial Dance."
  

Links for Romantic opera

• Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" in Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now
  

Final exam essay questions

The final exam essay questions are now posted under Class Resources at right, or from a link on the syllabus. Please note that though the questions are available in advance, the exam is closed book and I will choose which question actually appears on the exam.

Exam 3 review posted

The review guide for exam 3 is now posted as a link under Class Resources, and also from a link on the syllabus.

Additional listening for 11/17/08

Please note that I have added a movement from Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 1 to the listening assignment for November 17. This work is discussed in the assigned reading.