http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:33 PDT Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:33 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255256 This activity aims to familiarize students with Expressionism and encourages interconnections between music and the visual arts. It includes pop-ups of representative paintings, and it is recommended that this activity be enhanced with audio of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255253 This activity aims to familiarize students with Impressionism and encourages interconnections between music and the visual arts. It includes pop-ups of representative paintings, and it is recommended that this activity be enhanced with audio of Claude Debussy’s Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun."  http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255282 Using as an example "Lascia ch’io pianga" from Handel’s opera Rinaldo (1711), this activity aims to familiarize the students with the form of aria da capo typically found in Baroque opera seria.    http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255258 Although premiered only six years after Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique represents a revolutionary departure from Beethoven's symphonic style, but at the same time it follows on Beethoven's symphonic legacy. This interactive activity encourages students to think critically of the similarities and differences between Beethoven’s and Berlioz’s symphonic styles. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255275 Identify the characters in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (in Italian and English). Active links to pantheon.org provide additional background on the mythological names. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255263 A parallel list (in Italian and English) of the instruments designated by Claudio Monteverdi on the 1609 edition of the score of L'Orfeo. Includes pop-up images of the instruments and web links. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255260 Berlioz’s program for the 1830 premiere of the Symphonie fantastique. It is recommended that text in bold red be replaced with active audio links of the corresponding music examples indicated by measure numbers. (From Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, ed. Nicholas Temperley. New Edition of the Complete Works, Vol. 16. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1972.)  http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255278 A synopsis of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. It includes web links and pop-ups with explanations of terminology. It is recommended that the CD track indications (in red) be replaced with active audio links of the corresponding music examples.