When you've found some good examples of Baroque Suite movements, list them here so everyone else can enjoy them too!  While you're listening to them, think about which one you'd like to write for your next project.

Summarize your analysis of this concerto.  Use the listening guide questions as a......well......guide!  

How does Vivaldi use "word painting" to depict each movement of the Four Seasons?  Use specific musical examples to answer this question.  By the way, you can post more than once after reading other people's answers.  Some of you haven't posted yet for Dido, Bach, etc.

Post your thoughts on the selections from Handel's Messiah.

Summarize what you wrote on the Bach Cantata.  What is so attractive about the melodies?  How is this different than what we've heard in the Medieval and Renaissance?

Discuss Dido here.  What new compositional device(s) did you hear?

Listen to the recordings I linked, and then see if you can find some more.  Find anything good?  Post them here.  What are your thoughts on the music of Monteverdi?

After listening to portions of both masses and filling out the listening guides, summarize what you wrote here.  Be sure to check back to see what others have written also.  Also, try listening to some of the other selections by DuFay and des Prez.  Find anything good?  List it here.

If you found some good links to Gregorian chant recordings, this is the place to put them so we can all share!

In this class, you will be expected to do a lot on your own.  With that being said, I will also expect you to help each other out.  This is the place you'll be able to do that.  This is where you can post any kind of general questions you have about the course, the exam, or any kind of theory questions.