In the Blog of session 12 I presented a You Tube video featuring Leonard Bernstein, one of the great conductors and music teachers of the 20th century. The video was of Mr. Bernstein discussing the compositional Mozart implemented in the opening movement of Symphony No. 40 in G Minor. In the presentation he stated how well Mozart carried out the classic concept of balance between chromatic melodic content and diatonic harmonic content. He especially pointed out how Mozart moved from one passage to another and even one key to another using the "cycle of fifths", a concept that had been documented by Bach and other during the late Renaissance and Baroque periods of Western musical history. (The link to the video of Bernstein discussing Mozart's symphony can be found in the previous blog.)
For the remaining class time provides an opportunity to discuss some of the more important facts regarding the development of music in the Western world. Some of those facts are presented in the outline below.
