This program illustrates how color is created and varied using different key centers.
Major and Minor Modes
Go to the Library webpage. https://www.caldwell.edu/library
Click “Videos & Music” in Advanced Search Box.
Click “Films on Demand” – Search for “The Score: Classical Music Appreciation Through Listening Series”
Choose:Milhaud: Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof)
Watch this short video at least 2 times.
Description: This program illustrates how color is created and varied using different key centers. Notice the reference to the white and black keys on the piano keyboard. A number of melodies played by different instruments are all set in the key of C major.
When the piece is played in its entirety listen for chromatic passages, that is, scale figures moving by half-steps.
The main theme is in C major, the oboe introduces a second melody in C minor. Besides the mode (Major versus minor), what else changes?
Can you point out the main theme each time it returns?
Can you tell what meter the piece is in – duple or triple?
- Music: Keys
- Key of C major – all white keys on the piano
- Music: Major and Minor Keys
- Key of C minor – uses white and black keys on the piano
- Other major keys – sound similar to each other
- Milhaud’s Boeuf sur le Toit
- Tunes introduced in different keys
- Tutti – C major
- Oboe – C minor
- Violins – also in C minor (other instruments are playing now as well)
- Tutti – First melody in E-flat major
- Oboe and Violins – move to E-flat minor
Answer preview this program illustrates how color is created and varied using different key centers.
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