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Chapter 9

Chapter Goals

  • To explore the ways music supports, protests, mourns, and remembers war.
  • To understand how music reflects human responses to war and/or conflict.
  • Listening Guide Repertoire
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Listening Guide Repertoire

  • 9.1 – “La guerre,” by Clement Janequin/Phillippe Verdelot (fifth voice)
  • 9.2 – “Ballad of the Green Berets,” by Robin Moore and Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler
  • 9.3 – “All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight,” by John Hewitt
  • 9.4 – Arapaho and Comanche Ghost Dance songs
  • 9.5 – “Es is geven a zumer-tog” (“It Was a Summer’s Day”)

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    “S'Iz Geven A Zumertog (It Was A Summer Day)”
    Performed by Michael Alpert
    Courtesy of Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music

  • 9.6 – First movement (“Liturgie de cristal”) from Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messiaen
  • 9.7 – Agnus Dei from War Requiem by Benjamin Britten
  • 9.8 – Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki
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