Chapters with Listening Guide Repertoire, CW Links, and Quizzes:

Chapter 09

Chapter Goal

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

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”)

“Es is geven a zumer-tog” (“It Was a Summer’s Day”)
Michael Alpert
Courtesy of Concord Music Group

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

CW9.1 Toby Keith

Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc

Music and 9/11

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/9-11-and-music/9/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/201... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_abo...

CW9.2 Military Calls

Here are examples of five military calls:

Alarm

To the Standard

Advance

Boots and Saddles

To the Horse

CW9.3 More on Civil War Music

See one of our textbook author’s book, Music of the Civil War, by Steven Cornelius, (Greenwood Publishing Group) 2004.

Here is a brief discussion from the Library of Congress about Civil War bands Here is a link about Civil War songs from North and South

Quizzes