LISTENING PRACTICE

Routine: Keep materials close, practice daily shadowing, add short dictation to sharpen details.

Music Entry:

Music — "La Mer" by Claude Debussy

Genre: Impressionist orchestral / symphonic sketches

Premiere: 1905

Bullet Points:

  • • Describe shifting colors and textures in the orchestration.
  • • Track crescendos, rubato, and dynamic swells across sections.
  • • Use vivid imagery—tides, light, horizon—to narrate what you hear.