Students are expected to submit a research paper with a minimum of 800 words, not including the abstract or the list of composer’s compositions. Students will achieve a satisfactory grade based on content, competence in English composition, grammar, and spelling, as well as proper style and formatting in Chicago style. Please see the topic choosen […]

Answer the following questions: Is there music that you used to enjoy, that you no longer listen to? What is that music? How exciting was it to you to hear that music, or see images of those performers? How does that music make you feel, now? Does it connect you to your past? Does it […]

This assignment asks you to write a 2-page formal essay that reflects on your thoughts and reactions after viewing and listening to ALL of the music linked on the previous page. The specific content of the essay is entirely up to you, but it should be based on your personal experience and reactions after listening […]

2. Five-page paper A five-page MLA formatted typed paper over a specific person in jazz will be due on the final day of class. This will be the most challenging. For this paper you have to find a recording of a single jazz artist from any of the periods covered in the book and write […]

Read Brown’s article “Herrmann, Hitchcock, and the Music of the Irrational. Respond to Prompt 5: In his article, Brown quotes composer Bernard Herrmann as having said that “I felt that I was able to complement the black and white photography of the film with a black and white sound.” (35) According to Brown, what musical […]

Summary: Draw a staff, clef and note names for Treble and Bass Clef. (write 8-16 notes for each clef) Write out 10 measure of 4/4 meter using whole, half, quarter and eighth notes Create a matching using music dynamics and tempo markings Summary: Compare a song that you enjoy to one that you don’t enjoy. […]

Write a formal essay on one early American music tradition, either Native American chant or any one of the four early American folk song traditions described in Chapter 2. This essay should relate to Discussion 3 and 4 and mention relevant titles from this week’s listening examples. The listening example charts in the textbook can […]

In a minimum of 5 paragraphs describe your personal impressions from your most current online music performance viewing. Use the following outline to organize your assignment. Paragraph 1 – Introduction (What performance you watched) #2 – #4 – Discuss three specific elements of the performance that stuck out to you, positive or negative, and explain […]

DISCUSS: How does music and dance function in both Voodoo and Santeria? How is this similar or different from what you witnessed in Section 1 – West Africa? As always, you are making one original post and responding to one other. Cite sources to support our post. I expect a minimum if two citations from […]

DISCUSS: How does music and dance function in both Voodoo and Santeria? How is this similar or different from what you witnessed in Section 1 – West Africa? As always, you are making one original post and responding to one other. Cite sources to support our post. I expect a minimum if two citations from […]