Category: Music

Which part did you find most enjoyable and why?Which part did you like almost as well and why?Which part did you least enjoy and why?

Vivaldi: Four Seasons played by: Janine Jansen

OUTLINE

What concert?

Reaction to the concert environment (performing venue)
Composition(s) (Just give the artist for the Newport Jazz Festival video)
Which part did you find most enjoyable and why?
Which part did you like almost as well and why?
Which part did you least enjoy and why?
Critique
Was your like or dislike due to the music itself, or the way it was played?

Connection to Course
To what forms and musical concepts that we have studied do you see any connections? Explain your choices.

Tempo
Meter
Texture
Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Style

Personal Reaction
Give any other reactions. Feel free to mention images, feelings, emotions, mood and the affect of the overall spirit of the music.

Formatting Requirements:

1″ margins, 12 pt. Times New Roman, single spaced

How is the experience of the two videos different? Does one help you get into it more?How have you adapted your life, improved your habits, and set yourself as a positive force for the people around you?

Quarantined Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

How is the experience of the two videos different? Does one help you get into it more? Of course, everyone has been affected by COVID-19, but many people are not sitting idly by, but choosing to be proactive. Maybe this video might inspire something in you as well.

How have you adapted your life, improved your habits, and set yourself as a positive force for the people around you?

Why do you think this symphony, arguably the most famous in musical history, has such a profound effect on so many people?

Music 5

Listen to all of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. In your journal, describe the effect each movement of this symphony has on you–that is, your emotional as well as intellectual reaction. Why do you think this symphony, arguably the most famous in musical history, has such a profound effect on so many people?

Identify one social problem the artist speaks about through his lyrics.Discuss this problem’s impact on American culture.

SS Candles in the Sun

Popular music has brought national attention to social problems, such as war, poverty, and wrongful death. With that in mind, do the following:

Watch R&B artist Miguel’s music video, “Candles in the Sun” and:

Identify one social problem the artist speaks about through his lyrics.

Discuss this problem’s impact on American culture.
100 word minimum.

What topic is starting to interest you after learning about some of the musical histories

Big Research Paper Idea Exchange

We have 1 additional paper for this course. Your research paper. Below are just ideas…

A comparative study of 19th century Chinese and Japanese music

A history of musical style in Europe after World War 2

An analysis of the plucked string instruments used in early Greek music

Artificial intelligence and the recognition of music;

Chamber music and its evolution;

Chopin and his approach to the education of pianists;

Country music and its evolution in the U.S.

Cultural origins of ragtime in the Southern states.

Different Era’s in music.

Early Music: a journey from the Roman Empire to the beginnings of Baroque

This week for our discussion:

What topic is starting to interest you after learning about some of the musical histories

What year was the song created? Where was the song created?Who is the musician/group of musicians?Is there any cultural or religious significance to the song?

Non-Western and Western Music

What year was the song created? Where was the song created?
Who is the musician/group of musicians?
What instruments were used in the song?
What background details can find about the group/musicians?
Is there any cultural or religious significance to the song?
What elements of music are present? (for example: Rhythm, Tempo, Pitch and Scale, Melody, Harmony, Dynamics, Tone Color/Timbre)
What do hear?
What similarities and differences can hear between my two choices?

 

What does this arrangement and performance by Frankfurt Radio Band (Links to an external site.) do with the same cantata?What about this take by Nicolas Godin (Links to an external site.)? Metal, zombies, surfing… how is Godin using Bach to speak to himself or the present?

Bach Cantata BWW 54

1. Use Google to find text and the translation. Write about how the music and the
performance reflect the meaning. See if you can feel what Gould means about: “… and
both of the outer movements of this cantata are full of that wonderful and torturous art of
intense cross-relation and suspension which Bach always reserved for those subjects
…[music]… on which he felt most keenly, most deeply.”

This piece was written around 1711-1714. Though it was more than 300 years ago,
Bach is revered by musicians of all genres. Musicians often bring Bach alive in their
own ways.

2. What does this arrangement and performance by Frankfurt Radio Band (Links to an
external site.) do with the same cantata?

3. What about this take by Nicolas Godin (Links to an external site.)? Metal, zombies,
surfing… how is Godin using Bach to speak to himself or the present?

How did television play a role in the rock and pop music industry from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s? How was the music industry tied to this medium, and what were the musical results of such a relationship? Do you think TV had a negative impact on radio and the record industry? Include a brief discussion of a group whose trajectory was impacted by TV

How did television play a role in the rock and pop music industry from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s? How was the music industry tied to this medium, and what were the musical results of such a relationship? Do you think TV had a negative impact on radio and the record industry? Include a brief discussion of a group whose trajectory was impacted by TV

What is the story behind each of these works? How does the story in the video compliment the music? What is the significance in the way the producer has chosen to go between the shots of the performers and the storyline?

What is the story behind each of these works? How does the story in the video compliment the music? What is the significance in the way the producer has chosen to go between the shots of the performers and the storyline?

Yo-Yo Ma – Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude (Official Video)
(Links to an external site.)

Janine Jansen – Après un reve – Fauré (official video)
(Links to an external site.)

Víkingur Ólafsson – Bach: Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: II. Andante [Adagio]
(Transcr. Stradal)