Category: Music

Compile a listening portfolio of 20 recordings of musical works from multiple historical periods and genres. Your listening list should represent all the eras studied this semester and can include some folk, world, jazz, and popular music, as long as your list represents a good balance of different periods and genres of music. You should…

For this week, please mention something from each of Chapter 7’s sites that you found especially interesting. Try to make remarks that are related to the music from each site, but you may comment on other aspects of the cultures instead. Here are some things that I found interesting. China – I was drawn to…

Watch the short video below about WW2 and discuss it’s impact on the world and how it reshaped the American economy and culture. 3-4 paragraphs. Watch Video World War II: Crash Course World History #38 Duration: 13:13 User: n/a – Added: 10/11/12

Compare and contrast two corresponding movements which are Haydn no 104 in D major 1st movement and Mozart no 40 in g minor 1st movement(the scores will need to be searched and can be found in imslp). What characteristics unify these movements as a single genre, the symphony? What characteristics point to the individual style…

3 pages types written, times new Roman,12 font ,double spaced. Must use at least 3 refrences(ex:Oxford or groves music online,JSTOR articles)cannot be wiki Essay must include: A brief history on the genre Brazilian funk aswell as a biography of Gerson King Combo. What were the cultural and social influences on the genre and artist. The…

Please address the following questions with 5-8 sentences. 1. We went through the history of sound art. we discussed different perspectives on noise. We introduced artists such as Luigi Russolo and Edgard Varèse and their approach to noise. After knowing these pioneers’ stories and different angles of noise from other cultures, please describe, in your…

Using methodology from “The Rock Window” by Paul Friedlander, provide an in-depth discussion of a historically significant popular song and its performing artist. This must be an artist with connections to American culture and/or music. In a minimum of four pages, your discussion must include: 1 – an analysis of the work’s musical elements, such…

part one For this assignment, the video below and diagram the form using timestamps. To figure out where the various parts of the form begin and end, listen for: A fugue is a compositional process that requires the imitation to occur in a highly organized way. Fugues alternate between an imitative texture (the “fugue”), and…

You will choose an important or significant popular music song, music video, or album NOT covered in class. Rather than choosing an artist, focus on one thing that illustrates the importance of the artist. For example, instead of writing about Michael Jackson, you’d write about “Beat It,” which enables you, of course, to write about…

Discuss the genre Rap background and modern context, and discuss 2-3 examples. – Talk about the background and beginning/ history of rap – Raps popularity – Choose one older rap song and compare it with a more recent rap song. In order to view the evolution and differences in rap over time