Music

Consider the impact of Mozart on his own society and his continued impact on society today by doing the following: Conduct some additional research about Mozart. Choose a musical artist from today’s world who you believe is a “modern-day Mozart” of sorts. Include at least one YouTube link to samples of that artist’s music.  Write a brief essay that makes a case for why your chosen artist is comparable to Mozart by responding to the prompts below. Each prompt should be addressed in a separate paragraph.      Please number your responses to make it easier for the instructor to read and grade. Your post must be a minimum of 200 words.   Prompts: Summarize Mozart’s impact on his own society during his lifetime and his continued relevance in our society today. Provide support for your claims from your additional research. Introduce your chosen musical artist, including at least one example of his/her music. Compare your chosen musical artist’s life and musical influence on society with that of Mozart.  Explain why you believe your chosen musical artist will still be relevant and/or worthy of being studied 200 years in the future. This explanation must be clearly supported by a minimum of two credible sources that support the cultural relevance and/or societal impact of your chosen artist. If you are unsure what a credible source is, please visit (Links to an external site.).  Use in-text citations and include a works cited list in MLA, APA, or Chicago style.

critically compare and contrast the opposing claims regarding the impact of song/file sharing on popular culture, mass media and the music business; 4) present a case for solving the problems that were created by the establishment of song/file sharing

Write a 5 paragraph persuasive speech on why or how music can change moods or personality Something that can be explained effectively within a 3 to 5 minute timespan.

the purpose of this report is to study one Jazz, Blues or Rock N’ Roll music composer/artist from any era. After you have chosen your topic and had it approved by the instructor, study your topic in depth and write a 3-5 page report about it. Your textbook provides a very thorough list of music composers. If you have interest in a composer whose name is not in the textbook, it must be approved by the instructor. It is the student’s responsibility to choose a topic for this report.   How to get started:   1)    Select a minimum of 60 minutes’ worth of music from your chosen topicand listen to the music a minimum three times through. Recordings will generally be available online, and some may be available at the library. Before choosing recordings, you should read enough about the composer to know which works are their most significant works. 2)    Read about the composer’s life and music. If there isn’t much in the library about your composer, you can search for magazine and newspaper articles and reviews on the internet. You should spend a considerable amount of time reading, researching and learning about your topic. CD liner notes are also a good source of information, if they are provided.   3)    After your research and listening are complete, organize your notes and the music you listened to, and then answer each of the following questions in list form, in order. Keep your report at no more or less than 3-5 pages in length. No cover page is necessary.   Part I: Basic Information Provide the following basic information about the composer, the music you listened to, and the sources you consulted: A.   Composer’s full name, birth date and location, as well as death date and location (or, if still alive, where s/he lives now)   B.   A complete list of the music you listened to, including all of the following information: composition title, album name and release year   C.   Complete list of your reading resources Example: Grove Online Dictionary of Music: Article on Scott Joplin H.C. Robbins Landon: The Mozart Compendium (Schirmer Books) If you read ten short magazine articles, your list would look like this: The Story of Crosby, Stills and Nash, Rolling Stone Magazine, June 1969 CSN Take Madison Square Garden, New York Times review, July 1970, etc. Note: This is a book and article list rather than a full bibliography, which might be required in another course. For hardcover books, you should include the publisher’s name. For magazines and newspapers, give the name and issue date. You should be able to fit all the above information onto one page. You will need the rest of the pages to answer the short essay questions from Part II below. Part II: Short Essay questions There are 5 questions which should fit on the remaining pages. You can write a little more for some and a little less for others. Write clearly and informatively, and be concise. Demonstrate what you have learned about your composer and his/her music. A.   Why did you choose this composer? Had you heard this music before, or did you discover it for the first time during this project? Discuss aspects of the musical period, the style, or the musician’s catalog that attracted you.   B.   Summarize important events in the composer’s life, such as musical family background, teachers or influences, first artistic successes, and later masterworks. Demonstrate why the composer was significant.   C.   Out of your list of songs by your composer, choose three (3) favorite pieces and write a short essay paragraph about each one. Include the following: a.  Brief description of the work b.  When, where, and why the work was written c.  What you liked about the piece ·         Be as specific as possible. For example, you could say, “I like the way the strings played long running passages – it was very exciting.” ·         Use the techniques we have learned in class to understand the music, and describe it in terms of its specific elements. For example, you could say, “The melody was very regular, but the rhythm was syncopated and uneven.”   D.   Now, of the three works you chose above, take one of your favorite pieces and answer the following question about it: How did this piece make you feel? Be subjective. You may have juxtaposed reactions, or opposite emotions such as happy/sad, relaxed/tense, light/heavy. Choose the words that best describe your feelings about the music. Relate these feelings to the elements of the music itself. For example, you could say, “The slow rhythm and complex harmonies made me feel very tense. It built up to a strong climax, when suddenly, the rhythm became fast and pulsating and the harmonies changed quickly.”   E.   In conclusion, think about the composer you chose and the music you listened to. Answer these questions:   How did listening to this composer’s music and learning about his/her life affect my appreciation of music? What discoveries did I make about the music and about myself as a music listener?The purpose of this question is for you to journal your experience with the music.     Assignment Requirements -Your assignment must be 3-5 pages in length (no more or less), and it must address both Part I and Part II.   – A standard writing style format is preferred but not required. Any one of the following writing styles is encouraged: MLA Format  (Links to an external site.) , Chicago Style, Turabian, or APA. Otherwise, keep your writing typed and double spaced, with 1-inch margins and 12p Times New Roman font.

Assignment Content Continue building on your foundational knowledge of musical elements by exploring music of the baroque period. Complete the assignment to demonstrate your knowledge of this epoch in music history.   Review the Week 2 Listening Guides and select one of the following pairs of baroque composers/pieces: Pair 1: Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D Major, I (c. 1721) Corelli, Trio Sonata in A Minor, op. 3, no. 10, I OR Pair 2: Handel , “Ev’ry Valley Shall Be Exalted” from Messiah (1741) Purcell, “Dido’s Lament” from Dido and Aeneas (1689)   Imagine your selected composers have hired you to promote their work so they might be booked for more concerts or commissioned by a patron to create a new work. You all are struggling financially. Great promotion leading to work for your clients could mean survival for both of you. You have invited interested patrons and other parties to a promotional presentation on the composers and their work. Compare and contrast the composers and works by discussing the following for each: Identify the form: opera, oratorio, concerto, or trio sonata. Identify the instrumentation of each work. Describe how each work reflects the spirit of the baroque period.   Format your presentation a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes. The speaker notes should be very detailed and explain the general information on each slide.

For your final work in this course, craft a large essay using the following criteria: Prepare: Pick a topic studied in our course you found thought-provoking. This may be a general topic, genre, composer, etc. Research your topic using our textbook, online and other print sources and gather interesting points and ideas to use in your essay. Find at least one concert that you watch online to exemplify your topic or a point within your topic. (Note: I normally also allow you to attend a concert in person. At this time, I have removed that option from this project.) Structure your essay as follows: ?     A minimum of 3 pages to a maximum of 5 pages (points will be deducted for going below or above these page limits) ?     Times New Roman 12 pt font ?     Double spaced ?     Normal margins ?     Bibliography (any format style, but be consistent) The bibliography is an additional page and not included in the 3-5 page range for this project.  Choosing your topic: ?     Topic Ideas: ?     A musical period (e.g., Baroque) ?     A major composer (e.g., Beethoven)  ?     A  major genre (e.g., the Symphony… to mean the type of music, not the type of group)  ——————- ?     Choose a topic for which you will be able to find at least four sources: ?     You must include in your report a clickable link to the concert(s) you watch online. ?     Something written about people, cultural impact, groups, etc. related to your topic (book, magazine, etc.). ?    Clickable links to interviews with artists, historians, etc. ?     Your notes from an interview with someone who has personal knowledge of the topic. (A musician, scholar, historian, etc.) Note: Other than the concert you watch (which is specifically required), the list above includes suggestions of what may make up your four sources. Depending on your topic, you may find other types of sources that are appropriate. 

1) DINNERTIME! It is 1937 in New York, and you have somehow been able to invite four people to dinner:  the elderly Charles Ives, the forty-something William Grant Still, the thirty-something George Gershwin—who does not know that he is about to die—and the twenty-something Aaron Copland. In at least 150 words (more is better, if it is substantive), describe the evening.  Your description should demonstrate what you have learned, from the textbook and other sources, about the personalities of the composers, about the type of music they most often wrote, and musical issues they might agree or disagree about. 2) You are going to put together a concert of American classical music, picking five of the ten pieces below for the concert. William Grant Still, Afro-American Symphony, third movement Afro-American symphony III (full)  George Gershwin, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” from Porgy and Bess Bess, You Is My Woman Now  Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc  John Philip Sousa, The Washington Post March SOUSA The Washington Post – “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band  Charles Ives, Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut Putnam’s Camp by Charles Ives 1978  Aaron Copland, Variations on “Simple Gifts” from Appalachian Spring Suite Appalachian Spring  Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings BARBER Adagio for Strings  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Concerto Grosso 1985, first movement Concerto Grosso 1985: I. Maestoso (Ellen Taaffe Zwilich)  Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach Einstein on the Beach – “Spaceship”  Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story, Act I finale Tonight Quintet – West Side Story – Staples Players    Explain one by one, using the elements of music, why you chose each of the five that you chose, then explain one by one, using the elements of music, why you did not choose each of the five that you left out of the concert. 3) We are in the era when music really changes, with the advent of popular music early in the century, and then the advent of rock-and-roll in 1952. Now that we have studied seven weeks of classical music, go back to the question in week 1, about Hermann Hesse and how the deep thoughts of humanity could only be expressed in classical music, not popular music. In at least 150 words (more is better, if it is substantive): what was your opinion of this assertion then, and what is your opinion of it now? Why do you think your opinion has changed, or not changed, since week 1?

My paper is based on the Motley Crue Heavy metal band on an argument about why they should be in the rock and roll hall of fame

Apple Music and the Weight it holds in the music streaming industry. The assignment is 15 pages, MLA Format with 4 sources and no plagiarism.

 Imagine that you are a Music Producer. What would your music sound like? Research what styles, techniques, instruments, and musicians you would use to get that sound. Document the linage of your music and instruments use through time and cultures (i.e. the Gibson SG for Spanish Guitar from the Lute to the Persian ‘oud). Would your music be universally accepted? Where and where not and why? What music exists if any that sounds like your music? Three pages, double spaced with resources/bibliography, due by the end of the semester.