Music

Write a short review on the musical Les Misérables and discuss the performance and musical style.

For this assignment, I’d like you explore the ways you usually listen to music and think about what they tell us about the classical tradition. Think about how you usually discover new music. Spotify algorithms? YouTube recommendations? Or maybe you’re old school and read record reviews in a newspaper? In any case, go to your […]

Wall-E opening (three videos): WALL·E – Put On Your Sunday Clothes (Links to an external site.)   WALL·E – 2805 A.D (Links to an external site.)   WALL-E – Home (Links to an external site.)   How is music helping to tell the story throughout these three clips, in the absence of almost all spoken […]

Beethoven 9 – Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Riccardo Muti 1) In general, the opening paragraph should contain the Five W’s: who, what, when, where, why. 2) The following paragraph should briefly present the works performed as a whole, giving a general overview of the concert in terms of style, mood, instrumentation, audience response, etc. 3) […]

This assignment is to be a digital media project that illustrates some aspect of European music and the colonization of Indigenous peoples of Canada. The assignment can be a digital photo, playlist, PowerPoint or Prezi presentation, infographic, web page, social media campaign, or any other type of digital object. The date limits of the course […]

Amadeus Essay** (100 points). This is a required assignment.  Watch the movie, “Amadeus” featuring the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and write a two-page paper titled, “The Classical Spirit as portrayed in Amadeus/ Immortal Beloved.” Particulars are: No less than two full pages typed, no more than 8 pages. Write in the 3rd person. Define the classical spirit […]

This week we examined Brazilian Samba, a style of rhythmically-complex music combining musical traditions of Portuguese colonialism, indigenous Brazilian folk music, and elements of African traditional music/dance cultures retained from a period of slavery ending in 1828.  For this assignment, you will view the seminal Marcel Camus film from 1959 entitled, Orfeu Negro, a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus through […]

Two online youtube concert video links are listed below. For this assignment you are to write a two-page report on the music you hear. The report should be written in the style of a music review as are written professionally all over the world. As examples of the writing style, two links to professional critics’ […]

Write an essay on “Arabic music and its influence on Western music. “

Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were both highly influential jazz singers during the early and middle of the 20th century. There are many similarities but also striking differences between each of their lives and the music they created. Compare and contrast their careers and styles, and explain their contributions to jazz. The essay must have a minimum of 300 words.