ASSIGNMENT: Music Assignment

Directions:

You are to listen to all 25 pieces while reading the text for UNIT IV. Then you will pretend to be a radio Disc Jockey and host a make belief radio show telling your audience you top 10 pieces. You will pretend to be an announcer and write a script that you will be reading to your audience before you play the piece of music over the air. You select 10 or the 25 to play and describe to the listening audience what they are to listen for. You give information about when the work was done, any pertinent interesting facts about the time period, composer if known and information about what to listen for. Use musical terms such as dynamics, loud or soft, fast or slow tempo and rhythm, harmony and melody. You will hopefully have fun with this assignment. Please listen to all of the pieces which are written about and be sure to read the entire section on all of the compositions. Read and listen at the same time. You are to be as if you are on the radio ( a DJ). Write a script in paragraph form. You use the following form to help you so that you include pertinent information in your script.

Listen to all pieces several times so that you will remember them before you select which of the ten you will want to write about for this assignment.

Then write a summary of the experience that you had in paragraph form and explain your answers with some words (elements of music) that let me know that you learned some musical terminology while you read your text book material.

Be totally observant, specific and detailed in your comments when you describe the compositions that you have selected.

Review the elements of music by reading about the terms used in music and watching the videos or find the Google sites to watch videos if you find this helpful as well.

Utilize the words in your answers such as melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics, texture, tempo and dynamics. These are the elements of Music and can be found in Unit I and Unit IV.

FIRST QUESTION: Include the following information in your paragraph for each composition.

When you do your script you can reverse the order and start with 10and end with 1. The best would be the last composition. (Your guest's favorite)

Number Ten

1. Give the name of the composition ________________________.
2. A. The name of the composer_____________________________.
b. Where was the composer born? _________________________.
3. What era or time period does this work fit into? _____________.

What specific characteristics did you notice while listening to the music and then write a script below that will be on the radio when you or your famous guest talks about the musical composition to the radio audience. This should be about the composition and or the time period, the composer or when it was first performed.

Attachment:- Assignment.rar