Choose one of the following options to complete your assignment:
Option A: Religious and Secular Life in the Renaissance
Select one composition from the Renaissance period (1300-1600).
Imagine you are living in this period.
Create a presentation of 8- to 12-Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides, or a similar length in another presentation tool, wherein you discuss where you are able to experience music in your daily life.
Address the following:
Where did you hear your selected work? What is the context: sacred/secular?
What are the primary social and religious contexts where music plays an important part in this period?
What made it capture your attention most?
How does your experience reflect changes in society and the economy during the Renaissance period?
How do religions and social contexts influence the development of musical culture in this period?
Describe how melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture are used in music of your selected work.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.
Option B: Religious and Secular Life in the Baroque
Select one composition from the Baroque period (1600-1750).
Imagine you are living in this period.
Create a presentation of 8- to 12-Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides, or a similar length in another presentation tool, wherein you discuss where you are able to experience music in your daily life.
Address the following:
Where did you hear your selected work? What is the context: sacred/secular?
What are the primary social and religious contexts where music plays an important part in this period?
What made it capture your attention most?
How does your experience reflect changes in society and the economy during the Renaissance Period?
How do religions and social contexts influence the development of musical culture in this period?
Describe how melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture are used in music of your selected work.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.
Option C: Exploring Musical Culture
Compare how people experienced music in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
What are the characteristics of the music of each period?
What are the primary social and religious contexts where music plays an important part in each period?
How did music create an intersection between the religious and secular contexts?
Submit your assignment as a presentation. The presentation should be developed with either 8- to 12-Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides or a similar length in another presentation tool.
Include detailed explanations in the speaker notes section that correlate to each point if audio is not a part of your assignment.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
ASSIGNMENT TWO has an attach template to used and a sample
Our listening this week includes examples from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Select one work from each period, and a piece composed after 1950.
Create a Venn diagram to compare these three pieces of music.
List the pieces you are comparing, and indicate in which circle each is being discussed.
Illustrate three unique aspects of each piece that are reflective of their musical eras.
Share one aspect that each work has in common with the others on the overlapping section in the Venn Diagram.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.