During our in-class presentations, you were asked to take notes on at least three presentations that you found interesting but had very different topics from your own. Pick one of those presentations and answer […]
This week’s unit is centered on the question, “What is good music?” This blog offers you the opportunity to share a piece of music that you think is good and find a place for it within our course.
In our Music in Concert unit, we discussed how different types of concerts included different expectations for performers and audiences. In this blog, you will reflect on a concert or live music performance that […]
The Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring is popularly described as a riot, though recent research by musicologists has thrown doubt on this idea. In this blog, you will summarize the […]
You make a great point about how Spotify and TikTok work together, Salina. Spotify even has playlists made up of only viral TikTok hits. It seems like TikTok is the new cutting edge of the music industry, but so […]
Here’s a CD-related fun fact: when the disc was originally being designed, they decided how big to make it (in other words, how much music to fit on the disc) by using the length of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: 74 minutes.
Wow, I had no idea people uploaded movies to Spotify! I have seen people upload songs that were never released to streaming as “podcasts”, though, so I assume it’s something similar.
The piano has been used in a lot of weird ways to make music. In a method called “prepared piano,” pianists will insert objects into the body of the piano, like coins or golf balls. Some compositions ask pianists […]
For this blog, you’ll need to compare and contrast two different performances of the same song by different people. This can be a song of your own choice, or one of the songs featured in Chapter 5 of Resonances […]
Select a piece of music technology such as a musical format, a streaming platform, an instrument, a mode of instruction, software, etc. This can be anything related to music that fits our definition of […]
Pick a song or a piece of music that you’re familiar with. Give us some background information on the artist, genre, and your relationship to the piece of music. Next, choose two of the musical elements we d […]
Based on the first letter of your last name, you will write a blog (around 200 words long) about one of the six historical periods of Western art music described in Reading Packet 1. Before writing this blog, make […]
