by Dan | Feb 20, 2020 | Music
Choose a music video that you are interested in and perform a rhetorical analysis (ethos, pathos, and logos) on it. Explain what you think the video’s argument (message) is, and then—more importantly—how the video attempts to persuade or convince you, i.e. through...
by Dan | Feb 13, 2020 | Music
Description In the “era of distraction” how can musical artists/creators build and maintain their fan bases and create/preserve as a sense of authenticity in their music and presentations ( Live, social media, Interviews, etc)? How can the concept of...
by Dan | Jan 21, 2020 | Music
Write a critical musical biography of one of the following composers: Franz Schubert Felix Mendelssohn Robert Schumann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt Richard Wagner Giuseppe Verdi Giacomo Puccini Modest Mussorgsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Pyotr Tchaikovsky Johannes Brahms...
by Brian Leakey | Dec 16, 2019 | Music
Description Search your personal collection or Spotify for recordings of two versions of one popular tune (NOT Latin per se, but just a popular song you enjoy). Use these performances to analyze the degree of flexibility in the particular style of your selections....
by Dan | Dec 11, 2019 | Music
Description Participants will choose a personal dance experience (choreography, community event, performance, etc.) for deeper investigation and study. A 5 – 10 page “mini monograph” study will be due on Wednesday, December 11 at 9:00 am (upon your arrival to class)....
by Dan | Dec 10, 2019 | Music
Description Choose any live jazz event It is impossible to cover into detail all of those elements during the listening of the live performance, but try to cover some of the following elements: instrumentation, rhythm, melody, timbre, texture, harmony, and form, as...
