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Assignment/Grading Document

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Listening Checklists/Narratives

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Garageband Project Form

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Extra Syllabus - Just in Case...

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Course Assignments

1. Your Amazing Essay
Due: 9/7

To get things started, I want you to jot down two stories that describe amazing/awesome life experiences you’ve had. Try and make one story have some connection with a person or people and the second story involve the awe in the natural world or faith. If music were to accompany each experience, what would it sound like (i.e. instruments, mood, genre)? Would the music be different for each? Why?    

2. Pop Listening - 
Bruno Mars, The Lazy Song
Due:9/12
Watch video and fill out Pop Checklist.

If video doesn't work, go to YouTube.com and search: "Bruno Mars Lazy Song Lyrics"

3. Blues Listening - 
John Lee Hooker, Hobo Blues 
Due: 9/19

4. Country Listening - 
Alison Krauss and Union Station, 
Every Time You Say Goodbye      
Due: 9/26

5. Rock Listening - 
Foo Fighters, Everlong
Due: 10/10

6. Rap Listening - 
Tupac, Keep Ya Head Up    
Due: 10/17

7. Ambient Listening - Aphex Twin, 
We are the Music Makers
Due:10/24

8. Greg Sandow Reading and Questions
Due: 10/31

Below is a short blurb (respective to the entire book that is) from an upcoming book on the state of classical music. Read Greg Sandow's (Julliard professor) thoughts and then briefly summarize his five points and your reaction to what he views as a dilemma for classical music.

Below is the same Greg Sandow reading as above. It's here just in case you want to download it the old fashioned way instead.

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9.Classical Listenings - 
Evancho - Puccini's Nessun Dorma 
Hahn - Bach's Sarabande
Due: 11/7

English translation of Nessun Dorma 
lyrics (click this for link)

10. World Listening - Marc Anthony, Contra la Corriente
Due: 11/11

Contra la Corriente Spanish to English Translation (click this for link)

11. Jazz Listening - 
Miles Davis, Walkin'
Due: 11/16

Performance Videos

Students in each of my Music Appreciation classes nominated ten songs they'd like to analyze, learn to play and then record. There was a class vote and each section ended up with their own class song. We spent one class analyzing the musical elements as a whole group, one class learning the song in small groups, one class putting the song together as a whole "band" and one class recording the song. The video was shot with a Flip camera, then synced with the multitrack recording the students made in the Garageband App on an iPad and, finally, edited in iMovie.