musc210 all week discussions latest 2016 september

Question # 00466069 Posted By: rey_writer Updated on: 01/19/2017 02:03 AM Due on: 01/19/2017
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Week 1 discussion

Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the Library “Evaluate Web Resources” page to help you choose an educational website:

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 1 Discussion forum, using the Week 1 Discussion link.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates.

Initial discussion posts are due by Thursday at 11:59PM Eastern Time and at least two responses to classmates are expected by the end of the week on Sunday by 11:59PM Eastern Time.

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric, below, to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

Based on the materials on the meaning of music we have explored this week, do you think John Cage's 4'33" should be classified as music or not? On what grounds might you argue for or against its musical status?

Do you think animals make music, or is music specifically a human phenomenon? How would you support an argument for either side of the debate?

What are some of the principal social institutions that are involved in music production and reception in your world? How do these various institutions contribute to the ways in which you experience, understand, and value the musics that are a part of your life?

How do the Internet and other mass media influence the way in which people conceive of their identities and the identities of others relative to music? What kinds of virtual music communities do you belong to (or could you belong to), and why? Does today’s high tech world make the potential for building community through music greater or less great than it was in the past? Why, and in what way?

This week, our course materials introduced numerous themes and issues for exploring music as a phenomenon of culture. There are a great many more that one might consider: children’s music, music and the elderly, music among people with disabilities. How might one go about examining these areas, and what others can you think of that could lead to deeper understandings of music and human experience?

Think of a song or other piece that has been a part of your life for a long time. Has the significance or “meaning” of the song changed over the years? If so, what has changed in your perception of the song and what factors in your life (personal, cultural or other) might have contributed? Write a brief account chronicling your personal history of this song, focusing specifically on what it means to you today and what it has meant to you at different points in the past.

Draft a chart listing all of the different kinds of music you listen to, indicating when you usually listen to them and for what purposes. What do you listen to when you’re trying to relax, working out, or studying? What do you like to dance to? What music makes you feel romantic, nostalgic, happy, sad, patriotic, subversive? Are there specific kinds of music that you identify with your ethnicity or with your cultural or national identity? On the basis of this chart, create a “music identity profile” of yourself, considering how music in your life contributes to your sense of who you are on multiple levels.

Listen to a variety of songs and pieces from your personal music collection that you are very familiar with. Try to identify different elements of rhythm present in each of them. Locate the beat of the song, then see if you can determine the level of subdivision (duple, triple, quadruple, other) and the meter, using the materials you have studied this week.

Listen to two or more pieces of music from your personal collection that are representative of the same music style and identify as many elements as you can. Next, listen to one or two other pieces in a contrasting musical style and do the same. Compare your findings. What does this reveal about general similarities and differences in rhythmic approach between the two styles?

Take a familiar song (“Mary Had a Little Lamb” will do) and sing it several times in a row, each time at a different tempo—slow, medium, fast, very fast, variable. How does changing the tempo change the feeling and spirit of the song overall? What does this tell you about the significance of tempo in music?

Get together with a friend or two and play a rhythm, game. Clap out the rhythm, of a familiar song like “Mary Had a Little Lamb” or “The Star Spangled Banner” without actually singing the tune and see if your friend(s) can identify the tune on the basis of the rhythm alone. What does this tell you about the significance of tempo in music?

Week 2 discussion
Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the Library “Evaluate Web Resources” page to help you choose an educational website:

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 1 Discussion forum.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates.

Initial discussion posts are due by Thursday at 11:59PM Eastern Time and at least two responses to classmates are expected by the end of the week on Sunday by 11:59PM Eastern Time.

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric, below, to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

Listen to several pieces from your personal music collection and try to identify instances where the music is built from major, minor or blues scale based melodies and chords. Use the listening skills you are developing as well as your subjective impressions of the music (does it sound happy, sad, bluesy, etc.) to make your determinations.

Go to the quietest place you can find: a secluded forest, a remote mountainside, an isolated room. Sit or lie down, close your eyes and listen to the "silence." What sounds do you hear? Is there a sense in which the sounds take on a musical character after a while? Describe the experience as a musical experience.

Select recordings by three of your favorite singers and listen to them focusing specifically on the timbre of the singer's voice. Write out a detailed description of what each singer's voice sounds like (i.e., timbre), then compare the three voice timbres and draw distinctions between them. What is it about the timbre of each voice that stands out to you and is appealing? Does this comparison of timbre reveal anything about why you like these particular artists, each for different reasons is different situations?

Many computers today are equipped with quite sophisticated yet user-friendly music composition and production software packages right out of the box (e.g., Garage Band). If you have such software, try creating some of your own music it. If not, see you have friends who use it and listen to and write a brief report on some of the music they have created.

Take a familiar piece of music from your personal collection and write a description of its texture and form. In terms of texture, what kinds of relationships do you hear between the different voices/instruments? Is there unison singing or playing? Harmonization? Call-and-response? Interlocking? Does the form of the piece appear to be ostinato-based? Or does it seem to conform to the model of a 12-bar blues tune, or a verse-chorus tune, or some combination of different types of formal designs? Use your listening skills from this module to take you as far as you can go with this exercise, but don’t get frustrated if you find that you cannot account for all that you hear. There is much in actual music making in terms of texture and form that goes well beyond what we have been able to study at the beginning of our class. Just have fun with this, and try to hear and account for as much as you can.

Word painting is one of the most common symbolic devices used in music throughout the world. Listen to a variety of songs in different styles from your personal music collection. Focus on the words and how they are set to the music. Identify one or more examples of word painting in each song you listen to. Describe how the words are brought to life and "painted" through symbolic uses of melodic direction, rhythmic presentation, dynamics, or other musical elements.

Week 3 discussion

Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the Library “Evaluate Web Resources” page to help you choose an educational website:

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 1 Discussion forum.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates.

Initial discussion posts are due by Thursday at 11:59PM Eastern Time and at least two responses to classmates are expected by the end of the week on Sunday by 11:59PM Eastern Time.

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric, below, to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

Analyze one listening example from this week’s course materials in terms of Instrumentation (categories, including voices), Texture (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, anti-phonic), Rhythm/meter (rubato, metrical, which meter, tempo changes), Melody-lyric relationships (melismatic, syllabic, ornamented, high-low) and Structure. If there are distinct sections, how are they recognized?

Based on the examples of music from the Native American Church you heard this week, how does this music compare with music you have heard in your own faith tradition or a faith tradition that you are most familiar with? Think of similarities and differences in instruments used, styles of singing and the context of the music in the two faith traditions.

What specific characteristics of the Native American music you have heard distinguish it from the European or American classical or popular music you are familiar with?

What is the role of music in Native American cultures? How is Native American music diverse and complex?

How do traditional Native Americans understand the causes and cures for disease? What is the role of music in curing? How does this compare with your understanding of disease and curing?

What influences in modern American life can you suggest that may have affected Native American music? What changes would such influences cause?

Does the classification of music as Native American come from musical content, the ethnicity of its creators and performers, or a combination of both? If a piece of music makes no use of typical Native American traits such as vocables, drums, and rattles, is the composition considered to be Native American?

How does the music of the Native American Church differ from traditional Native American music? What might account for the difference?

If you have ever been to a powwow, please discuss your experiences there.

Week 4 discussion

Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the Library “Evaluate Web Resources” page to help you choose an educational website:

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 1 Discussion forum.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates.

Initial discussion posts are due by Thursday at 11:59PM Eastern Time and at least two responses to classmates are expected by the end of the week on Sunday by 11:59PM Eastern Time.

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric, below, to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

An integral relationship between language and music is a feature of many styles and traditions of music worldwide. How do language and music combine and reinforce one another in the kinds of music you listen to? Can you think of instances in which the line between what constitutes speech and constitutes music blurs?

So-called musical Africanisms are pervasive features of many music traditions outside of Africa, especially traditions that belong to or have been influenced by African diasporic culture. Listen to and discuss a range of music that is familiar to you. What Africanisms do you hear in the music from our course materials? What effect do they have on how the music sounds and makes you feel?

The American musician Taj Mahal has made a career of breaking down conventional musical boundaries and redefining world music as worldly music. Do some research on Mahal and locate recordings and videos of his that represent the range and diversity of his music. Write a report describing how Mahal has combined his musical founding in blues music, his broad conceptions of “African” music as encompassing all forms of African and African diasporic music expression, and his cosmopolitanism as a world music adventurer and pioneer.

Locate videos and recordings representing several different African and African diasporic music traditions such as Brazilian samba, Trinidadian calypso, American funk and hip-hop, Ghanaian highlife and South African mbaqanga. What distinctive features do you hear in each? Are there any underlying elements that cut across some or all of them?

What role does a jeli serve in Mande society? What does he or she sing about, and what is the principal musical instrument in our course materials that is used in the jeliya art form?

Week 5 discussion

Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the Library “Evaluate Web Resources” page to help you choose an educational website:

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 1 Discussion forum.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates.

Initial discussion posts are due by Thursday at 11:59PM Eastern Time and at least two responses to classmates are expected by the end of the week on Sunday by 11:59PM Eastern Time.

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric, below, to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

How might tropicalia, mariachi and salsa be collectively understood in relation to the theoretical concept of modernist-cosmopolitan musical traditions?

There are dozens of recordings of “Oye Como Va” available. Do an Internet search to find different recorded versions. Listen to as many as you can. Create an annotated list describing the styles and other notable features of the different versions you hear. What does this exercise teach you about tradition and transformation in Latino/American music or in music, generally? You may also want to include videos available on YouTube or elsewhere online.

Using the term “Latin music,” do a YouTube keyword search. Take note of what you discover and document a representative sample of the different musical styles, artists, countries, and cultures represented. Write a brief report chronicling your experiences. What did you learn about the diversity of Latin American music? About musical tradition and transformation? What kinds of images and impressions does viewing Latin American culture through the lens of this experience generate for you?

Latin American music is integral to the basic fabric of musicultural life throughout the Americas. Outside of what you have studied this week, what kinds of Latin music have you encountered in your daily life? How is this music used to reflect and express ethnic and cultural identity, and how has it shaped your own impressions or experiences of Latino culture?

View a film featuring Latin American music such as El Cantate, The Mambo Kings, Buena Vista Social Club, Calle 54 or episodes from the documentary series Latin Music USA. Write a review, integrating your observations of the film with what you learned this week.

Week 6 discussion

Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the Library “Evaluating Web Resources” page to help you choose an educational website:

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 1 Discussion forum.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates.

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric, below, to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

As a paragon of Indian classical music and the “Godfather of World Music,” Ravi Shankar has influenced countless musicians around the world on many levels. The artists discussed in this chapter are just a small (but important) sampling of what might be described as Shankar’s “global gharana.” Do an internet search of “Ravi Shankar” and use this search to locate musicians who collaborated with him, who acknowledge his influence, or who otherwise are identified in connection with him. Create an annotated list summarizing your findings.

Some of the songs in this chapter dealt with challenging social and political issues from adultery and malice to war and cultural resilence in the face of diversity. Identify and discuss some songs with which you are familiar that do likewise. Have these songs affected ypour own thoughts and views on issues they address?

Beyond the synthesis of many different Indian and Western elements in his music, A. R. Rahman draws from a diversity of other musical traditions of the world in his film scores and songs. Research Rahman and write a brief report on his use of musical elements and influences from outside the Indian and Western traditions.

In Indian films, it is generally assumed that playback singers, rather than the on-screen actors and actresses themselves, are the singers of songs in films. In Western films, contrastingly, there is often a stigma attached to actors and actresses who are “exposed” for not having sung their own songs in their films. Speculate on what might account for this fundamental difference in cultural attitudes and values.

Since the time of the Beatles, the sounds of sitars and other traditional Indian instruments (either the actual instruments or digitally sampled versions) have become commonplace in much Western popular music. Recordings of groups and artists ranging from the Rolling Stones to Ricky Martin feature an "Indian" element. Locate and discuss examples of such music using keyword searches on the Internet (e.g. search "Rolling Stones AND sitar" or "Ricky Martin AND sitar.").

Search YouTube for video examples of gamelan and Indonesian popular music. Write a brief report on your findings.

The history of the Balinese dance-drama Kecak provides an interesting example of the kind of complex relationships between tradition and modernity that define many world music traditions. Though it is promoted as a "Traditional Balinese genre," it is, in fact, a product of the 20th century intercultural innovation. Try to think of types of music with which you are familiar that are marketed as "Traditional" and "Authentic" despite being modern and contemporary in many if not most respects.

Week 7 discussion

Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the Library “Evaluating Web Resources” page to help you choose an educational website:

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 1 Discussion forum.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates.

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric, below, to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

Research and discuss other instances in which popular music and politics have intersected in impactful ways, as happened when Cui Jian performed at Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Use Internet keywords searches such as Chinese rock or Chinese punk to research the contemporary music scene in mainland China. Write a report chronicling your findings. Conclude with some general remarks applying what you have learned about historical processes of tradition and transformation in Chinese music to your assessment of current musical trends and directions in China.

Research and write a report on Chinese American/Asian American rock, pop, jazz, or hip-hop. Describe how traditional Asian elements are combined with other musical elements, instruments, and styles in the examples you encounter.

Compare the Republican and initial Communist eras of conservatory-based solo zheng traditions in mainland China. How did the roles of conservatories change, and what happened to the status of the zheng?

The relationship between musical developments and political movements in Chinese history is a major issue. Relationships between music and politics run deep in societies throughout the world. Where do you see instances of music being used in political context in your own society? Are the political uses of music which you are aware explict or implict, obvious or subtle? Why do you think you think music has been closely alighted with so many political regimes and institutions in so many societies throughout history?

Research and write a report on Chinese American/Asian American rock, pop, jazz, or hip-hop. Describe how traditional Asian elements are combined with other musical elements, instruments, and styles in the examples you encounter.

How have Zen Buddhist ideas influenced music for shakuhachi?

Do you think that Japanese or Chinese traditional musical culture is more open to women's participation? Why do you think so? What challenges do both Chinese and Japanese women musicians face? What unique challenges do women musicians from each country face?

Week 8 farewell forum

Reflect on the ways your musical perceptions may have changed as a result of Music 210. Please refer back to the Musical Autobiography you wrote during Week 1, as a starting point. The Farewell Forum is also the perfect place to thank your classmates for their posts and to wish them well in the future

Be sure to post a substantive response to at least 2 classmates (3 points for your post, 1 point for responses to 2 classmates for a total of 4 possible points).

Initial discussion posts are due by Thursday at 11:59PM Eastern Time and at least two responses to classmates are expected by the end of the week on Sunday by 11:59PM Eastern Time.

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