JAZZ OR WORLD

Concert summary 3 

Instructions 

the summary type is Jazz

Video links-

Note: In this compressed, Four Week Term you are not required to attend live performances in order to write your paper. Instead, please choose a documentary video to watch from the approved Performance/Documentary links provided for you:

JAZZ OR WORLD

Gumbo: Ken Burn’s Jazz, Part 1 (1:42:45) 

Films On Demand (requires UConnect login and password) 

How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever/Noise and Experimental Music Is For Everyone  PBS.org   

Jazz was perhaps the first great American art form of the 20th Century. In this informative and enthralling program, award-winning actor Morgan Freeman tells the story.  (46:43) 

Sacred Sounds: Music of the World, Songs of the Soul (58:00) 

Films on Demand (requires UConnect login and password)

A Zest For Life: Afro-Peruvian Rhythms, a Source of Latin Jazz (57:00) 

Films On Demand (requires UConnect login and password)

The HEADING at the top of your paper should include:

your name

the name of the performer(s)

the location of the performance

the date, time and location of the performance

the Heading should take up no more than the top two inches of the first page.  Or you may add a third, additional cover page.

The SUMMARY should:

be written and submitted in Microsoft Word as an attachment through the assignment drop box

be 1.5 to 2 pages in length

double-spaced

have one (1) inch margins

use Garamond or Times New Roman font

use 12 pt. type maximum

1) You are to write about your perceptions of the concert. What struck you as a listener? Use musical language (e.g. dynamics, rhythmic complexity, smooth [legato] or not, etc. What style of music did you hear and was it typical of that style or perhaps something new?