Music discussion
12070Directions:
Music discussion week 4
Rules for success:
1. Always, always, always, include the name of a piece of music that is being discussed or referenced, the name of a video being used, and its presenter or performing group, or no credit will be given for your answer.
2. Researching using outside sources and plagiarizing: Searching for answers from sources other than Mindtap, Simoncic lectures, videos, or assigned youtube videos will not be accepted. Outside sources are often dated or often only partially accurate. Plagiarizing using AI or another student’s work or an outside source will be handled according to the NU policy found in the Syllabus. With the new Artificial Intelligence available, cheating has become a more common practice. I will keep a close eye on the answers submitted by students. Use your mind not the mind of a machine.
Instructions
Discussion Week 4: It would be counterproductive to cover every aspect of each chapter assigned to week 4. Read through them on your own. Please realize that the information is not adequate and does not go into any depth musically or historically. I’m from Yugoslavia and find it both interesting and curious why so much music was not included. It provides a limited and small hole in the historical and musical view presented by the author. That stated, know this is just a smattering of ideas from our textbook.
Part I: Word Painting in European/American influenced music: Youtube Title: 30 more songs that use Word Painting https://www.youtube.com/watch/Lm9PxXsK3gY&list=RDLm9PxXsK3gY&index=1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm9PxXsK3gY&list=RDLm9PxXsK3gY&index=1
1. (10 pt.) Answer this: A Two part question: After watching this brief video how often have you recognized the melody, harmony, rhythm or dynamics influence a song that you listen to? Is this information something that will expand your relationship to music or you rather not know and simply dismiss the information?
Part II:
1. (6 pt.) Describe a similar use to “lining out” in Native American Stomp Dance, Straight Up, and Africa: Agbekor Vuolo.
2. (5 pt.) .Active Listening in MindTap 4.1 (color chart): What part of Amazing Grace represents Heterophonic singing? Use timestamps
3. (6 pt.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEgG63MCa0INow for Elvis singing Amazing Grace: By using timestamps: Locate three clear areas where some Heterophonic singing is taking place between Elvis and the chorus and explain why it is Heterophonic.
4. (10 pt.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKf6P2nhKgHarlem Gospel Choir Amazing Grace: A beautiful rendition with something unique beginning at timestamp 1:31 Describe its uniqueness and your personal opinion of this arrangement.
5. 15 pt.) Watch the video: Why Scott Joplin was America’s first pop star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCA0O2iN3xEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch/VCA0O2iN3xE This video provides a bit of harsh history of Minstrel shows 19th century and birth of Joplin’s music that followed. Answer this: The video presents a progression from Minstrel to Scott Joplin. What were two “less than human” portrayals in this type of entertainment and what were two positive music elements that contributed to the birth of Joplin and Ragtime?
6. (10 pt.) Scott Joplin’s’ lost but then discovered opera: Treemonisha As is the case with so many stories about a composer no matter what race or gender where the music was tossed aside and forgotten, only to be discovered later, what makes this a significant discovery? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyh2jCvzG0&t=628shttps://www.youtube.com/watch/OLyh2jCvzG0&t=628s
Part III:
1. 10 pt.) https://www.youtube.com/watch/XRZ5X5Nnx6w According to Leonard Bernstein, what is a standard Blues form and song? Leonard Bernstein presents (at a young people’s concert) the elements of a simple blues song: Please start the timestamp at 18:20 to 23:50. Write a reviewon the parts that Bernstein discusses including iambic pentameter, blues form, blues chords and what isn’t blues that most people seem to think is the “blues”. Be thorough. You may wish to include other parts, but you are responsible for timestamps from 18:20 to 23:50. (50 to 150 words minimum)
2. (10 pt.) Include a conclusion about your previous understanding and perhaps a new understanding of the “blues”.
1. (5. Pt.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBoEf3cqMRo Melisma or melismatic singing: First let’s look back to the early music of the Catholic Church: This prayer “Kyrie” (the only Greek in the typical Catholic and Latin Mass (service ritual) translates to “Lord Have Mercy”. The melisma or (melismatic singing) starts with the letter, e, of Kyrie. As you can both listen to and see, there are many notes to the one-syllable letter, e. Therefore melismatic means many notes to one syllable and syllabic means one syllable, to one note ratio. Answer this: What clarified melismatic singing during this example?
2. (6 pt.) Listen to Rosie: Active listening 4.3. Focus on the call and response verses. The beat is easy to feel. It is a slow beat. Each “call” is four beats long. Let your head bob to the beat. Answer these: How many beats are in each response? Was the singing vocal melody during the “calls” in verse 1 exactly the same; almost the same; quite different? Would you say that the chorus (response) vocal parts were quite concerned about singing in an exact pitch or did pitch take a back seat to expression and emotion? Provide a reason for the last part.
3. (10 pt.) Read MindTap 4.4i The Blues Yesterday: Listen to “Hustlin Blues” while following the lyrics. Answer this: How does this song fall within the explanation of the Bernstein lectures?
Part IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLX7V_eDT5U
1. (5 pt.) Damien Escobar Hip Hop Violin: What to follow: Damien’s improvisation and the violin technique. His improvisation borrows from early 20th-century English classical violin music and also Eastern European classical violin music from the late 19th through early 20th century. He blends and fuses these styles beautifully for the listener while providing a beat for the hearers of music. It’s a growing and new American style. Answer this: What is your personal reaction to his violin playing in a hip-hop style?
2. (5 pt.) Please use Active Listening 5.8 the color chart version when analyzing the song. Answer this: Why isn’t “Going To The Village” a muzyka Podhala? Answer this: What is a “dub” and where, in Going to the Villageis it easy to identify? Use timestamps.
3. (5 pt.)Answer these: Going To The Village is in a four-beat per measure meter. From timestamp 00:00 to 00:16 which beats are accented creating a more reggae style; Beats 1 and 3 or 2 and 4?
Answer this: What makes timestamp 1:36 musically less reggae and more Gorale?
4. (8 pt.) Answer this: Why is a ganga choir at Sarajevo’s Academy of Music all the more extraordinary after the 1992 war in Yugoslavia compared to the practice of ganga prior to the war?
5. 5 Pt.)What is the most obvious similarity in the vocal parts between the voices of Zuta Baba and Sister Hold Your Chastity?
6. (10 pt.) Slovenian Christmas Carol: Slovenia is not far from Croatia and Bosnia yet the music melodies are often quite different. Answer this: What would you say might strike you as the obvious difference in just the melody, not rhythm or tempo, between the Slovenian Christmas carol, and Sister Hold your Chastity and Zuta Baba? https://www.dropbox.com/s/m785hb96lk5ti7k/CD%20Track%2011.mp3?dl=0
Part V:
7. (10 pt.) Several answers are required: In Active Listening (MindTap) Chapter 9 Active Listening guide 9.3: Muyu Muyari Warmigu (Please Return Dear Woman) the visual color chart. Listen from timestamp 0:44 through timestamp 1:02
Answer these: Supply the timestamp for one phrase or stanza A and one B phrases or stanza B.
Answer this: Provide Proof that this is an isorhythmic song.
Answer this: Provide evidence of where a “golpe” is heard.
8. (15 pt.) Follow active listening 9.4 Three-part questions: Part 1. What is the Quichua sanjuán, “Ilumán tiyu,” really about? Describe what is meant by isorhythmic phrases. What is the same between phrase A and phrase B,the melody or the rhythm?
9. (10 pt.) Two-part question: How is it that the African-Ecuadorian sanjuán, “Me gusta la leche,” is actually an example of hybrid music?
Part 2: Me Gusta La Leche: Find the music in Mindtap Active Listening and point out one guitar counterpoint section describing how different it is melodically and rhythmically to the vocal parts.
10. (10 pt.) Follow “Active Listening 9.7: A 3-part question: How do the lyricsof the Afro-Peruvian landó, “Azúcar de caña,” reflect the ecology and culture of its home region? What makes this song a sesquialtera? Where are the quick call and responses between solo voice and group singers? Try each link to open or copy and paste: https://www.youtube.com/watch/QvBsv81QNBIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBsv81QNBI
11. (10 pt.) Follow active listening guide 9.6. What are some features of the Peruvian wayno? How is it that the husband-and-wife ensemble, Chaskinakuy, captures its character so well, in their rendition of “Amor imposible”?
12. (5 pt.) Danza final Malambo, https://www.youtube.com/watch/KfGbTG2wuaMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfGbTG2wuaM is a classical music piece written by Ginastera and conducted by Dudamel. It’s a 4-minute work. The first minute and 20 seconds feature the woodwinds and strings. There is clearly a 6-beat pattern but it is a very fast 6-beat per measure. Please focus on Timestamp 2:10 where a very rapid 6+6+6 beats is followed by a slow and punctuated 3 beats as played by the trumpets and joined by French horns. Answer this: At what point in timestamps were you clearly able to follow the very fast sesquialtera rhythmic patterns and which instruments seemed to be playing them? One-word answers do not count!
12. (10 pt.)Write a significant comment addressed to you by Simoncic that was written on one of your assignments or discussions from either week 1 week 2 or week 3 No responses to other students are required in week 4.
13. (10 pt.) Bonus: The song, In Trutina, is a melodically beautiful melody. Before you listen the lyrics are printed in Latin with an English translation that follows. Answer this: after reading the English translation describe how the music either enhanced or diminished the lyrics. Try not to use pop culture music defaults when answering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0qGKkn-I0https://www.youtube.com/watch/pc0qGKkn-I0
Latin
In trutina mentis dubia
fluctuant contraria
lascivus amor et pudicitia.
Sed eligo quod video,
collum iugo prebeo:
ad iugum tamen suave transeo.
English
In the wavering balance of my feelings
Set against each other
Lascivious love and modesty
But I choose what I see
And submit my neck to the yoke;
I yield to the sweet yoke.
Albanian Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahMbVryu3a0
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