You have good topic for your course paper. However, please don’t write about Mozart and his Overture to the "Magic Flute" in general but analyze its music. Compare their themes, melodies, rhythms, form, dynamics, etc. E.g., is rhythm in a theme often regular or irregular, how large is melodic range of various themes, is tempo of the song moderate, slow or fast (stable or unstable), does this theme/movement have soft dynamic level or the opposite, etc? Describe character of various themes (is it sad, or lyric, or dramatic, light, heavy etc.) You may also describe technical difficulties in the solo violin part and how the violin communicates with the orchestra. You can find different types of music analysis in your course book (which you may follow) which is convenient to use. Just avoid to discuss any personal, historical, religious, medical, political and/or economic issues and concentrate your course paper on discussing music of the chosen work.
Please don’t forget to submit your bibliography including CD(s) and the internet sites used.
1. The paper should be no less than five full pages, double-spaced (approximately 22 lines per page).
2. Students may choose any composer or a group of composers/performers; however, don’t write biographies of composers/performers. Rather choose one of his CD(s) recordings or YouTube from the web and write about one or more of his works. Try not to choose topics which are too general, e.g. "The Symphonies of Beethoven", "French Music in the 16th century" or "The History of Jazz in the 1930s", and the like. Instead of this students may write about one or two movements of a symphony of Beethoven, or about 1-3 short compositions written in France in the 16th century, or about several jazz compositions which were created in Chicago in the 1930s. It is also possible (and interesting) to compare several pieces written in different times. E.g., three different jazz compositions: where one of them was created in the 1930s, another in the 1940s, and a final in the 1950s.
3. Students may make an analysis of chosen musical work(s) by listening to music (if they can’t read music or can’t get printed music). It is highly recommended that students study the analyses which are given in the course textbook and use these techniques when describing their chosen musical work(s).
4. Students need to add a bibliography as the 6th page of their papers, thus consulting all available materials. They should include information they acquired by reading materials published as a supplement to their CD(s),information borrowed from the internet (give URL address), information borrowed from dictionaries and books or articles (e.g. the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians or an encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, and the like) etc.
5. Please avoid to write about works which are discussed in your textbooks and about too well-known works, e.g. Fuer Elise, ?Moonlight? Sonata, Fifth?s and Ninth?s Symphonies of Beethoven, Canon of Pachelbel, 40th Symphony of Mozart, etc.
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