Discuss on general assignment on Music. This assignment is due by Friday night at 11:59pm of Week #8! Each student must complete a General Writing Assignment. Students may use any material when developing this assignment, but every word (unless expressly quoted with appropriate credits given) must be that of the student submitting the paper. Any use of material written by another person without credit given will be considered plagiarism, resulting in an ″F″ for the assignment and potentially for the course. Students are encouraged to begin notes on how they will respond to the specific essay items required for the General Writing Assignment as they progress through the course including making notations in their class notes or in their journals. The journal is intended to be a major help in producing the writing assignment. As a result, it is very important that the journal writing be taken seriously. In addition, the journal itself constitutes a part of the student′s grade for the course. The General Writing Assignment, consisting of at least five pages, is to be submitted in typewritten (word processing, 12-point acceptable font) form, double-spaced, with standard one-inch margins. A cover page, indicating the student′s name, course name, professor′s name, and date, must be included at the front of the report but is not considered one of the five required pages. A bibliography using MLA style is required and is also not considered one of the five required pages. The General Writing Assignment must be uploaded into Moodle by 11:59 PM on Friday, October 8 (sorry about the unusual due date, but there is a very short turnaround after Sunday for me to get grades submitted!) . If the assignment is submitted late to the instructor (via email), the student′s grade will be reduced accordingly. The General Writing Assignment should be a consideration of the guidelines, principles, and concepts students have learned in this course, and an application of those principles, with emphasis on those guidelines that help determine meter, mode, degree of consonance/dissonance, tone color, style, and form of a musical composition based upon careful observation and concentrated listening. You should begin your General Writing Assignment with a brief introduction that describes your knowledge of music prior to entering the course and continue with a reflection of the various components of music that you have learned to listen for during a musical experience. The Learning Outcomes for this course should be used as a guideline for what to include in the General Writing Assignment. In addition, students should choose four of the following seven essay items to include in their General Writing Assignment: Write a verbal desсrіption of Tchaikovsky′s ″1812 Overture.″ Be sure to include the historical background not only described musically by the composer in the composition, but also discuss the event at which the piece premiered. How does the music describe what happened in Russian history in 1812? What devices are used by the composer to express that historical experience? Describe the various ways in which composers achieve the elements of unity and variety in their music. Why is unity and variety essential in a satisfying musical composition? How is unity and variety presented in the different musical structures (sectional forms, variation forms, sonata form, fugal forms) studied in this course? Why were the composers in the twentieth century looking for something new harmonically? What were their names and their associated styles and contributions? What was the result of this search for something new harmonically? Relate the historical development of the symphony, its origin, composers who wrote symphonies, why it nearly became extinct in the history of music, who were the conservatives who brought it back, and describe the musical forms (structures) typical for each movement of a standard Classical symphony. Why do you think many Americans seem to reject opera? What are the basic components of an opera? Give some composers who wrote operas and made some interesting innovations to this genre through the past four hundred years. Describe nationalism in opera, that is, how operas were different in Italy, France, and Germany. How is an American Broadway musical similar to an opera? How is it different? Describe Baroque style versus Classical style, which followed it. What was happening in Europe during the Baroque period and in the Classical period scientifically, politically, socially, and culturally? How does the music Handel, who was a Baroque composer, differ from Haydn′s, who wrote during the Classical era? How is their music similar? What types, or genres, of music did they compose? How does their music reflect what was going on around them in the different eras in which they lived? Explain for each of the style periods in music history how the style of the music that the composers wrote reflected the general philosophy, literature, painting, sculpture, dance and social customs of the eras in which they wrote their music.
