Please read pp. 25-33 from the course textbook. Please also listen to the following listening list (see below).
Please create one post for the discussion board based on the reading, and a second post based on the listening. Please then respond to one of your classmates’ posts by 11:59pm Sunday evening. This will be a total of three posts per week in order to receive full credit for this module’s discussion grade.
Please consider the following questions as you create your post on the reading.
- Think about the composer’s life and work. How did events in the composer’s life affect his or her work? How did the composer’s work affect his or her life?
- Did the composer primarily compose religious music or secular music? How did this affect the sound of the music?
- Did the composer compose primarily vocal music or instrumental music?
- Is the composer known for any particular innovations in the overall history of music or influence on his or her contemporaries?
- Please don’t limit your post to answering only these questions in a checklist-style format; instead, use these questions to stimulate your thinking about the composer(s) you have chosen for your post.
Please consider the following questions as you create your post on the listening list.
- Please mention the listening example(s) you’re posting about.
- Comment on instrument or vocal sounds that you hear. Do they sound familiar to you? Are they pleasant sounding to you? Describe the sounds you hear in whatever terms are most comfortable for you.
- Are there musicians performing alone or in groups? Does it sound like there is one musician performing as a soloist or as a leader, or does it sound like more of a group effort altogether?
- Consider the tonal aspects of the music, like melody and harmony. Does the tonality of the music make you feel any particular mood (for example; happy, peaceful, sad, bitter-sweet, melancholy, excited, fierce, apocolyptic, etc.)?
- Consider the rhythmic aspects of the music. Can you find a regular beat that you can tap your foot to, or does the rhythm sound more elastic and flexible? Does it sound like something you could dance to?
- Again, please don’t limit your post to answering only these questions in a checklist-style format; instead, use these questions to stimulate your thinking about the piece(s) of music you have chosen for your post.
Listening List:
Orlando Di Lasso: “Matona mia cara”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_sIUlY6uf8