43094After completing the reading for Lesson One, please describe your own personal culture and music culture. Be sure to describe the songs or other music that make up the music of your surrounding culture as well as your own personal music culture. Consider the following questions: What...
43093After completing the reading for Lesson One, write an essay that provides answers to the following questions. Please be honest and think critically about your answers (minimum word count: 200; please see rubric). What are the various ways you identify yourself? What labels do you have...
43092I attach lesson 1 in the paper details What are the various ways you identify yourself? What labels do you have for yourself? Here are some examples to get you started—man, woman; nice person, angry person, quiet person, inclusive person; activist, pacifist, conservative, environmentalist; American, immigrant;...
43091After completing the reading for Lesson One, please describe your own personal culture and music culture. Be sure to describe the songs or other music that make up the music of your surrounding culture as well as your own personal music culture. Consider the following questions: 1. What...
43088Look online or in books and find the major Silk Road cities and regions/countries (some were not countries then). List several of the cities and regions located along each route. If possible, mention whether this is what they are known as now or what they...
42577For any written project, it's safe to start with the basics. Who, what, when, where, how, why (did you like/dislike). What impressed you most about the performance? Why? Why did you like/dislike the music? Did one song stand out from all the others? Describe the...
42574Although it is gradually dying out in India, the traditional guru-shishya relationship has played a major role in enabling Indian music to develop to an extremely high level. The system of patronage, in which kings, nobles, and other people of wealth supported gurus and enabled...
42479Traditional Japanese music is not seen as something separate from nature. Many instruments seek to imitate aspects of nature. The orientation to timbre and color includes an appreciation for nonpitched sounds and the sounds of nature. Each sound in an ensemble can be appreciated, not...
42437This will give you a chance to look more closely at the life and career of an African-American blues artist. Select an African-American artist who participated in the development of the blues, and research this artist and his or her contribution to this genre. You must use...
42379In the world around you, if you wanted to create some instruments from items you have around the house or in your neighborhood, how would you make them? Describe a homemade instrument you could make in each of the Sachs-Hornbostel instrument categories we discussed in...