Description
- Choose one of the pieces from this unit’s listening.
- Pick one that stands out to you and briefly (1-2 sentences) explain why this particular piece “caught your ear.”
- What are the piece’s unique characteristics? BE SPECIFIC and use your textbook as your reference! This should be the main part of your mini-essay. This is not opinion – these are facts that you have researched.
- Cite your sources (Links to an external site.) – including your textbook. Points deducted for not citing references. You may use MLA format. (Links to an external site.)
- Response should be one-two paragraphs. Use full sentences, no abbreviations, and check your spelling for full credit.
Pictures at an Exhibition: Baba Yaga (Links to an external site.)(conducted by: Dudamel) Composer: Modest Mussorgsky |
The Moldau (Links to an external site.) Composer: Bedrich Smetana A beautiful piece of program music – The Mouldau from My Country (Má Vlast). |
Javanese gamelan: music and dance (Links to an external site.) Why am I including this video? What is the connection between Debussy and Indonesian gamelan? |
Prelude to ‘The Afternoon of a Faun’ (Links to an external site.) Composer: Claude Debussy |
‘L’apres-midi d’un Faune’ (danced by Nureyev) (Links to an external site.) Composer: Claude Debussy Piece: ‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun’ |