Concert Review and Extra Credit
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This is Concert Review #1 for the first of TWO concerts you will STREAM ONLINE this term. Find concerts HERE.
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BOTH concerts MUST be “classical”. No stadium/festival concerts or concerts featuring pop artists (EDM, pop rock, hip hop, modern country, etc). Music should reflect the course’s content.
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Appropriate genres include:
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traditional jazz
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opera
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symphony orchestra
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chamber music (like a string quartet or piano recital)
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“world” music (i.e. Japanese classical, Indonesian gamelan, etc), experimental, etc.
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Pop, rock, hip hop, reggae, and other popular style concerts, and outdoor, cafe/restaurant performances are NOT acceptable (with the exception of pop concerts on the Cuyamaca College Performing Arts Concert Series).
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Try to get outside your comfort zone – the idea is to try something new! Questions? Please email me!
THE WRITTEN REVIEW
1. Provide 1-2 paragraphs describing the concert you attended and the music performed in formal, academic language.
2. Give TITLES of pieces/songs and GENRE or type of music played (jazz, baroque, opera, romantic, etc).
3. Give the HISTORY of the music played.
4. What instruments were played?
5. Write about the performers themselves: where are they from, what is their background, what do they play?
6. What is your own response to the performance and the music? Like it? Love it or Hate it? Why?
7. Write about the substance of the performance and the music and your response to it ONLY. (I don’t need to know what you had for dinner or how traffic was getting to the venue.)
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and that’s the Extra Credit
There are the ways to earn extra credit. You can:
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view a full-length concert (like an opera) on youtube and write a concert review of that. Include the link and be sure to include details from the entire video.
SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT
