Class Plan for Thursday, February 13, 2020
Review of MUSI Terms
- Concluding the Renaissance! (for now…)
Music Sentence Stems (Cont.)
If you haven’t already done so, take time to complete your music sentence stems.
Get together with your group. Each group member should complete ONE set of sentence stems that aren’t their own while listening to the music. Listen to the song as much as needed.
If time remains–let’s get creative!
STEP ONE You are tasked with putting together a 5-song playlist on your Spotify, YouTube, Apple, etc. account (it doesn’t have to be a public playlist).
Select ONE of the following guidelines:
- A playlist that motivates you to _________ (study/workout/wake up/socialize…you pick!). The goal is to make a playlist that is somehow useful to you.
- A playlist that helps you _______ (unwind/transition from school to home/ destress…you pick!). The goal is to make a playlist that is somehow useful to you.
- Or if you’re feeling more creative….A playlist that captures a specific feeling or activity–try to be nuanced here, so rather than “happy” or “sad,” try something like “That Friday Afternoon Feeling” or “Post-Yoga Bliss” or “Walking through Campus on a Sunny Day” or “Cooking with my BFF.”
- If you *really* want to get creative…A playlist for your favorite smell–it can be anything! “Grandma’s Bread Baking in the Oven” or “Freshly Cut Grass” or “Chanel No. 5” or “Coffee!Coffee!Coffee!” Just be specific. The challenge of this one is that you most likely aren’t able to smell the thing you’re thinking about as you make the playlist, but see what you come up with anyway.
STEP TWO Chat with a partner about which type of playlist you chose to create and why you chose the songs you did.
STEP THREE Would you classify the sensibility behind your playlist as Romantic or Classical (recall the Era vs. Era chart we discussed in MUSI).
For clarification, I’m not asking you to classify the music itself as Romantic or Classical. I’m asking you to think about your motivation for selecting the music you did.
Do you relate to one classification more than another?
If we don’t get to this activity during class this Thurs, I hope to come back to it! I really want to make one of these myself…
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