Music Through Time
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Pick a composer to research from the list below:
o Claude Debussy
o Igor Stravinsky
o Richard Wagner
o John Cage
o Giacchino Rossini
o Percy Grainger
o Gustav Holst
o Maurice Ravel
o Thomas Tallis
o Jean Baptiste-Lully
o Joseph Haydn
o George Fredric Handel
o Franz Schubert
o Robert Schumann
o Hector Berlioz
o Camille Saint-Saens
o Gustav Mahler
o Sergei Rachmaninoff
o Arnold Schoenberg
o Benjamin Britten
o Philip Glass
o Antonio Vivaldi
o Carl Maria Von Weber
o Jacques Offenbach
o Georges Bizet
o Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
o Jean Sibelius
o Charles Ives
o George Gershwin
o Aaron Copland
o Leonard Bernstein
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Research 10 events (NOT FACTS) about this band. Examples:
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Special concert
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Family events (divorce, marriage, kids, etc.)
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When they composed a certain piece of music
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Particular incident- trouble or accomplishment
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Traveling periods
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Any other important events in the composer’s life
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AFTER you find 10 events, you will begin to make a power point.
Slides 2-11 must each have the following information. Note that this information will be different for each slide:
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Date of the event
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Location that the Event took place
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Advances in Technology at that time- any technology, not just music
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Important history event that took place on that particular date
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Price of milk, gas, and eggs at that time
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Top 10 hits of that time- top 10 hits in general not limited to your band
Criteria:
Timeline. Must be a line with 10 events connected to it. Need dates and SHORT description of the event.
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First Event
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Second Event
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Third Event
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Fourth Event
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Fifth Event
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Sixth Event
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Seventh Event
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Eighth Event
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Ninth Event
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Tenth Event
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A SHORT Biography (7 sentences) of your band
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Your band’s top 10 hits WITH dates of each song
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What did you learn about music through your research (instruments, type of music, different bands, importance in history, etc.)? (10 sentences)
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What did you learn about history through your research (inflation, changes in prices, supply and demand, etc.)? (10 sentences)
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Closing Slide: includes:
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Why you like or dislike the composer
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What they did that you thought was interesting
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What you would say if you could meet them
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Total: _________/220