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Music Through Time

 

  • 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

 

 

  • Research 10 events (NOT FACTS) about this band. Examples:

    • Special concert

    • Family events (divorce, marriage, kids, etc.)

    • When they composed a certain piece of music

    • Particular incident- trouble or accomplishment

    • Traveling periods

    • Any other important events in the composer’s life

 

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:

  • Date of the event

  • Location that the Event took place

  • Advances in Technology at that time- any technology, not just music

  • Important history event that took place on that particular date

  • Price of milk, gas, and eggs at that time

  • 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.

____/50

 

First Event

___/10

 

Second Event

___/10

 

Third Event

___/10

 

Fourth Event

___/10

 

Fifth Event

___/10

 

Sixth Event

___/10

 

Seventh Event

___/10

 

Eighth Event

___/10

 

Ninth Event

___/10

 

Tenth Event

___/10

 

A SHORT Biography (7 sentences) of your band

___/10

 

Your band’s top 10 hits WITH dates of each song

___/10

 

What did you learn about music through your research (instruments, type of music, different bands, importance in history, etc.)? (10 sentences)

___/10

 

What did you learn about history through your research (inflation, changes in prices, supply and demand, etc.)? (10 sentences)

____/20

 

Closing Slide: includes:

  • Why you like or dislike the composer

  • What they did that you thought was interesting

  • What you would say if you could meet them

___/20

 

Total: _________/220

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