Assignment Task:
This must be linked to concert attendance. I would like you to pretend you attended a concert that is happening in Illinois soon and write your ideas, thoughts and observations about the concert. I would like this to be portrayed like you were an active listener and tell me what you heard and how it made you feel. (Be aware that not all music is designed to make you feel one way or another. Need solution? Get Online Service!
2-page minimum.
Must be double-spaced.
Music must be the main event at the concert you are attending. Therefore, music at a wedding does not count, music at church does not count and music at a bar does not count.
Small example: Thomas Moore, in his book Care of the Soul (1992), asserts "the arts are important because they arrest attention and invite.... us into contemplation -a rare commodity in the modern life. In that moment of contemplation art intensifies the presence of the world. When we are participating in the arts as creator, performer, or perceiver, we are able to see more in our experience, to hear more normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines, habits and conventions have obscured." The primary purpose of this course is to begin to hear, see and contemplate those musical sounds that have the potential to heighten our experiences in life. The means to this end is through listening and experiencing music. To this end, we challenge ourselves with a diversity of musical ideas, thoughts and musical genres that contain expressive qualities and reflect a certain artisanship and imagination that reveals its musical creativity.