Music Assignments

Whatever Happens

It’s always easy to be overwhelmed with internal thoughts — there’s no denying it. This assignment is a hopefully a chance for you all to be overwhelmed by external stimuli and by what your senses perceive instead (of course, they aren’t mutually exclusive). Students will engage in active listening…

An Iterative Song

They say that in jazz, there are no mistakes — only opportunities. It is through the riskiest blunders that musicians often innovate and discover.

Art (and life!) is an iterative process, in which the lessons we learn shape paths we may have never foreseen. Often it is…

Interpretations

In this assignment, the thoughts and emotions you feel while listening to music will come to life. You will listen to one piece from the Google drive below that you have never heard before. No context is included. In all of these pieces, the composers wrote from a clear inspiration (such as a…