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150 Listening Report Guide
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A crucial part of this course involves listening
to music outside class. As part of your class work,
you are required to listen to music or watch videos
about music for three hours each week.
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For each week specified on the Schedule,
you are to turn in a list of all you have listened
to for the class during that week and a more
detailed response to one piece of your choice
from your listening.
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What music should I choose for
listening?
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The Class Schedule
lists the type of music you should be listening to
each week. IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT use pieces from
the required CD's for the class for your listening
reports; these reports are to be based on other
resources.
Appropriate Listening for each week is on the
Multimedia
Resources page; all of these resources are
available on two hour Reserve at the Multi-Media
Desk in the Schultz Tech Center, These materials
should be used ONLY in the Tech Center; they are
not to be checked out.
You may use other sources as well--your own
collections of recordings, those of your friends,
radio, the Internet or--best of all--live
performance. But make certain you listen to
music relevant to what we are studying that
week. Choose genres, composers or pieces
discussed in the text or listed on the Multimedia
Resources page; if in doubt, check with me
first. You will not receive credit for listening to
music not appropriate for that week.
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How should I format Listening
Responses? Each week's Listening Report
should follow the following format.
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1
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a list of what you listened to that week,
with times for each recording. Remember that 3
hours each week are required.
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This can be a list of CD's, videos or other
recordings; you need not list every piece on the
recordings. Note that you can also use live events,
Internet listening, radio or TV listening; for
these media, be as precise as you can about what
you have listend to and their timings
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2
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factual information about the specific piece
of your choice
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title, composer if applicable, performer(s) and
source (live performance TV, radio, video CD,
phono, cassette tape, Internet. If the piece is
from the library, specify title of specific piece
and its source CD, tape phono or video)
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3
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your response
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CONTENT: the objective description: How
would you describe what is going on in the music?
(vocal or instrumental? what instruments? what
style? what form? melodic? heavy beat? familiar or
not?) See the Talking
About Music page for thoughts on how to
describe what you hear. Be sure you point out
whatever you find most striking in the music.
CONTEXT: the functional description:
What role did the music serve? Where was it
performed? Under what circumstances? Who were the
performers? The audience? What was the intended
purpose/effect of the music at the time it was
created? What musical characteristics made it
appropriate for its function? The Talking
About Music page will also be useful here.
COMMENTARY: the critical response: What
interests you, repels you, attracts you in this
music? What does it evoke? Describe in your own
words the effect the music has on you. Do you know
music from your own experience intended to fulfill
a similar function? How is the music you know
similar to this music? How does the music you know
differ from this music? What characteristics of the
music are most important in causing the music to
affect you the way that it does? What place does
this music have today?
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When are Listening Reports due? -
Listening Reports are due Thursday of each week,
except for exam weeks. No Listening Responses are
required the week of an exam. They should be 1-2
typed pages. Use the questions above and the
suggestions on the Talking
about Music page as a resource for your
answers.
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How are Listening Responses Graded? How
much do they count? - You receive your
credit from doing the listening, rather than for
the content of your response; therefore, they do
not receive letter grades, though they often will
receive comments. Listening to the type of music
specified on the Schedule
of Readings and Listening, using the above format,
responding thoughtfully and turning your report in
on time will give you full credit.
There are 12 required Listening Reports; each
report is worth 2% of your course grade. Listening
Responses count for 24% of the grade in this
class.
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