Take Home Composition: Due
on June 12, 2014 (email to DHSComposition@gmail.com) - 25 pts
You received a copy of the Pachelbel's Canon in D bassline, both in class and in an email. Your assignment is to write a melody line for this bassline using the D Major Scale. You will also record your composition as an MP3.
The bass line for Pachelbel Canon is D A B F# G D G A. To have your melody sound best, consider these helpful notes:
If the bass note is D, use D, F# or A
If the bass note is A, use A, C# or E
If the bass note is B, use B, D or F#
If the bass note is F#, use F#, A or C#
If the bass note is G, use G, B or D
You received a copy of the Pachelbel's Canon in D bassline, both in class and in an email. Your assignment is to write a melody line for this bassline using the D Major Scale. You will also record your composition as an MP3.
The bass line for Pachelbel Canon is D A B F# G D G A. To have your melody sound best, consider these helpful notes:
If the bass note is D, use D, F# or A
If the bass note is A, use A, C# or E
If the bass note is B, use B, D or F#
If the bass note is F#, use F#, A or C#
If the bass note is G, use G, B or D
Take Home Essay: Personal Review: Printed copy due at exam - 25 pts.
The 500-word, take-home essay must be completed
by all Orchestra members.
1.
How have you improved this year as a performer and member of the
Orchestra? Include at least THREE areas in your response. These can
include rhythms, shifting/positions, bowing, vibrato, note reading, tone,
ensemble playing, practicing, etc.
2.
How has the Orchestra improved throughout the year? Include at
least TWO areas in your response. You can include style, phrasing,
accuracy of note and rest value, steadiness/precision, intonation (tuning),
tempo, expression, emotional involvement.
3.
How can the Orchestra continue to improve? Include at least TWO areas---
style, phrasing, accuracy of note and rest value, steadiness/precision,
intonation (tuning), tempo, expression, emotional involvement---in your
response.
Listening:
There will be a short listening excerpt. You will need to listen for instrumentation, time signature and style. It will be an example of Broadway, so be sure to keep that in mind when answering questions about instrumentation and form.
There will be a short listening excerpt. You will need to listen for instrumentation, time signature and style. It will be an example of Broadway, so be sure to keep that in mind when answering questions about instrumentation and form.
Music Theory:
You will be asked to look at a piece of music and all the various instructions on it. These can include key signatures, time signatures, tempo markings (largo, andante, presto, accelerando), articulations (staccato, legato, slurs, accents, fermata), dynamics (crescendo, decrescendo), expression terms (dolce, espressivo, marcato).
You will be asked to look at a piece of music and all the various instructions on it. These can include key signatures, time signatures, tempo markings (largo, andante, presto, accelerando), articulations (staccato, legato, slurs, accents, fermata), dynamics (crescendo, decrescendo), expression terms (dolce, espressivo, marcato).
There will also be questions about the Italian
terms covered this semester. www.darienps.org/teachers/jminnis/ItalianForMusicians.pdf.
Music History & Performance:
These questions will pertain to the music we performed at the concert and in Washington, D.C.
Music Humor for extra credit
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