1. UNIT 4 FLEX SEMINAR MUSIC HU 300: Art and Humanities in the 20 th Century and Beyond with Laurie Smart-Pottle, M.Ed

2. Any questions before we get started? Looking ahead…

3. Unit 4 To-Do Checklist Reading  Read chapter 5 in our text: “Music” (or PDF in Doc Sharing). Supplemental Resources  Two short clips on the impact music has on Parkinson’s patients and infants (My Web Resources).  Review Key Terms using the Flashcards in My Humanities Kit. Discussion 50 pts.  Participate in discussion (link under Unit 4 tab). One question this week. Flex Seminar  Attend/ participate in a synchronous discussion. Project #2 120 pts.  Due by Tuesday @ 11:59! Check out the “Helpful Resources” link in Unit 4 discussion board or Doc Sharing.  Be sure to view the short video in the instructions/rubric document before beginning.  Use the example paper as a template…

4. Project #2: “Your Soundtrack”  What songs/genre are important and why?  Explain the role of music in your life (not limited to)  Childhood  Adolescence  Comfort  Happiness Step out of the box!!

5. Grading Criteria A: 108-120 points Shoot for this!  Essay reflects careful consideration of the role of music throughout one’s life (10 pts.).  Project demonstrates the concepts strongly using concrete examples of music in childhood, adolescence, and as a form of rebellion (10 pts.).  Project uses vocabulary terms from the unit (10 pts.).  Project is clearly written—minimal grammatical, mechanical, and formatting errors (10 pts.).  Project meets posted length requirements—and follows directions (10 pts.).

6. Musical Terms Atonality Avant-garde Baroque Chamber music Chromatic scale Counterpoint Diatonic scale Dissonance Fugue Half-tone Harmony Hip-hop Improvisation key Melody Minimalism Pentatonic scale Ragtime Rap Rhythm Rock Rock ’n’ roll Scale Symphony Syncopation Toccata tone

7. What do you think? Might music pre-exist language? Love for and appreciation of music is a universal feature of human culture (Vaidya, 2004).

8. Music is Universal  How?  Why?  Examples? Fotosearch, 2011)

9. Kinds of Music  Name a concert/ show you have been to.  What period of music was it from or what style of music was it?  Symphony  Hip-hop  Ragtime  Rock  Jazz  Folk  Spiritual  Pop

10. Why? If only one genre of music was available for mankind to listen to what would it be? (Fotosearch, 2011)

11. Music and Emotion  Several characteristics have been suggested that might influence the emotion of music:  Major keys and rapid tempos cause happiness  Slow tempos cause sadness  Rapid tempos together with dissonance cause fear  Can you think of movies, soap operas, TV shows that remind you of this?

12. Background Music  Is it intended to encourage close attention?  Become a “foreground” listener. Where would you expect to hear background music? (Fotosearch, 2011)

13. Gender Specific Music  Are female performers having trouble competing in what is still a male-dominated scene?  Do you prefer male to female performers, or vice versa? (Starplus, 2011)

14. References Fotosearch. (2011). Binary world [Royalty Free Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.fotosearch.com/IGS128/110_010/ http://www.fotosearch.com/IGS128/110_010/ Fotosearch. (2011). Oneperson, person, people, onepersononly [Royalty Free Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.fotosearch.com/TGR386/trd014ca4480/http://www.fotosearch.com/TGR386/trd014ca4480/ Fotosearch. (2011). Waiter's foot blocking elevator doors. [Royalty Free Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.fotosearch.com/UNX556/u16566472/ Gabber, D. (2010). Lady Gaga: 2010 MTV video music awards - press room. Starplus.com. Retrieved from http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Lady_Gaga/gallery/DGG-025894/http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Lady_Gaga/gallery/DGG-025894/ Vaidya, G. (2004). Music, emotion, and the brain. Serendip. Retrieved from http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/gvaidya.html http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/gvaidya.html

15. Questions?  Contact Laurie:  Email: lsmartpottle@kaplan.edu  AIM: lsmartpottle