Homework Assignment #1
Due: Tuesday, 8/30 in hard copy at the start of class
Complete the Homework Assignment #1 worksheet handed out in class or by printing out the PDF available here: HW Assignment #1.
Homework Assignment #2
Due: Friday, 9/2 in hard copy at the start of class
Complete the Homework Assignment #2 worksheet handed out in class or by printing out the PDF available here: HW Assignment #2.
Blog Post #1
Due: Tuesday, 9/6 by the start of class as a post on this course website
Blog prompt: Read Sound Reasoning, Chapter 4 on Musical Emphasis, listening to the audio examples provided along the way. For your blog post, find your own example of a song or piece of music that you think uses musical emphasis in an interesting way. In the blog, describe the following: 1) Where in the recording (prove a time marker or two) your moment of musical emphasis happens, 2) How musical emphasis is created (is it durational emphasis? change? etc.), and 3) Why you find this too be a particularly interesting or expressive moment.