1. Complete a listening guide for both Bikini Kill’s Rebel Girl and Bjork’s Venus as a Boy.
2. Complete a listening guide for both Beyoncé’s Freedom and Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi.
3. Complete listening guides for Teresa Teng’s The Moon Represents My Heart, Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You, and Lea Salonga’s I’d Give My Life For You.
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4. Complete listening guides for both Mary Lou Williams’ The Zodiac Suite (select movements), and Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit.
5. Complete listening guides for Monk’s Ascension Voices, Yi’s Distance Can’t Keep Us Two Apart, and Oliveros’ Tuning Meditation.
Composer: the person who wrote the music and/or lyrics / you may also write the performer here
Title: the name of the piece
Genre: category of artistic composition, characterized by similarities in form, style, subject matter
Language: in a piece with words, the language you hear
Musical Characteristics: definable musical traits of the piece: form, timbre, melody, rhythm, harmony, phrase, word painting, tempo, and texture
Additional Notes: this is where you’ll share anything else relevant about the piece and/or your personal reception to what you hear
Here are some adjectives we can use to describe music:
Abrasive, Booming, Brassy, Breathy, Bright, Brilliant, Brittle, Buzzy, Clear, Coarse, Cool, Cutting, Dark, Delicate, Distorted, Dry, Dull, Edgy, Ethereal, Flat, Focused, Full, Grating, Guttural, Harsh, Heavy, Hoarse, Hollow, Husky, Intense, Light, Lush, Mellow, Metallic, Muddy, Murky, Muted, Nasal, Penetrating, Piercing, Pure, Raspy, Reedy, Resonant, Rich, Ringing, Rough, Round, Scratchy, Shallow, Sharp, Shimmery, Shrill, Silky, Silvery, Smoky, Smooth, Strained, Strident, Strong, Subdued, Thick, Thin, Throaty, Thundering, Tremulous, Unfocused, Velvety, Vibrant, Warbling, Warm, Wheezy, Whispered, Wooden, lively, jaunty, bouncy, fun, refreshing, humorous, amusing, tedious, endless, enchanting, mysterious, disturbing, intelligent, inspirational, dissonant, consonant, edgy, brilliant, sparkling, romantic, lovely, ebullient, amorphous, energizing, dark, light, intense, sensuous, static, upbeat, up-tempo, full, thin, uplifting, dry, driving, sensitive, kitschy, tense, dense, abusive, reedy, brassy, catastrophic, cataclysmic, cacophonous, glorious, triumphant, thrilling, gentle, sweet, flowing, fluid, lush, rich, heavy, somber, solemn, dramatic, exciting, bombastic, colorful, lean.
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Attached will be class notes and some information that could help out with the detailed listening guides to be completed.