Garrett Assignments

Music Appreciation: Due Friday, February 19, 2010

Music History Research Paper #1

Criteria for First Report: This report is worth 300 test points!

Rough Draft 75 (due 2/12); Pictures 25 (due 2/16); Completed Report - 100; Poster 100; Do your best!

2 pages typed - double spaced, 12 font, Times New Roman, margins – first page 2” top, 1” right and left –

second page – 1” top, right and left sides. Include a cover page and a resources page.

                Consider the following when writing your paper:

                1. Biographical Data – birth/death dates and places, marriage, family, places lived, places worked                     

                2. Historical Data – Period in musical history, types or style of music the person composed (Baroque, Romantic, symphonies, piano, etc.)

                3. Find interesting facts about your person that will make him seem real

                4. List a few of the most known pieces – telling a little about each one, including instrumentation used in each one.

                5. Tell why you think the pieces have endured and have become a classic or why listeners love them.             

    6. Tell what impact or significance your person had in the history of music and later composers or performers that they have influenced.

                                    A full sized poster with lots of pictures and labeling is required*

*Poster should be a standard size – any color.

Suggestions: include pictures of composer, family members, places lived, monuments to them, interesting things about his life, 

places he worked, where he is buried. Be sure to label each picture to explain why it is there and its significance.

 Each day the project is late the grade will be dropped a letter grade. 

email: jackie.garrett@sccboe.org

Music History Research Paper #2     This project is worth 300 points!

Criteria for Second Report:

            I. Paper should be 2 pages typed, 12 font, double spaced, margins – first page 2” top, 1” right and left –

                second page – 1” top, right and left sides

                 1. Biographical Data – birth/death dates and places, marriage, family, places lived, places worked                     

                 2. Historical Data – Period/Style of Music the  performer or composer wrote or performed

                  for example  (1920s – Jazz, 1930s - Blues, 1940s – Big Band or Swing, 1950s Rock and Roll)        

                3. Find interesting facts about your person or group that will make them seem real and human.

                4. List a few of the most known compositions or performances – telling a little about each one & instrumentation used.

                5. Tell why you think the compositions have endured and have become a classic or why listeners love them.                

                6. Tell what impact or significance your person or group had in the history and development of music

 The poster is graded on creativity, neatness, and originality. It may be any color but needs to be standard size. Put your composer's name as the title                    with the years of his life. Label each of the pictures. Provide visually as many details as possible about his/her life. Include pictures of him/her,                                family, places lived, album covers, interesting things in his/her life, and other pictures with famous people. Be sure to label each picture to explain                     what it is about and the picture's significance. Be creative! Your grade depends on it!

Each day parts of the project are late the grade will be dropped a letter grade. 

Rough Draft due Wednesday, April 1 – 100 points

Poster due Monday, April 6 – 100 points

Completed paper due Wednesday, April 8 – 100 points

Stephen Foster                                                             A.P. Carter Family

 W.C. Handy                                                                 Roy Acuff

 Scott Joplin                                                                  Patsy Cline

 Louis Armstrong                                                           Bill Monroe

 Bessie Smith                                                                 Patsy Montana

 Bo Diddley                                                                   Hank Williams. Sr.

 Glenn Miller Band                                                         Chuck Berry

 Nat King Cole                                                              Jerry Lee Lewis

 Irving Berlin                                                                  Elvis Presley

 George Gershwin                                                          Bill Haley and the Comets

 Benny Goodman                                                           Buddy Holly

 Billie Holiday                                                                BB King

 Jimmie Rodgers                                                            Duke Ellington

 King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band                            Ella Fitzgerald

 Gilbert and Sullivan                                                       Leonard Bernstein

John Phillip Sousa

Each day parts of the project are late the grade will be dropped a letter grade.