Garrett Assignments

Music Appreciation:

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 as the title with the years of his life. Label each of the pictures. Provide visually as many details as possible about his 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. Be creative! Your grade depends on it!

The poster is graded on creativity, neatness, and originality. It may be any color but needs to be standard size. Put your composer as the title with the years of his life. Label each of the pictures. Provide visually as many details as possible about his life.

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

 Rough Draft due Friday, April 4 – 100 points

Poster due Tuesday, April 8 – 100 points

Completed paper due Friday, April 11 – 100 points

Stephen Foster                                                             A.P. Carter Family

 W.C. Handy                                                                 Roy Acuff

 Scott Joplin                                                                  Patsy Cline

 Louis Armstrong                                                           Bill Malone

 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

The poster is graded on creativity, neatness, and originality. It may be any color but needs to be standard size. Put your composer as the title with the years of his life. Label each of the pictures. Provide visually as many details as possible about his life.

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