Posted: November 19th, 2015

College Music Essay/Assignment

College Music Essay/Assignment
For this Essay, please compare and contrast one World Music and one French

Impressionist composition, choosing from the selections listed below. You will need

to find the French Impressionist on your own, as noted in the Course Materials.

Please choose from the selections below to order your music or borrow from local

library. The music of the French Impressionists is quite popular and easy to find.

There is a good chance you can find CDs available locally on a library loan basis

if you do not wish to purchase CDs.

Using CDs, online resources, and texts, write a 5 to 6 page paper comparing and

contrasting timbre and texture in the works that you choose. Timbre and texture are

intertwined, yet you need to be clear in distinguishing between these sounds and

concepts in your comparison and contrast. For example, you may want to explain the

ideas of timbre and texture, and then give examples of each in your world music and

French Impressionist selections, comparing types of timbre and texture in the two

musical selections. Please quote from our texts if appropriate in describing the

musical selections and definitions and terms of timbre and texture.

Listening Options for ESSAY 4

Choose one world music selection from the following:
(Note – these selections are on the CDs accompanying our text)

37 Chidori no Kyoku
38 Highlander Men’s Ganga
41 Kreasi Beleganjur Padma Mudra
26 Dikrayati
ALSO choose one French Impressionist selection from the following:

La Mer, Claude Debussy (first movement only)
Nocturnes, Claude Debussy (choose one section, e.g. “Nuages/ Clouds”)
Daphnis et Chloe, Maurice Ravel (“Break of Day” movement only)
String Quartet in F Major, Maurice Ravel (first Movement, “Allegro moderato – Tres

doux”)
(Note – you will have to find your music for these selections on your own, either

locally or by ordering online.

How the music affects you personally will enter into your analysis and might serve

you well as a brief introduction to each analysis. That is, various moods, images,

or impressions of the sounds may enter your mind as you listen. The main object is

to discuss the music itself in terms of rhythm and melody. Do use the keywords and

other relevant terms and concepts you encounter in our reading as part of your

musical description.

Do not be surprised that it may be difficult, at first, to write ‘analytically’

about music. The learning experience is what this course is about, and this Essay

is one step in that process. As a listener, your skills in analysis will grow with

‘practice’ in listening to both the ‘formal elements’ and the ‘feeling elements’ in

the music.
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