Making the Difficult

Dynamic

College is difficult!!!!

• MusicTwo types:

(1) memory aids, e.g.

(2) ice-breakers, e.g. “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Pour ‘Sum’ Sugar on Me”

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• Teaching by analogy, e.g.

There are two important sets associated with asurjective function

The set is the domain (what the functioneats) and the set is the range (what thefunction poops out). The inverse of does just the opposite. What does it do?

BAf :

f

AB

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601 (?)

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Beowulf, 11th Century

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HWÆT, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum,

þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!

oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,

monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah

Beowulf, 11th Century

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 14th Century

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1: Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;5: Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,9: And smale foweles maken melodye,10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;15: And specially from every shires ende16: Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,17: The hooly blisful martir for to seke,18: That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 14th Century

From Rock

to Bach

Teaching from Known to Unknown

• Use something the students already know as a point of departure into new ideas and concepts.

Music AppreciationMiddle Ages / Renaissance / Baroque / Classical / Romantic / 20th Cent.

Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque

S Latin text Latin text Other LanguagesHarpsichord

H Modal Major / minor

M Step-wise Step-wise Steps, skips and Within a scale leaps

R no sense of pulse very simple

F Ritonello

T Monophonic Polyphonic HomophonicPolyphonic

SHMRFT

• (Sound)• Harmony• Melody• Rhythm• Form • Texture/Timbre/Tone Color

Use everyday examples…i.e. pulse/sports

Beyoncé - Single Ladies• S Female vocals / rock band / electronic sounds

• H Major

• M Mostly steps and skips / simple

• R 4/4 / simple

• F Binary

• T Monophonic / thick