Your Favorite Recording discussion

Your Favorite Recording – Listening Guide For this assignment, select a song that around 5 minutes long that you have listened to often. This song can be any genre, as long as it is one that is familiar to you. Do not pick a song discussed in your textbook. See the textbook for an idea of what your listening guides might look like, but your guide does not need to conform to this format. Be creative in the way you organize your guide, using the format that best helps you express the important aspects of the piece. The purpose of this assignment is for you to describe to me—using terms used in this class—music that you enjoy. Essential elements to include: Basic information of the piece. Title, composer/band/singer, date, genre. General musical characteristics. Include descriptions of at least three of the following: form, text, texture, melody, harmony, performing forces. Important musical events. Describe what happens at major marking points in the song (e.g., when the chorus arrives, when a solo begins, etc.), and include timings (0:00, 2:24, 3:25, etc.). That way I can listen to the track you are describing and go directly to that spot on the recording. Important: you do not need to give a play-by-play of the music, only the important musical events; part of your job is to separate the important from the non-important. If there’s a text, include it in your guide. Assessment. Your points received for the guide will be determined via the following criteria: discernment (did you include all of the important musical events?) accuracy (when I listen to the track, will I hear what you describe?) integrity of the work (the work must be solely accomplished by you)