Music is a mystery for people who play it, write it, listen to it, and write about it. The only thing I can really do when I try to say something about music is assume.
Thanks so much for posting this. I have my music appreciation students create "creative listening guides" to accompany pieces of their choosing. The idea is that many of them don't have the analytical know-how to explain a piece in music theory language. (Some turn in scripts, storyboards, powerpoints, videos, etc.) This is a great example of that idea carried out really successfully, so I'll send it along to all the students. They've already studied that movement and heard Peter Schickele's baseball take.
I am active as a composer, a violist, a violinist, a recorder player, and as a teacher. I have been keeping this space in the blogosphere alive with assumptions about music (and assorted other things) since 2005.
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You are spending 'way too much time poking around YouTube, but I loved this one. Laughed and laughed.
Thanks so much for posting this. I have my music appreciation students create "creative listening guides" to accompany pieces of their choosing. The idea is that many of them don't have the analytical know-how to explain a piece in music theory language. (Some turn in scripts, storyboards, powerpoints, videos, etc.) This is a great example of that idea carried out really successfully, so I'll send it along to all the students. They've already studied that movement and heard Peter Schickele's baseball take.
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