Paper instructions:

Please avoid to write about the rock group “green day” in general but choose its songs and analyze their music.  E.g., 5-6 songs is okay, however you may choose them yourself. Compare their melodies, rhythms, form, dynamics, instrumentation, etc.  E.g., is rhythm in a song often regular or irregular, how large is melodic range of various songs, is tempo of the song moderate, slow or fast (stable or unstable), what instrument(s) play the song, does this particular song have soft dynamic level or the opposite, etc? You can find different types of music analysis in your course book (which you may follow) which is convenient to use. Just avoid to discuss any personal, historical, religious, medical, political and/or economic issues and concentrate your course paper on discussing music of chosen songs.

Just discuss music of chosen songs – NOT LYRICS (because the main goal of course papers is to discuss music). However, e.g., you may mention that music of a song is sad or light because of its lyrics.

Please don’t forget to submit your bibliography including CD(s) and information from the Internet used.

songs:
wake me up when September ends, boulevard of broken dreams, jesus of suburbia, 21 first century breakdown, the forgotten, brutal love

1.    Don’t write biographies of composers/performers. Rather choose one of his CD(s) recordings or YouTube from the web and write about one or more of his works. Try not to choose topics which are too general, e.g. “The Symphonies of Beethoven”, “French Music in the 16th century” or “The History of Jazz in the 1930s”, and the like. Instead of this students may write about one or two movements of a symphony of Beethoven, or about 1-3 short compositions written in France in the 16th century, or about several jazz compositions which were created in Chicago in the 1930s. It is also possible (and interesting) to compare several pieces written in different times. E.g., three different jazz compositions: where one of them was created in the 1930s, another in the 1940s, and a final in the 1950s.
2.    Students may make an analysis of chosen musical work(s) by listening to music (if they can’t read music or can’t get printed music). It is highly recommended that students study the analyses which are given in the course textbook and use these techniques when describing their chosen musical work(s).
3.    Students need to add a bibliography as the 6th page of their papers, thus consulting all available materials. They should include information they acquired by reading materials published as a supplement to their CD(s),information borrowed from the internet (give URL address), information borrowed from dictionaries and books or articles (e.g. the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians or an encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, and the like) etc. It is an excellent idea for students to use the Grove Dictionary of Music Online.  To use this resource, students need to open “my.Parkland” and click on the “library” of Parkland College; then click on “electronic books”; then choose the Grove Dictionary of Music Online.
4.    Please avoid to write about works which are discussed in your textbooks and about too well-known works, e.g. Fuer Elise, “Moonlight” Sonata, Fifth’s and Ninth’s Symphonies of Beethoven, Canon of Pachelbel, 40th Symphony of Mozart, etc.
5.    One should discuss music of entire songs (not samples).
6.    There is no one way to write a paper. Every student is allowed to write in his or her own style.

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