The Composer’s Project
You are going to compose a poster to be put on display.
You need to start with
1.) Time period
2.) Composer from that time period
3.) Piece of music from that composer
1.) Tell about the Time period:
1. What is going on in the country in which he is writing?
2. What has just recently happened in history to have helped him to write such
an epic piece?
2.) Tell about the composer
1. What is going on in the composer’s life when he wrote the piece?
2. Is he writing something that will influence the ages, or is he writing
something as a response to what is going on around him?
3. Why did he write it?
3.) The piece of music is the center of your focus and should be at the center of
your poster!
Analyze one page of the piece of music. Talk about:
1. Time signature
2. Key signature
3. Major or minor?
4. Instruments used and how many
5. Types of intervals used
6. How frequently do you see scale patterns if you see them at all?
7. How frequently do you see / hear a repeat in the music?
8. What do you think has made this music withstand the test of time?
Due date: Friday, October 24th 2014 BY 3:20PM or it loses a grade per day
(Saturday included)!
(If turned in the Monday we return from the weekend, it loses 50% of the earned points.)
Grading Rubric
EXCELLENT
ACCEPTABLE
UNACCEPTABLE
Piece of art is acceptable to be
Piece of art is acceptable to
Piece of art is acceptable to
shown in a front hallway of a
hang in a classroom
show to the class
school
15 points
10 points
20 points
Time period is clearly
Time period is mentioned and
Time period is not mentioned
understood and explained in all
covered in some detail.
or does not indicate any
facets
15 points
20 points
understanding; simply
reporting of facts from website.
5 points
Project shows a clear
Project shows a clear
Project shows little
understanding of the
understanding of the
understanding of the
composer’s state of mind and
composer’s life and shows
composer’s life or information
personality during composition
some indication of composer’s
seems to have been taken off
of piece.
state of mind.
the internet with no thought
25 points
15 points
done by student.
5 points
The piece of music was
The piece of music was
The piece of music was on the
explained thoroughly with all
explained with most details
poster with some questions
details answered articulately
answered articulately and in an
answered.
and in an artistic way.
artistic way.
30 points
15 points
25 points
Presentation was well
Presentation was mostly
Project was presented but
explained with correct
explained; lack of detail.
missing lots of detail
information and full attention
10 points
to detail
5 points
15 points
Total Points:
Student: ________________________________________________________________
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Baroque
1600 - 1750
Antonio Vivaldi
1678 - 1741
Johann Sebastian
Bach
1685 - 1750
George Frederick
Handel
1685 - 1759
The four seasons
Spring - Dana
B
The wellminor tempered
Mass
clavier:
Messiah: The
Halleluiah Chorus Carlos
The Gloria
The
Toccata
Brandenand
burg
Fugue
Concertos
Water music
Air on a Minuet in G G string
Jen
Nathan
Arrival of the Queen of
Sheba - D’Aira
Suite for
cello - Jack
Classical
1750 - 1830
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
1756 - 1791
Ludwig van
Beethoven
1770 -
Richard Wagner
1813 - 1885
Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
1840- 1893
Nikolai RimskyKorsakov
1844- 1908
Debussy
Stravinsky
Eine Kleine
nachtmusik
Symphony
no. 5
The magic
Flute - Maya
Symphony
no. 9: Ode to
joy
Rhondo alla
turka - Jason
Requiem: Dies Irae - Carla
Moonlight sonata Fur Elise - Abe
- Billy
Romantic
1830 - 1910
Lohengrin: Bridal Die Walküre: Ride Of The Valkyries - Denis
Chorus - Saphire
Nutcracker: Dance Swan Lake 1812 Overture - Abdul
of the sugar plum
faries - Adrian
Edit on
Scheherazade
Tale Of Tsar Saltan: Flight Of The
Mussorsky’s Night
Bumblebee - Ebony
on Bald Mountain:
Rayvon
Clair de Lune - Solomon
Rite of Spring