Topic: Gospell music and the song I chose ‘No one’ by Elevation Worship & Chandler Moore
Conduct some preliminary research on the song and its genre of music (see pages 3-6 of this assignment), considering historical, social, and stylistic questions. Write a brief report of your research, teaching this song and genre to the reader. Assume the reader is another student in this course who has no familiarity with this particular song or genre. Incorporate accurate in-text citations and compile your sources in a bibliography. You must include at least one library source (explained below).
For more on how to do research: see pages 3-5 of this assignment, and “Research Help” folder on Blackboard (under “Large Assignment: Music Article”).
To earn full points on the research draft: show that you’ve done some research with at least one library source, and that you have addressed or will address something about the genre’s history, social aspects, and stylistic aspects. Include any questions you may have.
Song analysis draft: Choose one song from your genre and listen to it several times. Each time you listen, identify one musical element in the song and take notes on it, using vocabulary we’ve learned in class. Repeat this process until you’ve analyzed each of the musical elements below. Then, write up your analysis in paragraph form.
duration (rhythm, tempo)
pitch (pitch range, ornamentation)
quality (instrumentation, timbre of each instrument)
intensity (dynamics)
texture (one of 5 types)
form (use section names or letters)
Concert review draft: Describe the performance in detail. Return to the notes you took while watching the concert. Rewatch sections of the video or the whole thing and take more detailed notes on the sounds and sights of the concert, using vocabulary you’ve learned in class and from the textbook as much as possible. Describe the music being performed in general, as well as anything going on visually. Consider the setting, how the musicians are arranged in relation to the audience, the dress and demeanor of the musicians, the behavior of the audience during the concert, how the musicians interact with each other and with the audience, etc. Based on all of this, what can you surmise about the significance, meaning or function for this event & this kind of music, for its participants? Then, write & support your opinion of the concert. What about the experience was new or different for you? What were your favorite and least favorite songs or moments during the event, and why? Did the music evoke any particular images or feelings for you? Did you like or dislike the experience overall, and would you recommend this concert to others? Why or why not? Be sure to support your opinion with specific evidence or details from the performance.
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