Assignment #9: Music and Politics; and Essay #3

Read first: Lydia Goehr) "Political Music..."

https://doi.org/10.2307/431589

Supplemental: text, ch. 50

Third (and final) essay:

1. Compose a 2-3 pp. CRITO-based, argumentative essay following closely the guidelines as indicated in handout QA.  (For more detail on CRITO and paper mechanics, review as necessary handouts CR1-CR3.)

Topic: (choose one)

a. What are the relations between (absolute) music and morality?

b. What are the relations between music and politics?

c. What is uniquely valuable about popular music?

d. What is the most promising approach to the philosophy of music education?

Due: Monday, May 2nd, stapled hard-copy, in class.  No late papers accepted!  Your grade for the course will be the average of your three essay grades.

Assignment #8: Music and Education

 Read: chapter 56.

Supplemental:  "Music Education: Aesthetic or Praxial?"

https://doi.org/10.2307/3333302

Assignment #7: Music and Morality

Readings:

    1. Kivy, "Musical Morality" (JSTOR)

https://libproxy.mcla.edu:2160/stable/23961195

2. Leon, "Music's Moral Character" (JSTOR)

https://libproxy.mcla.edu:2160/stable/43046964

Assignment #6: Popular Music and Rock

1. Read: Chapter 37-38.

Essay #2: Language; Value; Emotion

1. Compose a 2-3 pp. CRITO-based, argumentative essay following closely the guidelines as indicated in handout QA.  (For more detail on CRITO and paper mechanics, review as necessary handouts CR1-CR3.)

Topic: (choose one)

a. What is the source of music's value?

b. How are music and language related?

c. How are music and the emotions related?

Due: March 28, stapled hard-copy, in class.

Assignment #5: Music and the Emotions

1. Read: Part II, chapters 19 and 21.

Assignment #4: Valuing Music

1. Read: Chapter 15, Goldman.

Supplemental: Kalkavage, "The Neglected Muse":

https://www.aft.org/periodical/american-educator/fall-2006/neglected-muse

Assignment #3: Music and Language

1. Read Chapters 10 & 11

Essay #1: defining music; improvisation

1. Compose a 2-3 pp. CRITO-based, argumentative essay following closely the guidelines as indicated in handout QA.  (For more detail on CRITO and paper mechanics, review as necessary handouts CR1-CR3.)

Topic: (choose one)

a. What is music?

b. What is musical improvisation?

Due: February 23; hard copy; in class.

Assignment #2: Improvisation

1. Read: Brown, Chapter 6.

Supplemental: "Improvisational Pedagogy" (Silliman and Braden-Johnson):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mm6ANBj5htqF5FHWTBKlD8J7XAh4UYt5jtJACy2-os8/edit

Assignment #1: Defining Music

1. Begin reading Gracyk and Kania, Chapters 1&3

Here's a link supplied by one of your classmates to an online version of the text:

https://archive.org/details/gracyk-kania-2011-the-routledge-companion-to-philosophy-and-music/mode/2up