MUS 110CL
Stay efficiency Critique
Pointers and Rubric
After each attending a keep stay efficiency or watching a full measurement stay efficiency on-line, write a critique of the effectivity following the format beneath.
Listed beneath are a few examples of full measurement live performance occasions yow will uncover on-line (by conducting an web search using the elements beneath) that will very effectively be used for this job:
• Coldplay Keep In Boston 2012 (Full Stay efficiency DVD)
• Sting: If on a winters night-Keep from Durham Cathedral 2009 (watch all 14 songs on stay efficiency)
• Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Internet web page, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman, Jan Hammer, Charlie
• Duke Ellington The Good Paris Stay efficiency
• Richard Galliano/Winton Marsalis – Billie Trip meets Edith PIAF
• Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Jazz Coronary heart Orchestra @ The BBC Proms 2004 Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson, Great stuff!
• Loretta Lynn — You might be Making an attempt At Nation – Legends In Stay efficiency
You may choose a particular stay efficiency video to look at, nonetheless make sure you embody the URL of the stay efficiency you chose in your critique, or scan this method of the keep stay efficiency you attended and join it. The musical sort of the stay efficiency should embody a minimal of certainly one of many genres studied on this course.
The Stay efficiency Critique must be 2.5 pages prolonged, double spaced. It ought to incorporate 5 paragraphs that describe the subsequent options of the stay efficiency you attended:
1. Who’re the performers? Give the title of the stay efficiency and write one factor regarding the performers. Is it an orchestra? A choir? An ensemble? Solo artists? Why did you choose to attend this express effectivity? Inform as lots as you perceive regarding the musicians that carried out – are they professionals? School college students? Teachers? How prolonged have they been performing? And plenty of others.
2. Describe the music that was carried out on the stay efficiency. Use the musical traits that we have been finding out in school. What fashion is the music (opera aria? Jazz music? Regular tune? Solo instrument piece? Symphony?)
three. What sort interval was the music written in? What was the tempo, dynamics, texture, and so forth.? Typically the music in a stay efficiency might be only one fashion. Typically there might be various genres carried out. Join this method to your critique, after which check with the titles on this system. As an illustration: “Autumn Leaves” was carried out by a small instrumental ensemble (guitar, bass, and percussion). It is a customary fashionable tune. The tempo was a fairly sluggish ballad. It had a very mellow sound…
4. Inform how successfully you suppose the performers interpreted the music that was on the stay efficiency. Had been the singers in tune? Did the piano participant play musically and rhythmically? Do you suppose the performers communicated the music as a result of it was meant to be communicated by the composer?
5. Inform which gadgets or part of the stay efficiency was most shifting or nice for you. Once you didn’t profit from the stay efficiency very lots, inform why you didn’t get pleasure from it. What could have been larger? Be as explicit as you’ll when expressing your opinion of the effectivity – don’t merely write generalities like “It was good” or “it made me actually really feel like dancing”. Inform why the music made you are feeling like dancing. Write about why you considerably cherished that part of the stay efficiency.
6. Conclude your critique by summing up the effectivity and telling us in case you’ll go to pay attention to those performers as soon as extra – or would invite your mates or family to take heed to this effectivity/performers.
Submit the Stay efficiency Critique to the Dropbox no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT of Module 5.
(This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)
Grading Rubric:
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Describes the Performers and their background. (10 elements attainable) |
Would not describe the performers or their background the least bit. zero |
Gives solely obscure description of performers with little or no background.
10 |
Lists performers’ names and gives some experience and background.
16 |
Gives an entire description of the performers and their backgrounds.
20 |
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Describes the music that was carried out using music phrases. (10 elements attainable) |
Would not describe the music that was carried out the least bit.
zero |
Includes a partial guidelines of the music, or solely gives titles with no description. 10 |
Lists the music and gives some description of it that makes use of musical phrases. 16 |
Gives an entire description of the music along with fashion, sort, tempo, units.
20 |
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Critiques the effectivity and gives inexpensive clarification. (10 elements attainable) |
Gives no purpose critique.
zero |
Gives little purpose critique and doesn’t once more up opinions. 10 |
Gives inexpensive critique and states musical causes for opinions. 16 |
Critiques the music in depth using musical phrases and reasoning.
20 |
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Gives personal opinions/preferences. (10 elements attainable) |
Consists of no personal opinions or preferences.
zero |
Consists of solely obscure suggestions about whether or not or not or not the writer likes the music. 10 |
Describes their favorite and least favorite moments throughout the stay efficiency and states why. 16 |
Gives in depth personal descriptions of why the music each does or does not enchantment to the scholar. 20 |
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Concludes with acceptable suggestions. (5 elements attainable) |
Ends the critique with no concluding statements.
zero |
Ends the critique with solely a fast concluding sentence.
4 |
Ends the critique with an ample summary and ideas.
eight |
Ends the critique with a summary and suggestion for future listening or enchancment. 10 |
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Makes use of excellent grammar and acceptable sentence building. (5 elements attainable) |
Grammar has obvious evident errors and/or an inappropriately casual tone.
zero |
Pupil used appropriate grammar, complete, nonetheless did not proofread and included many errors. 4 |
Pupil used good sentence building and complete grammar, nonetheless nonetheless had some errors. eight |
Grammar and spelling has no errors, and the paper is logical and well-structured.
10 |
