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by | Jun 29, 2025 | Home/Humanities

by | Jun 29, 2025 | Home/Humanities

  

Week One Discussion 2

Familiar or Unfamiliar Music 

You will see that answers will vary from student to student simply  because they are set up to be subjective. Your effort counts as there  are no wrong answers. 

After you complete the readings for this week, and the Additional Assignment project, watch the following videos: Make the effort to listen to each piece of music in its entirety whether this music is your kind of music or not.

Listen to each piece then by using the Five (5) short questions,  apply them to each one of the six music video examples beginning with  Rufus Blaq.  All of the other works are considered to reflect classical music; even if it isn't what you thought was "classical music". 

Always name the piece or composer, (one who writes the music)  or performer and write in complete sentence format. Number the answer to  match the work.

  • Is it music? Is it good and useful or potentially harmful? 
  • When or where should this music be played and not be played?
  • For what age level is this not appropriate?
  • Is it pleasing and beautiful? (Watch out, your answer may expose your defaults and amount of music and history knowledge).
  • Why is it important to keep an open mind when listening to unfamiliar music?
  • 1. Rufus Blaq I Love My Haters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_NvZOCZOw
  • 2. Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre: Singer and conductor, Barbara Hannigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ireZYjEkpac
  • 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6357vL9TPg  Another classical music work from the 20th  century. Peter Maxwell Davies "Eight Songs for a MAD KING with  subtitles. These days, everything is offensive to someone. This is a  one-act classical music stage opera. It demonstrates somewhat losing  their sanity.  You can hear a brief yet clear example of sanity at  timestamp 16:21, or is it? At timestamp 18:18 ("I am not ill")  recognizes someone who is mentally lost but can't recognize it.   It  doesn't matter whether you "like or don't like" this piece, it is a work  of expression.
  • 4. The Swan by Saint-Saens was performed by the Kanneh-Mason family.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Z1eNq21yc

5.   Berg's Classical music opera earlier 20th century: WARNING! Not suitable for young eyes: Monitor  and censoring is your responsibility!  The first video of the opera  LULU is mainly a very brief explanation on the subject of Lulu and Jack  the Ripper. I trust that most, if not all, of you, know at least something about the notorious killer, "Jack the Ripper". 

6.  This is a fusion of 19th-century classical style violin improvisation in Hip Hop Violin style certainly embraces the best of two styles. What is your opinion of this music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLX7V_eDT5U 

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