Choice Cut 4 – Blog Prompt 7 – Participatory Discrepancies
The session on participatory discrepancies was really eye-opening to me, for two reasons. The first is that it changed the…
Choice Cut 3 – Optional Blog Prompt D – Yoko Ono
Produce Sweetheart Compose a love letter to the person who made eye contact with you today at the grocery store….
Choice Cut 2 – Blog Prompt 8 – Latin American Musics
In my senior year of high school, I took a class about Spanish literature and I fell in love with…
Choice Cut 1 – Optional Blog Prompt B – The Rite of Spring
The controversy at the opening performance of The Rite of Spring arose from tension between the audience and the ballet’s…
Prompt 9 – Success during Covid
I think it’s difficult to even define what it means to succeed as a musician, especially in light of Covid….
Prompt 8 – Latin American Musics
Why does Dr. Munarriz consider the label “Latin American Music” problematic? Do you agree or disagree with his position? Why?…
Prompt 7 – Participatory discrepancies
PolaccaPolacca’s vocals are unexpected, almost jarring at points, both in timbre and in pitch. The song doesn’t adhere to any…
Prompt 6 – Music school of the future
A university music school of the near future should have introductory classes of a more exploratory nature, where students are…
Prompt 5 – Repeated Listening
I chose to listen to Bach’s Organ Fugue in G Minor. I spent the first couple times through the piece trying…
Prompt 4 – Thought Experiment
The problems with playing music only from the past arise more from the glorification that music rather than from the…