Humanities

Your contributions should be thoughtful and developed.  Answer all parts of the question and use concepts from the course materials.  Use a professional style of communication, with attention to grammar, spelling, and typos; cite your sources.  

Unless your instructor specifies otherwise, choose ONE of the following questions, and give a substantive response to at least two other students.

1.  EXPLORE MUSIC AND DANCE

The readings and videos introduced themes and issues related to exploring music and dance as phenomena of culture.  There are a great many more to consider: children’s music and dance, music and dance for the elderly, music and dance among people with disabilities, or spirituals in African American history. Find a video related to one of these, embed it in your post, and examine one of these areas (or another related topic) in detail and make sure to use at least two concepts, terms etc. about music and dance from the Learning Resources for the module. Underline or bold the vocabulary, concept or technique you use as a interpretative tool in your post. 

Below are the required learning resources for this week.

Ethnomusicology

This resource provides a working definition of ethnomusicology and some background about the field see this Campbell article “Ethnomusicology for more details.

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What is Music?

Ethnomusicologist and musician, Gregory Acker, uses world music instruments to demonstrate the elements of music in this video.

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ket-music-basics-overview-101/what-is-music-music-arts-toolkit/

How to Listen

In this TED Talk video, “How to Listen,” Dame Evelyn Glennie's music challenges us to ask where music comes from: Is it more than simply a translation from score to instrument to audience?

Closed captions and a transcript are included.

http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen

Western Music: Meter, Melody, and Rhythm

These three tutorials by Catherine Schmidt-Jones introduce the basic Western categories of music: meter, melody and rhythm.

Meter in Music

Melody

Rhythm

Dance 101: Your Introduction to Dance

View the Dance 101 lessons at the National Arts Centre, including concise units on “Why People Dance,” “Dance Forms and Styles,” “Dance Facts,” a “Dance Glossary” and an opportunity to create your own dance.

http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/dance101/index.asp

African American Spirituals

This Library of Congress article “African American Spirituals” explains historic music connections of African Americans and their spirituals including a number of song clips.

AfricanAmericanSpirituals.pdf

Santa Barbara Ringshout Project

Learn about the ring shout at the “Santa Barbara Ringshout Project” a dance-like form of worship created by African American slaves before the Civil War. Read “What is Ringshout?” You may also wish to view some of the videos and other resources. Lessons are provided for those wishing to create their own ring shout in a way that is as authentic as possible.

http://www.ringshout.org/

Music Categories

This page introduces opera and the categories, instruments and history of classical music, as well as includes a guide for how to enjoy live music.

http://www.naxos.com/education/music_categories.asp

READING 2

Music

Please refer to this study guide when you read, view and review the Learning Resources for this week. The terms, concepts and methods (sometimes called analysis tools)  listed here are useful to properly answer the questions on the weekly quizzes and can be used when you are writing your Weekly Discussion Posts, Cultural Experience Reports and the Final Project Assignment for this class. 

Some may seem elementary like rhythm and melody for music or brushstrokes and color for visual art, but each allows you to understand the artist representations and to further your understanding of each humanities area as you move forward.

Overview 

· Ethnomusicology 

Ethnomusicology by Campbell   http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=87322023&site=eds-live&scope=site&profile=edsebook

· Musicologist 

· Ethnomusicologist 

· Orchestral music 

· Folk songs 

· Phonograph 

· Banjo history 

· Native American Musical Traditions 

“What is Music?”   https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ket-music-basics-overview-101/what-is-music-music-arts-toolkit/

· Pitch 

· Melody 

· Harmony 

· Tempo 

· Dynamics 

· Timbre 

· Form 

“How to Truly Listen”   http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen

· Page music – allows us to read sound 

· How sound is vibration and is felt 

· Why music requires interpretation 

· A musician does not need to be limited by most physical challenges 

· Why good acoustic performance settings (theatres, halls, arenas, etc.) are hard to find 

· How to allow your body to be sound’s resonating chamber 

Western Music: Meter, Melody, Rhythm  

· Meter  https://content.umuc.edu/file/a25da054-8aa8-48d4-ac98-8f29368961c7/1/MeterinMusic.pdf

· Melody https://content.umuc.edu/file/a25da054-8aa8-48d4-ac98-8f29368961c7/1/Melody.pdf

· Rhythm  https://content.umuc.edu/file/a25da054-8aa8-48d4-ac98-8f29368961c7/1/Rhythm.pdf

Dance 101 

· Why People Dance   http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/dance101/index.asp

· Rhythmic body movement is instinctive 

· Reasons people dance: to express emotions, entertain, demonstrate physical prowess, demonstrate cultural heritage 

· Universal ability to do some level 

· Theatrical dance is for art and entertainment 

· How dance covey's emotion when words are hard to express 

· Dance Forms   http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/dance101/forms.asp

· Lists and defines 40 types of dances that can be used when talking about dance in this class. 

· Dance Glossary   http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/dance101/glossary.asp

· All of the terms on this list can be used when talking about dance in the class. 

African American Spirituals   https://content.umgc.edu/file/c0fb28d2-2f74-4cb2-b184-0729d14625fa/9/AfricanAmericanSpirituals.pdf

· Spiritual 

· White Spirituals 

· Black Spirituals 

· Ring Shout 

· Codified Protest songs 

· A cappella 

· Gospel music 

Santa Barbara Ring Shout Project  http://www.ringshout.org/

· Ring Shout was worship 

· How rhythmic movements were acts of prayer 

· List of sounds used and body movements 

· List of roles of participants 

Musical Categories – Opera and Classical Music  http://www.naxos.com/education/music_categories.asp

· Introduction to Opera 

· Classical Terms A-Z, all of which can be used to talk about music in this class 

· How to Enjoy a Live Concert