LAB FOUR
Due Date: Wed. Sep. 25; bring papers to lecture
Choose one option and prepare a report of 2-3 pages in length of double-spaced
type. Be sure to indicate which option you have chosen in the heading of
your paper and follow other expectations for format and writing
criteria.
Option
one
Listen to all the selections at the end of chapter
four, including those found on the supplemental CDS [available in the
music library on the second floor of the music building].
In your report address the following questions or tasks.
- How do
these additional examples (items 21 and 22) enrich your understanding of
the chapter's main topic? (Consider, for example, how they relate to the items on your CD.
)
- Choose your favorite selection from the chapter and answer the
questions Willoughby
asks under "reflections" for that item. How does your selection compare to
the extra examples Willoughby offers?
- What is the background of one
of the performers of the selection
you chose? Be certain to include a bibliographic reference in your paper indicating the source of this information.
- What additional questions would you like to have answered about the selection?
Option two
Search
the internet for information on any of the five jazz style that Willoughby introduces. Here are three recommended stops.
- To get started with Dixieland jazz try: http://www.best.com/
~kquick/dixie.html
- To get started on Benny Goodman, try:
http://www.flash.net/%7Erdreagan/index.shtml
- To get started on Miles Davis, try:
http://miles.rtvf.nwu.edu/miles/milestones.html
In your report address the following questions.
- What was favorite Web site relating to jazz? Why?
- What did you learn from it?
- How does the site compare to
points raised by Willoughby in your textbook? Try comparing a sample selection or profile, or describing how the site amplifies (or challenges) a point in the text.
- Based on your search, discuss (briefly) the popularity of jazz today in the United S
tates and abroad. Where do we find the most support?
- Instead of question three, you could elect to answer the following: How does the information you found on-line compare to the kind of information available on similar topics in the New Grove Diction
ary of Jazz?
Option Three
Listen carefully to selections 19, 20 [version 3], and 23. As you listen
follow the
narrative guide Willoughby offers in the text. Try to hear the points he
highlights for you. It may take several listenings before you can follow
the guides.
In your report address the following:
- Identify important jazz techniques in each example.
- Discuss the different approaches towards the soloist (lead) in each
of the three selections. To what
extend is the lead carrying the melody in example 20? How does that
compare with the approach in 19 and 23?
- Why might some people reject example 23 as not jazz?