Be sure to indicate the reflection number in the heading of your paper and
follow other expectations for format and
writing criteria.
Refer to this week's listening assignment and discuss the features of nineteenth-century
Romantic music that make it particularly suitable to serve as a vehicle
for the adulation of performers.
What is the role of performance tradition (consider our discussions regarding
the rituals associated with concerts) in building our current adulation
of performers? As you answer this consider whether performers could have
generated the same kind of cult status in fourteenth or sixteenth-century
Europe.
What highly celebrated musical performer most attracts your attention? For
what characteristics is this performer celebrated?