Five-page 1200 expository essay on any topic in music
Choose a favorite song or instrumental piece to write about. Choose only one, no more.
Answer any of the following questions that are important to you:
How were you introduced to this music—family, friend, by chance or accident?
When did you first hear this music? How long have you known it?
Where did you find it? YouTube, Spotify, radio, TV, live?
How often do you listen to this music, and why?
Where do you go to listen (CD, Internet)?
Do you listen with headset alone? With others?
Why is it one of your favorites?
What does this music mean in your life?
What is the message, and how is it important to you?
Who is singing, what do you like about the voice?
If there are no words (instrumental), how do you follow the music?
Who is playing, performers and on what instruments?
REQUIREMENT FOR THIS PAPER:
How does this music address at least one of the following diversity issues:
race, gender, culture (national origin, ethnicity, religion), social class, age, sexual orientation, and disability.
Questions about writing and documentation:
Refer to the MLA or APA handbook for questions pertaining to writing.
For references use traditional sources and the Internet.
List sources including hyperlinks quoted in your paper as endnotes*.
List references read but not used in a bibliography*.
Use 12-point Courier or 12-point Times Roman or 12-point Garamond, double-spaced.
Use quotes for titles of a song or short musical composition, italics for a long musical composition.
*Documentation of:
A musical composition–
Mozart: Wolfgang Amadeus. Piano Concerto no. 20 in D Minor, K. 466.
A performance–
Ozawa, Seiji, cond. Boston Symphony Orch. Concert. Symphony Hall, Boston. 25 Apr. 2001.
A recording–
Mitchell, Joni. For the Roses. Asuyum. 1972
