Genius Hour...the Soundtrack of your life

Create the Soundtrack of your life…

State Standard discussed during this lesson:

4.0 AESTHETIC VALUING

Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works of Music

Students critically assess and derive meaning from works of music and the performance of musicians according to the elements of music, aesthetic qualities, and human responses.

Analyze and Critically Assess

• 4.1 Develop specific criteria for making informed critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply those criteria in personal participation in music.
• 4.2 Evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing each with an exemplary model.

Derive Meaning

• 4.3 Explain how people in a particular culture use and respond to specific musical works from that culture.
• 4.4 Describe the means used to create images or evoke feelings and emotions in musical works from various cultures.

Directions:

We have learned about the power of music and its ability to affect those who listen.  This is something we see if we attend the movies.  Music has the ability to add to the scene, and cause the movie-goer to feel and intensifies an emotion.  This was evident in our last lesson where we took a scary scene from a movie and changed the music to the scene.  It was obvious that the entire scene was changed when we did this.

In this assignment you are asked to consider your own life. What if your life were a movie?  If this were true you would need to have a soundtrack of music that would be played during scenes of your life.  First you will identify five ‘scenes’ in your life.  These scenes would be important to you.  Some ideas may be:

First kiss

A traumatic event like the death of a loved one

Cherished memory

Hard time

Scary event

Suspenseful moment

You do NOT need to share the event fully, but only give a brief overview of the feeling you’re expressing.  For example, you would say, event one was a very sad day.

Next, you need to think about the feelings you had during this event.  While you are considering this event you will discover a piece of music that represents this emotion.  For example, if your emotion is excited, you would find a piece of music that would appropriately play during this scene, adequately expressing this emotion to the movie-goer.

You will do this for all five scenes in your life movie.

You will submit your assignment in the comments section of this blog.  You will list each scene, the emotion expressed, and a link to the youtube video of this song. You will also describe WHY this song choice is appropriate for your scene.

Technology:

For this assignment you will utilize youtube.  Youtube has a large resource of classical music. 

Song Choices:

This assignment requires you to expand your musical choices.  You will not be allowed to choose any popular music.  You must select from the list of the hundreds of classical pieces we have on page 678 in our music history textbook.  Many of these pieces we have listened to and discussed already this year during our listening discussions.

For example, if your emotion is lost love you may choose the song ‘Claire de Lune’ by Debussy instead of ‘Say Something’ by Great Big World.

Rubric:

Five scene choices and description of each 10 pts (2 pts each)

Five songs associated with the movie scene 10 pts (2 pts each)

Description of the reason for your selection 10 pts (2pts each)