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1. You should study and prepare to write essays on both topics below.
2. Criteria for evaluation include:
? Appropriate use of introduction and summary sections
? A thesis statement and cogent argument to support it
? In-depth analysis that demonstrates command of the musical material
(including specific examples) and familiarity with important published
literature on the topic.
? Appropriate citations throughout the essay
? A reference list at the end of the essay
3. You may use author-date citation (author, date) during the examination to make the essay easier to compose.
4. Although it would be inappropriate to specify a page length for this examination, most successful examinations have been 4-5 pages of single-spaced text (Times New Roman, 12-point).
TOPICS
1. Using ?The Housatonic at Stockbridge” and ?General William Booth Enters Into Heaven” as points of departure, what insights into Charles Ives?s biography, compositional approach, musical aesthetic, and spirituality, might be ascertained? Cite relevant research literature and analyze specific musical passages to support your points.
2. In ?The Music of Black Americans,? musicologist Eileen Southern writes about the decades between Emancipation and World War I:
It was a time of musical beginnings. In the manner of African-American composers everywhere and at all times, they [Black Americans] drew upon the repertory already in their possession?that is, the slave songs?in fashioning the new music. But it was a new music!
Describe the Blues as a new African-American music, from the first known recording in 1920, through its dissemination as ?Delta Blues,? ?Chicago Blues,? and ?Texas Blues? (among other names by which the music is known). Include important contributions of bluesmen and blueswomen, cite specific musical material to illustrate their contributions and discuss how culture, historical events, performance traditions, the recording industry, and broadcasting helped expand and transform the Blues. Cite important published research.
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