Mr. T's Listening Assignments

Listening Assignment #4, Trimester 1, 2009

2009-11-20T10:55:00.000-08:00

Though the students performing are American, what culture or area of the world do you think the music is inspired by? What is it in the music that makes you think that?

Give two reasons in complete sentences with capitalization and punctuation to support your answer. Use musical terms.

Listening Assignement #3 Trimester 1, 2009

2009-11-05T06:39:00.000-08:00

What things did this group have to do to get their performance to be GREAT and not just pretty good?

Please use a minimum of 2 complete sentences.

Trimester 1 Listening Assignment #2

2009-10-21T11:48:00.000-07:00

Comment on this ensemble's use of Dynamics. Use two complete sentences and use musical terms.

Listening Assignment #1 Trimester 1

2009-10-02T12:55:00.000-07:00

Comment on the level of personal engagement that these students are displaying in this concert. Please provide two complete sentences.
Remember the format for your post: Comment and then First Name and Last Initial only, do not put your hour or last name on your post.

LA #4, Due April 26th, 2009

2009-04-20T11:38:00.000-07:00

7 - 9th grade

Give me your first impression after this guy's performance. I'd like 2 complete sentences.

LA #3, Due 4/12/09

2009-04-05T17:13:00.000-07:00

8th and 9th Grade - So I need two things to work on and one thing we do well in each piece of Music. BE SPECIFIC! Use measure numbers!!!

7th Grade - This is another piece of music by Paliestrina (the guy that wrote Chant) What things can we do to make our playing sound more like this singing (they are pretty good!!)?

Trimester III, LA 2, Due March 22, 2009

2009-03-17T05:00:00.000-07:00

8th and 9th Grade - What issues, with their playing, does this band have that we also have?

7th Grade - What kind of music is this piece of music based on? Where is it from? Why did you answer that way?

Tri III, LA 1, Due 3/15/09

2009-03-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

For 8th and 9th Grade: What things do we need to copy in this performance of Procession of the Nobles? What do they do that we should do as well?

7th Grade: How does the speed of the music and the speed of the notes affect their ability to play?

Trimester II LA 8, Due Thursday March 5, 2009

2009-02-28T14:14:00.000-08:00

Why is it that players that are older tend to be better at their instruments than players that are younger? Give 2 examples and you cannot use this answer "because they have been playing longer."

Trimester II, L.A. #7, Due March 1, 2009

2009-02-23T13:06:00.000-08:00

How does a group of this size (20 or so players) get so much power and so much impact out of their sound? What is it that they do specifically? List at least 2 things.

Trimester II, LA #6, Due February 1, 2009

2009-01-28T05:58:00.000-08:00

What can we learn from listening to and waching an orchestra?

Trimster 2, L.A. #5, Due January 25th, 2009

2009-01-20T06:42:00.000-08:00

This is a performance by Minnesota Symphonic Winds. They are a group of adults that still love to play their instruments at a very high level.

Question:
What things do you see and hear that make them look or sound like they all really enjoy what they are doing, and still wish to do it well?

Trimester 2 - L.A. 4 - Due Jan. 11

2009-01-08T05:49:00.001-08:00

How is this performance different from how we currently play this piece?

Trimester 2, L.A. 3, Due January 4, 2009

2008-12-29T11:21:00.000-08:00

So I want you to guess how old this person is. Then tell me what impresses you most about the performance. I know He's kind of a show off...but try and get past that part!

Thanks and Happy Practicing!!!

Mr. T

Trimester II, L.A. 2, Due Dec. 14, 2008

2008-12-10T07:31:00.000-08:00

I want you to comment on how well, or not so well the band follows the conductor. What is it they do or don't do? How do they stay together, or what could they do better to be sure they do stay together?

Trimester II, Listening Assignment 1, Due Dec 7th, 2008

2008-12-02T05:04:00.000-08:00

How does the setting, and the clothing of the performer effect your opinion of this performance?

#5

2008-11-11T06:14:00.000-08:00

So how is it that all of these players make their instruments sound so similar? They are all different people from different teachers, and on different instruments, reeds, mouthpieces....so how do they do it?

#4

2008-11-10T18:01:00.000-08:00

Here it is!

So Make some comparisons to the previous video.... First trombones, Now Flutes. How are they different? How are they the same?

Listening Assignment #3

2008-11-03T17:40:00.000-08:00

So answer this question:

What makes this performance so impressive?

Is it the instruments? The players? The music itself? Somthing else?

Please comment directly to this post. Remember first name and last initial only!!!

2nd listening assignment

2008-10-24T05:56:00.001-07:00

While you listen I want you to think about this...These are kids our age! Now tell me what you think of their performance. Remember a comment of "it was good" doesn't count. You have to describe what you are talking about and most importantly be specific!!