Watch a concert from the sacramento state facebook page and write a report about it.
All past and upcoming concerts can be watched on the sacramento state university facebook page here. https://www.facebook.com/sacstatemusic
A calendar of all School of Music concerts is available at http://www.csus.edu/music (Links to an external site.). Go to this site and click on “For the Community” and then “Events Calendar.” Here you will see all the concerts being given on campus this semester
Attend a concert based on A symphony, concert band, or wind ensemble concert: The symphony, concert band, and wind ensemble concerts are listed as such on the Events Calendar. These are concerts that involve a large group of musicians all playing together. Note: the String Project Concert may not be used for a Concert Report, as no One Card swiping will be available.
Possible questions to address in your concert reports:
1. What were you able to discern about the rhythm, tempo, texture, meter, melody, harmony, instrumentation and timbre of the music? Can you describe the form of the music? Which instruments were prominent? Can you hear a musical idea being repeated, developed, or passed around between the performers?
2. How did this style of music fit with the music you are most comfortable listening to?
3. How did the information from this course affect the way you understood or appreciated this music?
4. How did your expectations of the style, genre, ensemble, or composer affect how you experienced the music? Were you surprised by how it sounded? Did you already have a familiarity with this kind of music?
5. How did the “non-musical” aspects of the performance affect your experience? Were you interested by the physical expressions of the performer(s)? Did you find the behavior of the audience striking in any way? What social conventions did you experience during the performance, and how did they impact your overall response to the concert?
6. Did you enjoy the music? Will you seek out more music of this kind? Why or why not?
