MUSC685 -history presentation

It was a great meeting last night. Thank you for that! Here is what you need to do for next class.
A 20-25 minute presentation about one historical figure in music education as we read from the chapter (see below for your assigned person). Within your presentation, you have to include information about:
Time: the date of this person, the historical period he/she belongs to (e.g., 18th century--Baroque period, 9th century--the Medieval time, 20th century--post world war II, etc)
Place: where this person from or has any association from/connection to? Europe (specific country, if possible)? U.S.(region)? etc.
Significance of this person (his/her contribution as a music teacher/educator/trainer/performer)? What did this person do in his/her career that is so significant that we have to read about them in our hisotry book?
Other significant contemporary figures in any field
Two well-known musicians/composers in the same time period, give a short bio sketch about these two composers and find at least two pieces of works composed by each of these two composers, respectively, and make sure you find something (short excecrpts are fine) to play in class.
extra information about other part of the world: see what people were doing (in general) there during the time your assigned historical figure was active ? For example, during the 9th century, in Islamic world (the Middle Eastern regions), the courts reached their glorious peaks in medicine, literature, and mathsmatics...
Here is the list of figures:
Guido d'Arezzo (990-1050), Melissa
William Billings (1746-1800), Eric
Lowell Mason (1792-1872), Lynda
Patrick Gilmore (1829-1892), Kyle
The purpose of this presentation is to help us "connect" what we know to other subjects/things in history... Remember from one of the National Standards--know the relationship music has to history, culture, and other disciplines.
It should be a fun project to do. For this one, you can use online sources. The best place to begin with is Oxford Music Dictionary (used to be online New Grove Dictionary) on university library database. http://www.ulib.niu.edu/information/subject.cfm?subject=Music
There's no need to write a paper for that. Let me know if you have any questions about it.

MUSC685--how to post your Chapter responses

This is a brief instruction for you to complete your chapter reading assignment:

1. On your word document, just write an essay for each question and separate citations for each question. In other words, we're making each question a topic for an indepedent essay. Remember that as long as it makes sense, it doesn't need to be long. I appreciate cohesive writing that demonstrates insightful reflection.
2. So now, how are we going to make it work on the blog? I tried mine and found that we can easily make labels of our postings. So, it'll make sense if we create the labels for each of the topics, i.e., History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Curriculum, and Technology, we'll go over this semester first. And then we can post think this is what we do on the blog. There you will see a little box "Label Actions." Click on the label actions and Go to New Post and then click on "Edit Posts," under "Apply Label" click on "New Label. " From there, please create the following labels: Introduction, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Curriculum, and Technology. As the semester goes, we can categorize our postings according to these labels we set up.
3. For example, for the first chapter reading assignment, you will have seperate postings for each of the questions I ask. Before you publish your post, label it as History. So, by the time you finish posting these six questions, there should be six entries under the History label.

Please let me know if you have any questions/problems making it work.