For your next in-class presentation, I will ask you to, again, research on your assigned figure, this time, a philosopher. What you need to do is to (1) study this person and his philosophy, and then give a brief discussion of this person's life and works including his perspective about education; (2) find his contemporary musicians/composers (at least 1) and then similarly give a brief discussion of these composers' life and works (just like what I had you do in the History presentation); (3) take this philosopher's position and talk about how this composer's works reach this philosopher's aesthetics standard; and (4) based on this philosopher's viewpoint, talk about what kind of music should be included in school curriculum. Remember that you must draw from this philosopher's points to help support your opinion.
In your presentation, you can play makebelieve; just pretend you are this philosoper and develop the whole thing using first person voice.
Lynda: Rene Descartes or Jean-Jacques Rausseau
Michale: John Locke or Thomas Hobbes
Kyle: Immanuel Kant or Georg Hegel
Eric: Fredrick Nietzsche or Arthur Schopenhauer
Melisa: John Dewey or William James
The presentation has to be 20-minute long. There'll be 5 minute for Q & A. In your presentation you must include at least one audio example for the musical analysis part (#3) of this assignment. Briefly pinpoint the musical characteristics and try to link these points to what your philosopher considers as the elements that make this piece of music "beautiful."
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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