東京理科大学 A英3: Comparison & contrast with music・音楽の比較対照

Hello!

How are you? As I mentioned in our class today for your quick homework, here is something short you can do outside of class.

Homework
You will see here four short music files. Listen to each one - listen to them more than once, even as many times as you want or need.

You do not have to write a lot about them! You also do not have to know anything about the artists, or the musical genres. My guess is that you will have never heard any of this music before, or never have heard of any of these artists.

All you have to do is to listen to each piece of music, and make a short note about which one you liked the best, and why. That's all!

Let's begin! Here's the first file:

Here's the 2nd file:

Here's the 3rd file:

Here's the last file: 

I hope you enjoy this activity as homework. Take care!

Image: By NorCal Bosie - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3433053

Video files uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the compositions or the files. All rights reserved to the copyright holders. Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): writing about music (Part 1)

Hello,

How are you? Do you remember the four pieces of music I played for you in class? We'll do something more with them now! This is a Part 1 post - Part 2 will follow.

I would like you to go through your paragraphs about those pieces of music, and listen to the first two pieces of music again - and this time to click on some videos of the first two artists whose pieces of music I played. I also have information links you can click on about these artists. 

Would these video images, and reading about these musicians, change your ideas about what you wrote? 

First - below is a video sound file of the first piece of music you heard - Jacques Loussier and his version of J.S. Bach's "Siciliano in G Minor."  

If you would like to learn more about Jacques Loussier, click here for a Wikipedia article (in Japanese) about him. 

Next - here is the second piece of music you heard - Moondog's "Dog Trot."

Here is a video file of this piece of music:

If you would like to learn more about Moondog, click here for the Wikipedia article (日本語) about him. 

What do you think of these artists? Does seeing the artists' pictures or some image connected to the music, or reading about them on Wikipedia, change your own images of the music? Write comments on this blog post about what you think!

Hope you enjoyed listening to them again.

See you next time!

Image: "Gondolier's Sonata" (courtesy of sattva)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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