Plan and search for any music(instrumental or song) that you may want to explore to find out relationship between music and its culture

Plan and search for any music(instrumental or song) that you may want to explore to find out relationship between music and its culture

Here are what you should do for the final project.

:Plan and search for any music(instrumental or song) that you may want to explore to find out relationship between music and its culture in week 3.

(eg. from Western classical to American heavy metal, K-pop etc.)

Write a 3-5 page (double-spaced, 12 point font with 1” margins all around), including the following 6 sections:

1. List the name of the group(s)/performers, instruments used, and the music culture(s) it is found in.

2. Give a brief history of the musical genre of the music and its instruments.

3. Describe the musical features of the music that you chose in tempo/beat/rhythm, melody, harmony in texture, form, timbre, dynamics that you have learned from the course.

4. Explain what messages it delivers and why.

How this music function in its culture, How is this music used to reflect and express ethnic and cultural identity.

What does this music mean to you and your society? and how has it shaped your own impressions or experiences of this music culture.

Please write your thoughts and reflections on your selected music.

(eg. K-pop BTS’s social message in their songs, etc.)

5. Locate and include images, listening examples, or videos to illustrate your explanations and reflections.

6. List a bibliography of 3 library and 3 Internet sources you consulted for background knowledge of the music culture you explored, using the reference format for your major (APA or Chicago).

(3-5 page long, double-spaced, 12 point font with 1” margins all around).