A Time Machine Project
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NASA has invented a Time Travel Machine called the “TM3000”. They have elected our music class to travel in the TM3000 to the different musical time periods and conduct a study on the musical style and culture of each period. As historians and sociologists, it is our duty to bring back what we have learned and share it with the academic community. Most importantly we need to share the following: musical style, musical format, important composers, important historical events, important historical figures, visual art, and philosophy.
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Your task is to create a PowerPoint presentation, which will be shared with the class. Your presentation should be enhanced with music, costumes, and art. You will be working with a partner, or in a small group. The following time periods will be assigned for study:
Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern
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1. Students will be divided into
partners or small groups. Groups will choose their time period through a
lottery. Aspects of study are: composers, style, instruments, and
socially significant items.
2. Each group will gather information on these subjects. Each person in the group should take on one of the following roles:
v Composer Historian- You will research under composers of your time period. Try to find information about significant composers who may have changed the style of music from the previous time period. Also, you may find that a composer wrote a large number of compositions that are still heard today. Those would be significant works.
v Music Historian- You will research under musical style, music philosophy and instruments of your time period. Try to find instruments that were invented in your time period or very important to instrumentation.
v Social Historian- You will research important events, and important people to the time period. Think of cultural, technological, and governmental occurrences that may have influenced music and culture of your period.
3. Groups will take the information that was individually collected and organize it into their final Power Point Presentation and class presentation.
Plagiarism
Are these your words or did you just copy and paste from the website? Plagiarism will not be accepted and groups will be ask to re-do the Power Point presentation and will be deducted points from each slide containing plagiarized information.
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Resources
Resources will be the following websites as well as library and teacher provided books.
Music History 102
http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
Music History Resources
http://www.geocities.com/papandrew/
The Classical Music Pages
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html
Music History Directory
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/History/
Musical Periods
http://www.classical.net/music/rep/periods.html
Music History Time Machine
http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=460
Music Periods and Specific Composers
http://www.teacheroz.com/composers.htm
Famous Composers
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/3228/
Composer Biographies
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/composers.html
Famous Composers 2
http://cpa.feynsinn.de/eng/linkfamous/linkfamous.html
Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html
Medieval Music
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/artsact.html
Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://www.gprep.org/~music/musikbok/chap11.html
Gregorian Chant
http://www.yrbe.edu.on.ca/~mdhs/music/oac_proj97/music/earmusic.html
The Renaissance
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
English Renaissance Music
http://tudorhistory.org/links/music.html
Baroque Music
http://www.islandnet.com/~arton/baroqmus.html
WARNING!
Your
signature on the Acceptable Use Agreement in your agenda book means that you
agree to use computers for school assignments only. Further, you agree to
select websites that are appropriate for school use.
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1. Power Point Presentation
Your Power Point must contain (at least):
Composer Historian:
Information on at least 3 important composers; their lives and important works
Music Historian:
2 significant musical instruments
3 facts about musical style of the period
3 pieces of important music played aloud on either CD or tape or a sound file on your PowerPoint.
Social Historian:
3 Important historical events
3 Important people other than composers
3 famous works of art
And answer the following questions:
Why did people play music?
Where did people play music?
Who did people play music for?
Why is this musical time period important for us as musicians?
2. Class Presentation
The presentation should contain some of the following: music, costumes, art, acting as well as good speaking skills, eye contact and logical information. This should be fun, so don’t read your slide content to us!
Click Here to Visit the Presentation Rubric.
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Fri 11/5: In Library. Introduce and read
the webquest information, split into groups, select a
musical time period. Begin research.
Mon 11/8-Wed 11/10: In Library
Lab.
Thurs 11/11 & Fri 11/12:
In Library. Research information: read website content, search Electric Library
and Encyclopedia Britannica, save useful images to your Z: locker, design PowerPoint
content of slideshow.
Mon 11/15 &
Tues 11/16: In Library Lab. Complete PowerPoint slideshow. Present information
in you own words and give credit to original sources of information. Practice class
presentation.
Wed 11/17-Fri 11/19: Give
presentations in Mrs. Biller’s classroom.
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Mrs. Katherine Thomas created this original webquest
for her Osborne High School Orchestra
students.
Mrs. Biller and Mrs.
Schaffer revised it for use at Batchelor
in November 2004.