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How are you? Here is a Part 1 support post for students who are interested in writing a comparison and contrast composition (作文) for the final writing assignment.
Task
Check out these four (4) video files. Select two (2) to write about. Listen to them as many times as you want or need. Compare and contrast (比較対照して) them with each other. They are instrumental pieces of music only - there are no words or vocals.
When writing your comparison and contrast, write about these points:
In the introduction, show the titles of the pieces of music and who (or whose people) made them. What instruments (楽器) are the most they show? For example, piano, some brass, guitar, violins, and so forth. Find out when they were written, and if they come from albums - what the titles of the albums are.
Then, show what the dynamics of sound are in the two pieces of music - for example, uptempo, quiet, calm then excited, and so on.
After that, begin bringing in your understandings or ideas about each piece of music. What do you believe the artists are expressing through their works? What might the sounds give you feelings about? Even more - what kind of scenarios might each piece of music give you feelings about? What do you imagine as you see and think about them?
Finally - which music did you like better? What qualities (質、優劣) did it have that made you like it more than the other piece of music?
Now choose two (2) of the following pieces of music for your comparison and contrast:
Nils Petter Molvaer, "A Small Realm"
Sereny Magyaros, "Az Ordog Ut" (traditional Hungarian dance)
Check out these four (4) video files. Select two (2) to write about. Listen to them as many times as you want or need. Compare and contrast (比較対照して) them with each other. They are instrumental pieces of music only - there are no words or vocals.
When writing your comparison and contrast, write about these points:
In the introduction, show the titles of the pieces of music and who (or whose people) made them. What instruments (楽器) are the most they show? For example, piano, some brass, guitar, violins, and so forth. Find out when they were written, and if they come from albums - what the titles of the albums are.
Then, show what the dynamics of sound are in the two pieces of music - for example, uptempo, quiet, calm then excited, and so on.
After that, begin bringing in your understandings or ideas about each piece of music. What do you believe the artists are expressing through their works? What might the sounds give you feelings about? Even more - what kind of scenarios might each piece of music give you feelings about? What do you imagine as you see and think about them?
Finally - which music did you like better? What qualities (質、優劣) did it have that made you like it more than the other piece of music?
Now choose two (2) of the following pieces of music for your comparison and contrast:
Jeff Beck,"The Final Peace"
Frank Zappa, "Little Umbrellas"
I hope these pieces of music give you ideas and feelings to try a different kind of writing for your final assignment.
Take care! See you next week!
Take care! See you next week!
Image - By Modest Mussorgsky - Sheet Music, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15347349
Video files uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the files or the musical compositions within them. All rights reserved to the copyright holders of the files and compositions respectively.
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