Compose a Melody and write an analysis paper

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Compose a 8­-10 bar melody that expresses the meaning of the following text by Mary Oliver.

and write an analysis paper (700-800 words)

you must create the melody on this site https://musictoolbox.org/Music133/workrhtyhm3.html

and send a screenshot to me

Then write an 700-800 words analysis paper

Read the requirements carefully and answer the questions.


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STEP 1: Compose a short melody=25 points Background: In Units 2 and 3 we have added the elements of rhythm and the major and minor scales. These offer new ways to convey emotions. Just as pitches create different musical and emotional effects, different rhythms have a powerful effect on the listener. Likewise, the sense of a tonic note and the personalities of the other scale degrees are powerful expressive tools. Compose a 8-10 bar melody that expresses the meaning of the following text by Mary Oliver. You can create a melody piano or actually set the text as a song (i.e. sing the poem to a melody of your own creation.) If you choose to sing the poem, use no more than 2 of the poems stanzas. This text is a source of inspiration meant to stimulate the imagination. It should provide you with guidance and direction as you are making decisions about your overall melody. Poems are by their nature somewhat abstract and may have multiple meanings, leaving room for your own personal interpretation. What is the poet trying to say? Dig deep in your composition. A Poem for the Blue Heron By Mary Oliver Now the blue heron wades the cold ponds of November In the gray light his hunched shoulders are also gray. He finds scant food-a few numbed breathers under a rind of mud. When the water he walks in begins turning to fire, clutching itself to itself like dark flames, hardening. he remembers. Winter. STEP 3: Write an analysis of your melody = 50 points Background: This is the most important part of your assignment. In the same MS Word doc you used to put the score image, write succinct answers to the following questions. *Presentation: All answers should be presented in a scholarly way, i.e. well-written, thoughtful, spell-checked, grammatically correct and attractively formatted. Points will be deducted for poor presentation. *Length: Expected length is between 700-850 words. Longer or shorter responses will lose you points. Task: Answer the following questions Most of your 700-850 words should be spent in answering question 2. 1. Describe the meaning of this text in your own words. What phrases and images in the text might be represented musically by tension, instability, and motion, and what aspects might be represented by relaxation, stability, and rest? 2. What were the two greatest challenges for you in trying to express this meaning, and how did you use the following musical elements: melodic shape (arc, high/low points, steps and leaps), scale degree tendencies (leading tone rising to the tonic, subdominant falling to mediant, etc), and rhythm (short and long durations, consistent versus varied) to help solve those challenges? - Be very specific and cite evidence from the text and from your melody. 3. How well do you feel those musical elements solved the challenges? What other musical elements, or what other ways of using those elements, might have been helpful in solving the challenges? - Be very specific and cite evidence from the text and from your melody.
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