Sinfonietta Final Project

Sinfonietta Final Project –due June 8 for seniors, June 10 for all others

Points 20 (with 5 points extra offered)
• Visually appealing (full credit for borders and color) – 5 pts.
• All required information is present – 5 pts.
• Turned in on time – 2 pts.
• All words spelled correctly – 3 pts.
• Spoken presentation is clear, with good eye contact – 5 pts.
• 5 extra points if you bring in a recording of a famous piece of the composer’s work for your presentation – this will give you a chance to make up some points for missing sectionals or PLOGS…

Objectives:
1.1 To learn more about classical composers
1.2 To use the internet or library to investigate composers
1.3 To write compellingly about composer by creating a poster ‘advertising’ his/her works and reputation

Final presentation: Poster needs to be brought in to class by June 8. If you cannot purchase materials due to financial hardship, Ms. Silberman will provide poster board. Any size poster board is ok.

Project outline: You need to research a classical composer – anyone writing music from 1500 thru modern day ‘classical composers’. No students can research the same composer – each of you needs to work independently. The following information needs to be present on your poster board:

Picture(s) of the composer
Poster information
Full name of the composer (or, the commonly-referred to name followed by the full name if that’s of interest)
Date born, date died – age when he/she died
Country of birth and country he/she mainly lived in (if different)
What era of music (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, etc.)
Marketing tag line – if you could say one thing about this composer, what would it be?
Time line of his life – limited to major events or pieces… needs to be quickly readable.
Major important works he/she wrote – keep it to 3 – 5 entries!
You can also include anything else on your poster that makes him/her famous – you can add quotes, summaries of the numbers of works they wrote, famous occurrences in their life or a list of links to interesting websites about the composer.

DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!… Reword anything you copy off the internet into your own words!!!

On June 8 (Seniors) and June 10 and 16 (for all others) you will present your poster to your class – you will talk about your composer. If you have a recording of one of the famous works by your composer, you may play that at the beginning or end of your poster presentation. The presentation only needs to be a couple of minutes – basically discuss what you put on your board and tell us about your composer.

Have fun researching composers. Don’t only get your information off of Wikipedia – there are many composer websites. We’ll sign up for composers in class.

Here's your composer:
Erin - Beethoven
Chris A. - Bizet
Riley - Rachmaninoff
Deza - Saint-Saens
Amanda Ch - Chopin
Kim - Bottesini
Tiffany - Handel
Anne - Paganini
Brody - Tartini
Abby - Telemann
Jennette - Jaydn
Elizabeth - John Williams
Aidan - Shostakovich
Amanda Mc - Person from your iPod ?
Ashlyn - Stravinsky
Noah - Mascagni
Erika - Dvorak
Eddie - Vivaldi
Kaylee - Mozart
Elaine - Puccini
Mattie - Mary Lou Williams
Alex - Lully
Madi - Corelli
Jassica - Pachelbel
Olesya - Tchaikovsky
Olga - Jann Tiersen
Lisa H - Rimsky-Korsakov
Paige F - ???