Composer Final Project – due
June 7
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 if you need them
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 7. If you cannot purchase materials due to
financial hardship, Ms. Silberman will provide poster board. Any size poster
board is ok. There are examples of posters that were done well up in the
classroom.
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!!!
Sign up for your composer on the classroom door - no 2 students may do the same composer. Ask Ms S if you need a composer suggestion.
On June 7 (seniors) or June 8
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.
