Subject Music
Topic Semester Project
Type Term paper
Level College
Style MLA
Sources 5
Language English(U.S.)
Description
- Read and digest “Introduction to Writing Analytical Essays” by William Marvin. For further guidance, check out Mr. Marvin’s recommendations in that article, especially the short book by Richard Wingell. Also, check these resourses:
- Douglass Green’s The Six-Step Method of Analysis, sections 6H and 6I in his “form in tonal music”.
b.The document A Strategy for Analyzing Tonal Compositions.
- Analyze the following piece:
Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 10, No 1, I
- Prepare a prose (sentences, paragraphs) analysis of your selection that includes:
- A BRIEF introduction to the peice (e.g.: how many movements total; where the work falls in the composer’s life work; anything unusual about the whole work).
- A survey of the election’s formal organization, including its main key areas and tonal relationships.
- A more detailed commentary of each of the selection’s sections, emphasizing phrase, tonal, format, rhythmic and motivic organization and relationships.
This prose section will likely be not less than FIVE full pages, and generally need not be more than seven full pages. Use 10 point type, double-spaced, with margins notexceeding 1″. As this document is the equivalent of a Term Paper, DO include a separate title page (BUT IT IS NOT PART OF THE PAGE COUNT ABOVE), and make sure the language (writing style) you use is suitable for a Term Paper (as opposed to an informal discussion).
- Prepare a non-prose representation of the selection.
- This section is on a separate, single page (not included in the page count above), formatted in such a way as to maximize the information’s presentation.
- You may use a horizontal graph (typically with one or more horizontal rules), or a vertical list.
- Identify the selection’s background and middle-ground elements, and as man foreground elements as you 1) find relevant and 2) can fit on the page without crowding the space.
Spacing Double
Pages 10
