Assignment Instructions/ Description
Describe your Cultural Road Trip destination. Where and when did you go? Describe the venue: what was the space like? What was the crowd, if any, like? Include the information about location, date and time, and cost.
2. Identify which work of are you will focus on. This can be one work of visual art, a specific song in a concert, one dance piece in a dance concert. If you watched a film, or a play, or read a book, discuss the work overall and then focus on one or two specific parts. Be sure to identify the arts discipline the artwork you choose belongs to: dance, film, literature, music, theater, visual art.
3. Describe the context for the artwork you choose. This should draw from any research you included in your Cultural Road Trip Plan as well as any new information you gather onsite. When you include this information in your report, be sure to use APA format to cite your sources. Review the APA format for online resources, museum labels (Links to an external site.), performance programs (Links to an external site.), and personal conversations (Links to an external site.) with staff at the venue. If you quote material from a performance, be sure to cite the song (Links to an external site.), play (Links to an external site.), or film (Links to an external site.) in APA format as well.
4. Describe the medium, content, and FORM of your selected artwork. Review the 5 Things to Look/Listen for Tool for the appropriate discipline that you included in your plan. For each of the 5 elements, write what you observed on your cultural road trip. Be sure to use the Art Analysis toolbox (below). Please feel free to include photos or video of our artwork if appropriate.
6. Conclude your 2-page (500 word report), by writing at least one paragraph on your analysis of the subtext. What does the artwork mean? Be sure to refer to both the context and the subtext, especially the form, when you interpret the subtext. And be sure to use the Art Analysis toolbox (below).5 Elements of Music (Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, Dynamics, Form)Music is organized sound.So when you analyze music, look for these elements:1. Melody: The most prominent sequence of notes in a piece of musica. contour: the shape of the melody (smooth, sharp, lilting, spiking)b. range: distance between highest and lowest notec. phrasing: length of parts of the melody, often determined by human breath2. Harmony: a series of chords (notes played at the same time)a. consonant: most Western music relies on harmonies we’re used tob. dissonant: non-Western and avant garde music often puts together notes that sound unfamiliar and even unpleasant to our ears3. Rhythma. Notes of different durations, organized into groups, often in relation to a pulseb. Kinds of rhythm: steady rhythm, polyrhythms, syncopationc. Genres of rhythm: march, waltz, reggae, salsa, bolero, etc.4. Dynamics : changes in volume from loud to softDynamic changes give music shape and emotionWhen the music changes from loud to soft or vice versa, ask what effect that has on you as a listener.5. Form how a piece of music is structureda. Binary: two distinct sections (AABB or ABBA or ABAB, etc)b. Strophic (chorus/verse): this covers most pop songs which have a verse, then a chorus,verse, chorus again, then a bridge (a different sounding section) and then back to the verse, followed by the chorus once or twicec. Through composed: a piece of music with no repeating sections; new ideas flow into each other
. SpaceStage: is this a big auditorium or a small studio? Does the action take place off stage, in some other setting?Scenery: what does the stage look like? Is the stage bare? Is there an elaborate set (walls or other forms meant to represent another place)? Is the set realistic or abstract?4. BodyMake-up: do the actors look natural or are they made up to look older, younger, like beasts or magical creatures? Describe what you see.Costumes: are they wearing everyday clothes? Clothes from a particular historical period? Spectacular clothes. Describe what you see.5. Lights/SoundLights: lighting conveys emotion by casting the scene in a particular color or light or dark; lighting also highlights certain performers while leaving others in shadow or makes everyone equally important.Sound: are the actors speaking without microphones or are they “amplified.” Is there music to set the mood or sound effects to make the action more real – or more absurd?
7. If you cannot complete your Cultural Road Trip in the first 3 weeks (because of your schedule or because your event will not take place until later in the term), advise your instructor and note the date and time you will complete your trip. If you must postpone your trip, use this week to get ahead on your Art Analysis Presentation.
Blue Jeans Blue Lounge is located in 3320 Northeast 33rd Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33308.
Since was a live event (show) , I assume that I have to use two of the tools in the toolbox to analysis . My experience at the Blue Jeans Blue . I am going to use the analyzing for music and theater .
The lighting in the stage was a bit dark . The place was very cozy.
Use the below information please this is actually just a editing assignment for you.
I arrived at 8pm on the dot on Saturday , September 19,2020. The place is small and the crowd is an older crowd age late 50s and up .
My focus was on the music. The place is a jazz place where they let local artists perform.
The artists that perform the night that went
Alto saxophone -played by a guy name Miles
Guitar played by a guy name Willy
Female vocalist Dina
Male vocalist -guess from the audience
They include.
1. Discover the distinctive cosmopolitan setting associated with the lounge
2. The architecture, elements such as exposed break walls and cozy seats in the club that make it perfect for blue scores and live jazz performance.
Context
Where did jazz originate? Jazz originated in New Orleans in the second half of the 19th century. A port city, New Orleans had people coming in from around the world, socializing, and sharing their music. Music from all over the world could be heard in the streets of New Orleans. New Orleans was also one of the only places in America that permitted slaves to own drums.
West Africa, the birthplace of many slaves, was home to rich musical traditions which continued in the songs and field chants of the America’s slaves. When slavery was abolished and the American Civil War ended (1865), many former slaves found jobs as musicians, exposing them to other musical styles from around the world. Jazz was born into this new world of emancipation and freedom, stimulating a spirit of experimentation and expression which would be key elements to jazz.
Jazz is often thought of as being founded on the musical traditions of West Africa (rhythm, “feel”, blues) and Europe (harmonic chords, variety of instruments). Early jazz also incorporated church hymns, slave songs, field chants, and cuban-style rhythm. However, jazz didn’t get it’s big break until the 1890s when “ragtime”, a precursor to jazz, started to catch the ear of white Americans. The most famous of the artists at the time was Scott Joplin who composed 44 original ragtime pieces before his death in 1917. It was around this time that other artists started to add in improvisation to the sound, a crucial component of what would become modern jazz.
The Jazz age really started in the 1920s when the music became popular across the US and Europe. The “Roaring Twenties” with prohibition, speakeasies, flappers and music drove jazz into the mainstream and made overnight success stories of black musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. The age of Jazz culminated in the historic 1938 Benny Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall, bringing together musicians from various ethnicities to perform jazz inside this hallowed hall. At this point, the jazz of the 1920s and 30s was already starting to give way to the Big Band era although musicians such as Ellington and Armstrong would continue to develop jazz until their deaths.
Despite the dominance of jazz ending with the Great Depression, the music has continued to evolve with new styles and sub-genres forming as its influence on pop-culture continues to echo through time
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