Getting Started

By the end of Workshop 4, you will be required to attend either a live-streamed, classical concert virtually OR visit a major metropolitan art museum’s collection virtually through a “virtual tour.” As your final project for this course, you’ll deliver an oral presentation built around a check-list. This learning activity will help you take your next steps in planning for the oral presentation of your virtual arts encounter. All outcomes below are aligned to our General Education outcome for oral communication: “Students can communicate orally through well-prepared, purposeful presentations and interactions.”

Upon successful completion of the course material, you will be able to:

· Identify supporting materials referencing a presentation topic related to fine arts appreciation.

· Organize supporting materials for a presentation topic related to fine arts appreciation.

· Describe references and supporting materials needed to appreciate virtual musical performance selections or artworks from “virtual tour” museum exhibitions for analysis, interpretation and aesthetic response.

Resources

· Presentation Template PPTX File:

Checklist Aligned Virtual Concert Presentation PPTX Template

· Presentation Template PPTX File:

Checklist Aligned Virtual Museum Presentation PPTX Template

Background Information

In our 2.1 learning activity, you learned about a mode of aesthetic scanning called functionalism. Now, in this activity, you’ll be asked to do functionalistic research on your virtual arts encounter event, plus your previously chosen musical selection and composer OR previously chosen artwork and artist. In doing so, you’ll be completing the first two portions of your pre-formatted PowerPoint presentation template.

This learning activity is designed to help you work ahead and receive feedback from your instructor on the alignment of your research content to the presentation checklist.  Note: Your instructor will give you in-advance feedback on your work for sections I and II with references only if you submit in the Assignments tool.

Your pre-formatted PowerPoint slides include a content font of no less than 28 pt in size.  Do not auto-reduce content below this size.  Make more slides for each content area as needed.

Observe the following format guidelines as you fill in content and add images.

1. Do not change the font style.  Arial, a sanserif font, is considered a more effective presentation font than script or serif-based fonts.

2. Do not change the slide captions.  Keep slides in the original template order.  Additional slides may be added for each captioned slide as needed.

3. Use phrases, not sentences and paragraphs, for slide content.  Place sentences or paragraph quotes of interest in the Notes pane.

4. To earn full points, you must include graphic images in the slide sections as indicated in the template.

5. Graphic images must be clear and not distorted or pixelated.  See the procedure for harvesting digital images in the Resources sections.

6. Create APA format in-text citations for content and images on each slide.  You may place this either in slide content or in the Notes pane.

7. An APA References slide must be included as the final slide.  Note: the second line indentation is not required for each reference.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

2. Download the pre-formatted PowerPoint presentation template corresponding to your virtual arts encounter.  Choose from the files listed under Resources. (ATTACHED)

3. In your PowerPoint template, complete sections I. General Description, II. Background Information and the final APA References slide.

4. Regarding your “Artwork for Analysis” slide 6 OR “(Musical) Selection for Analysis” slide 6, please observe the following:

a. Reminder: Presentations cannot be made on the same artist.  First to submit an artwork by an artist in 2.1 (slide 6) reserves that artist for their presentation.

b. Reminder: Presentations cannot be made on the same composer.  First to submit a selection by a composer in 2.1 (slide 6) reserves that composer for their presentation. (BEETHOVEN)

c. You are analyzing 
just one
 artwork/selection, the one you indicate in slide 6.  Do not try to analyze multiple works by the same artist/composer in your presentation.

5. Be to include APA in-text citations for content and images in every slide.  You may place in-text citations either in the slide itself or in the Notes pane.

Virtual Concert oral presentation

Student name

Presentation date and time

Course number and title

Professor’s name

I. General description – concert information
Concert Event Title
Location
Date
Time
Screen shot of the Concert’s intro titling.
Capture as you view or see the venue’s website.

I. General description – venue description
Add description
Screen shot of the venue or main hall.
Capture as you view or see the venue’s website.

I. General description – stage and performers
Add description
Screen shot of stage and performers.
Capture as you view the event.

I. General description – Notable selections
Add description
Screen capture of the program (list of selections) on the concert’s host website.

II. Background information – selection for analysis
Selection title
Composer’s name.
Screen capture of the list of selections on the concert’s host website.
Note: Choose one movement of a symphony or one scene or segment of an oratorio, opera or ballet.

II. Background information
Genre
Intended Performers
Function of Composition (purpose for which it was created)
Intended Audience

II. Background information
Historic Period Name
Historic Period Dates

III. Composer information
Birth date and place (include image of location)

III. Composer information
Death date and place (Include image of burial monument or location)

III. Composer information
Education and Training (include image of at least one education location)

III. Composer information
Employment (include image of at least one employment location)

III. Socio-economic conditions
Describe the socio-economic conditions in which the composer lived and worked. (3 bullet points)
(Feel free to add related image)

III. Political conditions
Describe the political conditions in which the composer lived and worked. (3 bullet points)
(Feel free to add related image)

III. Religious conditions
Describe the religious conditions in which the composer lived and worked. (3 bullet points)
(Feel free to add related image)

III. Composer’s unique contributions
Genres for which they are known?
Stylistic contributions?
Forms they used or developed?
Innovative techniques?

III. Other significant works by the composer
(list)

IV. Formal analysis: musical selection
Embed the musical selection video for review and analysis here.
Embed only the 2 – 3 minute segment you intend to review.
Hyperlinks are not permitted. Use the embed code procedure only.

IV. Formal analysis: Description of form
(describe the overall sectional layout of the composition)
(Narrate or review the 2 – 3 minute segment chosen for your analysis.)

IV. Formal analysis: Description of rhythm
Describe the beat
Describe the tempo
Describe the use of accent

IV. Formal analysis: Description of melody or themes
Describe conjunct (step-wise) or disjunct (leap-wise) character
Describe the use of tonality (major, minor, etc.)

IV. Formal analysis: Description of harmony 1
Describe moments of notable harmonic consonance and dissonance
Describe the use of tonality (major, minor, etc.) particularly to create contrast.

IV. Formal analysis: Description of harmony 2
Describe the use of texture (monophonic sections, polyphonic sections, homophonic sections) particularly to create contrast.

IV. Formal analysis: descriptions of sound sources
State all sound sources used
Describe any unique sound source combinations used
Describe sound sources used for contrast

IV. Formal analysis: description of dynamics
Notable contrasting sections
Notable uses of crescendo (softer to louder)
Notable uses of decrescendo (louder to softer)

V. Aesthetic response: Attraction

V. Aesthetic response: inspiring?

V. Aesthetic response: meaningful?

V. Aesthetic response: lasting value?

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