Music: Its Language, History, and Culture | One-Minute Oral Comment | Brooklyn College | Fall 2022
This is a one-minute oral comment assignment to motivate students to engage with the weekly readings and discuss them with the class, […]
Category: Ethnomusicology assignments
The World of Music | Music Analysis Paper | Hunter College | Spring 2019
Final stage of a scaffolded writing assignment (preceded by a bibliography assignment also shared on the Hub). Instructor: Natalie Oshukany Course: The […]
The World of Music | Bibliography Assignment | Hunter College | Spring 2019
First part of a scaffolded writing assignment (leading to a final paper), where I asked students to propose & think about a […]
The World of Music | Reading Response Assignment & Rubric | Hunter College | Fall 2018
Instructions & rubric for low-stakes reading response assignment. Asks students to engage actively & closely, with excerpt from Christopher Small’s Musicking text, includes […]
The World of Music | Concert Report | Hunter College | Fall 2021
Prompt for a written concert report (500 words) of a live or recorded performance of world music. Instructor: Lynne Stillings Course: The […]
Music in Global America | Annotated Playlist Final Project | Brooklyn College | Winter 2022
Final project in which students create and annotate a playlist of twenty songs, either representing at least two migrant groups studied in […]
Introduction to World Music | Concert Analysis & Review Large Assignment | City College | Fall 2021
Scaffolded large assignment in which students watch a concert video of their choice, analyze one song from it, and review the concert […]
Music in Global America | Music-Culture Writing Assignment | Brooklyn College | Fall 2019
Two-page concert report. Students asked to attend a musical event of their choice (live or virtual) and then analyze it by applying […]
Music in Global America | Nueva York Written Assessment | Brooklyn College | Spring 2018
Written assessment in which students critically interpret an audio documentary on Puerto Rican New Yorkers, invoking two related scholarly writings on the […]
Music in Global America | Podcast Research Project | Brooklyn College | Spring 2020
Students engage in-depth with a new or previously discussed musical topic by conducting research and recording an “audio-documentary” podcast on it. Students […]
