Required Reading for Tuesday, March 30 and Blog Post 10

Required Reading

Please read the following handouts for our discussion on Western European Opera.

Handout 1

Handout 2
(Skip down to "Later Italian Composers" on page 688)

Blog Post 10

Part 1 (due Tuesday, March 30 by 8am)

Find a YouTube video which shows a clip from one opera by a composer in your reading. Write a 200-300-word post describing both the music (using your music vocabulary from Chapters 2-5) and the performers and embed the video in the post. (Tip: To embed a video, copy the "embed" link on YouTube and paste it to your blog on the "Edit Html" tab in Blogspot.)

Part 2 (due Thursday, April 1 by 8am)

Find another student's blog post 10 video and add a comment with additional music and/or performer description.