University of Miami Christian Chant by Hildegard of Bingen Listening Journal

Your first listening journal assignment is to write a three to five page paper on a musical work of your choice related to Gateways 1 through 16 in your course textbook. Your paper should provide a musical analysis of your chosen piece using the established parameters designated in our course textbook and implemented in our class discussions. I have provided a list of recommended topics and works that have been drawn from the categories of Gateways 1 through 16. You may select a work from this list or you may investigate a work from one of these categories that you discover. Please do not write about a musical work that is one of the gateway pieces (as the analysis has already been completed). Please keep in mind that this assignment provides you with the opportunity to explore music from one of the gateways that we did not study in class.

You have considerable flexibility regarding how you chose to approach your topic, but please develop an organized analysis that interrogates the seven elements of music and the five questions that provide the organizational foundation of our discussions (What is it? How does it work? What does it mean? What is its history? Where do we go from here?) Your paper should be written in standard academic English language style (double spaced/ 11 font). Please use appropriate citations if you choose to consult source materials (APA, MLA, or Chicago style sheets), and keep in mind that all papers will be electronically checked for plagiarism.