Discussion 1

Listen to one (1) composition (for a symphony) by Haydn or Mozart, either at the Websites below or in this week’s Music Folder. Identify the work that you have chosen, and describe the way in which the composition expresses the specific qualities of the Classical music style. Use the key terms from the textbook that are related to that particular music style, and explain what you like or admire about the work. Compare it to a specific modern musical work for which you might use the term “classic” or “classical”.

Requirements: 200 words, one scholarly source minimum

Supported Reading material for help

•             -Haydn at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESXMWrwzVQ and http://www.npr.org/artists/16110605/franz-joseph-haydn

•             -Mozart at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hywOY9BS9tQ and http://www.npr.org/artists/15327819/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart

Discussion 2

Select one (1) example of a literary work or a work of visual art from the 1800s—either Romantic or Realist in style—that responds in some way to the Industrial Revolution. Identify the work and the artist or writer, describe its features and style, and explain the manner in which it responds to the Industrial Revolution. Next, describe one (1) example of how either black slaves or white abolitionists used literature or the visual arts as a form of protest against slavery. Identify one (1) specific literary or artistic work of our day that effectively protests a social injustice

Requirements: 200 words, one scholarly source minimum

Supported Reading material for help

•             The Museum of Fine Art in Ghent, Belgium (MSK Gent) —Romantic and Realist Art of the 1800s at http://www.mskgent.be/en/collection/1820-romanticism-and-realism/romanticism-and-realism

•             New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—French Realist Art of the 1800s athttp://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm

•             Haven’s article on Goodman’s scholarship on art protesting slavery before the Civil War athttp://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/february18/artists-slavery-protests-021809.html

•             Art and Slavery article at http://www.realhistories.org.uk/articles/archive/the-art-of-slavery.html