Work on your PREZI presentations. (See links for help!)
Good advice to remember/follow when designing a prezi...
You may find the following site helpful in your research:
A note about slides/Prezis:
- Your prezi should help pictorially or visually depict your topic.
- Limit # of words on a slide.
- You may have note-cards/notes with more than 10 words that you prepare for your presentation. You AND your partner (if you have one) should share the burden of presenting your research/topic to the class.
- Avoid reading to us. If you internally know the topic and what you're speaking about, your presentation will be more effective. The note-cards are there as a fail safe. I will not be collecting your note cards.
- Include at least 1 sound clip or video clip of no longer than 1-minute to give us a sense of the style of music you are discussing. This is, of course, more important for earlier styles of music. We are pretty much aware of what contemporary music sounds like. No need to overdo it.
- Your slide list should include:
- A title slide with your name(s)
- An overview slide to discuss the musical style(s) of your decade and its context (what's the big picture?)
- Individual slides that cover your topic in more depth (this may be where you discuss a particular influential musical artist, provide a sound clip, or explain influences)
- Some decades have a more varied style (more than one style). You should attempt to cover all the major genres of your decade.
- Remember: you are researching what was popular AT THE TIME or since, not just your personal favorite musician or musical artist!
EXTRA CREDIT SONG LYRICS
TASK: Write another song lyric, using one of these forms:
TASK: Write another song lyric, using one of these forms:
We can divide poetry into lyric poems, narrative poems, dramatic and epic poems. Lyric poems are short poems that were originally meant to be sung. Every song written by a musical artist is in some way carrying on that tradition. Here's a sample:
- Beyonce: "Pretty Hurts"
Ballad Form (link here for more information.)
Ballads attempt to tell a story. They are written in quatrains (4 line stanzas). The first and third lines of each stanza usually has 8 syllables; the second and fourth lines usually have six syllables. Rhyme scheme is AABB, or ABAB, or ABCB.
Other lyric poems use rhyme, simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, and other poetic devices that help create sound imagery. The most common lyric deals with the theme of love in some fashion. Take a look:
Most song lyrics utilize repetition or a refrain. The refrain repeats the "chorus" or most important line(s) in the lyric. Take a look:
Some contemporary forms blend lyric with ballad forms to create something new. Note the use of the refrain, rhyme, and ballad style (narrative story):
Highly emotional, the Blues originated from slave work songs.There are generally 3 lines per stanza in the Blues lyric form. The second line repeats the first, followed by a third line that ends the rhyme or poetic phrase.
More information about the Blues and Ballad form (with samples)
Rap:
a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
Other lyrics:
Taking all this together, poets and musicians blend the Blues, the Ballad, the Lyric, and other forms to create what we know today as "songs". Here are some more samples:
other sample Contemporary Lyrics for those who can't be bothered by the past:
Prezi presentations are due next class. We will present our decades. If you are likely to be absent, please make sure you have submitted your Prezi!HOMEWORK: None. If you have not completed your Prezi today in class, please do so on your own time. Prezi's are due next class!
Feel free to write a ballad, another lyric, or a blues song (or rap) if you wish for extra credit.
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