This week, your main task is to work on your final project. However, before Wednesday’s class, please also do the following:

• Update the professionalism and liberal arts values section on your self-assessment. This will be your final professionalism update. Most of you have done this recently, so there won’t be much to change or add.
• Take a very short, anonymous survey on this course.
• Sign up for an oral exam time, if you haven’t already.

Also, please bring your “Mondnacht” materials to class on Wednesday.

By 8am, Friday, Dec. 6, send me an email explaining your intended final project. If you will do an analysis, pick a piece (or pair of pieces to compare), and also indicate if you will present a paper, slideshow, video, performance, etc. If a composition project, pick a text and give me a brief decription of why you chose it.

Also, pick a partner, and between the two of you decide which one will work on the Brahms setting of Mondnacht and which on Schumann. Then, for Monday’s class meeting, make a thoroughbass reduction of your song (bass and figures for each chord), and provide a functional-bass analysis below the bass line. There are tricky parts in both songs, particularly the Schumann (which balances out by being rather repetitive). If you run into trouble, feel free to consult with a classmate. If you are completely stuck in a passage, notate what you know, leave other elements blank, and move on. This is your first complete thoroughbass/functional-bass analysis of a song, so don’t underestimate how long may will take you—you almost certainly won’t be able to cram it all in to Sunday night. Also, this is your last whole-song harmonic analysis before your final project, so use it to guage the difficulty and time demands that your final project may impose on you.

Scores can be found on IMSLP or in the library.

(View playlist in Spotify web player, or search for spotify:user:kris.shaffer:playlist:7EJvdwnibFFccU6gqSoK5n in Spotify app.)

Before 8am on Tuesday, Dec. 3, go to the “Dec. 3 ‘Mondnacht’ assignment” file in the MUSC 2101 shared resources folder in Google Drive. Answer each question on your own or with a partner. (Be sure to provide your name with each response.)

Before class on Wednesday, read through your classmates’ responses on that document to prepare for class activities.

Bring staff paper to class on Wednesday.

I will be working from home on Thursday and Friday, but I will be available to help those of you who would like feedback on your species re-assessments. If that is you, please email me (I will keep my CU email open throughout the day) either to solicit feedback, or to schedule a time for a quick video chat. I have a couple “meetings” already scheduled, and I will accomodate as many of you all as I can in my remaining time. Please take advantage of this if you have any questions about your species reassessment.

Have a great break!