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| All-group meeting10:00-1:00 No class - study for your in-class writings AND attend Wednesday evening's film. | Guest speaker Grandmother Margaret | Open Space See schedule passed out in class. Make sure to attend! |
| Seminar In-class writing: You may bring ONE 3x5 card with your notes. Make sure to bring paper and pen! | Seminar ticket Music as text. The TWO CD's are on reserve in the library. Please burn your own copies AND read pages 60-80 of the poetry packet. Review Seminar ticket: 1) Identify connections that you feel exist between the poems and the CD’s. These connections might be directly related to the content or form of the works, but the connections could also be specific to your individual life, such as memories they evoke or a mood that they create which ties the works together. Explain two of these connections using at least two paragraphs each. 2) Re-read the handout that was distributed on Wednesday night of last week (also under DOWNLOADABLE FILES as “Performative Response Guidelines 2”), then consider performative aspects of the music and poetry that we are studying this week. Make a short list of some of the performative aspects of the works on the CD’s that the artists use to underscore the content and “animate” the delivery of those works. These aspects could include such things as volume emphasis, tonal inflection, etc. Next, choose one of the poems (pp. 60-80) and rehearse it for presentation in the seminar, paying particular attention to these same performative aspects. It doesn’t matter if you read it to the seminar, or do it from memory (which is strongly suggested), but use the performance considerations that you have chosen from the works on the CD’s to enhance and animate your presentation of the poem. Ask yourself: • What is the gist of the poem? • Where will I breathe? • Where is the “climax” of the poem? • What is the most appropriate way to deliver the various sections of the piece? • Experiment with various delivery rhythms (and notice how the meaning can shift with changes in the rhythm) • Identify the elements that are essential in conveying the gist of the performance. • Identify and differentiate the less important content of the piece. Remember to REHEARSE !!!!!!! Check your voice for volume, clarity (enunciation), and expression Review the use of gestures and ever important EYE CONTACT |
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| 6-8:30For the Next 7 Generations: A film screening and a talk with Grandmother Margaret Behan: Red Spider Woman |