MUS265 Assignment #2 2018: Rock Music: The Carpenters’ Band

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Assignment #2 is the first in a series of short written assignments designed to lead up to
and culminate in the Analysis Project. The first step is for you to choose a song or
instrumental piece you wish to use for the Analysis Project. You have a free choice of
music, and I strongly suggest that you choose something which interests you and which
you feel will offer the opportunity for in-depth study. Beyond that, I have three
suggestions:
1) If you choose a song from one of the course CDs (Which I will, therefore, be covering
in class lecture), or a song which is discussed at length in the textbook, you should know
that I will expect you to go into considerably greater depth in your analysis than I do in
class or than does the book.
2) Please do not choose a single song or instrumental of great length (14+ minutes,
approximately), as you will most likely not have enough space in the final Project to
cover that large a musical work in real detail/depth.
3) The Analysis Project is NOT primarily concerned with a poetic analysis of song lyrics,
but rather with a musical analysis that takes lyrical content/imagery into consideration.
Avoid song choices based only on the lyrics, as you will not be spending a great deal of
time on those lyrics and don’t want to be overly distracted by them. In other words, you
need to love the music, too!
Once you have chosen a song, write a 500-word mini-essay which
1) provides some background to the song and the band/artist, and
2) explains what interests you about the song and why you feel it will make an interesting
paper topic.