Concert Report

Concert Report Assignment Sheet & Checklist ( concert: W.A. Mozart Requiem – Orchestre national de France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp2SJN4UiE4 )

To further enhance your experience of music, you will write one report/review of a classical

concert. The concert must be of classical music. If you attend a live in-person concert it

must occur during this semester. I will provide a list of acceptable online concerts you may

use in place of attending a live concert. That list can be found under Content on MY

COURSES (D2L).

For online concerts, ONLY those concerts on the list are

acceptable.

This does NOT open the reports to everything on YouTube or other online

sites, nor does it allow for live online performances. If you do not want to physically attend

a live concert venue, you must use the list provided.

__ The concert level should be college or adult. No Elementary, Jr. High, or High School

Concerts.

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Include a scan or photo of the ticket or printed program for live concerts only

. If

you attend a concert where there is no ticket or program, you can document attendance

with a photo. (No proof of attendance is needed for online concerts from the list.) Please

contact your instructor if you are unsure if a particular live concert is okay for this

assignment. For live concerts only (Not online concerts): include the date, time, and

location of the concert) in the body of your paper.

__ The concert report should include a

very brief

discussion of the venue, the performers

or ensemble and their instruments, then an overview of the entire concert. If it is a long

performance, you can choose to focus on one or two pieces, but there MUST be a fairly

detailed overview of the entire concert, including the titles and something specific about

each piece and movement performed.

The emphasis of the paper should focus on the

MUSIC and your description of what YOU heard and saw at the performance. Be

specific about what YOU heard. This is not a paper about your emotional response to

the music or some imagined storyline, nor is it a research paper about the history of

the music or the composer. Listening to the concert is the ONLY research you

should do for this paper.

__ The reports should be typed and include 2 FULL pages of double-spaced, left aligned

writing. Portrait orientation only. Use 1 margins and no font larger than 12-point. Indent

each paragraph and do not add any blank lines or subtitles between paragraphs. Page 2 of

the report must fill at least 3/4 of the page. Short papers will be docked 50 points, with one-

page papers receiving no credit. Do not include lists or bullet points. The paper should be

written in paragraphs only.

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Your concert report must be in Microsoft WORD (.docx) format.

No other formats

will be accepted. If you use Works, Google Docs, Apple Pages, PDF, or various other file

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formats, please convert your document to the WORD file format before submitting it. You

can get assistance from the PPCC Computer Lab if you are unsure how to do this.

__ The heading should be just your name in the upper corner of the page and a centered

title. Headings that take up more space than this will be graded (and possibly docked)

based on the length of the paper without the expanded heading. An MLA format heading

should NOT be used for the concert reports.

__ Submit your concert report in the appropriate MY COURSES (D2L) drop box under the

Assignments heading.

I do NOT accept late concert reports.

Concert reports can

always be turned in any time before the due date.

PLEASE DO NOT ADD STRESS FOR YOURSELF BY WAITING UNTIL THE LAST

MINUTE!

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