MU207 HW1 Dr. A. Schloss
(384-322 BC) | Aristotle | philosopher |
(427?-347 BC) | Plato | philosopher |
(470?-399 BC) | Socrates | philosopher |
(? -497?BC) | Pythagoras | philosopher/math/music |
(480-524) | Boethius | music theorist |
(900) | Arabic instruments introduced into Europe | |
(ca. 997-1050) | Guido of Arezzo | music theorist |
( 1098-1179) | Hildegard von Bingen | composer |
(ca. 1400- 1474) | Guillaume Dufay (Sta Maria di Fiore) | composer |
(1452-1519) | Leonardo da Vinci | everything |
(1473-1543) | Copernicus, Nicolai | astronomer |
(ca. 1526-1594) | Palestrina, Giovanni Perluigi | composer |
(1517-1590) | Zarlino, Gioseffo | music theorist |
(1561-1626) | Bacon, Francis | philosopher/scientist |
(ca. 1567-1643) | Monteverdi, Claudio | composer |
(1571-1630) | Keppler, Johannes | astronomer |
(1588-1648) | Mersenne,Marin | mathematician/philosopher |
(1596-1650) | Descartes, Rene | mathematician/philosopher |
(1642-1727) | Newton, Sir Isaac | physicist/mathematician |
(1653-1716) | Sauveur, Joseph | acoustician |
(1683-1764) | Rameau, Jean-Phillip | music theorist |
(1685-1750) | Bach, Johann Sebastian | composer |
(1732-1809) | Haydn, Josef | composer |
(1756-1791) | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | composer |
(1768-1830) | Fourier, Joseph | mathematician |
(1770-1827) | Beethoven, Ludwig van | composer |
(1777-1855) | Gauss, Karl F. | mathematician/astronomer |
(1797-1828) | Schubert, Franz | composer |
(1794-1881) | Boehm, Theobald | inventor |
(1813-1883) | Wagner, Richard | composer |
(1821-1894) | Helmholtz, Hermann L.F. | scientist |
(1833-1897) | Brahms, Johannes | composer |
(1840-1893) | Tchaikovsky, Peter I. | composer |
(1847-1931) | Edison, Thomas A. | inventor |
(1856-1943) | Tesla, Nicola | inventor |
(1862-1918) | Debussy, Claude | composer |
(1885-1947) | Russolo, Luigi | artist/inventor/composer |
(1874-1949) | Schoenberg, Arnold | composer |
(1866-1944) | Kandinsky, Wassily | artist |
(1879-1955) | Einstein, Albert | physicist |
(1881-1945) | Bartok, Bela | composer |
(1882-1971) | Stravinsky, Igor | composer |
(1883-1945) | Webern, Anton | composer |
(1883-1965) | Varese, Edgar | composer |
(1887-1979) | Boulanger, Nadia | composer/music theorist |
(1899-1972) | Bekesy, Georg von | scientist |
(1901-1976) | Heisenberg, Werner | physicist |
(1896-1993) | Leon Theremin | inventor, physicist |
(1908-1992) | Messiaen, Olivier | composer |
(1910-1995 ) | Schaeffer, Pierre | composer |
(1912-1992) | Cage, John | composer |
(1918-1988) | Feynman, Richard | physicist |
(1920- 1996) | Claude Shannon | mathematician |
(1922-2001) | Xenakis, Yannis | composer |
(1925-2004) | Berio, Luciano | composer |
(1925- 2016) | Boulez, Pierre | composer |
(1926-2011 ) | Mathews, Max | scientist, engineer, inventor |
(1933- ) | Subotnick, Morton | composer |
(1934- ) | Chowning, John | composer |
(1934-2005) | Moog, Robert | engineer |
(1936- ) | Reich, Steve | composer |
(1938- 2018) | Hawking, Steven | physicist |
(1942-1970) | Jimi Hendrix | guitarist/composer |
Pick five people from this chronology and connect their work in the
context of music, technology, theory or aesthetics. (Note that this
is or, and not and ). What impact did they have on each
other? On the development of music and/or culture and/or technology as we know it today?
You can add one or more people to your paper who are not on this list,
but make a case for his or her historical importance. In particular, minor figures in popular culture are in general difficult to justify, so check with me if it's someone you really admire and want to add. Then you can try to create a possible history that allowed this person to do what they do.
Four to six pages (double-spaced) should be enough.
NOTE: This is not a book report! In other words, I am not interested in a sequence of short biographies of the people you choose. A small amount of biographical information is fine, but I am
much more interested in how you connect the people you choose, in your ideas and your thoughts, even if they don't seem as solid
as the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
I am much more interested in your ability to tell a story that connects the people you chose. Be creative!
Here's an example of the kind of paper that I enjoyed reading, from a student in a different year of the MUS 207 class: HW1 example
Yes, you can use google or wikipedia to get quick information about your choices, especially when you are first exploring and deciding who or what you would like to write about, but I expect your bibliography to include at least a couple of books and articles as well as your web references. The exact format of your bibliography is not important, but should list all sources that you looked at in preparing your paper. Also, if you cite a source in the body of your paper, refer to it when you cite it, not only at the end of the paper. That is to say, the reader should know where you got your information from. So just having a list at the end is not sufficient -- the reader should be able to tell while reading your paper where your ideas and information came from.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! YOU WILL FAIL THIS ASSIGNMENT
A student commits plagiarism when he or she: