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1
Take several of your favorite popular songs and analyze them using the concepts found in the prelude. Can you determine the meter? How would you describe the texture? The form?
2
Listen several times to one or more of the following pieces and describe how they do (or do not) sound "American" to you (based on the discussion on pages 10-11 of your textbook). Use as much musical vocabulary as you can to describe what you hear.

Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Charles Ives, Three Places in New England
Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag

3
Listen several times to the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor, listening exclusively for the four-note "knocking" motive that opens the piece. Follow along with a score if you read music. See if you can notice the different ways in which the motive is used (trading back and forth between instruments, transformed into longer or shorter note values).







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