_{MU207 HW1 Dr. A. Schloss}

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!

Alternative version of paper: Look at this website: 120 Years of Electronic Music, and find five instruments in the enormous list that you'd like to explore further. Write a comparison of their technology, aesthetic, history and influence. Also figure out how to also ncorporate two of the people in the above list -- either how their work could have (directly or indirectly) led to the invention, or how they might have viewed it, or used it, or interacted with it. They can be from a different century. Be creative!

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 directly quote a source in the body of your paper, refer to it when you quote it, not only at the end of the paper in the references -- when/if you quote a source directly, the reader should be able to tell while reading your paper where your quote came from.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! YOU WILL FAIL THIS ASSIGNMENT

A student commits plagiarism when he or she:

• submits the work of another person in whole or in part as original work
• gives inadequate attribution to an author or creator whose work is incorporated into the student’s work, including failing to indicate clearly (through accepted practices within the discipline, such as footnotes, internal references and the crediting of all verbatim passages through indentations of longer passages or the use of quotation marks) the inclusion of another individual’s work
• paraphrases material from a source without sufficient acknowledgement as described above
• The university reserves the right to use plagiarism detection software programs to detect plagiarism in essays, term papers and other work.

Policy on Academic Integrity

RUBRIC for grading:

 -CLARITY OF  EXPRESSION - 4 pts

 -CREATIVITY/ORIGINALITY - 4 pts

 -EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESENTATION - 4 pts

 -QUALITY OF REFERENCES - 4 pts