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Make-Up Assignment: Biographical Sketch of A Composer Handwritten

The document provides instructions for a band make-up assignment requiring students to write a one page biographical sketch on a composer of their choice. Students must include details on when and where the composer was born and died, where they spent most of their life, what era of music they represent, descriptions of at least five of their most influential works, the composers that influenced them and those they influenced, and three interesting stories or facts about their life. A list of potential composer choices is provided, with the option to write about a composer not on the list with teacher approval. The assignment is due before the first bell on Monday, February 16.

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Make-Up Assignment: Biographical Sketch of A Composer Handwritten

The document provides instructions for a band make-up assignment requiring students to write a one page biographical sketch on a composer of their choice. Students must include details on when and where the composer was born and died, where they spent most of their life, what era of music they represent, descriptions of at least five of their most influential works, the composers that influenced them and those they influenced, and three interesting stories or facts about their life. A list of potential composer choices is provided, with the option to write about a composer not on the list with teacher approval. The assignment is due before the first bell on Monday, February 16.

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Band Make-up Assignment:

Biographical sketch of a composer


Choose from any of the listed composers below. Write a biography of your chosen
composer. Your paper must be over 1 page ( FRONT AND BACK-no double
spacing) , handwritten and legible. This will count as credit for 1 missed SM
assingment.
Your paper must provide the following information about your composer:
• When and where the person was born and died.
• Where they spent most of their life.
• What era of music does the composer come from (classical, romantic,
baroque, renaissance, modern, etc…)
• Names of their most influential works, and a brief description of each work.
You must list and describe at least 5 works of music.
• What composers influences them and why. What composers they
influenced and why.
• At least 3 interesting stories or facts about their lives.

Composer choices: Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Bela
Bartok, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Frederic
Chopin, Aaron Copland, Arcangelo Corelli, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar,
Gabriel Faure, Geroge Gershwin, Christoph Gluck, Edvard Grieg, George Frideric Handel,
Joseph Haydn, Charles Ives, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Zoltan Kodaly,Edouard Lalo, Franz Liszt,
Gustav Mahler, Bruno Mars, Benedetto Marcello, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Modest Musorgsky, Johann Pachelbel, Sergei Prokofiev, Giacomo Puccini, Sergei
Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gioachino Rossini, Camille Saint-
Saens, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Michael
Jackson, Jean Sibelius, Johann Stamitz, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Giuseppe Tartini,
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Georg Philipp Telemann, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Giuseppe Verdi,
Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, Anton Webern, Jacob Collier,

*If you would like to write about a composer not listed, see Mr. J.

Due date: Monday Feb 16. Before the first bell.

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