Humanities Homework Help

Here is a link (Links to an external site.) to a live performance sung by Christian Gerhaher on YouTube.

Here is a spotify list (Links to an external site.) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5s3svlfzo2tIEmjm…of two performances, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as a soloist, and a recording by the Oxford Schola Cantorum with an uncredited soloist. (The Oxford recording uses Baroque tuning and will sound a half step lower than Hunt Lieberson’s recording.)

Assignment:

1) Read the article and listen to the music.  If you can’t access Spotify or YouTube, a search of “BWV 82” will lead you to a recording.

2) Reflect on your own response to the music in light of Mark Swed’s commentary.  How are your responses similar and how are they different?

3) Reflect on the music you have been listening to the past 4 months (since mid-March).  Select one piece that has somehow brought you peace of mind, catharsis, or an emotional outlet.  Identify that piece and the artist(s) who created/produced it.  Write about the way in which the music affected you, and, assuming that you have listened to this music more than once, whether you ritualized it into your life routines or just reach for it when you have a specific need.  In either case, talk about that need.