Do you hear any similarities? Do your ears hear this piece more as a musical

Master Musicians of the Ikuta-Ryu Lesson 4

1. Regarding Master Musicians of the Ikuta-Ryu’s Cherry Blossom: Did you like this

Piece? Why or why not? Do you think that this piece tells the story that it means to

Tell?

Master Musicians of the Ikuta-Ryu Lesson 4

1. Regarding Master Musicians of the Ikuta-Ryu’s Cherry Blossom: Did you like this

Piece? Why or why not? Do you think that this piece tells the story that it means to

Tell?

Modern Nationalist Music – Lesson 6

3. Can you think of any instances of modern nationalist music? Has music like a

college fight song, a Christmas carol, or a protest song ever affected you in a non-

musical way?

Reactions to Music – Lesson 7

4. Every major change in music begins as a reaction against the music that came

before. Given the sharp contrast between Claude Debussy’s Voiles and the German

Romantic music of the 19th century, against what do you think that Debussy was

rebelling?

Reactions to Music – Lesson 8

5. West Side Story, despite being a Broadway musical, has a lot in common with opera.

Do you hear any similarities? Do your ears hear this piece more as a musical or

more as an opera?