Multimedia

This lesson is part of the Style & Compositional Techniques category.

Objectives

• Students will be familiar with ways that live music can be combined with other media

Resources

Readings

• Glass, Einstein on the Beach
• Music Theory Online:
  • Lafrance and Burns, "Finding Love in Hopeless Places: Complex Relationity and Impossible Hetersexuality in Popular Music Videos by Pink and Rihanna"
  • Sterbenz, "Movement, Music, Feminism: An Analysis of Movement-Music Interactions and the Articulation of Masculinity in Tyler, the Creator's 'Yonkers' Music Video"

Listening or Videos

• Davies, Eight Songs for a Mad King
• Childish Gambino, "This Is America"
• Beyoncé, Lemonade
• Guster, "Satellite"
• Ferrandino and Osborn, "Seeing Stories, Hearing Stories in Narrative Music Video"

Class Activities

• Discussion of types of multimedia in live music
• Analysis of works which make use of multimedia as part of live performance

Assignments

• Analysis of written and recorded multimedia music
• Analysis of a music video
• Composition of a short work incorporating one or more multimedia components