“Classical Music; Early Abolitionist Art and Literature”

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“Classical Music; Early Abolitionist Art and Literature” Please respond to one (1) of the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• Listen to one (1) composition (for a symphony) by Haydn or Mozart,
  either at the Websites below or in this week’s Music Folder. Identify
  the work that you have chosen, and describe the way in which the
  composition expresses the specific qualities of the Classical music
  style. Use the key terms from the textbook that are related to that
  particular music style, and explain what you like or admire about the
  work. Compare it to a specific modern musical work for which you might
  use the term “classic” or “classical”.
• Explain whether you think an autobiographical or fictional account
  by a slave (such as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano) is more
  persuasive than a biographical or fictional account by a white author
  (such as John Gabriel Stedman or Aphra Behn). Explain whether you
  believe the representations of slavery in the visual arts (such as
  William Blake’s illustrations, William Hackwood’s cameo, or John
  Singleton Copley’s painting) were more compelling and convincing of the
  injustices of slavery than the literary representations already
  mentioned. In your explanations, use specific examples and consider both
  audience and the content and nature of the work. Identify the literary
  or art form in modern times that you think is most effective at
  depicting injustice.

Explore:

Classical Music

• Chapter 25 (pp. 826-832), classical style described; examples; review the Week 3 “Music Folder”
• Haydn at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESXMWrwzVQ and http://www.npr.org/artists/16110605/franz-joseph-haydn
• Mozart at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hywOY9BS9tQ and http://www.npr.org/artists/15327819/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart

Early Abolitionist Art & Literature

• Chapter 26 (pp. 870-2): Equiano, Stedman, Wheatley, Behn; Chapter 26 (pp. 877-879): Equiano and Behn
• Wheatley at http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/phil.htm
• Chapter 26 (pp. 870-873): Blake, Hackwood, Copley