I picked this session because of my interest in music. I thought it’d be interesting to dig a little deeper into music theory. Strengthening my understanding of music would help me become a better musician in my past time. I play guitar in my free time and music theory would help me connect my hands and my mind. I also chose this session because I think music is such a great form of art. It’s essentially a universal language that the world can understand without having to actually know how to speak it. Music is not only thought provoking, but emotion provoking as well. It’s a great way to express your own feelings to someone else as well, whether it be happiness, sadness, anger, etc.
During this session, we learned about some basics regarding sheet music. The professor essentially gave us a crash course on sight reading and a run down of some simple instruments. After we learned how music is written to be a legible syntax, we used our names and the corresponding letters to the musical scale to create a “tune” that represented ourselves. She called it a light motif. Unfortunately, my name is Phillips and there is no notes that correspond to any of those letters, therefore I guess the tune that would be associated with my name would be silence. Although I did not have much to contribute to in terms of that activity, I found it pretty fun to learn about some of the instruments as it expanded my horizon on how different instruments can be and how it can really bring about a different feeling/tone. Much of what I learned in this session was already things I had learned throughout my time in high school because I was in band, and middle school/elementary school when I was in glee club. The things I learned though were refreshing and kind of made me excited to play instruments more often. I have been meaning to pickup piano again in my free time. We didn’t really get to making the Spotify playlist by the way, but it was still a very cool session. I had a ton of playlists based on motifs already so it was alright that we didn’t.
