Teaching Music through Story: The Fantasia Project

Music & Story Workshop: Fantasia Project 

Allstate Conference 2014 !

Jake Sturtevant- Bonny Eagle High School 

 jsturtevant@bonnyeagle.org or music.beband@gmail.com

Workshop Agenda:

• Introductions

• Opening exercise: Listening & Describing

• Music & Story connections: An philosophical foundation

• Project Overview & Examples

• Exercise: Developing a story

• Questions & Wrap up

Project Links:

https://sites.google.com/site/behsmusic/homework/fantasiaproject (Band Project)

https://sites.google.com/site/artsassessmentjakesturt/music-story

Useful Resources: 

• • Fantasia 2000 arr. Jay Bocook -Hal Leonard Corporation, Publisher ID: 04000771 

  • Ross, Alex. Listen to This. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Print.

  • Levitin, Daniel J. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession.

    • New York, NY: Dutton, 2006. Print.

  • http://www.keepingscore.org 

  • http://composersnotes.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/narrative-in-music-2/ 

  • https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/viewArticle/549/410 

  • The Art of Score: Music & Brain excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxvqayuCBlc

  • Literary & Music Connections: 

• Common Macro terminology: Exposition, Crisis= Tension, Climax, Resolution, Theme, Style, Tone, Symbol. 

• • Common Micro Terminology: Phrase, cadence, Lyrical, motif 

  • Other connection ideas: dialogue and counterpoint, characters and melodies/themes, Descriptive language and adjectives, others? 

Listening Exercise: 

Instruction: Listen to an instrumental piece of music with no programatic intentions or references, and develop a story based on those musical elements, keeping track as you work with the musical references and terminology to describe each part of the music in relation to the story.