Choose one of the questions from the list below.

1) Reflect on the question by writing a 2-3 paragraph response.

2) Include the link to an educational website other than Wikipedia that helped you to form your response, with a 2-3 sentence description of how this website enhanced your learning for the week. Visit the UMGC Library “Is My Source Credible?” page and the Research Guide for Music (including links to Open Access Music Journals) to help you choose a reliable, credible educational website.

3) Select and add an image to your post that reflects your learning, including the specific reasons you chose the image.

4) Post your written reflections, educational website and image in the Week 3 Discussion forum.

5) Post a substantive (at least one paragraph in length) response to at least 2 classmates

Please see the Discussion Grading Rubric to learn how to earn the full 4 points for the Discussion Assignment.

• Analyze one listening example from this week’s course materials in terms of Instrumentation (categories, including voices), Texture (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, anti-phonic), Rhythm/meter (rubato, metrical, which meter, tempo changes), Melody-lyric relationships (melismatic, syllabic, ornamented, high-low) and Structure. If there are distinct sections, how are they recognized?

• Based on the examples of music from the Native American Church you heard this week, how does this music compare with music you have heard in your own faith tradition or a faith tradition that you are most familiar with? Think of similarities and differences in instruments used, styles of singing and the context of the music in the two faith traditions.

• What specific characteristics of the Native American music you have heard distinguish it from the European or American classical or popular music you are familiar with?

• What is the role of music in Native American cultures? How is Native American music diverse and complex?

• How do traditional Native Americans understand the causes and cures for disease? What is the role of music in curing? How does this compare with your understanding of disease and curing?

• What influences in modern American life can you suggest that may have affected Native American music? What changes would such influences cause?

• Does the classification of music as Native American come from musical content, the ethnicity of its creators and performers, or a combination of both? If a piece of music makes no use of typical Native American traits such as vocables, drums, and rattles, is the composition considered to be Native American?

• How does the music of the Native American Church differ from traditional Native American music? What might account for the difference?

• If you have ever been to a powwow, please discuss your experiences there.