![]() ![]() Hip-hop, folk, classical and even opera music draw on current events and politics for source material. Music has always been a reflection of and window into society, culture and history - and the current era is no different. They might share their writing and song choices with the class so their classmates can analyze how music inspired their writing. To take this exercise a step further, students might use what they wrote while listening to music to develop a short story or poem. You are unsure how long you will be here, or how challenging the journey may be. You don’t know how to read the weather or the light. Each new sound seems to breathe - emerging from and receding back into the stillness - and the glint of bells, like desert plants, here and there.Īlmost imperceptibly the music swells and continues falling in pitch.įrom somewhere above - like a gleam of metal, like sunlight emerging from behind a ridgeline - comes the sound of flutes. Here’s an example of what one composer wrote as he listened to his own classical piece, “Become Desert”:įrom the stillness around you a high glassy sound descends, like first light.
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