Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Music history weekend homework

In class you were provided a percussion instrument to research. Go to this website and find your provided percussion instrument.
http://www.tigerbill.com/historyofdrumsandpercussion.htm

Research your instrument and create a PowerPoint (or prezi, etc) on that instrument. (You may need to research other websites, books, etc)
Please provide:

  • origin of instrument (history, timeline, how the instrument has changed)
  • the purpose of the instrument (what the instrument is used for, who uses it, etc)
  • physical description of the instrument (pictures!)
  • recording (if you find it on youtube send it to my e-mail by Sunday nigh and I can convert it to an avi)
  • any other extra facts, etc.
You can e-mail me your power point presentation and I can have it ready for Monday morning NatalieP1@wcs.edu.


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