Overview
Please choose one of the following prompts to use as your discussion post this week. Once you have created your post, please comment on two other posts from your colleagues. Please be sure to use productive language, as well as complete sentences and proper grammar. Your original post must contain at least 450 words minimum.
- Do you think that music as it is taught in American public schools today enhances Americans’ appreciation of concert music? Could, and should, the teaching of music to American children be improved? How?
- Compare the differences we perceive between popular, concert, and religious music today with the ways in which nineteenth-century Americans considered music.
- What early nineteenth-century events may be said to illustrate some romantic characteristics of the American personality?