Project Design Notes

Bekka M.
Introduction to Music
Fall 2012
11/4/12
Project Design Notes
    In order to put this project together, I did several things. After choosing which four elements I wanted to work with (Melody, Harmony, Texture and Rhythm), I read through the listed ideas to consider for each element, trying to see if any of those descriptions made me think immediately of any songs in my library. I then went through and selected my eight songs, based on genre, length, and whether or not I actually liked them.
    I chose to write use the blog format for my project because I thought that, if done well, it could be a really great layout for something like this. Honestly, my first thought was to make a video, but I soon realized that I have no idea how to work the latest version of iMovie.
    I think that the hardest part of getting this project together was picking out the right songs. There were several times where I thought, “Oh, that would be the perfect song!” only to find that it was too short or too long, or that I had already picked a song from the same genre for that category already. I actually had a very hard time finding a second song for Harmony that was not from a musical. I ended up settling on Girl, by The Beatles.
    The thing I found in my research that fascinated me the most related to my analysis of Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Late in the song, it appears to speed up quite a bit, but it turns out the tempo does not actually speed up at all. I found this out when I played it from two sources at the same time with one of them offset by about a minute. It happened to work out perfectly the first time so I got the words from both copies of the sings to line up exactly right.