1. Please provide your personal reaction to this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvPynMI6Umc
2. Below is a link to the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan (1998), directed by Steven Spielberg. The music is composed by John Williams. Listen carefully to the music and sound effects and how they are coordinated with the image track.
What is the purpose of the music? What does it accomplish? How does it make you feel? How does it do this?
3. Watch the following TedLesson on the significance of musical repetition. What did you find interesting? How does it relate to your experience of listening to music?