Martin Stallworth

Listen to the Music

6/30/15
Listen to the Music Documentation
Listen to the Music was an honors seminar that was offered during the
second semester of my freshman year at the University of Cincinnati. This
class was taught in a traditional classroom setting in Emery Hall Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday from 10:10 to 11:05. This course was lectured by Erik
Paffet and the students were freshman honors students from a wide range of
majors. One of the outcomes of this honors seminar was to take a look back
on the various different style periods that music has went through over the
last few centuries and see how the art form has evolved.
I chose to engage in this experience because listening to different
types of music is one of my hobbies that I am passionate about. This course
exceeded my expectations because not only did I get to listen to classical
music, but I also learned some of the more technical aspects of music like
pitch, harmony, and scoring.
This experience was meaningful because it taught me some of the
basic concepts of music that I was not aware of and introduced me to music
that I had never heard before previously. I can now apply some of the things I
learned in class to possibly making music as a hobby of mine in the future.