Classical Composition
by various student writers
February 2014
by various student writers
February 2014
Last March, we posted an invitation on this site for tracks that learners used to support the task of academic writing. While acknowledging that the digital classroom encourages and allows for new ways of writing, our interest was in identifying music that accompanied, influenced or enhanced activities what might be described as 'essayistic composition'.
In the following weeks, more than twenty students from a broad range of disciplines suggested a wide variety of listening material. As the comments under the original blog entry show, the task of academic writing was shown to be influenced and inspired by Classical, Northern Soul, Electronica, Techno, official film soundtracks and beyond. This is great in terms of diversity but difficult in terms of making a single, cohesive playlist. And so we decided to make two separate compilations, loosely classified as ‘Classical’ and ‘higher tempo’.
We need however to offer a couple of qualifications at this point. First, there were too many suggestions to include every track, therefore we have drawn together individual pieces of music that we think work well within a single playlist. Nevertheless, we've included at least one track from everyone who took time to contribute. Secondly, where a participant suggested an artist rather than an individual song, we generally made a selection own selection using iTunes (both as a way of listening to the tracks and also to get a measure of their popularity based upon downloads), or from our own collections. We think this was a legitimate approach in the circumstances.
In the following weeks, more than twenty students from a broad range of disciplines suggested a wide variety of listening material. As the comments under the original blog entry show, the task of academic writing was shown to be influenced and inspired by Classical, Northern Soul, Electronica, Techno, official film soundtracks and beyond. This is great in terms of diversity but difficult in terms of making a single, cohesive playlist. And so we decided to make two separate compilations, loosely classified as ‘Classical’ and ‘higher tempo’.
We need however to offer a couple of qualifications at this point. First, there were too many suggestions to include every track, therefore we have drawn together individual pieces of music that we think work well within a single playlist. Nevertheless, we've included at least one track from everyone who took time to contribute. Secondly, where a participant suggested an artist rather than an individual song, we generally made a selection own selection using iTunes (both as a way of listening to the tracks and also to get a measure of their popularity based upon downloads), or from our own collections. We think this was a legitimate approach in the circumstances.
