Learning Objectives & Matches
1. Define genre (Literary, rhetorical, interdisciplinary)
Choose subject matter and suitable form to express personal feelings and experiences or ideas, or to narrate stories or events.
Write fiction or nonfiction prose, such as short stories, novels, biographies, articles, descriptive or critical analyses, and essays.
Develop factors such as themes, plots, characterizations, psychological analyses, historical environments, action, and dialogue to create material.
Confer with producers and directors to define the nature and placement of film or television music.
Determine a published or broadcasted story's emphasis, length, and format, organizing material accordingly.
Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
Interpret or modify music, applying knowledge of harmony, melody, rhythm, and voice production to individualize presentations and maintain audience interest.
Compile lists of books, periodicals, articles, and audio-visual materials on particular subjects.
Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.
Read incoming correspondence to ascertain nature of writers' concerns and to determine disposition of correspondence.
1. Describe a variety of genres and subgenres
Compile lists of books, periodicals, articles, and audio-visual materials on particular subjects.
Confer with producers and directors to define the nature and placement of film or television music.
Consider such factors as ensemble size and abilities, availability of scores, and the need for musical variety, to select music to be performed.
Transcribe musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt them to a particular group, or to create a particular musical style.
Specialize in playing a specific family of instruments or a particular type of music.
Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
Interpret or modify music, applying knowledge of harmony, melody, rhythm, and voice production to individualize presentations and maintain audience interest.
Arrange for typing, duplication, and distribution of material.
Determine voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos, and tone balances required to achieve the effects desired in a musical composition.
Code, classify, and catalog books, publications, films, audio-visual aids, and other library materials, based on subject matter or standard library classification systems.
2. Contextualize genre historically and culturally
Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.
Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
Develop factors such as themes, plots, characterizations, psychological analyses, historical environments, action, and dialogue to create material.
Confer with producers and directors to define the nature and placement of film or television music.
Provide the musical background for live shows, such as ballets, operas, musical theatre, and cabarets.
Determine a published or broadcasted story's emphasis, length, and format, organizing material accordingly.
Explore and develop musical ideas based on sources such as imagination or sounds in the environment.
Compile information on content and context of information to be translated and on intended audience.
Choose subject matter and suitable form to express personal feelings and experiences or ideas, or to narrate stories or events.
Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.