Map A Production Presented By Biography Pianist and UCSD Professor of Music, Cecil Lytle, discusses the process of performing and explores voice in music.
Activities Listen to or play a new piece of music.
Next, reveal the composer's background and possible goals when writing this piece. Now play the piece again in light of this new understanding. Discuss the ways students could play music differently to better express mood and the composer's intention. Compare paintings of an identical setting drawn by different artists. Discuss why each painting looks different.