Viva Voce - Final Exam

Your final exam will be an oral exam over the theories we’ve engaged throughout the entirety of the course. Before the final exam week, you will sign up for a time to drop by my office and blindly choose three notecards that contain a range of the names of course topics, ideas, or main theorists we’ve discussed. Following your choice, you will have 30 minutes to prepare for a 15 minute discussion with me about one subject from one of your three notecards. While these discussions will be fairly informal, I plan to push your knowledge on the topic you choose. Be prepared to provide an in-depth answer for any topic we’ve discussed this semester.

Possible Topics

• Musical Rhetoric (Farnsworth)
• Orality
• Form and Psychology (Burke)
• Identification and Division
• Communion
• Spontaneity
• Elastic Individualism
• Soundscape
• Keyword: Music
• Keyword: Deafness
• Keyword: Radio
• Keyword: Listening
• Keyword: Religion (Attunement)
• Keyword: Echo
• Keyword: Space
• Keyword: Noise
• Keyword: Silence

Final Exam: Sign ups for Friday, April 27th