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Luna Misael Luna Dr. Art Brownlow MUSI 1308 05/07/18 Reflective Essay No. 2 For this second half of the semester things changed a little bit, and of course they changed for good. For this half the team system changed making teams out of both campuses which was kind of interesting, because of the fact the we were not in the same classroom but we were interacting as if we were. This was thanks to the amazing iPad-based system we have been using for this class. So this change really made us work even harder as a team for the reason that when we are around people we feel comfortable with or we know, we do not feel like making a lot of effort to meet their expectations. But working with people that we did not know made us work harder to not give a bad impression and also not let them down, it was our motivation. Working with this team was really different from the first half. I had a lot of trouble with one of the members of my former team but in this one I cannot complain about anyone. Everyone in the team were always ready to participate and really involved with everything that we were supposed to do. We would finish everything really quick because everyone would start working as soon as they were done with the daily quiz. And even when we had different opinions with the people from Brownsville we would resolve it quick because we knew what we were talking about. There was one assignment I really liked, it was on a piece by Scarlatti called “Oh Di Betlemme” and the assignment was to look for the modulation in the piece and it talked about ritornello, and I really liked it because we were applying theory to the piece which I really like

Luna 2 doing. Also it is always really interesting when we need to analyze the pieces because they are always somewhat confusing because of the style in which the wrote. Sometimes the voices would start the same theme just a measure after one another and that would get us confused but a really great experience over all to apply all the things learned in the video lesson. Also the material covered in this second half was easier to digest since we were now talking about baroque which is a style that as a string player is really important and fundamental for my musicianship development. I did not really have a problem with any of my teammates so I will give all of them a pass grade.