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IWW
Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Music to my ears
These exercises were written
by IWW members
and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its
members.
You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that
you found
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Prepared by: Alice Folkart
Posted on: Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009
Posted on: Sunday, June 13, 2010
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Exercise: In 400 words or less, write a scene in which a musical
instrument is important.
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Your scene could be written from the point of view of someone hearing
an instrument being played, wanting to be able to play an instrument,
listening to someone practice (happily or unhappily), or even, if you
dare, from the point of view of the instrument itself.
You could write about an unusual instrument, something from another
culture; or about a musical instrument associated with an historical
person or event, e.g., the little drummer boy, or bagpipers rousing men
for battle, or a bugle playing Taps.
You could write about a concert experience, or about someone whose
"life" is his instrument, the virtuoso, the wannabe, or the
has-been. How do you feel about accordions? Did your
mother make you practice piano/violin/kettle drums every day when you
were a kid?
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Exercise: In 400 words or less, write a scene in which a musical
instrument is important.
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In your critique tell the author whether or not the work fits the
exercise and why. Let the author know what you think worked or
didn't work, and why.
And, in this particular exercise, you might also want to consider the
author's handling of the sense of sound, not only the physical sound,
but its emotional effect. Does he write about the sound of an
instrument in such a way that the reader will share the
experience? Is the piece wildly creative, or reassuringly
factual? What did you learn from it that will affect your own
writing?
Web site created by
Rhéal Nadeau and
the administrators of the Internet Writing Workshop.
Modified by Greg Gunther.
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