I am going to interview a professional violinist called Yang Liu. He has a traditional musical family, so he has to experience music a lot. This is the reason why I choose him. I have a list of question to ask him.
- His understanding of music
- He also trained his son to play violin, and I think there should be some reasons or some experience that he thought will be benefit to his son. Or he might think that music may bring intelligence to his son, which is my topic.
- While he is playing his violin, does he find something that goes through his brain?
- Which is the thing that mostly affected him in his music life?
Evaluation Sources
Book
"The Mozart Effect for Children" by Don Campbell
- Authority
- What are the author's credentials? "He serves on the boards of the Boulder Philharmonic and the American Music Research Center."
- Does the author have expertise on the subject? "DON CAMPBELL has spent more than three decades exploring a d writing about the benefits of music for lifelong learning, and is a world-renowned authority on music and its role in education and health."
- What degree(s) does the author hold? From what college or university? "Don Campbell is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Southern Wesleyan University." From http://acda.org/southcarolina/Bios/doncampbell.html
- Is the author a member of professional organizations? Yes, according to the answer of first question, he is!
- Are they affiliated with any of the following: a university or college, government agency, publisher or press, or their own company? "Don Campbell is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Southern Wesleyan University." From http://acda.org/southcarolina/Bios/doncampbell.html
- Timeliness
- When was the information published? The book is published at August 8,2000 (First Edition)
- When was the web site last updated? There is only one edition for this book.
- Documentation
- Does the author refer to other works? No, he didn't.
- Does the Web page provide related links? N/A
- Is a bibliography provided? N/A
- Does the author support statements with data or references? I didn't finish reading that book yet.
- Purpose & Audience
- Is the information presented intended to inform, persuade, present opinions, report research, or sell a product? No, the author thought "music has the power not only to soothe the soul but to heal the body as well." So he wrote this book to guide others especially children into music world.
- For what audience is it intended? The general public, professionals, students. Children!
- Is it popular or scholarly? More scholarly than popular.
- Does it show any bias? No, this book describes music affection in children.
- Review Process
- Was there any review process at all? N/A
- Was it critically reviewed after it was written? I couldn't prove whether it has been critically reviewed.
- Suitability
- Does the source contain the information you need? Yes, I found a lot of information that I will quote in my papers.
- Is it written at a level you can understand? Yes, pretty understandable.
Periodical Article
- Authority
- What are the author's credentials? Kelly has a degree in Government and French history and literature from Harvard University. She completed her masters in European Studies at Cambridge University.
- Does the author have expertise on the subject? Actually, she is a radio reporter, and she reported this discussion about the experiment of the Mozart Effect.
- What degree(s) does the author hold? From what college or university? Same as the first question.
- Is the author a member of professional organizations? She is working at National Public Radio's senior Pentagon correspondent.
- Are they affiliated with any of the following: a university or college, government agency, publisher or press, or their own company? It belongs to Morning edition of National Public Radio.
- Timeliness
- When was the information published? It was published on 06 28th, 2010.
- When was the web site last updated? It is a newspaper, so June 28th 2010 was also the last date of updating.
- Documentation
- Does the author refer to other works? No, it was a conversation between reporter and a woman who firstly researched the Mozart Effect.
- Does the Web page provide related links? No.
- Is a bibliography provided? No.
- Does the author support statements with data or references? No.
- Purpose and Audience
- Is the information presented indended to inform, persuade, present opinions, report research, or sell a product? Interview about a woman's opinion.
- For what audience is it intended? The general public, professionals, students. The general public who have curiosity about the Mozart Effect.
- Is it popular or scholarly? Scholarly.
- Does it show any bias? No.
- Review Process
- Was there any review process at all? I think it has gone through the review process, otherwise it cannot be possibly published.
- Was it critically reviewed after it was written? No idea.
- Suitability
- Does the source contain the information you need? Yes, it does. Because this report describes the experiment of the Mozart Effect which is scientifically introduced the Mozart Effect.
- Is it written at a level you can understand? Yes, it is a conversation. We can also listen to it.
Website
Mozarteffect.com by Don Campbell
- Authority
- Since it is the same author with my first book, I will scape this session.
Actually, I want to do another way to describe this website. It is a commercial and knowledge website. But it contains abundant sources of not only music topics but also directly related to my topic which is the Mozart Effect. It combines a lot of great articles regarding the Mozart Effect, which I will spend more time on that. As Professor Clark recommended, it is a great and valuable source for me to deeply analyzed.
