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Actually, for me, it is harder to concentrate on the concert since I don’t need to take notes. It is due to that I don’t have a sturdy music sense so I do not know to concentrate on which part of the concert. In the first concert, I was taking notes at well. Because I did not know what I should take, then I wrote done some feature that I was interested in and in most times, I just wrote everything I heard. In the second concert, I was taking notes with a motivation. I knew I should focus on the melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, form even the age of the movement. So I was more concentrate to get this information from my ear. But in this time, I have no idea. Even though we don’t know the nature of the assignment like the first time, but we are not allowed to take any notes in this time. It makes my mind drift away sometimes. My mood is both anxious and calm, so I use the word “free” to describe myself. It changes many times. At first I am calm, because I don’t have to do anything except listen. Although I say it is harder to concentrate but it is better to feel. I pay more attention on the music itself then the nature of the symphony. I draw the picture in my mind during the concert even I am distracted sometimes. Then I become anxious, because I find I cannot remember what I feel in that moment then I start worry about what should I write in my assignment. Since I say my mood is “free”, so my heart is walk in its own way, clam, anxious then drifts away. I think most of colleagues are same as me, because lots of people leave after the first part of the concert. I guess it because they cannot concentrate on the concert then think it waste their time, so they choose leave away. I don’t have conversation with my friend because I come ...

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“Whoever is as diligent as me will accomplish something like me (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).” I want to use this word to summarize my experience in studying the history of Western music. Because of for the most of students who are taking this course does not have any knowledge in the Western music. We start from the same origin; nevertheless, we get the different result since now. We complain the exam is hard, but when I realize there are still some people getting high grade, I have to admit the problem is not in the exam, it is in us. How much you effort, then how much you will receive. No exception, no lucky. By the way, from this course I learned the religion is always the origin of the music.