1) Examine
Escher’s Flying Fish.
2)
Listen to the selection from Debussy’s
La Mer.
3)
Examine the segment of the score of Debussy’s La
Mer below.
4) How did resonance destroy the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
In order to answer this question, watch the
footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsing: http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=Pa2096Tacoma
and read
about “Galloping Gerdie”:
http://www.nwrain.net/~newtsuit/recoveries/narrows/gg.htm
Your
answer should discuss resonance (generally and how it pertains to this
bridge), provide a
description
of what you saw in the video, and provide an account of what happened
the day
“Galloping Gerdie” collapsed.
Activity from R. M. Scheider, 2008
Created February 27, 2008
by Lori Andersen.
