Fall 2015
Instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus.
8-22-2015
Music Appreciation
MUSI 1306
Fall 2015
WEEK
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
DATES
Aug. 24-30
Aug. 31 –
Sept. 6
Sept. 7-13
Readings
1. Syllabus
2. Register at Connect Kamien
3. Music – Song or Dance? Pitch
(pp. 4-7; 40-46)
4. Note Names
5. Beat, Tempo, and Rhythmic
Symbols (pp. 29-35)
6. Nonwestern Music
7. Ompeh
8. Maru-Bihag
9. Textbook: Part VII
1. Complete your WIKI pages.
2. Medieval Chant and on
Renaissance Music (EC – post
another chant or another
Renaissance madrigal or
Renaissance motet)
(pp. 60-70; pp. 80-81; 85-86)
3. Alleluia
4. As Vesta Was Descending
1. Write a 300-500 word Essay on
Nonwestern Music. Proof
Nonwestern Music essay
before submitting and check
my comments on your
submitted comparison WS.
Have tutoring center review it
twice for 5 extra points!
2. Baroque (EC – post another
Baroque composer or
composition) (pp. 102-107;
126-128; 141-147)
3. Vivaldi: Spring
4. Handel: Hallelujah
Assignment
1. Take Sample Listening Quiz on
Quizzes A tab to verify you can hear
the audio clips. If you can’t, contact the
helpdesk.
2. A1- Complete your WIKI page by
Sunday, Aug. 30. (By Friday, decide
who will complete which pages on nonwestern music. By Sunday, complete
your page.)
1. A2-Complete Team WIKI pages by
Sunday, Sept. 6
2. Complete self-graded worksheet on
Nonwestern Music
3. Complete self-graded worksheet on
Medieval Chant and Renaissance
Madrigals
1. Submit A3A by Tuesday, Sept. 8
2. A3B –Nonwestern Essay due Sun.,
Sept. 13
3. Complete self-graded worksheet on
Baroque Concerto and Oratorio
Fall 2015
Instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus.
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
5. Classical and Romantic Music
(EC – post a composition by a
different Classical composer or
Complete self-graded worksheet on
a different Romantic composer)
Classical and Romantic Music
Sept. 14-20
6. Classical
7. Beethoven 5th Symphony
8. Romantic
9. Chopin: Nocturne
10. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
1. Complete Worksheet on
1. Impressionism
Impressionism, Primitivism. Virtual
2. Debussy: Prelude
Choir, and Jazz
3.
Stravinsky:
Rite
of
Spring
Sept. 21–
2.
Study
for Midterm Exam – Take the
4. Whitacre: Lux
27
pretest
several times to help you
5. Armstrong: Jazz
prepare
Sept. 28–
Oct. 4
Oct. 5-11
1. Take the Pretest for Midterm
Exam several times to prepare for
Exam I.
1. Take the Pretest several times to
prepare for Midterm Exam.
2. Part II: Middle Ages (Medieval)
Polyphony and Renaissance
Sacred Music including Motet
and Mass
Part III: Baroque Music - Instrumental
Week 8
Oct. 12-18
1. Baroque Music (1600-1750)
2. Music In Baroque Society
3. The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello
Form
4. The Fugue
5. Organ Video
6. Harpsichord Video
11. J.S. Bach
12.Antonio Vivaldi
Part III: Baroque Vocal
Week 9
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Oct. 19-25
5. The Elements Of Opera
6. Opera In The Baroque Era
7. Claudio Monteverdi
8. Henry Purcell
13. The Chorale And Church Cantata
14. The Oratorio
15. George Frideric Handel
Study for Midterm Exam
Midterm Exam is Tuesday, Oct. 6
Concert Report 1 is due by midnight,
Thursday Oct. 8
Fall 2015
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8-22-2015
Part IV: Classical
Week 10
Oct. 26Nov. 1
1. The Classical Style (1750-1820)
2. Composer, Patron, And Public In The
Classical Period
3. Sonata Form
4. Theme And Variations
5. Minuet And Trio
6. Rondo
7. The Classical Symphony
8. The Classical Concerto
9. Classical Chamber Music
10. Joseph Hadyn
11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12. Ludwig Van Beethoven
Part V: Romantic
Week 11
Nov. 2-8
1. Romanticism In Music (1820-1900)
2. Romantic Composers And Their Public
3. The Art Song
4. Franz Schubert
5. Robert Schumann
6. Clara Wieck Schumann
7. Frédéric Chopin
8. Franz Liszt
Part V: Romantic
Week 12
Nov. 9-15
9. Felix Mendelssohn
10. Program Music
11. Hector Berlioz
12. Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century
Music
13. Antonin Dvorak
14. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
15. Johannes Brahms
16. Giuseppe Verdi
17. Giacomo Puccini
18. Richard Wagner
Part VI: 20th Century
Week 13
Nov. 16-22
Nov. 23–
29
1. Musical Styles: 1900-1950
2. Music and Musicians in Society
5. Neoclassicism
6. Igor Stravinsky
7. Expressionism
8. Arnold Schoenberg
9. Alban Berg
10. Anton Webern
THANKSGIVING VACATION
Concert Report 2 is due by midnight,
Thursday Oct. 29
Fall 2015
Instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus.
8-22-2015
Part VI: 20th Century
Week 14
Nov. 30Dec. 6
11. Béla Bartók
12. Charles Ives
13. George Gershwin
14. William Grant Still
15. Aaron Copland
16. Musical Styles Since 1945
17. Music Since 1945: Four
Representative Pieces
18. Jazz
19. The American Musical And Music
In Film
Concert Report 1 is due by
midnight, Tuesday, Dec. 8
Week 15
Week 16
1. REVIEW for final exam
2. Take the PRETEST for the
Dec. 7-11
final exam.
Tues.,
Dec. 15
Final Exam, 8AM