MUSIC DEPARTMENT
(COURSE MASTER SYLLABUS)
MUSI 1309: MUSIC LITERATURE II
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Course Description: MUSI 1309 is a survey of principal forms, styles, and periods of
Western art music through the study of representative composers and works.
Emphasis is on the music from the end of the Baroque era to the present.
Skills: R Course Type: T
Required Materials:
Textbook: A History of Western Music, 8th Edition, by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald J.
Grout, and Claude V. Palisca (HWM)
Compact Discs: Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Volumes 2 and 3
(NRAWM). Volume 2 is a 5-cd set; volume 3 is 3 cds), as well as
supplemental listening assignments).
Scores: Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6th Edition, Volumes 2 and 3
Edited by J. Peter Burkholder and Claude V. Palisca (NAWM)
(Strongly Recommended: Study and Listening Guide for the above)
Also Required: The Rest is Noise, by Alex Ross (RIN)
The textbook, cds, and anthologies are available for purchase in the ACC Bookstore.
The textbook and The Rest is Noise are also on 2-hour reserve in the ACC NRG
Library (2nd floor of Building 1000). The cds and supplemental recordings can be
found on computer stations 1-4 and 9 in the Midi Lab (4151)- ask the monitor for
assistance. The anthologies are required purchase for the class, and the
appropriate volume MUST be brought to each class session.
Additional Support: The publisher has provided an excellent support website to assist
you in this class. There are several sections at this site that are of interest. Some of
them cost a modest additional fee to use, but they may prove to be an efficient use of
your time and resources:
http://www.wwnorton.com/musichistory
Just log on and follow the instructions.
Instructional Methodology: Lecture with visual and oral supplementation. Class
participation in discussion is encouraged.
Course Rationale: This is primarily intended as a core course for music majors. It is
also, in a general sense, a Fine Arts course filling the needs of many Bachelors
programs requiring a general Fine Arts component.
Prerequisites: Currently there are no prerequisites for this course. However, as there
will be a lot of score reading involved, it is hoped that students will have at least
some familiarity with note reading and the rudiments of music theory.
Course Objectives: By the end of this class students will have developed:
- A strong working knowledge of Euro-American musical repertories from around
1750 to the present.
- An ability to trace the role of music in the shaping of Western culture, and the
ways in which broad cultural issues have reflected on musicians’ roles and artistic
choices
- The beginning of knowledge of music scholarship and the challenges of writing
intelligently about music
Guidelines and miscellaneous information:
Class lectures will cover the assigned reading as well as additional material about the topic at hand, which
will supplement the readings; we will also be actively discussing the reading and listening assignments
in class. It is therefore VERY IMPORTANT that you attend ALL lectures
In-class exercises will take place during many class sessions. An excerpt from one of the previous
session’s assigned anthology examples will be played, and you will be asked to identify that excerpt (1
point) and discuss how it exemplifies the previous session’s key issues (up to 2 points). It will not be
possible to make up these short, 5-minute exercises; unexcused absences will lead to zero points for that
day. (For a summary of how points will be awarded, see the grade point breakdown at the end of this
syllabus). These will be at the beginning of class; don’t be late!
Homework: There will be a homework handout for each chapter we cover in the text.
These will be
collected and graded on the basis of how much you have attempted. A total of 10 of these assignments
will count on your final grade.
Exams: Exams are to be taken during the regular class time. If you miss a test the
instructor MUST be notified in advance. Acceptable reasons include legitimate
illness (a doctor’s excuse may be required) or family emergency. In cases falling
outside the above, make-ups may not be permitted. If a test must be made up, it is to
be taken in a timely manner in the testing center. The listening portion of make-ups
will be taken at the end of a designated class.
Listening: Please allow plenty of time to listen to all the assigned musical works, whether in the NAWM
anthology or online. Please make a habit of listening to the assigned musical examples at least once
before they are covered in class, as well as several times afterward to review the points discussed in
class; both during the in-class exercises and in the tests, you will be expected to recognize, identify, and
discuss the assigned examples. Exams may feature at least one “unknown” work similar to one of the
assigned excerpts, the style of which you will be asked to identify. Other study guidelines will be
discussed in class.
Hour exams will cover the topics and issues discussed in class sessions, as well as the assigned readings
and listening examples; the second exam will NOT be cumulative (i.e., it will cover only the second
unit). Please contact Dr. Douglas as soon as possible (and in any case before the test) if you have a
serious, legitimate conflict with one of the midterms, as make-up tests will be given at the
instructor’s discretion.
The Final Examination will be cumulative (i.e., it will cover all three units of the course), though it will
focus more on the final unit than on the previous two. Please note, the final may be in two parts, on
the last two class days. Only major medical or other extremely serious justifications, at the
instructor’s discretion, will justify a make-up final exam, and it will inevitably lead to an
incomplete grade that will have to be finalized the next semester.
Project(s): will be discussed in a separate handout.
Online Discussion: On a regular basis (once a week or more), discussion topics will be posted in the
“Discussion Board” area of the course BlackBoard site. By participating in these ongoing discussions,
you can earn up to 50 points. Up to 5 points will be awarded to each post using the following
approximate criteria:
1 point:
Post is only one or two sentences long and does not clearly provide new content
to the thread; and/or no clear response to, or interaction with, previous posts (it
is unclear whether poster has read any previous messages in the thread); and/or
significant grammatical errors in the post.
2-3
points:
Post is two to three sentences long, is well-thought-out, and provides some new
content to the thread; and/or clear response to, or interaction with, at least one
previous post (it is clear that poster has read at least one other post in the
thread); and/or few grammatical errors in the post.
4-5 points: Post is at least a paragraph long, is very well thought out, and has very few (if
any) grammatical errors; and/or post provides significant new content to the
thread (or starts a new thread with significant content); and/or provides a clear
response to, or interaction with, more than one previous post in the thread (it is
clear that poster has been following several other posts in the thread).
Grades: will be calculated on a cumulative point system as follows:
2 intra-semester exams (100 points each)
Final Exam
Daily exercises
Homework
Project
On-line discussion
581-645 points:
516-580 points:
452-515 points:
387-451 points:
0-386 points:
200
150
45
100
100
50
645
A
B
C
D
F
Extra Credit: Students (usually those doing poorly on tests!) often ask about extra credit. There probably
will be some extra-credit questions on the tests, and I will offer extra credit to those who show the initiative
to come to our UT Fine Arts Library tour. Other than that, I would prefer you expend your “extra effort” in
mastering the basic material.
Late Work: There will be a 5% penalty per day that an assignment is late.
ONE FINAL POINT: In a Music Majors class such as this there should be no need to say this, but:
We will be listening to a lot of music in class. The music is to be given your undivided attention.
Please do not use class time for reading (not even A History of Western Music), doing other
homework, writing letters, text messaging, etc. We are going to concentrate on ACTIVE
listening.COURSE POLICIES:
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Course Outline/Calendar
Music Lit II- Course Outline
Spring 2011
Week of:
Topic
Reading
Listening
Jan. 19
Orientation; Early Classic Era
Opera, Song,
and Church Music
HWM xxiii-xxix,
468-505
NAWM 2 ix-xviii
NAWM 101-105
Jan. 24-26
Early Classic Era Instrumental
Music; Haydn
HWM 506-546
NAWM 106-113
Jan. 31Feb. 2
Mozart
HWM 546-565
NAWM 114-117
Feb. 7-9
Beethoven
HWM 568-594
NAWM 118-120
Feb. 14
EXAM #1
Feb. 14-16 Romantic Song
HWM 595-616
NAWM 121-124
Feb. 21-23 Romantic Piano
and Orchestral Music
HWM 616-644
NAWM 125-130
Feb. 28March 2
Romantic Orchestral,
Chamber, and Choral Music
HWM 644-660
NAWM 131-136
March 7-9
Early Romantic Opera;
Wagner
HWM 661-702
NAWM 137-141
*****SPRING BREAK*****
Mar 21-23 More Opera, Brahms
HWM 702-735
NAWM 142-148
Mar 28-30 Wagnerians;
Diverging Traditions
HWM 735-769
RIN Chapter 1
NAWM 149-154
HWM 770-809
NAWM 155-159
April 4
EXAM #2
Apr 4-6
Vernacular Traditions;
Modern Music;
The Avant-Garde
Apr 11-13 Second Viennese School;
Stravinski, Bartok, Ives
HWM 610-854
NAWM 160-168
RIN Chapters 2-4 (5)
Apr 18-20 Between the Wars;
Jazz, Popular Music,
and the Classical Tradition
HWM 855-905
RIN Chapters 6-9
Apr 25-27 Post-War Popular Music;
Avant-Garde; Serialism
HWM 906-943
NAWM 183-192
RIN Chapters 10-13
May 2-4
HWM 943-986
NAWM 193-205
RIN Chapters 14-15
New Sounds and Textures;
Music for Band;
End of the Millenium
May 9-11 Clean-Up and FINAL EXAM
NAWM 169-182