Syllabus
MUSIC 1010--Music Appreciation
Fall Trimester 2013
Claudia Bigler
claudia.bigler@besd.net
cbigler111@msn.com
Course Description:
This is a musical survey course. If this course were taught on campus, it would be a course for nonmusic majors. Emphasis is placed upon the basic elements of music, learning to listen to large-scale
works, stylistic differences between composers, and historical changes through the various genres of
music, from the Middle Ages to the present. Critical thinking and communication skills are
emphasized.
Required Text
Music: An Appreciation,
ISBN 978-0-07-802509-9
CDs to accompany text
ISBN 978-0-07-743670-7
Seventh Brief Edition by Roger Kamien
Tenth Edition/Seventh Brief Edition
Content:
1. The Elements of Music
2. The Middle Ages
3. The Renaissance
4. The Baroque
5. The Classic Period
6. The Romantic Period
7. The Twentieth Century and Modern Times
Music Outcomes:
1. The ability to hear, identify and work with the elements of music (melody, harmony, rhythm,
form, texture and timbre) in sound and elementary notation.
2. An understanding of compositional processes and styles, and the ways they have changed
throughout history.
3. An acquaintance with a variety of music, styles, and cultural sources and the ability to place
musical styles within their appropriate category.
Course Learning Outcomes:
Course Outcome 1: To learn the differences between various types of musical
texture.
Course Outcome 2: To be able to identify changes in music over various
historical periods.
Student Activities:
 Assigned readings from the text
 Listening to musical examples in class and outside of class
 Taking notes during lectures, some written assignments and study guides
 Attending public performances of art music. 3 Concert Reports are required.
 Quizzes on each section
 Final Project
Concert Attendance and Reports
You are required to attend and write three concert reports for this class. All three concerts
must occur during this trimester. Students will submit a program and type-written reports of each
performance. Concert reports should include specific musical elements that support the student’s views.
In addition, the report should mention the musical era, the composer(s), and the type of instrumentation
or voices. All concert reports must include documentation for the concert. This should be a
program and/or ticket where possible. If no program or no ticket is available, other documentation must
be provided such as concert memorabilia, a written announcement, or a photo. At least two concerts
must have a printed program. You may scan or photocopy the program, ticket, and documentation and
attach it to your report. All 3 concert reports must be submitted in order to receive credit for the course.
Concert reports must be typed, and are due within one week of the actual concert date.
Final Project:
In lieu of a final exam, a final project is required. Each student will have the opportunity
to research a topic which explores a question about music and present it to the class (the topic must be
approved in advance.) The final project consists of two parts – a written report and an oral report.
Written Paper
The written report consists of a paper which must be typed and footnoted. You are required to
use at least five sources.
 Two must be traditional hard-bound sources – books or encyclopedias.
 Other sources may be reputable internet sites, personal interviews,
Oral Presentation
The oral report consists of an in-class presentation in which you present the HIGHLIGHTS
of your research.
1. Use NOTE CARDS for reference only. DO NOT READ YOUR REPORT! Speak intelligently
about it. Practice. Make it interesting. Do not state boring historical facts.
2. Tell us something unique in a creative way that we will remember.
3. You will be graded on the following:
a. Appearance (yes, you need to dress up!!!)
b. Content (make it interesting – not boring)
c. Eye contact (look us in the eye!)
d. Voice projection (speak up!)
e. Musical example (something that is NOT on your student CD’s)
f. Visual aide (poster, photograph, power point presentation, drawings, diagrams –
most anything that we can see well).
4. Your verbal report, including music, should last from six to eight minutes.
Evaluation and grading for the course:
Quiz #1 and listening test
Quiz #2 and listening test
Quiz #3 and listening test
Quiz #4 and listening test
Quiz #5 and listening test
Class assignments and study guides
Three Concert Reports
Final Project
10 % of final grade
10 % of final grade
10 % of final grade
10 % of final grade
10 % of final grade
20 % of final grade
15% of final grade
15% of final grade
Missed Work
Make-up quizzes will be given only when accompanied by a written excuse from a doctor or other
official source. Make up quizzes will be given during lunch, on a day arranged between the teacher and
student, within one week of the missed event.
Academic Honesty Policy: Any type of activity that is considered dishonest by reasonable standards may
constitute academic misconduct. The most common forms of academic misconduct are cheating and
plagiarism. Instances of academic dishonesty will result in a grade of zero for the work involved. The
Concert Reports must be done individually, not as group projects. Do not copy others work on the
concert reports.
List of reading and listening assignments
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Introduction to class schedule and requirements, introduce syllabus
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Howard Goodall's Big Bangs
Equal Temperament Video with study guide
Notation
Video with study guide
Possible video presentations on melody, harmony, rhythm, and bass. (depending on how long it
takes everyone to acquire the text)
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Elements of Music Section 1
Sound, Pitch, Dynamics, and Timbre
Read pages 1-8
Listening:
The Firebird, Scene 2
Stravinsky.
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington
Elements of Music Section 2
Voices and Instruments
Read pages 9-27
Listening:
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten
Elements of Music Section 8
Musical Texture
Read pages 45-48
Listening:
Farendole from L'Arlesienne Suite No 2
Bizet
Elements of Music Section 9
Form
Read pages 48-52
Listening:
Dance of the Reed Pipes from the Nutcracker Suite Tchaikovsky
Bouree from Suite in E Minor for Lute
Bach
Quiz #1 on the Elements of Music
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Music in the Middle Ages
Read pages 65-77
Listening:
Alleluia: Vidimus stellam
O successores
Estampie
Puis qu'en oubli
Agnus dei
Music in the Renaissance
Read pages 78-90
Listening:
Ave Maria
Kyrie from Pope Marcellus Mass
Hildegard of Bingen
13th Century
Machaut
Machaut
Josquin de Prez
Palestrina
As Vesta Was Descending
Flow My Tears
Weelkes
Dowland
Quiz #2 on the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Music in the Baroque Era
Read pages 102-107
Music in Baroque Society
Pages 108-115
Listening:
Brandenburg Concerto #5
Bach
Organ Fugue in G Minor
Bach
Howard Goodall's Big Bangs
Opera
Read pages 120-122
Listening:
Tu se' morta from Orfeo
Gluck
What's Opera Doc
Read pages 127-130
Listening:
Primavera from the Four Seasons
Vivaldi
First movement
Second movement
Third Movement
Listening:
Wachet Auf
Bach
First movement
Fourth movement
For Unto Us A Child Is Born
Handel
Hallelujah Chorus
Handel
Quiz # 3 on the Baroque
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Music in the Classical Period
Read pages 156-165, pages 176-191
Listening:
Symphony No. 40
Symphony No. 94
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Don Giovanni
Piano Concerto in A Major
Pathetique Sonata
Symphony No. 5
all four movements
Music in the Romantic Period
Read pages 209-214, 244-246
Listening:
Symphonie Fantastique, IV
(March to the Scaffold)
The Moldau
Symphony # 9 i E minor
(From the New World)
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
Mozart
Haydn
Mozart
Mozart
Mozart
Beethoven
Beethoven
Berlioz
Smetana
Dvorak
Mendelssohn