Component Area Option: Yes – Cultural & Global Understanding
Yes – Undergraduate Inquiry & Creativity
Proposed Course: MUSC 2723 INTRODUCTION to WESTERN and WORLD MUSIC
Credit Hours: 3
Proposed by: Ruth Morrow, Professor of Music and Bolin Distinguished Chair of Piano
Date:
Please document how the proposed course meets each of the following requirements. (You may provide a written explanation or copy and paste the appropriate information from the syllabus.)
CONTENT: Courses in this category focus on the appreciation and analysis of creative artifacts and works of the human imagination.
1. Identify, recognize, and describe general stylistic characteristics of music using accepted musical terminology (Critical Thinking/Communication Skills)
2. Accurately place a musical work within an historical, cultural, or stylistic context
(Critical Thinking)
3. Distinguish similarities and differences in musical characteristics among art, folk, jazz, popular, and world music traditions (Critical Thinking/Social Responsibility)
4. Understand and categorize how music functions in different historical cultures from antiquity to the present (Social Responsibility)
5. Understand and appreciate the functions of music in society as cultural, religious, ceremonial, inspirational, and recreational (Social Responsibility)
6. Demonstrate teamwork by participation in research project presentation
7. Demonstrate social responsibility through journal entries.
8. Attend and meaningfully critique a live concert.

SKILLS: Courses involve the synthesis and interpretation of artistic expression and enable critical, creative, and innovative communication about works of art.
Synthesis and interpretation of artistic expression:
In order to synthesize content learned in class and demonstrate the student’s skill level in doing so, the student will complete several projects both in and out of class. Samples of those projects are shown below.
Instrumental Composition Project
Write a short piece (16+ measures) playable on piano in one of the styles listed below:
Organum from the 12 th
-13 th
century
Minuet from the Baroque period
Sonata from the Classic period
Rondo from the Classic period
Waltz from the Romantic period
Prelude from Impressionism
You will present your composition using the following guidelines:
1. Those of you presenting compositions in the same genre will work as a team to introduce the genre and its development to the class.
2. You will write a short description of your piece.
3. You, a colleague, or the professor will perform the piece.
Your composition will be graded using the following standards:
1. Did the composition illustrate the form of the genre?
2. Did your composition use harmonic progressions appropriate to the period of its model?
3. The Written Communication and Critical Thinking rubrics will be used to assess your skills.
Vocal Composition Project
Write a short vocal piece (with accompaniment unless demonstrably appropriate without) in one of the following styles:
Folk song from the 1960s (piano or guitar accompaniment) to one verse of “Barbara
Allen” or “The Streets of Laredo”
Vocalise from the late 19 th -early 20 th centuries

Twinkling in the night/ Stars light up both earth and sky/ You outshine them all
You will present your composition using the following guidelines:
Gospel or barbershop/sweet Adelines quartet on the words “Ave Maria” and/or “Amen”
Art song on the following haiku:
1. Those of you presenting compositions in the same genre will work as a team to introduce the genre and its development to the class.
2. You will write a short description of your piece.
3. You, a colleague, or the professor will perform the piece.
Your song will be graded using the following standards:
1. Did the voice part(s) follow a voice leading appropriate to the style?
2. Did the vocal part emulate the character, emotion, and meaning of the text?
3. The Written Communication and Critical Thinking rubrics will be used to assess your skills.
Journal Entry
One of the ten journal entries will be based on the student’s perspective on social responsibility in the arts. The entry will be graded using the Writing Proficiency Exam rubric as well as a social responsibility rubric.
Journal Entry #?:
Music is among the most powerful of artforms. As a musician, what is your responsibility to yourself, to the greater community of music and musicians, to your society, and to the world as a whole? How would you express that responsibility?
Classical Concert Critique Guidelines
The following format is to be used for submission of critiques of the concerts you attend:
1. The critique must be at least 3 pages long plus cover page, stapled once at top left.
2. The critique is to be printed using 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced.
3. Critiques need to be written using complete sentences using the Written
Communication rubric as a guideline.
4. Your name must be printed in the upper right corner of each page of the critique.
5. Use a cover page that includes: your name, the concert, and where and when you attended.

The following are guidelines for a concert critique:
1. Answer the following questions:
What pieces were performed?
Was there a soloist or soloists? How did their participation enhance the concert?
Was there a sense of progression or other unifying order to the selection of pieces?
What was the most successful piece, in your opinion? Why?
What was your impression of the audience response to the concert?
Did your impression of the concert or to a specific piece change upon your perception of its response from others?
How did your attendance at this concert impact your musical life?
2. Write and rewrite. Proof your work.
3. Use examples from pieces in the concert to illustrate points as you are able.
Recording Critique Guidelines
The following format is to be used for submission of critiques of the concerts you attend:
1. The critique must be at least 3 pages long plus cover page, stapled once at top left.
2. The critique is to be printed using 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced.
3. Critiques need to be written using complete sentences using the attached rubric as a guideline.
4. Your name must be printed in the upper right corner of each page of the critique.
5. Use a cover page that includes: your name, the recording, the artists, record label and original release date.
The following are guidelines for a recording critique:
1. Answer the following questions:
What is the genre of this recording? Explain the genre in addition to naming it.
Why have you picked this genre to critique?
Why have you picked this particular recording to critique?
Is this a recording with which you were already familiar?
What is the artist/composer/group trying to say?
How are they conveying that message?
Is the message worthwhile?
Do all tracks of the recording convey the same message? Explain.
What is/are your favorite track/s? What makes it/them so?
What has been the media response to this recording? Do you agree with it?
2. Write and rewrite. Proof your work.

World Music Project
You will be working in a team to produce a 15-20 minute PowerPoint presentation on the music from a specific part of the world and of music not considered part of the western European tradition. Your main source material will come from the textbook; however, it is expected that you will augment this by appropriately documented material from additional printed, recorded, and internet sources .
Time will be allotted during the lab hour for team consultation and evaluation after students have had time to complete individual tasks.
Personnel:
Team Leader: responsible for developing the concept of the presentation. Must aid in research as needed and requested and ensure that presentation is on schedule.
Researcher #1: instruments of country, genres of music, specific pieces.
Researcher #2: history and culture of country, how music fits into various aspects of that culture.
Schedule:
Week One: Choose country and any necessary stipulations/limitations on types/genres of music to be discussed.
Week Two: Individuals come back with preliminary results from research as outlined
Above; PowerPoint flow discussed and initiated.
Week Three: Presentation, including PowerPoint and recorded examples, readied.
Decide who will talk, who will provide technical support.
Week Four: Presentations to class.
Week Five: Turn in 1+ page paper on the following: How does the music of the selected country and genre compare with the music you listen to normally? How does it compare to western European art music? What did you learn from this project?
Do you interact with music differently because of what you learned from this?
Grading:
1) Participation (40%): Your daily participation (teamwork) will be evaluated in class by the professor using a teamwork rubric.
2) Performance (40%): Each participant will be graded on their ability to fulfill their obligations as listed above.
3) Paper (20%): Papers will be graded based on the Written Communication rubric and the appropriateness of the material in the paper.

ASSESSMENT OF CORE OBJECTIVES: Assessments should be authentic, intentional and direct. The following four Core Objectives must be addressed in each course approved to fulfill this category requirement.
Critical Thinking Skills – to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
To assess the student’s critical thinking skills, the attached critical thinking rubric will be applied to the Instrumental and Vocal Composition Projects (both shown above).
Communication Skills – to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral, and aural communication.
To assess the student’s communication skills, the attached communication rubric will be applied to the Classical Concert Critique, Recording Critique, World Music Project paper, and Journal
Entry assignment (shown above).
Teamwork – to include the ability to consider different points of vies and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.
To assess the student’s teamwork skills, the attached teamwork rubric will be applied to World
Music Project (shown above).
Social Responsibility – to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communication.
To assess the student’s sense of social responsibility, the attached ethics rubric will be applied to the Journal Entry covering social responsibility (shown above).
PLEASE ATTACH THE FOLLOWING
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Syllabus
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Assessment for Critical Thinking Skills
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Assessment for Communication Skills
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Assessment for Teamwork
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Assessment for Social Responsibility
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The attached syllabus includes sample dates and texts as would be in use were the course offered at the time of submission.