COURSE CALENDAR – HUMANITIES
INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC (MUL1010)
ED FRAME, PROFESSOR
Reading and Listening examples will be posted on Blackboard
ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED ON BLACKBOARD
WEEK 1 - AUGUST 31ST (Monday) and SEPTEMBER 2ND (Wednesday)
READINGS: (Listening to and Experiencing Music)
CLASS INTRODUCTIONS AND PICTURES TAKEN
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE CALENDAR AND SYLLABUS
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) The Art Of Listening To Music
3) How Western Music Started: Music Of the Middle Ages.
4) The Music of India
WEEK 2 - SEPTEMBER 7TH (Monday-Holiday) and 9th (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music of the Renaissance
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER ONE DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Music of Japan
3) Music of the Renaissance in the West
WEEK 3 - SEPTEMBER 14TH (Monday) and 16TH (Wednesday)
READINGS:
(1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Ethnicity
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER TWO DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Music and Ethnicity
3) Jazz and Ragtime in America
4) African Music
WEEK 4 - SEPTEMBER 21st (Monday) and 23rd (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Gender
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER THREE DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Music and Gender
3) Female Composers and performers
WEEK 5 - SEPTEMBER 28TH (Monday) and SEPTEMBER 30th (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Spirituality
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER FOUR DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Baroque Music
3) Church Music and the Music of J.S. Bach
4) Christian Church Music (The Mass)
5) India - Spiritual Music
WEEK 6 - OCTOBER 5th (Monday) and OCTOBER 7TH (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Politics
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER FIVE DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) The Music of China
3) National Anthems and Tchaikovsky
4) Protest Music of the Sixties in America
WEEK 7 - OCTOBER 12TH (Monday) and 14TH (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and War
ESSAY #1 DUE WEDNESDAY AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Shostakovich and Russia
3) Les Misérables
4) Music of the Classical Period in Western History
WEEK 8 - OCTOBER 19TH (Monday) and 21st (Wednesday)
READINGS : (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Love (Part 1)
NO ASSIGNMENT DUE – FULL-LENGTH MOVIE TO BE SHOWN
IMMORTAL BELOVED
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Music of Beethoven and Schubert of the Early Romantic Period
3) The Romantic Opera
4) Porgy and Bess and West-Side Story
WEEK 9 - OCTOBER 26TH (Monday) and 28TH (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Love (Part 2)
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER SIX DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions (from chapter 9)
2) Music of the Romantic Period in Western History
3) Musicians of the Late Romantic Period
WEEK 10 - NOVEMBER 2nd (Monday) and 4TH (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Broadway
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER SEVEN DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Entertainment during the 30’s and 40’s in America
3) The Broadway Musical (Examples from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s)
4) Examples from the 70’s until the present
WEEK 11 - NOVEMBER 9TH (Monday) and 11TH (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Film
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER EIGHT DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) John Williams and other major composers.
3) “Star Wars”, “Lord of the Rings”, “Harry Potter”
4) Bollywood and Indian Films
WEEK 12 - NOVEMBER 16TH (Monday) and 18TH (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Dance
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER NINE DUE WEDNESDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Ballet
3) Famous dance choreographers
4) Latin American Music
WEEK 13 - NOVEMBER 23rd (Monday) and 25TH (Wednesday – Thanksgiving
Holiday)
NO ASSIGNMENTS DUE THIS WEEK
Thanksgiving Week
LECTURES: Catch-up time
WEEK 14 – NOVEMBER 30th (Monday) and 2nd (Wednesday)
READINGS: (1) Listening Examples (2) Music and Concert (Part 1))
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER TEN DUE THURSDAY BY 11:59PM
LECTURE: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Classical Music in the 20th Century.
3) The Symphonic Form
4) The Concerto
WEEK 15 – DECEMBER 7TH (Monday) and 9TH (Wednesday)
ESSAY #2 DUE WEDNESDAY AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS
LECTURES: 1) Musical Examples for Class Listening and Reactions
2) Post-Modernism in Music
3) Review terms to be distributed for final exam
WEEK 16 – DECEMBER 14TH – 19TH – FINAL EXAMS
MULTIBLE CHOICE MINI EXAM
EXAM TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED