MUSC& 105 Music Appreciation (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly MUSIC 101-CCN
Course Description
Introduces students to Euorpean art music from: Medieval through the Twentieth Century. Relevant cultural, biographical, and historical data are covered relating to art music and its performance. No previous music experience necessary.
Course Content
1. Basic materials of music (e.g., melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, form, tempo, chords, tonal systems, and dynamics);
2. Musical instruments, musical ensembles, and properties of sound;
3. Medieval and Renaissance culture, music, and composers (e.g. sacred and secular, chants, motets, Machaut, instrumental, Palestrina, chanson, madrigal);
4. Baroque culture, music, and composers (e.g., opera, cantata, oratorio, concerto, suite, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Jacquet de la Guerre);
5. Materials of form (e.g., thematic development, sonata cycle);
6. Classical culture, music, and composers (e.g., the classical spirit, chamber music, the symphony, concerto, sonata, choral forms, opera, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven);
7. Romantic culture, music, and composers (e.g., art song, song cycle, piano literature, program music, program symphony, nationalism, symphony, concerto, choral music, opera, ballet, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Smetana, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Brahms, Verdi, Wagner, Tchaikovsky);
8. Twentieth century (1900-50) culture, music, and composers (e.g., impressionism, symbolism, Debussy, expansion of musical elements, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, nationalism, Bartok, the American scene, Copland);
9. Twentieth century (1950-to the present) culture, music, and composers (e.g., abstract expressionism, pop art, post-modernism, feminist and ethnic art, total serialism, aleatoric music, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, non-western styles, tone clusters, Cage, prepared piano, Crumb, Chinese music, African music, technology, synthesizers, electronic music, Varese, Davidovsky, Babbitt, Oliveros).
Student Outcomes
1. Analyze and aurally recognize compositions known to represent specific styles of classical music.
2. Trace relevant aspects of the sociological, historical, and economic development of those cultures involved in the production of classical music between 600-2000.
3. Assess the development of specific cultures between 600-2000 and determine their effect on the evolution of classical music.
4. Analyze and aurally identify music concepts found within specific music examples.
5. Give examples of the nonmusical features of classical music that contribute to elements of the style.
6. Identify the genre and style of select classical music recordings through aural analysis.
7. Recall specific biographical and historical information of select classical music personalities.
8. Predict, based on a musical, historical, and sociological study of the evolution of classical music, future events in its developmental course.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Listening quizzes
B. Written analysis
C. Small group work
D. In-class discussion
E. Short answer test
F. Written quizzes
G. Small group presentations
H. Oral presentations
I. Multiple-choice objective examination
J. Listening quizzes
K. Essay Test
L. Research Paper
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