Music Appreciation

Course Outline

Vicky Boucher

boucher@tarleton.edu

Office 122        Ext. 9238

 

Note:   This is an organic document!  It will change. 

You are responsible for what is on this page, not a copy you made at the beginning of the semester.

 

 

The schedule and structure of this class will be based upon the following schedule:

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

 

Online assignments (no class!)

Presentation/Assessments

Lecture

Group meetings

Week 1

May 29

 

Introduction

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Syllabus

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Schedule

 

Elements of Music

1.  Sound

2.  Performing Media

Instruments of the Orchestra

Evolution of the Orchestra

3.  Rhythm

4.  Music Notation

History of Music Notation

Staffs clefs

5.  Melody

6.  Harmony

7.  Key

8.  Musical Texture

9.  Musical Form

10. Musical Style

 

Vocabulary

note

pitch

dynamics

timbre

treble clef

bass clef

consonance

dissonance

beat

meter

accent

syncopation

tempo

rhythm

chord

scale

key

form

 

 

Wednesday

 

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Week 1 Quiz

Instruments of the Orchestra (p. 10-25 and PowerPoint)

Week 2

June 4

 

 

The Middle Ages  Medieval Music Links 

Renaissance  Renaissance Music Links

 

Medieval map

 

Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

Medieval PP

Renaissance PP

 

 

Group 1:  Authentic vs. Modern Instruments

Group 2:  The Trinity Explained

Group 3:  Renaissance Love Songs

 

 

Vocabulary

Gregorian chant

neumes

organum

troubadour

rebec

polyphony

word painting

Composers

 

Hildegard

Leonin

Perotin

Machaut

Josquin

Palestrina

Group 1

Kim

Martha

Jason H.

Ruth

Chance

Troy

Crystal

Group 2

Brandon

Gina

Kristen

Taylor

Jason S.

Victor

Jason L.

 

Group 3

Kristina

Bryan

Patricia

Jason P.

Linna

John

 

 

DUE BY:

Tuesday

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Reading

pp. 63-91

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Medieval/Renaissance  Online Assignment

 

Thursday

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Week 2 Presentations

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Week 2 Quiz

 

 

 

 

Week 3

June 11

 

Baroque Period  Baroque Music Links

Classical Period  Classical Music Links

 

Baroque PP

Classical PP

 

Group 1:  Bach and Company

Group 2:  Marketing Opera

Group 3:  Mozart and Spielberg

 

Mozart score 1

Mozart score 2

 

Vocabulary

patronage

harpsichord

opera

sonata

Composers

 

J. S. Bach

Handel

Purcell

Haydn

Mozart

Beethoven

Group 1

Jason H.

Gina

Taylor

Patricia

Troy

Crystal

 

Group 2

Martha

Victor

Jason S.

Jason L.

Linna

Chance

Kristina

Group 3

Bryan

Kim

Ruth

John

Kristen

Brandon

 

 

Tuesday

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Medieval/Renaissance Presentations

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Medieval/Renaissance Quiz

 

Wednesday

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Reading pp. 93-105, 151-162

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Complete the Multiple Choice, True/False, and Listening Quizzes associated with Part 3, Chap. 1 & 2 and Part 4, Chap. 1 & 2

 

Link to McGrawHill

 

 

Week 4

June 18

 

Romantic Period  Romantic Music Links

20th Century  20th Century Music Links

 

Romantic PP

20th Century PP

 

Group 1:  Romantic Idol

Group 2:  Nationalism and Identity

Group 3:  Take a Chance

 

Vocabulary

 

Nationalism

program music

virtuosity

art song

exoticism

Impressionism

Expressionism

Serialism

Chance music

 

Composers

 

Schubert

Chopin

Berlioz

Dvorak

Liszt

Tchaikovsky

Brahms

Wagner

Copland

Cage

Reich

Glass

Group 1

Kristen

Brandon

Crystal

Jason H.

Gina

John

 

Group 2

Jason L.

Chance

Linna

Patricia

Kim

Taylor

Martha

 

Group 3

Kristina

Jason S.

Ruth

Bryan

Victor

Troy

 

 

Tuesday

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Baroque/Classical Presentations

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Baroque/Classical Quiz

 

Wednesday

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Reading pp. 209-221, 285-302

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Complete the Multiple Choice, True/False, and Listening Quizzes associated with Part 5, Chap. 1 & 2 and Part 6, Chap. 1 & 2

Link to McGrawHill

Week 5

June 25

 

 Final exam will be during class on Thursday, June 28 and will consist of:

  1. Multiple choice questions from text material

  2. Listening questions (Listening list is below)

 

Tuesday

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Romantic/20th Century Presentations

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Romantic/20th Century Quiz

 

Wednesday (last class day)

 

 

 

 

 

 

LISTENING LIST for Final Exam

"O successores" (Hildegard of Bingen)

"Kyrie"  from the Pope Marcellus Mass (Palestrina)

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major (Bach)

"Dido's Lament" (Purcell)

"Hallelujah" from The Messiah (Handel)

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, III (Mozart)

Surprise Symphony (Haydn)

Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)

Erlkonig (Schubert)

Revolutionary Etude (Chopin)

The Moldau (Smetana)

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy)

Le Sacre du Printemps (Stravinsky)

 


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