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Music Appreciation
Dr. Peter LaRue

"Designed for the Betterment of 8:00 Scholars Everywhere"

(Mr. Mozart - Young)

Course Schedule
Fall Semester 2009 
Music 107 Section A

That which follows represents the approximate schedule which we shall follow for our musical efforts this semester. Changes and adjustments will be made as necessary. Please peruse for assignment "due dates", time for "MT's" - "T's" [Mini-Module and Module Tests] and other important class information.

Week 1: Week of August 25th & 27th
First day - use of ScholarNet, course outline, Scholar Questionnaire
The basic elements of music: melody, rhythm, harmony, form, texture and ScholarNet instructional session 

Week 2: Week of September 1st & 3rd
further discussion of form in the arts; contrast-unification; musical elements continued how we listen to music, the role of music in society, concert etiquette and behavior musical nomenclature: tempo, dynamics, elements of expression

Week 3: Week of September 10th [Thursday Only]

Listening/Discussion Day I

Topic: American Music, Musicians, Heritage
American Music, where it was, where it is, where it is going American Music and Composers Colonial America, New England, The Old South, Rise of Blues and Jazz, Storyville, Tin Pan Alley

Week 4: Week of September 15th & 17th
Topic: America Music Concluded
Bessie Smith, Ledbelly Ledbetter, George Gershwin, Big Bands, Copland, Bernstein, country, rock, progressive, new-age

Mini-Test Number Two ~ Virtual

Mini- Module Number Three
Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Music

Week 5: Week of September 22nd & 24th
Topic: Music of the Ancients
The Middle Ages 450-1450: Three primary Divisions, Beginnings of Western Music, Gregorian chant, polyphony, motet, sacred and secular music, the mass history of the seven liberal arts,

Week 6: Week of September 29th and October 1st
Topic: Music of the Renaissance:
1450-1660: New Ideas, New Music, New Art, New Civilization, rebirth, reformation, Martin Luther, forms, Elizabethan music, instruments (strings, woodwind, brass, keyboard, percussion)

*NO CLASS*
Tuesday, October 6th
[Fall Break]

ScholarNet Assignment #3

Week 7: Week of October 8th [Thursday Only]
Topic: Continue Reformation & Renaisasance

Week 8: Week of October 13th & 15th
Topic: Conclude Reformation & Renaissance

Week 9: Week of October 20th & 22nd

Mini-Test Number Three ~ Real Time

Mini- Module Number Four
Baroque Music

Interesting Musician Report Number One

Listening/Discussion Day II

Week 10: Week of October 27th & 29th
Topic: The Baroque: 1600-1750: 
Our Modern Music Begins, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, opera, terraced dynamics, fortspinnung, concerto grossi, instruments used

**Field Trip #2 - If Time Permits**
**Organ/Baroque Examples**
**Organ in John L. Hill Chapel with professor Daniel Tilford**

Week 11: Week of November 3rd & 5th
Topic: The Baroque Matures: 
The Baroque Matures: Major Composers, Vivaldi, Rameau, J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel - appropriate listening and discussion

Mini-Test Number Four ~ Virtual

ScholarNet Assignment #4

Module Number Five
Classical Music

Week 12: Week of November 10th & 12th
Topic: The Classical Era: 1750-1825 - the world, the times, the arts, music, sonata allegro form, theme and variation form, minuet, rondo, tone/sound production on instruments, instruments of the orchestra: brass, woodwind, string, percussion, composers: Haydn, Mozart

Week 13: Week of November 17th & 19th
Topic: complete general classical era [Mr. Haydn/Mr. Mozart] discussion
Topic: L. Beethoven
Special study of Beethoven, his influence, his symphonies, mature classical/early romantic, Beethoven Listening - symphonies, piano sonatas, etc.

**An Evening With Mr. Beethoven - If Time Permits**
**Scholar Skit**

Week 14: Week of November 24th [Tuesday Only]

Test Number Five ~ Real Time

*NO CLASS*
Thursday, November 26th
[Thanksgiving Break]

ScholarNet Assignment #5

Module Number Six
Romantic & 20th Century Music

the transition for the Romantic era

Week 15: Week of December 1st & 3rd
Topics: Romantic Era Rise of Romanticism, the world, the arts, the music, Schubert, Robert & Clara Schumann, the Art Song, other great composers of the era [Liszt, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Chopin]

Mature Romanticism from 1850-1875,Virtuosi, improved instruments, tone poems, symphonic poems, program music, German Titans: Brahms and Wagner, "Mighty Handful": Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, German Opera: Wagner, Italian Opera: Verdi, French Grand Style: Berlioz

Test Number Six ~ Real-Time or Virtual

Week 16: December 8 [Tuesday Only]

Music Performance Projects

December 10th [Reading Day] - Music Performance Event Reports Due

**Final Examination**
Friday, December 11th at 9:00 AM

Thank You
Pete LaRue