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Music Appreciation
Dr. Peter LaRue

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

(Mr. Mozart - Young)

Course Schedule
Spring Semester 2010 
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 - be they "real-time" or "virtual" experiences] and other important class information.

Week 1: Class Sessions - January 19 & 21
Basics - syllabus, course outline, Scholar Questionnaire
The basic elements of music: melody, rhythm, harmony, form, texture ScholarNet instructional session 

Week 2: Class Sessions - January 26 & 28
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: Class Session - February 2

Mini-Test Number One - Real-Time

NO CLASS - Thursday, February 4

Week 4: Class Sessions - February 9 & 11

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 5: Class Sessions - February 16 & 18
Topic: America Music Continued
Bessie Smith, Ledbelly Ledbetter, George Gershwin, Big Bands, Copland, Bernstein, country, rock, progressive, new-age

Week 6: Class Session - February 23
Topic: Conclude American Music

Mini-Test Number Two - a Virtual Experience

NO CLASS - Thursday, February 25

Interesting Musician Report Number Two
(please note IMR2 precedes IMR1)

Mini- Module Number Three
Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Music

Week 7: Class Sessions - March 2 & 4

Listening/Discussion Day II

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 and history of the seven liberal arts

Week 8: Class Sessions - March 9 & 11
Topic: Music of the Renaissance - Conclude Mini-Module III:
1450-1660: New Ideas, New Music, New Art, New Civilization, rebirth, reformation, Martin Luther, forms, Elizabethan music, instruments (strings, woodwind, brass, keyboard, percussion)

Mini-Test Number Three - Real Time

Spring Break
No Class
Tuesday, March 16th and Thursday, March 18th

Mini- Module Number Four
Introduce Baroque Music

Week 9: Class Sessions - March 23 & 25
Topic: The Baroque Era: 1600-1750: 
Our Modern Music Begins, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, opera, terraced dynamics, fortspinnung, concerto grossi, instruments used

Interesting Musician Report Number One
(please note IMR2 precedes IMR1)

NO CLASS - Tuesday, March 30

Week 10: Class Session - April 1
Topic: The Baroque Matures: 
The Baroque Matures: Major Composers, Vivaldi, Rameau, J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel - appropriate listening and discussion

**Field Trip #2 - If Time Permits**
**Organ/Baroque Examples**

Mini-Test Number Four - a Virtual Experience

Module Number Five
Classical Music

Week 11: Class Sessions - April 6 & 8
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

ScholarNet Assignment #4

Week 12: Class Sessions - April 13 & 15
complete general classical era [Mr. Haydn/Mr. Mozart] discussion

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

Week 13: Class Sessions - April 20 & 22
Topic: L. Beethoven
Special study of Beethoven, his influence, his symphonies, mature classical/early romantic, Beethoven Listening - symphonies, piano sonatas, etc. - bring closure to the classical era - open transition to the Romantic Era

Test Number Five - Real Time

Module Number Six
Introduce Romantic & 20th Century Music

Week 14: Class Sessions - April 27 & 29
Topic: 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, "Might Handful": Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, German Opera: Wagner, Italian Opera: Verdi, French Grand Style: Berlioz and as time permits - The maturity and end of Romanticism 1875-1900 composers: Tchaikovsky, Mahler, R. Strauss, Bohemians: Dvorak, Smetana

Test Number Six - A Real Time or a Virtual Experience

ScholarNet Assignment #5

Week 15: Class Session - May 4

Music Performance Projects

Reading Day - Thursday, May 6
MPE Due
Rogue Assignments - Late Bird Credit

If Time Permits
Topic: New Musical Languages, the world, the arts, the music, impressionism - Ravel, Delius, expressionism - Schoenberg, Berg, primitivism - Stravinsky, neoclassicism - Varese, traditionalism - Holst, Vaughn-Williams, Sibelius

**Final Examination**
Tuesday, May 11th at 12:00 PM [noon]

Thank You
Pete LaRue