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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 2012 
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 January 24 & 26
First day - use of ScholarNet, course outline, Pre-Class Quiz
The basic elements of music: melody, rhythm, harmony, form, texture and ScholarNet instructional session 

Week 2: Week of January 31 & February 2
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 February 7 [Tuesday Only]

No Class - Thursday, February 9
[I'll be at the state music conference in Louisville]

ScholarNet Assignment #2

Week 4: Week of February 14 & 16

Listening/Discussion Day I [TBA]

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

Interesting Musician Report Number Two

Week 5: Week of February 21 & 23
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 6: Week of February 28 & March 1
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 7: Week of March 6 & 8
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)

Mini-Test Number Three ~ Virtual [Before Spring Break]

No Class - Tuesday & Thursday, March 13 & 15
[Spring Break]

Mini- Module Number Four
Baroque Music

Week 8: Week of March 20 & 22

Listening/Discussion Day II [TBA]

Topic: Introduce Baroque Era - Art, Literature, Science, Music - Connections

Interesting Musician Report Number One

Week 9: Week of March 27 & 29
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 10: Week of April 3 & 5
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 ~ Real-Time

Module Number Five
Classical Music

Week 11: Week of April 10 & 12
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

ScholarNet Assignment #4

Week 12: Week of April 17 & 19
Topic: Classical Era Continued ... focus upon Mr. Haydn and Mr. Mozart

Week 13: Week of April 24 & 26
Topic: Classical Era Continued ... conclude discussions of Mr. Mozart, introduce Mr. Beethoven

ScholarNet Assignment #5

Week 14: Week of May 1 & 3
Topic: Conclude Discussion of Mr. 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**

Test Number Five ~ Real Time

CEAQ Due [Sunday, May 6]

Week 15: Week of May 8 [Tuesday Only]

Music Performance Projects

Music Performance Event Reports Due [Reading Day, Thursday, May 10]

Special Note
If [miracle of miracles] we have been able to stay on the front-side of the projected schedule, we shall cover some Module Six information [and the evaluation for this material would appear only on the final examination]

Module Number Six
Romantic & 20th Century Music

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

**Final Examination**
Tuesday, May 15th at Noon [12:00 PM]

Thank You
Pete LaRue