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MUH 1007:
Listening to Music Monday and Thursday 1:35-2:50 PM, Room 112 Professor
Geoffrey Kidde///Contact: kiddeg@mville.edu - tel. (914) 798 - 2708 Office
Hours: Monday 4:30-6:00 PM, Thursday 3-6 PM;Friday 10:30 AM - 12 Noon |
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Required Text: Joseph Kerman & Gary
Tomlinson, w/ Vivian Kerman, Listen, 5th ed. Brief, New York:
Worth, 2004, w/ accompanying CDs. Reading in Listen to be completed
by date given below. Additional Listening Resources are available for this
course through the Mville College Library:Naxos. The authors have a helpful
interactive online
site to accompany
the text. Course requirements and grade percentages: Attendance and
participation 20 %. Midterm: 20%. Final Exam 20%. Quiz 10%. 2 Concert Reports
2-3 pages, 15 % each |
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Week |
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Topic, Assignment, Reading |
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1 |
Monday 1-20-05 |
Introduction. Elements of Music: Rhythm, Meter, Pitch |
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2 |
Monday 1-24-05 |
Elements: Instruments, Notation |
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Thursday 1-27-05 |
Elements: Melody, Harmony |
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3 |
Monday 1-31-05 |
Texture, Form Listen
Unit 1 (pps. 1-54) |
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Thursday 2-3-05 |
Quiz on Unit One. Introduction to Music History. |
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4 |
Monday 2-7-05 |
Early Modern Period: Baroque |
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Thursday 2-10-05 |
J.S. Bach |
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5 |
Monday 2-14-05 |
Baroque Instrumental. |
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Thursday 2-17-05 |
Baroque Vocal. |
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6 |
Monday 2-21-05 |
Classical Period, Symphony |
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Thursday 2-24-05 |
Mozart, Haydn |
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7 |
Monday 2-28-05 |
Beethoven |
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Thursday 3-3-05 |
Other Classical Genres |
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8 |
Monday 3-14-05 |
Listen Unit 3 (pps. 111-220)Midterm Exam Units 1, 3 |
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Thursday 3-17-05 |
Midterm Exam Units
1, 3 |
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9 |
Monday 3-21-05 |
Early Romantics |
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Thursday 3-24-05 |
Romantic Opera: Wagner |
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10 |
Monday 3-28-05 |
Program Music:Berlioz |
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Thursday 3-31-05 |
Nationalism:Smetana 1st Concert Report Due. |
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11 |
Monday 4-4-05 |
Late Romanticism: Mahler, Brahms. Listen Unit 4 (pps.
221-312) |
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Thursday 4-7-05 |
Early Modernism: Debussy, Stravinsky |
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12 |
Monday 4-11-05 |
Atonality: Schoenberg, Ives. Make an Instrument. |
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Thursday 4-14-05 |
Alternatives to Modern. Join the Band. |
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13 |
Monday 4-18-05 |
Late Twentieth Century: Minimalism |
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Thursday 4-21-05 |
Music in America. 2nd Concert Report Due. |
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14 |
Monday 4-25-05 |
Listen Unit 5 (pps.
313-420). |
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Thursday 4-28-05 |
Review for final exam.Exam includes units 1, 3, 4 and 5. |