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

 

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

 

Week

Date

Topic, Assignment, Reading

1

Monday   1-20-05

Introduction. Elements of Music: Rhythm, Meter, Pitch

2

Monday   1-24-05

Elements: Instruments, Notation

 

Thursday 1-27-05

Elements: Melody, Harmony

3

Monday   1-31-05

Texture, Form Listen Unit 1 (pps. 1-54)

 

Thursday  2-3-05

Quiz on Unit One. Introduction to Music History.

4

Monday    2-7-05

Early Modern Period: Baroque

 

Thursday  2-10-05

J.S. Bach

5

Monday    2-14-05

Baroque Instrumental.

 

Thursday  2-17-05

Baroque Vocal.

6

Monday    2-21-05

Classical Period, Symphony

 

Thursday  2-24-05

Mozart, Haydn

7

Monday    2-28-05

Beethoven

 

Thursday  3-3-05

Other Classical Genres

8

Monday    3-14-05

Listen Unit 3 (pps. 111-220)Midterm Exam Units 1, 3

 

Thursday  3-17-05

Midterm Exam Units 1, 3

9

Monday    3-21-05

Early Romantics

 

Thursday  3-24-05

Romantic Opera: Wagner

10

Monday   3-28-05

Program Music:Berlioz

 

Thursday 3-31-05

Nationalism:Smetana 1st Concert Report Due.

11

Monday    4-4-05

Late Romanticism: Mahler, Brahms.

Listen Unit 4 (pps. 221-312)

 

Thursday  4-7-05

Early Modernism: Debussy, Stravinsky

12

Monday    4-11-05

Atonality: Schoenberg, Ives. Make an Instrument.

 

Thursday  4-14-05

Alternatives to Modern. Join the Band.

13

Monday    4-18-05

Late Twentieth Century: Minimalism

 

Thursday  4-21-05

Music in America. 2nd Concert Report Due.

14

Monday    4-25-05

Listen Unit 5 (pps. 313-420).

 

Thursday  4-28-05

Review for final exam.Exam includes units 1, 3, 4 and 5.