Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
COLP-0019
Organization's ID:
MUS131
Organization:
Location:
Online
Length:
8 weeks
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Music Appreciation
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide a study of the foundation, history, key personalities, and representative works of music with emphasis on understanding, appreciating, and listening to music.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand and apply various ways to listen to music
  • Distinguish aurally and identify elements of music, including three types of musical texture, and the difference between major and minor modes
  • Identify and demonstrate how to follow the structure and form of a musical composition
  • React verbally and create written observations for music, using terms and concepts of the music field
  • Define terms related to the creation and performance of musical compositions
  • Analyze musical parameters (elements of music), including pitch, rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, timbre, meter, tempo, and dynamics
  • Identify the primary orchestral instruments and instrument families
  • Identify, examine, and compare characteristics and composers of Western music style periods (e.g., Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, twentieth-century)
  • Examine proper concert etiquette with the opportunity to participate in a concert for final essay credit

General Topics:

  • Building blocks of music
  • Rhythm, meter, melody
  • Chords, discordant, harmony
  • Program, absolute, expressionist music
  • Homophonic, polyphonic, monophonic
  • Music of the Middle Ages
  • Gorgerin chants, motets, love poems
  • Troubadours, minnesingers, goliards
  • Golden age music
  • Harmony of the Renaissance
  • The music of mass
  • Madrigals
  • Baroque period
  • Opera troupes, chapel choirs, orchestras
  • Singing of the Psalms
  • Solo
  • The music of Henry Purcell, George Frederick Handel, Orlando Gibbons, William Byrd
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philip Telemann
  • Oratorio
  • Sonatas, concertos, madrigals, fugues
  • Classical period
  • Joseph Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
  • Romantic period
  • Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine, Schubert
  • Viennese school
  • 'golden age'
  • Music of the industrial revolution
  • Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Neoclassicism, nonsymmetrical, skyscraper chords
  • Stravinsky signature style, Arnold Schoenberg
  • Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre Boulez
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Discussion

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials