Course: MUL 1010–Music Appreciation (3 credit hours)
Instructor: Dr. Sarah Satterfield
Class Meeting Times/Location: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:00-9:50, 4-104
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 11:00-12:00, Tuesday and Thursday 10:50-12:05, Tuesday 1:30-4:00, Thursday 1:30-3:30, or by appointment
Office Location: 4-113
Office Phone: (352) 854-2322, ext. 1406
E-mail: swsatterfield@cox.net
MUSIC APPRECIATION
(Prerequisite: ENC 1101 [Freshman Composition Skills I])
Course Description/Objectives
The instructor seeks to stimulate in students a curiosity and enthusiasm for music while developing ever-important listening skills. With discussions of the musical elements, forms, historical periods, and the lives, styles, and representative works of some of the world’s greatest composers, the instructor hopes this course will ultimately heighten the students’s appreciation for music of all genres. The instructor also hopes this course will make students aware of the close connection between music and the other arts.
Materials
The student should purchase the CDs designed to accompany Roger Kamien’s Music: An Appreciation. The student should also purchase the packet of bound supplemental class outlines.
Attendance Policy
Two unexcused absences are allowed during the semester. With each additional unexcused absence, one point will be deducted from the final grade. For excused absences, appropriate written documentation (medical excuse, note from another professor/coach, etc.) must be given to the instructor within one week (not at the end of the semester). Students who miss class should obtain notes from other students, not the instructor.
Tardiness
Class begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. As it distracts both the instructor and other students, tardiness will not be tolerated. Two tardies or incidences of leaving class early will count as one unexcused absence.
Course Requirements
Students are expected to attend class, turn in the written reports on the designated dates, and prepare for the oral presentation, tests, and final.
Academic Honesty
Cheating on tests or on the written reports (including failure to cite sources) will not be tolerated. Without exception, anyone caught cheating will fail the assignment in question. Further action may include suspension or expulsion from the college.
Grading Policy
For the purpose of grade determination, tests given during the semester and the final are each worth 100 points. The written reports and the oral presentation are also worth 100 points each.
Test Format
Five tests and a final will be given during the semester. Test questions will be in multiple choice, matching, and/or short answer format.
· Tests II, III, IV, V, and the final contain three sections: objective questions, known listening excerpts, and unknown listening excerpts. Objective questions are taken from the bound packet of class outlines. Known listening excerpts, selected from the Required ListeningList at the back of the syllabus, are played once for approximately 30 seconds. The student must identify the composer and title. Unknown listening excerpts are also played once for approximately 30 seconds. The student must identify the style period.
· Test conflicts should be discussed with the instructor as close to the beginning of the semester as possible. Make-ups will be given only in the event of documented illness or if the student has received permission from the instructor in advance. No make-ups will be given on tests or oral presentations without a written note. No make-ups on the final.
Written Report Format
· MUL 1010 is a Gordon rule course–a course requiring satisfactory completion of a set number of writing assignments.
· To fulfill Gordon rule requirements, students will write two six-page reports (12-point font, 1 inch margins).
· The due dates for the reports, which appear in the course outline, are absolutely firm. One letter grade (per day, not per class) will be deducted for late reports. Late reports may be placed in the box on my office door (4-113), or e-mailed ( swsatterfield@cox.net) to me. Reports turned in after class will be considered late.
· ASSIGNMENT 1: The first report is to be a review of a concert attended, or a CD aurally analyzed, during the semester. In the report, works performed during the concert or on the CD should be described as thoroughly as possible, using language appropriate to the course. Selections from the CD accompanying the text may not be used for this report.
· ASSIGNMENT 2: The second report is a WEB journal. For the WEB journal, students should visit one website related to each period of history/topic discussed in class: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Contemporary, Jazz, Broadway, Film, Country, Rock, and Non Western. Students should write a half-page critique of each site visited.
Disabilities
Students who, because of physical, cognitive, or psychological disabilities, need special accommodations should contact Equal Access Services at 854-2322 ext. 1580 as soon as possible to request an official letter authorizing accommodations. Every effort will be made to meet the needs of such students.
Learning Outcomes/Expectations
It is hoped that, upon completion of this course, students will be able to discuss with confidence and thorough understanding the musical elements, stylistic characteristics of each historical period (Middle Ages through the twentieth-first century), and major composers and their representative works.
MUL 1010 COURSE OUTLINE - FALL 2006
**Dates are subject to change**
August 21 First Day of Class–Introduction, Class Overview
August 23 Elements of Music
August 25 Elements of Music
August 28 Elements of Music
August 30 Elements of Music
September 1 Elements of Music
September 4 No Class–Labor Day
September 6 Middle Ages
September 8 Middle Ages, CD Critique Due
September 11 Middle Ages
September 13 Renaissance
September 15 Renaissance
September 18 Test 1 (Elements of Music and Middle Ages)
September 20 Baroque
September 22 Baroque
September 25 Baroque
September 27 Baroque, Classicism
September 29 Classicism
October 2 Test 2 (Renaissance and Baroque)
October 4 Classicism
October 6 Classicism
October 9 Video
October 11 Video
October 13 Video, WEB Journal Due
October 16 Test 3 (Classicism)
October 18 Romanticism
October 20 Romanticism
October 23 Romanticism
October 25 Romanticism
October 27 Contemporary
October 30 Test 4 (Romanticism)
November 1 Contemporary
November 3 Contemporary
November 6 Contemporary
November 8 Jazz
November 10 Jazz
November 13 Test 5 (Contemporary and Early Jazz)
November 15 Jazz
November 17 Jazz
November 20 Broadway
November 22 Broadway/Film
November 24 No Class–Thanksgiving Break
November 27 Film Music
November 29 Country
December 1 Rock
December 4 Rock/Non-Western
December 6 Non-Western
December 8 Last Day of Class
December 11-14 Finals Week
MUL 1010 REQUIRED LISTENINGLIST
BAROQUE (Test 2)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major (mvt. 1) [1, 60]
Bach: Organ Fugue in G Minor [1, 65] Monteverdi: “Tu se’ morta” from Orfeo [1, 68]
Vivaldi: “Spring” from The Four Seasons (mvt. 1) [2, 1]
Bach: Cantata No. 140 (mvts. 4 and 7) [1, 71 and 74]
Handel: Messiah (“Hallelujah”) [2, 11]
CLASSICAL (Test 3)
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor (mvt. 1) [2, 17]
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major (mvt. 2) [2, 26]
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 [2, 32]
Beethoven: String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4 (mvt. 4) [2, 35]
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 (mvt. 1) [3, 5]
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (mvt. 1) [2, 39]
ROMANTIC (Test 4)
Schubert: Erlkonig [3, 12]
Chopin: Nocturne in Eb Major, Op. 9, No. 2 [3, 27]
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (mvt. 4) [3, 31]
Smetana: The Moldau [3, 35]
Brahms: “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place” from A German Requiem [3, 49]
Puccini: La Boheme (Act I excerpt) [3, 50]
Wagner: Die Walkure (Act I excerpt) [4, 1]
CONTEMPORARY (Test 5)
Debussy: Prelude a L’Apres-midi d’un Faune [4, 9]
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (Part I) [4, 16]
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (mvt. 2) [4, 29]
Copland: Appalachian Spring (section 7) [4, 41]
Zwilich: Concerto Grosso 1985 (mvt. 1) [4, 53]
Smith: Lost Your Head Blues [4, 55]
POPULAR AND NON-WESTERN STYLES (Final)
Bernstein: “Tonight” from West Side Story [4, 56]
Anonymous: Song of Angola [4, 58]
Shankar: Maru-Bihag [4, 59]
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