SYLLABUS
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| Students: Please be sure to read the GUIDE to the course, where you will find the dates for the 3-test and 7-test deadlines in addition to other crucial info. You'll need to coordinate the dates in the GUIDE with the material listed below. It's a good idea to take out a calendar and write in your own plan for completing everything. |
| Part 1: Elements | VIDEO
INTRO
Lecture 1 Melody; musical line; rhythm & meter. Lecture 2 Harmony; tonality; consonance and dissonance; musical texture. Lecture 3 Musical Form; structure and design in music; the role of modulation in form. Lecture 4 Musical instrument families; musical expression. |
| PART 2: The Middle Ages & Renaissance |
VIDEO
INTRO
Lecture 5 The Middle Ages I: Introduction to the period; plainchant and polyphony; performance styles; the beginnings of notation. Lecture 6 The Middle Ages II: Mixing sacred and secular; performance styles; Formes Fixes; instrumentation; introduction to HIP. Lecture 7 The Renaissance I: Introduction to the style; Josquin and Ockeghem; sacred and secular music; notes on the Renaissance in America and Africa. Lecture 8 The Renaissance II: Secular music; variations; dance music; improvisation; transcriptions. |
| PART 3: The Baroque Period
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VIDEO
INTRO
Lecture 9 Baroque Music I: Introduction to Baroque style; the beginnings of opera. Lecture 10 Baroque Music II: The Suite; a HIP quiz. Lecture 11 Baroque Music III: A guide to listening to abstract music; French vs. Italian style; organology. Lecture 12 Baroque Music IV: Forms and techniques; counterpoint. |
| Part 4: The Classical Period
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VIDEO
INTRO
Lecture 13 Classical Music I: Introduction to the style and period; the word "classical" and its many meanings; style galant and empfindsamkeit.
VIDEO INTRO Lecture 15 Classical Music III: Genres; public and private music.
VIDEO INTRO |
| Part 5: The Romantic Period | VIDEO
INTRO
Lecture 17 Romantic Music I: Transition from Classical to Romantic. Lecture 18 Romantic Music II Lecture 19 Romantic innovations |
| Part 6: The Twentieth Century | VIDEO
INTRO
Lecture 20 Turn of the century: Transition from late Romantic to early Modern. Lecture 21The early 20th century: Bartok, Stravinsky, Schoenberg. Lecture 22 Five Americans: Copland, Barber, Bernstein, Ives, Gershwin. Lecture 23 Twentieth Century Styles and Trends I Lecture 24 Twentieth Century Styles and Trends II Lecture 25 Popular Music origins, Ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, and the Blues Lecture 26 Jazz Lecture 27 Rock |
| Part 7:Nonwestern Music | Lecture 28 World Musics and Ethnomusicology |
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