UPDATED Course Calendar

Course Calendar (subject to revision)

Tuesday Hybrid Schedule 2:00-3:15pm

Jan.       09          Introduction to Music Appreciation & Part 1: Materials of Music

              @          Part 1: Materials of Music & LG1: Britten’s guide to the orchestra                                    (p.52)

              16         Part 2: The Middle Ages & Renaissance & LG2: Bingen’s “Alleluia”                         (p.67); LG4: Machaut’s “Ma fin…” (p.77); LG6: Farmer’s “Fair                                      Phyllis” (p.84)

   @          Part 3: The Baroque Era & LG11: Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas”                                               Lament (p.116); LG12: Bach’s “Wachet auf” (p.120)

   30         Part 3 continued & LG13: Handel’s “Messiah” (p.126); LG15:                                                  Handel’s “Water Music” (p.137); LG16: Vivaldi’s “Spring”                               (p.141); LG17: Bach’s “Contrapunctus” (p.146)

              @         Part 3 continued & extra listening

Feb.       06         Part 4: Eighteenth Century Classicism & LG18: Haydn’s “String                                       Quartet” (p.160); LG20: Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”                             (p.170); LG21: Mozart’s “Piano Concerto” (p.174); Mozart’s life &                           musical style

          @        Listening Assignment

                   13         Part 4: Eighteenth Century Classicism [LG’s 18/14, 20/16, 21/17] &                          {Mozart’s life, & musical style}

           @         Part 4 continued & LG22/18: Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”                                         (p.178); LG23/19: Beethoven’s “Symphony No.5” (p.183)

          20         Part 4 continued {Beethoven’s life, tragedy, & musical style}

          @         Part 4 continued & assigned listening

          27         Test #1

          @          Part 5: The Nineteenth Century & LG26/22: Schubert’s “Erlkӧnig”                       (p.209); LG27/23: Schumann’s “In the lovely…” (p.212); LG28/24:                      Foster’s “Jeanie…” (p.216)             

                                   

Mar.  06         Part 5 continued [LG’s 29/24, 30/25, 32/26, 34/28]   

          @         Part 5 continued & assigned listening

          13         NO CLASS:  Spring Break Week

          20         Part 5 continued {Romantic opera & ballet} [LG’s 35/29, 36/30, 37/31,                              38/29, 40/32]

          @          Part 5 continued & LG41: “Swing low…” (p.285); LG42/?: Joplin’s                           “Maple Leaf Rag” (p.290)         

27          Test #2

@           Part 6: Twentieth Century Modernism & LG43/?: Schoenberg’s                             “Pierrot Lunaire” (p.302); LG44/35: Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”                             (p.307); LG46/?: Berg’s “Wozzeck” (p.318)

Apr.    03          Part 6 continued [LG’s 47, 48, 50]

           @           Part 6 continued & LG51: Ive’s “Country Band March” (p.339);                            LG52/39: Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” (p.345)

            10         Class Presentations

            @           Assigned Listening

            17          Class Presentations

            @           Assigned Listening

            24          Class Presentations

 @           Assigned Listening

May    01          Last Day of Class: Take Home Final Test Due.