12/26/2024 4:45:58 PM	MUS 7.1 Course Outline as of Fall 1988	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  MUS 7.1	Title:  INTRO TO MUS APPREC
Full Title:  Introduction to Music Appreciation
Last Reviewed:5/7/2007

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade Only
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  MUS 7A

Catalog Description:

A survey of principles and practices in music as a serious art form. Analysis of the nineteenth century  instrumental and vocal repertory as well as some  developments of the modern scene.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Completion of ENGL 100 or ESL 100.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Basic elements of music covered with an emphasis on composers & compositions of the 19th & 20th centuries.

(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Completion of ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:	Fall 2007
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C1	Arts		Fall 1981	Fall 2007
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3A	Arts		Fall 1981	Fall 2007
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:	Fall 2007
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:	Fall 2007
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Students are expected to:

1.  Listen frequently and carefully to recorded music, and to recognize

   compositions, composers, musical techniques, and the simpler forms.

2.  Expand their musical experience by reading, discussing, and listening

   in order to realize that music is and has been an integral part of

   western culture and civilization.

3.  Develop their musical listening skills by (a) acquiring the

   concentration for longer attention spans in listening, (b) hearing

   more specific musical details, (c) detecting aurally more subtle

   features of interpretation, performance techniques, and nuance.

4.  Understand and try to explain that the language of music cannot always

   be translated into the language of music's ultimate meaning lies in

   the sounds themselves.

5.  Name, relate, and identify important musical terminology as it has

   significance in both the biographical details and the compositions

   of important composers.

Topics and Scope

    The Materials of Music: An introduction to the listening experience,

   the three planes of listening, areas of meaning in music, which

   include melody, harmony, rhythm (meter, syncopation), tempo, dynamics,

   timbre, form, orchestration, instruments, style, and notation (with

   several sub-headings in some areas).

2.  Nineteenth-century  Romanticism, which includes the short lyric forms

   of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Program Music of Mendelssohn, Berlioz,

   Chaikovsky, Smetana.

3.  Absolute Music, Opera, and Choral Music which includes symphonies and

   concertos of Brahms, Liszt, Rakhmaninov, Mendelssohn, Operas by Verdi,

   Wagner, Bizet, Thomas, Choruses by Rossini, Verdi, Brahms.

4.  Late Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Music, which includes works by

   Mahler, R. Strauss, Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, Bernstein, Vaughan

   Williams, Barber, Stravinsky, the Jazz Style; with exams both listen-

   ing and written, this amounts to over a chapter a class meeting.

Assignments:

1.  Four reading assignments of at least 12 or more chapters for a total

   of 50 chapters for the semester, plus five others recommended to aid

   the understanding of assigned materials (outside of class readings).

2.  Listening list of four programs containing a total of 30 compositions

   to be listened to for the purpose of listening tests (outside of

   class).

3.  Both numbers one and two will for the most part be elaborated upon

   in class sessions to bring to the students attention the important

   aspects of the reading material and to point out some of the things

   that they should be listening for in the assigned compositions.

4.  In addition to these three, additional music is used as it relates

   to the topics under consideration and in order to enhance the

   accuracy of the student's listening experience.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 0%
None
This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because problem solving assessments and skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course.
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 10 - 15%
Homework problems, Exams, LISTENING QUIZZES
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 10 - 20%
LISTENING QUIZZES
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 70 - 80%
Multiple choice, Matching items, Completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 5 - 10%
ATTENDANCE

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC By Joseph Machlis and Kristine Forney, 7th

Edition, W. W. Norton, New York, 1995.

Prepared required listening list, given as a handout which is available

in the Audio-Visual section of Plover Library for listening to selected

musical compositions.

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