INTRODUCTION TO THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC (MUS 101)

MUSIC 101 - Fall Semester, 1996

Instructor: Dr. Louis Goldstein

Office: M317 Scales Fine Arts Center

Phone: 759-5368

Office hours arranged by appointment after class

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1. Read LISTEN (Third Brief Edition) by Joseph Kerman

2. Listen to the six compact disk (or cassette) set which accompanies Listen

3. Two listening quizes

4. Attend four concerts (schedule of Music Department concerts will be distributed). Written reports must be turned in on two of these concerts. Within one typed page, summarize your most vivid impressions of the music itself, using appropriate vocabulary. These reports solicit your personal reactions. They are not intended to be reviews of the performances or descriptions of the concerts.

5. Two papers

6. Midterm examination

7. Final examination

Class attendance and engagement is expected.

At the end of this course the student should be able to identify and discuss the principal characteristics of the six main historical periods of Western cultivated music. This includes describing the roles of important composers, and placing them chronologically together with their principal genres. The student will be able to discuss these topics using vocabulary concerning the rhythmic, pitch, timbral, melodic, harmonic and textural material appropriate to each style.

GRADING

1. Participation and class assignments - 50 points

2. Concert attendance and reports - 40 points (15 per report plus 5 for attendance only)

3. Papers - 40 points each

4. Quizes - approximately 30 points each

5. Midterm examination - approximately 80 points

6. Final examination - approximately 180 points

Note: All reading assignments in Kerman are to be accompanied by the appropriate listening always.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Aug - An Introduction to WHAT?! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - p. 1 - 51

30--- Can music tell a story?

Listening List for First Listening Quiz: (Sept. 25)

• Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G
• 1. First Movement, Allegro
• 2. Second Movement, Largo
• 3. Third Movement, Menuet
• 4. Fourth Movement, Rondo (Allegro)
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G
• 5. Theme and Variations (Third Movement)
• 6. Symphony No. 40, g minor, First Movement
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in c ---minor, Op. 67,
• 7. First movement, Allegro con brio
• 8. Second movement, And-ante
• 9. Third movement,- Scherzo (Allegro)
• 10. Fourth movement, Allegro

Sept. 2 - The Parameters of Music - moving towards a definition

Sept. 4 - What is "Classical" in music? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - p. 150 - 163

Sept. 6 - Sonata Form p. 164-174

Sept. 9 - How do you listen?

Sept. 11 - What Does Music Express? - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - Last day to add

Sept. 13 - The Classical / Romantic Difference - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - p. 216 - 229

Sept. 16 - Paper assignment: "How Music Tells A Story: Mozart’s Two Piano Concerto in E-Flat and Dan Locklair’s Since Dawn" (Due Oct. 4)

Sept. 18 - Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - p. 207 - 215

[Sept. 19 & 20 - ticket pickup for Sept. 28, Scales Fine Arts Center Box Office (Theater Lobby)]

Sept. 20 - Questions, Vocabulary, Etc./Practice Listening Quiz - - - - - -Parents Weekend

Sept. 23 - No class (Yom Kippur)

Sept. 24 - (Tue.) 11 am - Opening Convocation, Beverly Sills

Sept. 25 - Listening Quiz - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - Last day to drop

Sept. 27 - Romantic Extensions into the 20th Century

Sept. 28 - (Sat.) 8 pm - Year of the Arts, Opening Concert, Wait Chapel

Listening List for Second Listening Quiz: (Oct. 23)

• 1. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, V
• 2. Wagner: Prelude to Tristan und Isolde
• 3. Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet (Overture-Fantasy)
• 4. Verdi: Aida, Final Scene (Tomb Scene)
• 5. Brahms: Violin Concerto, III
• 6. Mahler: Symphony No. 1, III (Funeral March)
• 7. Debussy: Nuages (Clouds)
• 8. Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10, IV
• 9. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part I

Sept. 30 - Late Beethoven

Oct. 2 - Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Oct. 4 - Music in Film - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Paper due (see Sept. 16)

Oct. 7 - Opera

Oct. 9 - Bridges into Modernism

Oct. 11 - Expressionism / Impressionism

Oct. 14 - Midterm Examination - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - p. 1 - 51; 150 - 285

Listening List for Second Paper: (Nov. 15)

• 1. Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire (excerpts)
• 2. Berg: Wozzeck, Act III/ii and iii
• 3. Ives: Second Orchestral Set, "The Rockstrewn Hills Join the People's Outdoor Meeting"
• 4. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Act II (excerpt)
• 5. Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
• 6. Copland: Appalachian Spring (excerpts)
• 7. Berio: Sinfonia, II (O, King)
• 8. Ligeti: Lux Aeterna
• 9. Crumb: Black Angels (excerpts)
• 10. Gubaidulina: Pro et Contra, III
• 11. Reich: Tehillim, Part IV

Oct. 16 - Stravinsky/Neoclassicism - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Midterm grades due

Oct. 18 - Fall Break

Oct. 21 - Charles Ives

Oct. 23 - Second Listening Quiz - Edgard Varese

Oct. 25 - Graphic Notation

Oct. 28 - Music From the Inside

Oct. 30 - John Cage

Nov. 1 - Music of the World

Nov. 4 - Harry Partch

Nov. 5 - (Tue.) 8 pm - Dr. Goldstein’s concert - Brendle Recital Hall

Nov. 6 & 8 - no class

Nov. 11 - Class Performances

Nov. 13 - Early Music: Medieval

Nov. 15 - Transition to Renaissance - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Second paper due

Nov. 18 - Madrigals

Nov. 20 - Opera

Nov. 22 - The Rise of Instrumental Music

Nov. 25 - The Baroque

Nov. 27 & 29 - Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 2 - Safety Valve Day

Dec. 4 - Listening review

Dec. 6 - Historical period review

Dec. 11 - 9 am - Final Examination