I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Music Appreciation
2. Course Prefix & Number:
MUSC 1457
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
4. Course Description:
This class will study and compare most types of comprehensive western music from classical to jazz and rock and roll. Students will learn the many differences and similarities of diverse styles of music through music listening, lectures, group activities, timeline projects, quizzes, guest performers, concerts, musical theater productions and other projects that enhance the understanding and appreciation of all kinds of music past and present. This course will ask the question, 'Who, within humanity, is music for and what is its purpose.' MnTC Goal 6
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Reading College Level CLC or Reading College Level |
Score: |
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6. Prerequisite Courses:
MUSC 1457 - Music Appreciation
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
MUSC 1457 - Music Appreciation
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
St. Cloud State University: MUSM 100, Intro to Musical Concepts, 3 credits
Bemidji State University: MUS 1110, Introduction to Music, 3 credits
Moorhead State University: MUS 111, The Art of Listening, 3 credits
III. Course Purpose
2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:
Goal 6 – Humanities and Fine Arts
3. Other - If this course does NOT meet criteria for #1 or #2 above, it may be used for the purpose(s) selected below:
Liberal Arts Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Define musical terms in clear, well-constructed sentences. |
| Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Identify rhythm and melodic patterns after hearing them played on a musical instrument. |
| Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
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| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Discuss and surmise who music is for within humanity. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Identify the parameters of sound;
- Identify and define music;
- Categorize sound: instrumental vs vocal and other sound possibilities;
- Listen to both live and recorded music and define active and passive listening;
- Actively listen to and analyze music from all style periods;
- Identify basic musical elements (melody, harmony, rhythm, form, timbre, counterpoint, orchestration, etc.);
- Understand the relationship between music and historical and cultural events;
- Demonstrate a better understanding of the different genres of music in western civilization;
- Demonstrate and apply musical terms and specifics in learning environment to music listened to in the real world;
- Respond critically to musical works (Goal 6);
- Articulate an informed personal reaction to music (Goal 6); and
- Understand musical work as expressions of individual and human values with an historical and social contect (Goal 6).
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Historical Style Periods
- Music, Art, and History: Relationships
- Musical Elements
- Notable Composers
- Musical Styles by Time Period
- Renaissance
- Baroque
- Classical
- Romantic
- Twentieth Century
- Jazz, Blues and Rock ‘n Roll
- Popular Music
- Representative Compositions of Western Civilization
- Western Art Music Creative and Historical Perspectives on Copland’s Stylistic Crisis
- The French Connection: Composers in Paris with Nadia Boulanger
- Song Writing, Jazz, Exoticism and the ‘Roaring 20s’
- Serialism and Copland’s Piano Variations
- The Great Depression
- Important Visit to Mexico: American Musical Ambassadors with Carlos Chavez
- Rural Minnesota: Copland’s Stylistic Breakthrough
- Copland’s Stylistic Breakthrough: El Salon Mexico in Minnesota
- Fanfares prior to Symphony Concerts during Wartime
- Copland’s Third Symphony
- McCarthyism and Music
- Contemporary Music