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MUSI 101 - Music Appreciation

3 Credit: (3 lecture, 0 lab, 0 clinical) 3 Contact Hours:


This introduction to the various styles of music increases the understanding, awareness and enjoyment of music through the development of proper listening habits and includes recordings and demonstrations. 
OFFERED: fall and spring semesters

Course Goals/ Objectives/ Competencies:
Goal 1:  Analyze musical pieces for form, texture, timbre, harmony, melody, and rhythm.

Objectives:

  1. Differentiate form in musical pieces.
  2. Describe the texture in a piece of music.
  3. Describe the timbre in a piece of music.
  4. Categorize simple harmonic progressions in musical pieces.
  5. Categorize repeating and contrasting melodic motives in a piece of music.
  6. Categorize repeating and contrasting rhythmic motives in a piece of music.

Goal 2:  Classify musical pieces as to culture.

Objectives:

  1. Categorize pieces as to their country of origin.
  2. Categorize pieces as to their style.

Goal 3:  Characterize musical pieces as to their style, composer, and time period.

Objectives:

  1. Categorize pieces as to their time period.
  2. Discuss a style of music and the composers who wrote in that style.
  3. Discuss the history of a specific piece of music and its composer.



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