Course Information

Music Appreciation.Com

Instructor, Larry Ferrara

E mail: lferrara@aol.com

Music Objectives:

1. Learn the basic elements of music, its vocabulary and terminology.

2. Become acquainted with the instruments of the orchestra.

3. Understand and appreciate the language of music, its ideas, emotions, attitudes and meaning.

4. Develop and widen ones taste and knowledge of music from different time periods.

5. Recognize, with musical understanding and historic awareness, the works of great composers.

6. Allow yourself to become a better music listener.

  Text - Kerman, Joseph; LISTEN, Fourth Brief Edition, Worth Publishers, 2000