Music Appreciation

Larry Ferrara

Syllabus

Class 1:	Introduction to the course, objectives
Class 2:	Rhythm, Meter, Tempo, Syncopation Reading: K4 pp 06-11 Recorded Examples, supplemental tape 1
Class 3:	Pitch, Scale, Modality (major & minor), Melody, Dynamics Reading: K4 p 9, pp 3-4,11-14, 19-22, 25-29, 30-38 Recorded Examples
Class 4:	Timbre, Musical Instruments Reading: K4 pp, 30-38, Recorded Examples on supplemental tape 2
	Benjamin Britten A Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
	Serge Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Class 5:	Texture, Monophony, Polyphony and Homophony Reading: K4.pp 22-24 Recorded Examples
Class 6:	Harmony, Consonance, Dissonance and Musical Form Reading: K4.pp 20-22, 39-42 Recorded Examples
Class 7:	Practice Test 1 On Musical Elements
Class 8:	The Middle Ages Reading: K4 pp 46-61 Listening: (CD 391), CD1, tape 1a, suppl.3
	GREGORIAN CHANT Hildegard of Bingen, Columba Aspexit, tape set Gegorian Chant, Ave Maris Stella, suppl. 3
	ORGANUM Leonin, Organum on Alleluia Passcha Nostrum, suppl. 3
	MOTET Guillaume de Machaut, Quant en Moy , tape set
	ESTAMPIE Anonymous ,Sixth Estampie Royal , suppl. 3
	TROUBADOUR SONG Benart de Ventadorn, La Dousa Votz , tape set
Class 9:	The Renaissance Reading: K4 pp 62-69 Listening: CD 391, CD1, tape 1a, suppl. 3
	MASS Josquin Desprez, Pange Lingua Mass, tape set
	MADRIGAL Thomas Weelkes, Madrigal As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending, tape set
	INSTRUMENTAL DANCE MUSIC Anonymous, Pavane "Celeste giglio" tape set William Byrd, Monsiers Alman, suppl. 3
	LUTE SOLO Anonymous, "Kemps Jig" tape set John Dowland, Fantasia No. 7 , suppl. 3 Francesco DaMilano, Fantasia, suppl. 3
Class 10:	Practice Test 2 on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
	The Baroque Reading: K4.pp 80-97, K4.pp 108-126 Listening: CD 391-CD2, tape 2A, suppl. 3
	BAROQUE OPERA Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas Act III, tape set
	CONCERTO GROSSO Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, first movement,tape set
	GROUND BASS Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D Johann Sebastian Bach, Passacaglia in C minor
	DANCE SUITE Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 3, tape set
Class 11	FUGUE Reading: K4 pp 126-130 Listening: suppl. 3
	Johann Sebastian Bach, Fugue No. 2 in C mino from the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, suppl. 3 George Frederic Handel, Concerto Grosso in Bb Op. 6, No 7, first movement, suppl. 3
Class 12	Baroque Vocal Music Reading: K4 pp 139-155 Listening: CD 391-2, tape 2A, suppl. 3
	OPERA George Frederic Handel, Rodelinda, Tirannia, Recitative and Aria, tape set
	ORATORIO George Frederic Handel,Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus, pp 153-155 Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme, suppl. 3
	CANTATA Johann Sebastian Bach, Sleepers Awake form cantata 140, suppl. 3
Class 13	Practice Test 3 on the Baroque Era
Class 14	The Classical Period, Cadence Reading: K4 pp 157-167, p21, pp167-168, 169-210 Listening: suppl. 4, tape 2b and 3a, CD 2&3
	VARIATION FORM Reading: p21, pp167-168, 169-210 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Variations on Piano, Ah, Vois Dirai-je Maman
Class 15	MINUET AND TRIO FORM Reading: K4 pp 182-191 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K 550, third movement
	RONDO FORM Reading: K4 pp 182-191 Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 88 in G major, fourth movement, tape set Ludwig Van Beethoven, Rondo from Sonata for Piano in G major, Op. 49, No. 2,
Class 16	Sonata Form Reading: K4 pp 170-176
	SONATA FORM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K 550, first movement, tape set Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K 550, fourth movement Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in C major, K545 first movement suppl. 3
Class 17	The Conductor, The Orchestra, Classical Genres Reading: K4 p 36, pp192-209
Class 18	Classical Opera Reading: K 4, pp 204-209 Listening: CD 391, CD3, tape 3A
	OPERA Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K527 Aria, Recitative, Duet from Act 1, Scene 3, and Act 2, Finale. tape set
Class 19	Beethoven Reading: K4, pp 213-236 Listening: CD 3, tape 3b Ludwig Van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor tape set
Class 20	Practice Test 4, The Classical Era
Class 21	Romantic Era, Romantic Miniatures Reading: K4, pp 227-240, 241-257 Listening: CD 391-CD 3-4, tape 3a-3b
	LIED Franz Schubert, Erlkönig, tape set
	NOCTURNE Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in F# major, Op. 15, No. 2. tape set
	ETUDE Franz Liszt, Transcendental Etude, tape set
Class 22	Program Music Reading: K4, pp 258-265 Listening: CD 391-CD4, tape 3B &4A
	PROGRAM SYMPHONY Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, tape set
	CONCERT OVERTURE Piotr Tchaikovsky, Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet, tape set
Class 23	Romantic Opera Reading: K4.pp 266-283 Listening: tape 4a CD 4
	ROMANTIC OPERA Giuseppe Verdi, Aida, Tomb Scene from Act IV Scene II, tape set Giacomo Puccini, "Un bel di," Aria from Act II of Madama Butterfly, tape set
Class 24	Nationalism, Exoticism Reading: K4 pp 284-305 Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Class 25	Practice Test 5, The Romantic Era
Class 26	The Twentieth Century, Serialism Reading: K4, pp 307-322, 323-348 Listening: CD 391, CD5-6 , tape 4B, 5A & 5B
	IMPRESSIONISM Claude Debussy, Clouds, from Three Nocturnes, tape set
	CONTEMPORARY PROGRAM SYMPHONY Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Part 1, tape set
	EXPRESSIONISM Arnold Schonenberg, Pierre Lunaire, tape set
Class 27	Practice Test 6, The 20^th Century