MUSI 255 Outline

THE KING'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

COURSE NUMBER:

MUSI 255

COURSE TITLE:

Music Appreciation II

NAME OF INSTRUCTOR:

Dr. J. J. K. Kloppers

CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION:

credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0)

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

A survey of the main style periods in music history. Analysis of musical forms and genres.

Students with credit in MUSI 306 cannot receive credit in MUSI 255. Not open to B.Mus. students.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Typed textbook for MUSI 255 by the instructor (available from TKUC Bookstore). This is used together with listening review assignments as outlined in the textbook.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Bamberger, Jeanne Shapiro and Browsky, Howard. The Art of Listening. 2^nd ed., New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
Berendt, Joachim. The Jazz Book: From New Orleans to Rock and Free Jazz (Engl.transl. Morgenstern, Bredigkeit). New York: Lawrence Hill, 1975.
Copland, Aaron. What to Listen For in Music. New York: McGraw, 1957.
Grout, Donald J. and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music . 5^th edition, New York: Norton, 1996
Hammer, Eleanor Ray and Malcolm S. Cole. Guided Listening: A Textbook for Music Appreciation. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown, 1992.
Kamien, Roger, ed. The Norton Scores Vols. 1,2. New York: W. W. Norton, 1968. (To be used with the record series, “The Enjoyment of Music”)
Kerman, Joseph. Listen. New York: Worth Publishers, 1972. (To be used with the record series, “Listen”’, Columbia Special Products, 1976.)
Lang, Paul henry. Music in Western Civilization. New York: Norton, 1969
Machlis, Joseph. The Enjoyment of Music. 4^th/5^th Ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977/84 (To be used with Kamien and Wingell).
Politoske, Daniel T. Music. 3^rd ed., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Schwartz, Elliott. Music: Ways of Listening. New York: Holt, Einehart and Winston, 1982.
Simms, Bryan R. The Art of Music: An Introduction. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1993 (with Study Guide).
Stolba, K. Marie. The Development of Western Music: A History. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown, 1990
Wingell, Richard. Workbook for the fourth edition of Machlis’’“Enjoyment of Music”. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.
Winter, Robert. Music for our Time. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1992
Woerner, Karl H. History of Music (tr. Willis Wager). 5^th edition. New York: Collier Macmillan, 1973
Wright, Craig. Listening to Music. St, Paul, MN: West, 1992.

MARK DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT:


Two written tests (20% each)	40%
Final exam	20%
In-class review of symphony concert	10%
Seminar attendance	15%
Seminar contributions, analyses	15%

	100%

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

To promote the enjoyment of and intelligent listening to music in its historic development for both the music student and non-music student. This overview will be done in an integrative manner in which music and its development (stylistic, structural, expressive and according to genre) forms part of a broader cultural development in which world -and-life views, the political, aesthetic, socio-economic and technical changes play an important role. Parallel developments in the visual arts and literature will be studied as well.

COURSE OUTLINE:

Foundational issues in music
Antiquity
Early Christianity
The Early Medieval period
The Late Medieval period
The Renaissance
The Baroque Period
The Vienna Classic
The Romantic and Post/Neo-Romantic Period
The 20th Century: Modernity
The 20th Century: The Post-Modern period
Revision: Recognising historic style periods

Required texts, assignments, and grade distributions may vary from one offering of this course to the next. Please consult the course instructor for up to date details.