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Course Description, Objectives, Assessment: This course is designed to introduce students to our cultural heritage through the study of music in its historical contexts, cultural values that produced it, and social functions. Students will listen to a variety of musical genres, styles, and media, interpret, discuss, and analyze music pieces, and reflect on the interdisciplinary nature that combines the arts, literature, social and political events. Students will be working (in small groups, depending on a size of the class) with variety of printed and digital resources. Assigned projects will engage students to actively explore music in diverse cultures.
Specific topics will be handed out in class along with descriptions of projects with assigned due dates. Handouts will be provided in our classes.
Optional and tentative: field trips may be arranged throughout the course; examples include visiting a live concert performance, or a visiting ethnomusicology archive at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall. |
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At the completion of this course, students will become familiar with music elements including sound (pitch, dynamics, color), instruments, rhythm, melody, musical key, and texture. Various pieces of music are chosen to illustrate different genres and styles. Students should be able to analyze important musical stylistic periods and the related historical and cultural characteristics. They should be able to place composers, landmark pieces, and genres in an historical time frame.
Students will read assigned materials, participate in class discussions based on the assigned readings, use a variety of technologies, and complete projects. |