music-projects

Our Music Heritage: Understanding music in cultural contexts <PROJECTS>

Dr. Zorana Ercegovac

Phone: (323) 935-1147 x 456

E-mail: zorana.ercegovac@marlboroughschool.org

The following projects will be discussed in class. We will be using both printed and electronic resources, books and non-books (DVDs and CDs).

WEEK
TOPIC Suggested Projects

#1-3: 1/7/2008

Introduction, music elements, important questions
transitions
Learning to listen

First project introduced:

Soundtrack and

in-class discussion

#4-6: 1/28-2/11

Stravinsky (listen, discuss)

Copland (listen, discuss)

Second project:

INTRODUCING...

Week #7 through the end of the class

American music tradition;

Harlem Renaissance

World Musics

Third projects:

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Wrap-up of the course as a whole.

Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891
Sunday afternoon on Ile de La Grande Jatte
(1884-86)

207 x 308 cm.
Repository: Art Institute of Chicago

Credits: from ARTSTOR
http://www.artstor.org
<accessed 11/30/06>

WEEK	TOPIC	Suggested Projects
#1-3: 1/7/2008	Introduction, music elements, important questions transitions Learning to listen	First project introduced: Soundtrack and in-class discussion
#4-6: 1/28-2/11	Stravinsky (listen, discuss) Copland (listen, discuss)	Second project: INTRODUCING...
Week #7 through the end of the class	American music tradition; Harlem Renaissance World Musics	Third projects: PERFORMANCE REVIEW Wrap-up of the course as a whole.