music-resources

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

Dr. Zorana Ercegovac

Phone: (323) 935-1147 x 456
E-mail: zorana.ercegovac@marlboroughschool.org

The following resources will be available for you in the library. We will be using both printed and electronic resources, books and non-books (DVDs and CDs).

WEEK
TOPICS RESOURCES

1/7/2008

>Welcome, introduction, about the course, and projects.

>How to listen?

>Music elements

>Big questions to think about.

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>18th to 19th c. transitions in different societies and cultures.

Project #1 DUE: Soundtrack

presentation by individual students.

Kamien, Roger. 5th brief ed. (2006). "Music: An appreciation." New York: McGraw-Hill.

Search our online library catalog for specific titles on your musical styles, composers, works, and instruments.

Use our reference sources including: Harvard Dictionary of Music;

Two volumes of The New Oxford Companion to Music (REF 780.3); The Oxford History of Western Music (6 vols.);

Grout/Palisca (2006). A History of Western Music (780.9 GRO);

Heritage of Music (several volumes in the stacks), as well as online sources, e.g.,

Oxford Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Encyclopedia Britannica, JSTOR (an online database for images), and primary sources in music; textual sources will be selected from the best collections; these will be discussed in our classes throughout the course.

>Listening to small pieces.

Baroque Music is described here. We will listen pieces by C. Monteverdi, H. Purcell, and J.S. Bach.

Also see The Bay Psalm Book (1940).

Classical Epoch will cover W.A. Mozart as well as L. van Beethoven. We will look at various pices as these bridge Classical Era with the Romanticism.

2/4/2008

>Popular vs classical music.

>What is good music?

>Does the music have to be "beautiful"?

>Comparative analysis, the soundtrack.

Project #2 (INTRODUCING...)

Specific titles that are chosen by students, depending on their projects.

Examples include:

>Igor Stravinsky (1882-1927) and his time (giants in the arts, literature, political figures); "The Rite of Spring" (1913).

Listening: Omens of Spring.

2/19/2008

Discussion of the American Music: the roots, forms, composers, and styles.

Project #3 (Performance reviw)

>Aaron Copland (1900-1990) and the American Music.

Listening: Appalachian Spring (1943-44).

Wrap-up of the course.

Allen, Winifred. Harlem Music School.

"African American artists."

from ARTSTOR http://www.artstor.org

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WEEK	TOPICS	RESOURCES
1/7/2008	>Welcome, introduction, about the course, and projects. >How to listen? >Music elements >Big questions to think about. ----break---- >18th to 19th c. transitions in different societies and cultures. Project #1 DUE: Soundtrack presentation by individual students.	Kamien, Roger. 5th brief ed. (2006). "Music: An appreciation." New York: McGraw-Hill. Search our online library catalog for specific titles on your musical styles, composers, works, and instruments. Use our reference sources including: Harvard Dictionary of Music; Two volumes of The New Oxford Companion to Music (REF 780.3); The Oxford History of Western Music (6 vols.); Grout/Palisca (2006). A History of Western Music (780.9 GRO); Heritage of Music (several volumes in the stacks), as well as online sources, e.g., Oxford Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Encyclopedia Britannica, JSTOR (an online database for images), and primary sources in music; textual sources will be selected from the best collections; these will be discussed in our classes throughout the course. >Listening to small pieces. Baroque Music is described here. We will listen pieces by C. Monteverdi, H. Purcell, and J.S. Bach. Also see The Bay Psalm Book (1940). Classical Epoch will cover W.A. Mozart as well as L. van Beethoven. We will look at various pices as these bridge Classical Era with the Romanticism.
2/4/2008	>Popular vs classical music. >What is good music? >Does the music have to be "beautiful"? >Comparative analysis, the soundtrack. Project #2 (INTRODUCING...)	Specific titles that are chosen by students, depending on their projects. Examples include: >Igor Stravinsky (1882-1927) and his time (giants in the arts, literature, political figures); "The Rite of Spring" (1913). Listening: Omens of Spring.
2/19/2008	Discussion of the American Music: the roots, forms, composers, and styles. Project #3 (Performance reviw)	>Aaron Copland (1900-1990) and the American Music. Listening: Appalachian Spring (1943-44). Wrap-up of the course.