Columbia College

MUSIC 10: Music History

Fall, 2007

John Carter, Instructor

COURSE CALENDAR

For use with:

 Kamien, Roger “Music An Appreciation,” 9th Edition.  McGraw-Hill and Companies, Inc. New York, c. 2008.

Reading assignments are to be completed for the class session after they are assigned.

 

Week of August 27

     

Unit I:  The Elements of Music

 

1.      Introductions and Course Overview.

Unit I:  The Elements of Music

Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, Tone Color, and Performing Media (Voices)

 

a.       Read pages 1-15

           

             Online or on the text’s CD Rom. Kamien Music and Appreciation online access.

1.      www.mhhe.com/socscience/music/kamienb        

2.      Click on 9th Edition

3.      Click “Student Edition”

4.      Choose “Part”

5.      Choose a Section. Scroll down on page to appropriate multiple choice   quiz.  Click.

6.      Take multiple choice quiz

7.      Submit results to me before the beginning of the next class at carterj@yosemite.edu

8.      Take the quiz #1 on Pitch, Dynamics and Tone Color. Email results to me at carterj@yosemite.cc.ca.us . Also take Quiz #2 on Pitch Discrimination for fun.  Deliver the results to me at the beginning of the next class.

 

      2.   Sound (continued), Performing Media: Instruments and Rhythms

            a.   Read pages 15-38 (K)

9.      Listen to “Interactive Elements of Music” on the text’s CD Rom. Take quiz on Rhythm. Email the results before next class. Also play around with the section marked “Musical Instruments” listening to the diversity of sounds and watching the funky little graphics. ALSO, begin familiarizing yourself with the Orchestra Guide:  Specifically the piece called “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”. Be able, for the first test on the elements of music to be able to identify any instrument and any family of instruments.  I will play excerpts from this piece.

     

 

Week 2: September 1

     

1.      Labor Day Holiday.  NO SCHOOL

 

      2.   Music Notation, Melody, Harmony, and Key

            a.   Read p. 38-62 (K)

b.      Listen to “Interactive Elements of Music” on CD.  Take test on Melody and Harmony. Email to me before the next class.

c.       Listen for the melody and the Harmony in any piece of music.

 

 

Week 3: September 8

 

1.      Musical Texture, Musical Form, Performance

            a.    Read p. 62-76 (K)

b. Listen to “Interactive Elements of Music” on CD.  Take test on Texture and Form.  Email me the results before the next class.

 

      2.   Musical Style Periods and Review

 

a.       Read p. 76-77      

b.      Take the CD Rom Quiz on Musical Style.  Email me with the results.

 

Week 4: September 15

 

      1.         Test:  Unit I - Elements of Music, Music History Style Periods, and Families of Instruments.  

                 

Unit II – “The Greeks (500 B.C. to 500 A.D.) and The Middle Ages.”  (500 A.D. to 1450)

                       

            Ancient Greeks:  Background, Philosophy, and Theory

            a.   Read History of Western Music/Grout p. 1-15 on music and ideas of the ancient Greeks (available at Library reference desk)

           

2.      The Middle Ages: Early Christian Era.

                  Gregorian Chant

a.       Read p. 83-88

b.      Take Quiz on “Chant” .  Get to the quiz by:  Inserting disk, Click on “Online Learning Center” Click on “Table of Contents” to find the correct part.  Click on “Student Edition” .  Under course-wide content clik on the appropriate part (i.e. part 1, 2, etc.) Click on the appropriate multiple choice quiz.  Chant something while you are taking it.

c.       Composer Report Due

 

Week 5: September 22

 

1.      The Middle Ages: Beginnings of Harmony and Rhythm.

                  Ars Antiqua: The Development of Polyphony and Rhythm. 

                  Secular Music in the Middle Ages.

a.       Read p. 89-93

b.      CD Rom, Part 2, Section 3:  Take the Quiz on Secular Music. (See directions above). Email me the results.  Then go do something “Secular.”  Be ready to report on your secular activity in class.

           

2.      The Middle Ages: The Movement Toward a Freer Style

            Secular Music (Continued).The Ars Nova and Machaut

a.       Read  p. 93-96

b.      Listen in Library: “The Play of Daniel.”  Available for in-Library use at Library Reference Desk.  Follow along with Written Supplement.  Close your eyes and imagine the setting, costumes, the faces…

c.       CD Rom, Part 2: Section 4:  The Development of Polyphony.  Take the Quiz, etc.

 

Week 6: September 29

     

1.      The Middle Ages: The Greatest Composer of His Time

Machaut (continued) and The Mass.  Review for Test:  The Greeks and the Middle Ages.

a.   CD Rom, Part 2, Section 5:  The Ars Nova.  Take the Quiz.  Design an illuminated “A” as the first letter in the word Ars Nova.

 

2.      OPEN

      Listening # 1: Gregorian Chant Due

 

Week 7: October 6

 

1.      Test:  Unit II- The Greeks and The Middle Ages. 

 

Unit III – “The Renaissance” (1450-1600)

 

      2.   The Renaissance:  Historical, Sociological and Musical Background

 

a.       Read p. 100-106 (K)

b.      CD Rom, Part 3: Section 1:  Read and take the quiz to “Music in the Renaissance.

 

Week 8: October 13

1.      The Renaissance: Early Musical Developments: The Development of Harmony, Rhythm and Melody.

      Dunstable and Josquin

 

2.      The Renaissance: Sacred Vocal Music

            The Motet and the Mass and the Reformation

a.       Read p. 106-110 (K)

b.      CD Rom, Part 3: Section 2:  Read and take the Sacred Music Quiz.  Then close your eyes and picture the inside of a great cathedral. Color your picture from the Renaissance.

c.       Concert Report 1 Due

 

Week 9: October 20

 

1.      The Renaissance: Secular Vocal Music

       The Madrigal and other forms

a.       Read p. 111-114.  In the true spirit of the Madrigal, eat something you enjoy before you  read this section.  Report back to class.

b.      CD Rom, Part 3: Section 3: Reading and Quiz on secular music.  Email.

c.       Come to class ready to dance!

           

 

2.      The Renaissance: Instrumental Music

      Characteristics and Forms; Review for Test

a.       Read p. 114-117

           

Week 10: October 27

     

      1.   Test:  Unit III - The Renaissance. 

           

Unit IV- “The Baroque” (1600-1750)

 

            The Baroque: Musical Transitions

            Florentine Monody, Italian Harmony, and Venetian Color.

b.      Read p. 117-119

c.       CD Rom, Part 3: Section 4: Reading and Quiz on the Venetian School.  Email.  In order to really get into this and get a feeling of Italy do one of these things: a) while reading play Italian music in the background b) have Italian food for dinner (Chicken Florentine, Lasagna, Pizza, etc), c) be Passionate with someone you love (but not as passionate as Gesualdo!) d) read by one of the canals of Venice.  (If that is not an option, read by a body of water.  If that is not an option, read with a glass of water standing by;  when you finish drink the water.) For the whole experience, do all of the above.

3.      OPEN Listening 2: Renaissance

 

 

 

 

 

Week 11: November 3

     

1.      The Baroque: Musical Transitions (continued) and Musical Characteristics

a.       Read p. 122-133 (K)

    1. CD Rom, Part 4, Section 1.  Read and take the Quiz on The Baroque Period.  Choose the most Baroque part of your house to do this. Email me.

c.       ALSO CD Rom, Part 4, Section 2:  Music In Baroque Society.  Read, Take Quiz, Email.  In the true Baroque spirit, have someone PAY YOU a quarter to do something artistic for them.  Remember, art is not free.  (Draw them a picture, let them borrow  a CD to play for their background music during dinner, teach them how to dance a step or two, paint something, write them a poem then entertain them with it, build something for them, etc. etc.) 

 

 

2.      The Baroque: Instrumental Forms

            Fugue, Prelude, Sonata and Trio Sonata 

a.       Read p. 137-140, 163-166.  Light a candle while you read to capture the ambience of the Baroque, chamber music experience.

b.      CD Rom Part 4, Section 9: Baroque Sonata.  Read, Quiz, Email.

 

Week 12: November 10

 

1.      Holiday

 

2.      The Baroque: Instrumental Music Forms (continued)

       Trio Sonata, Concerto, Concerto Grosso

            a. Read p. 133-136, 154-160, 167-168

                             

Week 13: November 17

 

1.   CD Rom, Part 4, Section 11:  Vivaldi.  Read, Quiz Email.  Listen to an       appropriate movement from his Four Seasons.  Think why you picked      movement…The Baroque: Instrumental Forms (continued):

      Suite. 

a.       Read p. 170-171 (K)

b.      CD Rom, Part 4: section 13:  The Baroque Suite.  Read, Quiz, Email.  After doing this, walk through you own “suite” of rooms.

 

      2.   The Baroque: Vocal Music

       Opera and Oratorio

c.       Read p. 141-154, 180-191 (K)

d.      CD Rom, Part 4, Section 6:  Read, Quiz, Email.  As a reward for your studies, spend a few minutes watching some type of musical entertainment (ideally an opera, any visual performance will do) from your own “box seat” wherever that may be. 

 

Week 14: November 24

     

1.      The Baroque: Vocal Music (continued):

            Opera and Oratorio (cont.)

a. CD Rom, Part 4: Section 15 and16 Oratorio and Handel. Read, Quiz and Email.  To help you remember that Handel was internationally influenced, you may eat a) something with English associations (tea with bread and jam?) or b) something German (a beer, sausage, sauerkraut, cabbage, etc) or something Italian (vino, cheese, pasta, etc) while you are doing this work….

 

2.      The Baroque: Vocal Music (continued)

            The Mass and the Cantata                       

a.       Read p.168-169, 172-180 (K)

b.      CD Rom, Part 4, Section 14:  The Chorale and Church Cantata.  You may wear a wig on your head while you read, preferably one like Bach’s.  If you don’t have a wig, you may wear a solemn black scarf as would be befitting someone, like Bach who was in a position or authority and sobriety.  To get the proper church atmosphere of the time, you may read while you have a candle lit.  If you really want the realistic experience, do your work where there is no heat!! If you like, (and if you don’t like these other suggestions, and if you have people in your household, you may, like Bach, try to get your reading done in the midst of a passle of kids/people…Be prepared to report back.

 

Week 15: December 1

1.      The Baroque:  Vocal Music (continued)

The Mass and the Cantata (cont.).  As a final review activity, do something that is “extravagant” for you today/tonight….

2.      The Baroque:  Mass and Cantata (cont.) 

              Concert Report #2 Due

 

Week 16: December 8

 

      Final Exam: Baroque Music and Overview of the Semester