Class Schedule M1104 MWF
Music Appreciation

Reading:
Forney and Machlis,
Part One, The Materials of Music, pages 2-67
The Materials
of Music and Musical Instruments and Ensembles
- Listening Guide 1,
Pages 60-63
- Britten:
The Young Person's
Guide to the Orchestra

Reading:
- Forney and Machlis, Part Two,
Medieval and Renaissance Music, pages 68-103
Medieval and
Renaissance Music or What Happened Before
Bach?
- Listening Guide 2,
Page 79
- Hildegard of
Bingen: Alleluia, O
virga mediatrix
- Listening Guide 3,
Page 81
- Notre Dame
School: Gaude Maria
virgo
- Listening Guide 4,
Page 84
- Anonymous: Sumer is icumen in
- Listening Guide 5,
Page 86
- Machaut:
Puis qu'en oubli
- Listening Guide 6,
page 91
- Josquin:
Ave Maria. . .virgo serena
- Listening Guide 7,
page 94 - 95
- Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass, Gloria
- Listening Guide 8,
page 98
- Arcedelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno
- Listening Guide 9,
page 100
- Farmer:
Fair Phyllis
- Listening Guide 10,
page 101
- Susato: Three Dances
- Listening Activity.
page 102

Reading:
Forney and Machlis, part three, The Baroque
Era, pages. 104-147
The Baroque Era or
If it ain't Baroque. . .
Listening Guide 11, pages
116-117
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Listening Guide 12, page
119
Strozzi: Amor dormiglions
Listening Guide 13, pages
123-125
Bach: Cantata No.
149, Wachet auf, I and
IV
Listening Guide 14, pages
128-129
Handel: Messiah, Nos. 18 and 44
Listening Guide 15, page
133
Handel: Water Music, Suite in D major, Alla hornpipe
Listening Guide 16, page
135
Mouret: Rondeau, from
Suite de
symphonies
Listening Guide 17, pages
138-139
Vivaldi: Spring, from The
Four Seasons
Listening Guide 18, page
144
Bach: Contrapunctus 1, from The
Art of Fugue
Films for Extra
Credit
The Red Violin
Farinelli
A one-page review of the film, typed,
single spaced, expressing a general overview of the film in your own
words and your general reactions.
Movie reviews are due
while this unit is being studied

Reading:
Forney and Machlis, part four,
Eighteenth-Century Classicism,
pp. 148-201
The
Eighteenth-Century or Will the "Real" Classical Composers please
stand up?
- Listening Guide 19,
pages 165-166
- Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3
- Listening Guide 20,
pages 168-169
- Mozart:
Eine kleine
Nachtmusik
- Listening Guide 21,
page 173
- Haydn: Symphony No.
100 in G major
- Listening Guide 22,
pages 176-179
- Beethoven: Symphony
No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
- Listening Guide 23,
pages 184-185
- Mozart: Piano Concerto
in G major, K. 453
- Listening Guide 24,
pages 187-188
- Beethoven: Piano
sonata in C-sharp monir, Op. 27, No. 2
- Listening Guide 25,
pages 193-197
- Mozart:
Don
Giovanni, Act I, Scene
2
Films for Extra
Credit
Amadeus
Imortal Beloved
The Soloist
One-page review (your opinion) of the film, typed, single
spaced, expressing a general overview of the film in your own words
and your general reactions.
Movie reviews are due while this
unit is being studied
The
Mid-Term
- October 12, 2011.
Squires Recital Salon, Regular Class Time
The Mid-Term Exam
covers all class material up to this point. There will be
multiple choice questions taken from class lectures, assigned
readings, listening portion, and the quizzes
Please bring a pencil.
No computers, PDAs, cell phones,
iPods, or other electronic devices will be permitted.
So THIS is
Romanticism?
Reading:
Forney and Machlis, part five, The
Nineteenth Century, pp. 202-281
The
Music
Listening Guide 26, pages
214-215
- Schubert: Erlkonig
- Listening Guide 27, page 218
- Robery Schumann: In The lovely month of May
- Listening Guide 28, pages
223-224
- Chopin: Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op. 24, No. 4
- Listening Guide 29, page 226
- Fanny Mendelssohn
Hensel: September: At the
River
- Listening Guide 30, page 229
- Foster:
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
- Listening Guide 31, pages
233-234
- Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique
- Listening Guide 32, pages
238-239
- Smetana: The Moldau
- Listening Guide 33, pages
241-242
- Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1
- Listening Guide 34, page 248
- Brahms:
Symphony No. 3 in F major
- Listening Guide 35, pages
255-259
- Verdi:
Rigoletto, Act III
- Listening Guide 36, pages
263-265
- Wagner:
Die Walkure, Act III
- Listening Guide 37, pages
270-271
- Vertdi:
Requiem, Libera me
- Listening Guide 38, pages
273-274
- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
- Listening Guide 39, pages
277-278
- Puccini:
"Un bel di" from Madame Butterfly
Films for Extra
Credit
Impromptu
One-page review of the film, typed, single spaced,
expressing a general overview in your own words and your general
reactions.
Movie reviews are due while this
unit is being studied
The 20th Century
and More
Reading:
Forney and Machlis, part six,
Impressionism and the Early Twentieth Century, pp. 282-339
The Music
Listening Guide 40, page
292
- Debussy: Prelude to "The Afternoon of
a Faun"
- Listening Guide 41, pages
303-305
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part
I
- Listening Guide 42, pages
307-308
- Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, No. 18
- Listening Guide 43, pages
310-311
- Berg:
Wozzeck, Act III
- Listening Guide 44, pages
315-316
- Bartok: Interrupted Intermezzo, from
Concerto for Orchestra
- Listening Guide 45, pages
319-320
- Orff: O
fortuna, from
Carmina Burana
- Listening Guide 46, pages
324-325
- Ives:
Country Band March
- Listening Guide 47, pages
328-329
- Still: Suite for Violin and
Piano
- Listening Guide 48, pages
331-332
- Copland: Appalachian Spring
- Listening Guide 49, pages
335-336
- Revueltas:
Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca
Films for Extra
Credit
The Pianist
One-page review of the film, typed, single spaced,
expressing a general overview of the film in your own words and your
general reactions.
Movie reviews are due while this
unit is being studied
Still More to
Come
Reading:
Forney and
Machlis, part eight, World War II and Beyond, pp.
384-428
The
Music
- Listening
Guide 56, page 394
- Crumb: Caballito
negro
- Listening
Guide 57, page 398
- Cage: Sonata V
- Listening Guide 58,
pages 403-404
- Sheng: China Dreams, Prelude
- Listening Guide 59,
pages 415-416
- Higdon: blue cathedral
- Listening Guide 60,
pages 418-419
- Corigliano:
Prelude,
from Mr. Tambourine Man
- Listening Guide 61,
pages 422-423
- Part: Cantate Domino canticum
novum
- Listening Guide 62,
pages 426-427
- Adams: Doctor Atomic
Films for Extra
Credit
Koyaanisqatsi

Final Exam
The Final Exam will be held on
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 7:45-9:45 A.M.
in Squires Recital Salon
The Final Exam will consist
of multiple choice questions taken from
class lectures, assigned readings, listening portion, and the
quizzes
Please bring a pencil.
No computers, PDAs, cell phones,
iPods, or other electronic devices will be permitted.
Class Notes
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Transition to the
Baroque
Vivaldi
Scarlatti
Handel
Bach
Beyond
Tonality
Intimate
Forms
Berlioz
and Brahms
Nationalism
Wagner
Debussy
Stravinsky
Ives,
Indianists, Still, Duke
Copland
Mahler
Bernstein
End of the 20th
Century
Transition and
Monteverdi
Introduction to
Classical
Sonata
Haydn
Scarlatti
Mozart
Handel
Beethoven
J. S.
Bach