Music Appreciation

This course is designed to acquaint students with the elements of music and the primary musical periods of traditional Western European classical music. Students will have a brief overview of the major composers and their music through class lectures, listening to musical examples in class, reading the text, listening to musical examples provided on the student CD’s or recordings, actively engaging in class discussions, attending live concerts of suggested performances, and completing research papers and/or oral presentations pertinent to the course material.

Each week we will go through learning different key concepts in music appreciation.

This Week’s Objectives:
  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music.
  2. Analyze how musical elements relate to the compositions.
  3. Apply knowledge of musical styles to composition identification.
Listen
Read
Watch
Research
Discuss
Due
Martyn Pepperell’s contemporary new zealand mix

What do you know about New Zealand music, or rather, what don’t you know about New Zealand music? Perhaps you’re familiar with Flying Nun Records, Xpressway or Corpus Hermeticum? Chances are you know the tunes to ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’, ‘How Bizarre’ and ‘Royals’? Names like The Upbeats, Fat Freddy’s Drop and Douglas Lilburn might mean something to you, or not.

Martyn Pepperell’s contemporary new zealand mix

What do you know about New Zealand music, or rather, what don’t you know about New Zealand music? Perhaps you’re familiar with Flying Nun Records, Xpressway or Corpus Hermeticum? Chances are you know the tunes to ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’, ‘How Bizarre’ and ‘Royals’? Names like The Upbeats, Fat Freddy’s Drop and Douglas Lilburn might mean something to you, or not.

Listening to Music

This article illustrates concepts on preparation for good listening habits. 

Musicless Musicvideo /QUEEN - I want to break free

Choose any two of the composers from the following list: Chopin, Puccini, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenburg, Prokofiev (composers from Romantic and Modern Periods) and search for the primary sources that you will base your paper on.

Discussions in D2L

After listening to two composers, make a post in the discussion answering the following questions:
What innovative compositional techniques he originated or excelled in using? What it is about the composer and his music that makes him so important?

Discussion Post 1

The discussion post is due by Sunday 11:59 PM