An Introduction to America's Music, 3rd Ed.

Richard Crawford and Larry Hamberlin Waterman

W.W. NORTON AND COMPANY, 2018

Print ISBN: 9780393668285, 0393668282

eText ISBN: 9780393428049, 0393428044

Upon successful completion of this course, students will: 1. Identify the elements, styles, and musicians representative of music within the chosen style(s). 2. Analyze the elements and structures of music using appropriate terminology. 3. Critically evaluate the influence of social, political, technological, and/or cultural ideas on the chosen musical style(s). 4. Articulate an informed personal reflection of the chosen musical style(s).

Students will engage in active listening to identify, interpret, distinguish, and critique the elements of music in instrumental and vocal music(classical, jazz, music for the stage and screen, and classic rock). (PSLO 1abdcd; 3abcd; 4abc).

Students will be able to summarize the history and development of musical styles as connected to composers, musical terms, and music genres (PSLO 1abcd; 3abcd)

Students will be able to map, associate, and compare the development of music with the different periods of human history (PSLO 1abcd; 3abcd; 4abc)

Students will be able to describe and differentiate musical styles as related to cultural trends. (PSLO 1abcd; 2abc;3abcd)

Students will be able to debate, propose, and participate with personal responsibility. (PSLO 4)

Students will be able to appreciate the American song as an expression of social diversity, civic responsibility awareness of their own, and others' culture. (PSLO 5)

Communication skills: Students will demonstrate effective written, oral, and visual communication.

Critical Thinking Skills: Students will engage in creative and/or innovative thinking, and/or inquiry, analysis, evaluation, synthesis of information, organizing concepts, and constructing solutions.

I. Secular and Sacred Music in the European Colonies

II. America’s Music From the Civil War Through World War I

III. America's Music from World War I through World War II

IV. America's Music in the Postwar Era

V. America's Music since 1980

"Regular and punctual class attendance is important to student success. Instructors formulate an attendance policy consistent with departmental policies, but suited to the needs of the particular course.

Attendance policies are enforced in a consistent and uniform manner. However, determination of whether an absence is excused or approved is the responsibility of the instructor, except in the case of an approved absence for a college-sponsored activity or religious holy day.

A list of absences, approved because of college-sponsored activities, is maintained in the office of the approving Dean or department chair/director. Absences also may be approved by the instructor. Approved absences call for the privilege to make up examinations and written assignments without penalty. This privilege does not extend to unapproved absences. Students may request the Office of Student Services to notify faculty members prior to or during an EXTENDED absence due to personal or family illness, accident, hospitalization, etc. This notification does not constitute an excused absence from class; however, it does advise the instructor as to the reason the student is absent and of the expected date of return to class."