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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.

Teamwork: Students will demonstrate the ability to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal and consider different points of view.

Social Responsibility: Students will demonstrate intercultural competency and civic knowledge by engaging effectively in local, regional, national and/or global communities.

Personal Responsibility: Students will demonstrate the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.

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

We will study different topics each week.

You will have assignments every week and they count as your class participation grade as well.

You will have one exam every month (September, October, and November).

The Final Exam is due by May 6 at 2:00 PM

Final Exam, essay format, to be submitted via Blackboard on May 6 at at 2:00 PM

Quizzes, individual active listening assignments, and team work project presentations TBA on a weekly basis.

Final Exam 25%

Quizzes 30%

Class Participation 20%

Listening Assignments 25

What counts as an absence?

This is an online course. Not doing one assignment counts as an absence. Not attending a lecture is also an assignment online class counts as an absence. More than 5 absences will make you fail this course. Absences will count against your final attendance grade as well. Attendance is tracked via blackboard.