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Summer Sessions 2019 Course Syllabus
Course: MUSI-1306- Section: 71 Music Appreciation |
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| Instructor | Blas Canedo Gonzalez | ||||||||
| canedoba@lamarpa.edu | |||||||||
| Phone | (409) 984-6547 | ||||||||
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| Description | Understanding music through the study of cultural periods, major composers, and musical elements. Illustrated with audio recordings and live performances. (Does not apply to a music major degree.) | ||||||||
| Prerequisites | None | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes |
Summarize the elements of music as related to historical trends.(PSLO 1abcd; 3 abcd) Summarize development of different music styles as related to cultural trends.(PSLO 1abcd; 2abc; 3 abcd) Summarize the different historical period music related to major composers. (PSLO 1abcd; 3abced, 4abc) |
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| Core Objectives |
* 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. * Personal Responsibility: Students will demonstrate the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making. |
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| Textbooks |
Music an Appreciation by Roger Kamien, 12th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2017 ISBN-10: 1259892700 ISBN-13: 978-1259892707 |
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| Lecture Topics Outline |
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| Major Assignments Schedule |
Quizzes and assignments TBA on a weekly basis. The class will follow the same order as the textbook, and it will be divided into 5 weeks portions. Week 1: Course Introduction; Syllabus Review, pretest, and Part I. Part I: Includes overview and learning objectives, assignments, and Quiz 1 Section 1. I Elements of Music, Chapter I: Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color; Chapter 2: Performing Media Voice and Instruments; Chapter 3: Rhythm; Chapter 4: Music Notation; Chapter 5: Melody; Chapter 6: Harmony Section 2. I Elements of Music, chapter 7: Key; Chapter 8: Musical Texture; Chapter 9: Musical Form; Chapter 10: Musical Style Quiz 1: All related to the elements of Music. Week 2: Includes overview, learning objectives, assignments and Quiz 2 related to Part II (Middle Ages), Part III (The Baroque Period), and Part IV (The Classical Period). Section 1. The Middle Ages and Renaissance Periods Section 2. The Baroque Period: instrumental music: concerto, ritornello, fugue, sonata, suite Subsection. The Baroque Period: Vocal music: opera, oratorio, cantata Section 3. The Classical Period: The classical style, Sonata form, Themes and Variation Subsection. The Classical Period: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven Quiz 2: Includes Section 1, 2, and 3. Week 3: Includes overview, learning objectives, assignments and Quiz 3 related to part V. Romantic Period. Section 1. The Art Song Section 2. Program Music and Nationalism Section 3. Important composers Quiz 3: Includes Section 1,2, and 3. Week 4: Includes overview, learning objectives, assignments and Quiz 4 related to part VI The Twentieth Century and Beyond (Music styles before 1945): Music Styles, Impressionism, Symbolism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism Section 1. Impressionism and Symbolism Section 2. Neoclassicism and Expressionism Section 3. Important Composers Week 5: Includes overview, learning objectives, assignments and Quiz 5 related to part VI The Twentieth Century and Beyond (Music styles since 1945): Jazz, Rock, and other styles. Week 5, FINAL EXAM, due on August 14. |
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| Final Exam Date | August 12, 2019 - 10:00 AM Through August 14, 2019 - 12:00 PM | ||||||||
| Grading Scale | 90 - 100=A 80 - 89=B 70 - 79=C 60 - 69=D Below 59 = F | ||||||||
| Determination of Final Grade |
Final Exam 35% Quizzes 35% Class Participation 30% (Class participation means submitting your weekly assignments according to the deadlines for each assignment) |
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| Course Policies | |||||||||
| Instructor Policies | I will not discuss your grades over the phone or by email. If you want to discuss your grades, you must come to my office, in person. | ||||||||
| Attendance Policy |
This is an online course that is required to actively participate in every session. Participation is graded. Participation means that you have to actively write on the discussion board, do your listening exercises, and follow up at least two times any announcement on the Blackboard. We will study the different chapters from the textbook every week. You will have an assignment every week and it counts as your class participation grade. You will have at least one quiz every week, no late quizzes will be accepted. You will have one Final exam due on August 14. The last week of classes you will have quiz 5, which is your last quiz and it is due on August 12. Then, the Final Exam is due on August 14. The Final Exam will be posted and available 4 days before the due date, so you will have enough time to prepare and submit your exam. What count as an absence? This an online course. Not doing one assignment counts as an absence. Assignment means that you have to submit on the Blackboard your participation in the weekly discussion board plus you have to submit your listening assignment due per each week. For example, if in one week you did not do the listening assignment plus you forgot to participate in the discussion board then you get 2 absences. Notice that 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. |
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| Academic Honesty | Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSC-PA policies (Section IX, subsection A, in the Faculty Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty. | ||||||||
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| Important Information | |||||||||
| ADA Considerations | The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the the Office for Disability Services Coordinator, Room 231, in the Madison Monroe Building. The phone number is (409) 984-6241. | ||||||||
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| HB 2504 | This syllabus is part of LSC-PA's efforts to comply with Texas House Bill 2504. | ||||||||