The lecture time will be spent in the analysis and discussion of and learning the musical materials that form the content of this course. In addition, pertinent information with respect to the cultural, social, and political background will be introduced at appropriate times. As much time as possible will be devoted to listening during the lecture, but all lectures will prescribe listening assignments of the music studied in class and other similar compositions.
- 20th/21st century developments in Western art music (including neo-tonal, atonal, aleatoric, electronic, etc.):
- Early Modernism in the works of Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Ives
- Music in Mid Century, including composers such as Cage, Varèse, and Copland
- Into the 21st Century, including composers such as Glass and Adams
- Canadian music:
- Colonialism, internationalism, and nationalism as represented in the works of composers such as Willan, Champagne, Weinzweig, Somers, and Coulthard
- Innovation in the works of composers such as Schafer, Truax, and Louie
- Music of various representative world cultures such as the following:
- native North American, including Canadian west coast and/or Inuit
- South American, including Peruvian and/or Brazilian
- European folk music, including Celtic, Balkan, and/or Klezmer
- Middle Eastern, including Persian, Islamic and/or Jewish
- Far Eastern, including Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and/or Javanese
- North African and/or Sub-Saharan
- Jazz Styles and Forms:
- styles such as ragtime, vocal blues, Dixieland, big-band swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz, and jazz-rock fusion
- composers/arrangers and/or improvisers/performers such as Scott Joplin, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis
- forms such as 12-bar blues and 32-bar song form
- Popular Styles:
- styles and/or genres such as Tin Pan Alley, musical theater, country and western, rhythm and blues, rock-and-roll, Gospel, Motown, close harmony, folk-rock, acid-rock, reggae, Latin, Afro-Cuban, Latin, pop, punk, heavy metal, rap, hip hop, alternative, bhangra and film music
- composers and/or performers such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, Iron Maiden, Sex Pistols, John Williams, and Tan Dun
The successful students should be able to recognize aurally:
- Styles, genres and forms in Western art music
- Specific compositions and their composers
- The elements of music in selected compositions as they relate to their specific historical, geographical, and cultural contexts
- Broad aspects of style in various types of jazz, popular, and world music
| Listening/written test on 20th/21st Century Western art music | 20% |
| Listening/written test on World Music | 20% |
| Listening/written test on Jazz | 20% |
| Listening/written test on Popular Music | 20% |
| Short projects (minimum of four) | 20% |
| Total | 100% |
Required texts such as the following:
Bonds, Mark Evan. Listen to This. Upper Saddle Rivder: Prentice Hall, 2010.
With access to Pearson My Music Lab online e-book and full streaming audio, and/or 5-CD set.
OR
Willoughby, David. The World of Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
With access to Online Learning Center and 3-CD set.
MUSC 1121 or permission of the instructor