50:700:202: INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC

Spring 2007  Dr. Julianne Baird
http://juliannebaird.camden.rutgers.edu/

Tuesday / Thursday 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
Fine Arts Building Room 215


Email: jbaird@camden.rutgers.edu

Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday 9:45 am to 10:45 am


TEXT and CDs:


OBJECTIVES: The primary goal of this course will be to give the student an understanding of the development of Western Music from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. Understanding the major trends in Western music as well as its function in society, and examination of the parallels with other fine arts is a further goal.

The focus of the course will be the study of musical literature. Major works from all instrumental and vocal genres will be studied from historical, theoretical, and social perspectives. The course will place a high degree of emphasis on listening, and there will be one comprehensive listening examination (100 points) as a part of the final exam


GRADING:

A

=

100%

-

92%

B+

=

91%

-

88%

B

=

87%

-

82%

C+

=

81%

-

78%

C

=

77%

-

70%

D

=

69%

-

60%

F

=

59%

-

0%


COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. Class Attendance

Regular class attendance is mandatory. Only ONE missed class is allowed. Further absences lower your letter grade by one increment, for example (B+ to B) for EACH missed class.

2. Exams

  • There will be two TAKE HOME tests –“Elements of Music” (100 points) an additional TAKE HOME TEST “Medieval and Renaissance” (100 points)
  • IN CLASS TEST on Baroque (100 points).
  • The final exam will consist of Classical and Romantic ERAS plus questions drawn from the rest of the semester’s work (elements of music, Med, Ren and Baroque.) (200 points) PLUS THE LISTENING EXAM (100 points)
  • At least one (possibly two)  in-class multiple-choice quizzes covering material presented in the films will be given. (20-40 points)

The listening test will be given as part of the Final: (100 points of the 300 total which comprise the final exam) The student must identify the Name of the Piece, the Name of the Composer and the Genre of the piece.  All pieces are from the CDs accompanying the text. Play these CDs on while you are studying and become as familiar with them as you can. (See Listening Exam Information)

  • TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE: 740-760

Extra Credit Option

If the student desires to bring up his/her grade, ONE INCREMENT (eg. C+ to C)  s/he may do so by attending two classical music concerts * and by submitting  WELL WRITTEN two-page "Musical Reviews" which reflects Cliff Leaman's rules and procedures in HOW TO WRITE A MUSICAL REVIEW. TWO accepted and well written Musical Reviews can result in a raise in the Final grade for the class.

You may choose any of the FREE Wednesday Concerts on the Camden Campus
Location: Mallery Room: Time 12 noon-1:00

TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE

Tuesday, Jan 16
Class Introductions: Syllabus
Read Pages 1-59 for 1/18 Professor Arnarson 
To print the Take Home tests, click the icon of your choice or
 
Thursday, Jan 18
Continuation—Elements of Music Professor Arnarson 
Tuesday, Jan 23
Read pages 60-91, Middle Ages Gregorian Chant,  Hildegard von Bingen, Estampie, Machaut, Organum, Troubadours,   Ordo Virtutem
Thursday, Jan 25
Renaissance:Humanism, Printing Methods, Motet, Mass, Madrigal, The Elizabethan Golden Age, Renaissance Dances
Tuesday, Jan 30
Transition to the Baroque: basso continuo, baroque painting, art and architecture; Florentine Camerata: Monteverdi, Caccini,
Read pages 92-149  Castrati: Drottningholn Theater: Venice and Vivaldi”  History of Ospedale della Pieta
January 31 piano
FREE Wednesday Concerts
You can review TWO for Extra Credit-Minimum 2 typed pages via Cliff Leaman’s Suggestions
Location: Rutgers-Camden - Fine Arts Building, Mallery Room
Time: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Thursday, February 1
Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Ground Bass Forms/ Vivaldi Seasons; Concerto Grosso Form, Bach Brandenburg 5: Cantata 140; Organ fugue;Oratorio—Handel’s Messiah
Tuesday, February 6
In Class Review for Test: " Elements of Music-thru Renaissance 200ptsFor review, please access the following files
Review for Elements
Review for Renaissance
pdf or word
pdf or word 
February 7
piano
FREE Wednesday Concerts
You can review TWO for Extra Credit
-Minimum 2 typed pages via Cliff Leaman’s Suggestions
Location: Rutgers-Camden - Fine Arts Building, Mallery Room
Time: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Thursday February 8
In Class Test  " Elements of Music-thru Renaissance 200 points
Tuesday, February 13
Review Baroque (catch up loose ends); BACH FILMS Johann Sebastian Bach: A Documentary Biography – “Bach: Masterpieces to Order"
Thurs.February 15
Intro to the Classical Era Read pages 156-207 sonata form/ variation form/minuet and trio, Rondo, Symphony, Opera, and Concerto Forms. Celebrating Haydn/ Haydn and the Esterhazy’s;Sym 94
Friday, February 16
piano-note

Dr. Baird in Staged Opera
at Kimmel Center (Perelman Hall) in Philadelphia at 8 p.m.
Strongly Urged!!!!

Tuesday February 20
Beethoven and Mozart: B’ven 5/ Mozart: Don Giovanni
Films: Mozart - “Dropping the Patron, ” Amadeus
Beethoven - “Composer as Hero,” and “Beethoven and the Age of Revolution
February 21
piano
FREE Wednesday Concerts
You can review TWO for Extra Credit-Minimum 2 typed pages via Cliff Leaman’s Suggestions
Location: Rutgers-Camden - Fine Arts Building, Mallery Room
Time: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Thursday February 22
Romantic Era: Exoticism/ Nationalism/ Verismo Program Music/ Read pages 215-283 – Schubert, Chopin, Schumann(s) Liszt, 
Tuesday February 27
Peter Ustinov’s Mendelssohn” Smetana--Moldau: Symphonic Poem,
February 28piano
FREE Wednesday Concerts
You can review TWO for Extra Credit-Minimum 2 typed pages via Cliff Leaman’s Suggestions
Location: Rutgers-Camden - Fine Arts Building, Mallery Room
Time: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Thursday, March 1
Tchaikovskly: Romeo and Juliet--Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique
Tuesday March 6
REVIEW FOR Baroque and Classical TEST
March 7 piano
FREE Wednesday Concerts
You can review TWO for Extra Credit-Minimum 2 typed pages via Cliff Leaman’s Suggestions
Location: Rutgers-Camden - Fine Arts Building, Mallery Room
Time: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Thursday March 8
In Class Test  " Baroque and ERA  100 points
March 11-18
SPRING BREAK
Tuesday March 20
In Class Test  " Classical  ERA  100 points
March 21piano
FREE Wednesday Concerts
You can review TWO for Extra Credit-Minimum 2 typed pages via Cliff Leaman’s Suggestions
Location: Rutgers-Camden - Fine Arts Building, Mallery Room
Time: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Thursday March 22
Films: "Spring Symphony" Brahms, Biography of Clara Schumann/
Tuesday March 27
Dvorak, Puccini,Richard Wagner
Thursday March 29
Read 365-380-Intro to the 20th Century
Tuesday April 3
Debussy, Ravel,
Thursday April 5
Mahler: Stravinsky Taafe Zwillich
Tuesday April 10
Berg, Bartok
Thursday April 12
catch-ups
Tuesday April 17
 Shostokovich and Ives
April 18 piano
FREE Wednesday Concert: Madrigal Singers performing "Scenes from Purcell's Fairy Queen"
Location: Rutgers-Camden - Fine Arts Building, Mallery Room
Time: 12 noon - 1:00pm
You can review TWO concerts for Extra Credit -
Minimum 2 typed pages via Cliff Leaman’s Suggestions
Thursday April 19
Aaron Copland, George Gershwin 
Tuesday April 24
LAST DAY OF CLASSES: REVIEW


Thursday,

May 3, 2007

2:00-5:00 pm


Final Examination (300 points)

Classical Period through Romantic= 200 Points

Listening Exam 100 points

Classical “Study Test” or "

“Romantic Era"Study Test”  or

Last updated January 9, 2007