Music 111:
Introduction to Western Art Music

Prof. Saunders
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Course Syllabus

Reserve Readings

Listening Assignments: Web Versions

  • Connect to Listening Assignment #1: Music's Temporal Dimension: Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #2: Music's Horizontal Dimension: Intervals, Scales, and Melody
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #3: Music's Vertical Dimension: Harmony and Tonality
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #4: Texture, Color, Dynamics, and Form
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #5: Machaut and the Ars nova
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #6: Renaissance Beginnings
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #7: Renaissance Sensuality and Seduction: The Madrigal
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #8: Monody, Monteverdi, and the Birth of Opera
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #8A: The Joke as Art: The Music of Franz Josef Haydn
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #9: Schubert and the Dawn of Romanticism
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #10: Schönberg, Serialism, & the Second Viennese School
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Review Questions

Self Tests for Exams

Power Point Presentations for Lectures

Concert Schedule

Resources

Requirements For Final Exam
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