Music 111:
Introduction to Music

Steve Saunders
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Course Syllabus

Listening List for Final Exam

Resources for our Textbook, Todd, Discovering Music,

Reserve Readings

Supplementary Listening Assignments

  • Connect to Listening Assignment #1: Music's Horizontal Dimension: Intervals, Scales, and Melody
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #2: Music's Temporal Dimension: Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo
  • 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 Sensuality and Seduction: The Madrigal
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #7: Palestrina and the Ars perfecta
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #8: The Early Baroque: Music in an Age of Excess
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #10: The Joke as Art: The Music of Franz Josef Haydn
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #11: Schubert and the Dawn of Romanticism
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #12: Brahms, the Conservative?
  • Connect to Listening Assignment #13: Schönberg, Serialism, & the Second Viennese School

  • Connect to Master List of All Additional Listening Assignments (Streaming Audio files of works not found on textbook site)

Self Tests for Exams

Power Point Presentations for Lectures

Concert Schedule

Resources
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