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Music 150

REVISED 10/29 Note Exam 2 is 11/21

Reading and Assignment Schedule

All readings are in American Music (shorter edition), by Daniel Kingman. Listening references are to the 3 CD's which accompany the text. Reading and listening assignments should be completed by the date assigned. The symbol "||" means discussion of the material from the preceding class will continue into that class. See Listening Reports page and Final Project page for more specific information on Assignments.

Date

Topics

read

CD Listening

Assignments

8/29

Introduction: The Anglo-American Folk Tradition

9/3

|| The Afro-American Folk Tradition

Ch 1

1: 1-6

9/5

||

Ch 2

1: 7-10

Listening 1

9/10

The American Indian Tradition

Ch 3

1: 11-13

9/12

The Latino Tradition

Ch 4

1: 14-17

Listening 2

9/17

Country Music

Ch 5

1: 18-25

9/19

|| Blues and Soul: From Country To City

Ch 6

1: 26-30

Listening 3

9/24

|| Rock and Its Progeny

Ch 7

no rock on CD's

9/26

|| From Psalm Tune to Rural Revivalism: 1700-1850

Ch 8

1: 31-36

Listening 4

10/1

|| Review for Exam I

10/3

EXAM I Ch 1-8; CD 1: 1-36

10/8

Urban Revivalism and Gospel Music: 1850-2001

Ch 9

1: 37-41 2: 1-4

10/10

Secular Music in the Cities 1700-1830

Ch 10

2: 5-10

Listening 5

10/15

Popular Musical Theater 1830-2001

Ch 11

2: 11-14

10/17

 

 

 

Listening 6

10/22

|| Ragtime and Pre-Jazz

 

10/24

NO CLASS

 

 

Listening 7

10/29

|| Popular Song, Dance & March Music, 1830-2001

Ch 12

2: 15-23

10/31

Ragtime and Pre-Jazz

Ch 13

2: 24-28

Listening 8

11/5

Jazz

Ch 14

2: 29-31 3: 1-5

 

11/7

Jazz

Listening 9

11/12

Jazz

 

 

11/14

Jazz _ Concert by SSU Big Band for the class

 

Listening 10

11/19

Classical Music Roots (1830-1919) Review for Exam 2

Ch 15

3: 6-9

11/21

EXAM II--Ch 9-14; CD 1:37-41; CD 2: entire; CD 3: 1-9

 

 

 

11/26 Mainstream American Classical Music (1920-1970) Ch 16 3: 10-12  

11/28

THANKSGIVING RECESS

12/3

American Modernism I: New Ways with Old Tools

Ch 17

3: 13-20

12/5

American Modernism II New Tech., New Aesthetics

Ch 18

3: 21-23

Listening 11 (Term Project)

12/10

Post-Modernism: Autonomy, Assimilation, Accessibility

Ch 19

3: 24-26

12/12

Opera Old and New Review for Exam 3

Ch 20

3: 27-30

Listening 12

EXAM 3 is at the time of the Final Exam, The in-class short answer portion of the exam will cover written material in Chapters 15-21. On this exam there will be more listening examples.. Unlike the earlier exams, listening will be drawn from the entire semester, but will NOT be taken from the tapes, and no specific identifications will be required.