Music 250	Schedule of Readings, Listening and Assignments

All readings are in Listen, 4th Brief Edition, by Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlin. Listening references are to the 6 CD's which accompany the text. The first number refers to the CD # (1, 2 or 3); numbers after the colon refer to the cuts (tracks) on the CD. The symbol "||" means that the topic from the preceding class will be continued into the next class. Reading and listening assignments should be completed by the date assigned.

Day	Topics	Reading	Listening	Turn In
1/30	Intro: Music, Sound & Time; Rhythm and Pitch
2/4	Notation, Structures, Instruments, Form, Style	Intro; Ch 1-4	various; see text
2/6	|| The Middle Ages	Ch 5	1: 1-8
2/11	||
2/13	The Renaissance	Ch 6	1: 9-15
2/18	||
2/20	The Early Baroque; The Late Baroque Period	Ch 7, 8	1: 16-26	Intensive 1
2/25	|| Late Baroque Instrumental Music	Ch 9	1: 27-29; 2: 1-9
2/27	|| Late Baroque Vocal Music	Ch 10	2: 10-17
3/4	|| ...........................Review for Exam 1
3/6	EXAM I ...Ch 1 - 10, CD1: 1-30
3/11	Music and the Enlightenment; The Symphony	Ch 11, 12	2: 18-35 3: 1-7
3/13	||
3/18	|| Other Classical Genres	Ch 13	3: 8-20
3/20	||			Intensive 2
3/25	Beethoven	Ch 14	3: 21-37
3/27	|| Music After Beethoven: The Romantics	Ch 15
4/1	The Early Romantics	Ch 16	3: 38-40; 4: 1-14; 6: 38
4/3	|| Romantic Opera	Ch 17	4: 47-49; 5: 1-9
4/7-11	SPRING BREAK
4/15	Romantic Opera...........Review for Exam 1I			Intensive 3
4/17	EXAM II......Ch 11-17
4/22	The Late Romantics	Ch 18	4:15-46
4/24	||
4/29	|| Music and Modernism	Ch 19
5/1	The Early 20th Century	Ch 20	5: 10-35; 6: 5	Intensive 4
5/6	||
5/8	Alternatives to Modernism	Ch 21	5: 36-42; 6: 1-4
5/13	||
5/15	The Late 20th Century	Ch 22	5: 43-46; 6: 6-22
5/20	||.................................Review for Exam III			Intensive 5

EXAM III . Chapter 18-22