NOTES
1. Reading, listening and listening exercises are due on the date under which they appear.

2. Page numbers (pp.) always refer to Craig Wright, Listening to Music, third edition.

3. Roman numerals refer to movements of works. For example, Haydn, Symphony No. 88, IV, means the fourth movement of that work by Haydn.

4. I indicate the six discs and introductory disc as "CD1, CD2..., Introd. CD," etc. I indicate track numbers with arabic numerals in square brackets; e.g. CD3 [4] means compact disc 3, track 4.

5. The abbreviation "L.E." refers to the Listening Exercises found at the end of chapters in the textbook.

M 26 Aug. What Does Music Do?

W 28 Aug. How Does It Work?
pp. 1-11

F 30 Aug. [...continuing]
pp. 49-57 (form and general musical processes)

M 2 Sep. NO CLASS. Labor Day

W 4 Sep. Notation.
pp. 13-29, 48-49 ("Dynamics")

F 6 Sep. Notation. Aspects of duration (pulse, meter, rhythm)

M 9 Sep. Meter. Aspects of pitch (melody, scales, modes)
pp. 49-57

W 11 Sep. Harmony, texture. Voices, instruments, timbre
pp. 29-32; (also 37-48, but don't worry over the details at all)

F 13 Sep. Historical overview of musical styles
pp. 60-64 (read through, but do not make any effort to memorize, the "Checklist of Musical Styles by Period")
L.E. 3, 4, 5, 6 due

M 16 Sep. Medieval monophony
pp. 65-75
Listening: Hildegard, CD1 [1]; Beatriz of Dia, CD1 [4]

W 18 Sep. Old sacred polyphony: Machaut, Josquin
pp. 81-86
Listening: Machaut, CD1 [3]; Josquin, CD1 [6];

F 20 Sep. Secular polyphony: the madrigal (Weelkes)
pp. 86-89
Listening: Weelkes, CD1 [7]

M 23 Sep. Quiz
Monteverdi and early opera: Orfeo
Listening: CD1 [10]
L.E. 8 and 12 due

W 25 Sep. [...continuing]
pp. 95-101, 103-108
Listening: CD1 [11]

F 27 Sep. [...continuing]
Listening: CD1 [12]

M 30 Sep. Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
pp. 108-11
Listening: CD1 [13]

W 2 Oct. Italian instrumental music and virtuosity
pp. 112-17
Listening: Vivaldi, CD1 [14]
Also: D. Scarlatti, Sonata, K. 96 in D major. This piece is not in your textbook but will be studied in class. You may hear it in the music library on a videotape on audio reserve for our class: see Malinowski, Music Animantion Machine, First Demonstration Reel.
L.E. 15 and HW 1 due

F 4 Oct. J. S. Bach
pp. 132-36
Listening: Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, I (CD1 [18])
Bach, Fugue in G Minor (CD1 [19])

M 7 Oct. [...continuing]
pp. 121-31
Listening: Bach, Awake..., CD1 [15-17]

W 9 Oct. Handel, Messiah
pp. 136-37, 140-45
Listening: "Rejoice..." CD2 [1]

F 4 Oct. NO CLASS. Fall Break. Enjoy it.

M 14 Oct. Handel, Messiah (cont.)
Listening: "Hallelujia" Introd.CD [14]
L.E. 17 and 18 due

W 16 Oct. Midterm examination

F 18 Oct. The Eighteenth century--instruments of the orchestra--classical phrase structure
pp. 149-63 (chap. 8), 164-68
Listening: Mozart, A Little Night Music, III (CD2 [4])
Also review Introd.CD [9-12] along with pp. 38-48

M 21 Oct Haydn, Symphony No. 88 (IV)
pp. 185-86, 179-81
Listening: CD2 [7]

W 23 Oct. Mozart, Symphony No. 40 (I)
pp. 168-73, 187-90
Listening: CD2 [8]
L.E. 20 due

F 25 Oct. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 17 (I)
pp. 193-98
Listening: CD2 [10]

M 28 Oct. Mozart, Don Giovanni
pp. 198-206
Listening: CD2 [11-13]
L.E. 19 and 21 due (see replacement question for LE21 #9)

W 30 Oct. [...continuing]

F 1 Nov. NO CLASS.

M 4 Nov.Beethoven, Piano Sonata, Op. 13 ("Pathétique"), I
pp. 209-14
Listening: CD3 [1]

W 6 Nov. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 (complete work)
pp. 217-26
Listening: CD3 [3-6]

F 8 Nov. Schubert
pp. 246-54
Listening: "Erlkönig" and "Die Forelle" (CD3 [7-8])
L.E. 24 due

M 11 Nov. Quiz. More Schubert
pp. 230-44
Quintet in A, IV (CD3 [9])

W 13 Nov. Liszt and the new virtuosity
Listening: Liszt, CD4 [5]
pp. 264-74
L.E. 26 due

F 15 Nov. Chopin
Listening: Chopin, CD4 [3-4]

M 18 Nov. Verdi, La Traviata
pp. 278-86
Listening: CD4 [6-8]

W 20 Nov. Chaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet
pp. 308-11
Listening: CD5 [1]
NO HOMEWORK DUE (You have till Monday; there was an error in the printed schedule.)

F 22 Nov. Wagner, Tristan und Isolde ("Liebestod")
pp. 287-93
Listening: CD4 [9]

M 25 Nov. Mahler
pp. 311-15
Listening: CD5 [2]
L.E. 30A due (replaces the exercise in the book)

M 27 Nov.  New Music in Paris: Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky (quiz cancelled; regular class)
pp. 320-25
Listening: Debussy, Prélude à "L'après-midi d'un faune, CD5 [3]

F 29 Nov. NO CLASS. Thanksgiving Weekend

M 2 Dec. [...continuing]
Faculty Course Questionnaire (FCQ)
pp. 328-31
Listening: Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole, CD5 [5-6]
L.E. 34 due

W 4 Dec. [...continuing]
pp. 333-45
Listening: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, CD5 [7-10]

F 6 Dec. New Music in the United States: Copland, Appalachian Spring
pp. 362-68
Listening: CD6 [3-6]

M 9 Dec. More Recent Music in the United States: Zwilich, Reich
pp. 368-70
Listening: Zwilich, CD6 [7]; Reich (to be heard in class)
L.E. 35 and HW 2due

W 11 Dec. Adams, Tavener
pp. 371-73
Listening: Adams, CD6 [8]; Tavener, CD6 [9]

16 Dec. Monday. Final examination, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
 

Important reference books

After your textbook and its glossary, the most useful general reference on musical terminology is The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Don Randel. For more detailed biographies of the composers, see The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie. This source is available to you on-line through the University Library's on-line catalogue, Chinook. Look under "reference tools."

Copies of both these books are also available in the reference sections of Norlin Library and at the Music Library. Look up the call numbers in Chinook.