East Penn School District Secondary Curriculum A Planned Course Statement for Music Appreciation, Dual Enrollment Course # 770D Grade(s) 9, 10, 11, 12 Department: Music Length of Period (mins.) 40 Total Clock Hours: 60 Periods per Cycle: 3 Length of Course (yrs.) 1.0 Type of Offering: required elective Credit: 0.5 Adopted: Developed by: Ritz Cortez
Description of Course Course Title: Music Appreciation, Dual Enrollment - #770D Description: Music Appreciation is appropriate for the musician or the non-musician. It provides an introduction to perceptive listening as well as to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. The purpose of the course is to deepen the student s appreciation for music and to develop listening skills. Students will take this course for 3 college credits. Goals: Instill an appreciation for music Encourage perceptive and analytical listening Develop listening skills Introduce musical elements, form, and stylistic periods Familiarize the student with the periods of classical music and their representative composers Requirements: Text: Music: An Appreciation, Seventh Edition, Roger Kamien Key to Levels of Achievement (Listed with each learning objective) Awareness (A): Learning (L): Understanding (U): Reinforcement (R): Students are introduced to concepts, forms, and patterns. Students are involved in a sequence of steps and practice activities which involved further development and allow evaluation of process. Students demonstrate ability to apply acquired concepts and skills to individual assignments and projects on an independent level. Students maintain and broaden understanding of concepts and skills to accomplish tasks at a greater level of sophistication.
Course Objectives Music Appreciation, Duel Enrollment Page 1 The Elements of Music Music in the Middle Ages 1 Students will recognize and understand fundamental properties of music. 2 Students will recognize and characteristics of the Middle Ages, including prominent The Renaissance 3 Students will recognize and characteristics of the Renaissance The Baroque Period 4 Students will recognize and characteristics of the Baroque The Classical Period 5 Students will recognize and characteristics of the Classical L Pitch, dynamics, and tone color Performing media: voices and instruments Rhythm Music notation Melody and harmony Texture and form U Gregorian chant Secular music Development of polyphony: Organum Ars Nova U Sacred music Secular music The Venetian School U Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form The Fugue Elements of opera Monteverdi and Purcell The Baroque Sonata Corelli and Vivaldi Johann Sebastian Bach The Baroque Suite The Chorale and Church Cantata G. F. Handel U Sonata form, theme and variations, Minuet and Trio, Rondo Symphony and concerto Joseph Haydn W. A. Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven -C 9.1.12 F 9.4.12 A 9.4.12 D 9.1.12 F 9.4.12 A 9.4.12 D The Romantic Period 6 Students will recognize and U Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin
Course Objectives Music Appreciation, Duel Enrollment Page 2 The Twentieth Century characteristics of the Romantic 7 Students will recognize and characteristics of the Twentieth Century, including prominent Jazz 8 Students will recognize and characteristics of Jazz. The American Musical 9 Students will recognize and characteristics of the American Musical. Rock 10 Students will recognize and characteristics of Rock. Theme and variations Liszt and Mendelssohn Program music Berlioz Nationalism Tchaikovsky Brahms Verdi and Puccini Wagner U Impressionism and symbolism Debussy and ravel Neoclassicism Stravinsky Expressionism and Schoenberg Berg and Webern Bartok Shostakovich Ives and Gershwin Copland U Jazz Styles: 1900-1950 Ragtime Blues New Orleans Style Swing Bebop Jazz Styles Since 1950 U Musical theatre Leonard Bernstein U Rock styles Rock in American Society The Beatles Written tests Nonwestern Music 11 Students will recognize and characteristics of nonwestern music. U Music in Sub-Saharan Africa Classical music of India Koto music of Japan Written tests
Course Objectives Music Appreciation, Duel Enrollment Page 3 music.