| Course ID: | MUSI 2020. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Music |
Course
Description: | An introduction to music, musicians, and deeper listening experiences. Music of the past and present will be sampled as students acquire new abilities for appreciating the sound, style, and contexts for music. |
| Oasis Title: | Introduction to Music |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in MUSI 2020E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Upon completion, the successful student will be able to:
*Acquire new listening abilities similar to those employed by
professional musicians
*Appreciate the role of cultural contexts as influences on
famous musicians
*Employ standard English-language musical terms and concepts in
discussing music
*Learn the musical style traits that make one genre different
from another
*Report on live concerts on the UGA campus and elsewhere |
| Topical Outline: | Opening Discussion: Ways of Engaging with Music
The Western European Foundations of Sacred Music, Song, and Dance
Baroque Explorations of Motion and Emotion
Comedy in Music: Form in Music
Romantic Period Takes on Self and World
Music in America: Questioning the European Classical Tradition
Music in America: Trends in Jazz and Popular Music
Music in America: Music and the Moving Image |
| Honor Code Reference: | There will be no tolerance in this course for cheating on tests or submission of
written work not solely authored by the student under whose name it was submitted. |