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1 Sabancı University, Summer 2011

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3 HUM 413: GENRES and STYLES of WESTERN MUSIC

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Instructor:

H. Fulya Celikel

Prerequisite of Co-requisite:

HUM 204: Major Works of Western Classical Music

Class Hours:

TBA

Course Description and goals:

This course is a detailed survey of Western Music, encompassing both ‘classical’ and ‘popular’ domains. The main focus of the course is listening appreciation: students will develop critical listening skills and a vocabulary of key concepts relating to the technical parameters of music, text/music relationships, and formal patterns, and modes of performance. These tools will provide them with an ability to critique and analyze musical examples in class discussion and written assignments so as to delineate the principal styles, forms and genres of Western music in terms of their historical development. The interaction between popular and art musics will form another important strand of the course. Guided listening activities will be structured around the interactive Norton Listening Guides series, and the instructor will also use a MIDI keyboard as a pedagogical aid in the study of musical style and essential music theory.

The material will be presented on diachronic lines but each element will be developed separately in its own historical/artistic context. By the end of the semester, therefore, students will have an awareness of how to discuss and categorize music and a solid listening-based perspective on the evolution of the studied genres and styles.

HUM 204, defining these key concepts of music history, is prerequisite or co-requisite for this course. Nevertheless, the course is different from a music oriented Major Works course since its main focus is listening and its scope is broader with its inclusion of the popular musics of the 20th century. Also, students would be asked to present their own choice of music in class and re-evaluate it in a broader context, drawing on course material.

Course Format:

The course will be conducted through a combination of lectures, discussions, use of audio-visual material (MIDI keyboard, slideshows, handouts, music CDs, opera and concert DVDs), and concert excursions depending on availability. There will be a heavy emphasis on listening. As each genre is presented, some samples from forthcoming works will be shown in class to illustrate the features by making use of listening guides. The students will then be asked to watch or listen to complete recordings of music in the given genre as homework to begin the next session with a detailed discussion. The course is therefore structured as a 50-minutes discussion section, followed by 10-minute break and two hours of lecture. Reading assignments such as historical background, biographic information on composers and performers, CD liner notes and book chapters will also be given. Students should make sure not only to keep up with the readings and listenings, but also to take notes in class in order to be successful.

Class attendance:

Students are required to attend every lecture. This is a seminar, which means that your regular, active participation is REQUIRED, especially in the discussion section of each class. You will not pass the course by simply turning in assignments and taking the final exam.

Assessment and Grading Procedures:

Each student’s work will be graded on a strictly individual basis according to the following arrangements:

1) Two quizzes and a final exam: will cover materials introduced in class, as well as the reading and listening assignments. The exams will consist of short answer questions and identification questions based on music samples.

2) Term Paper: A four-page term paper will address an issue or a problem in the subject matter of the course. The paper should reflect relevant information. Please be exact and specific, avoid general statements, and try to be clear. Use of academic resources and proper citation techniques is a requirement. Students are required to learn how to use databases such as JSTOR and Grove Music Online. All cases of academic dishonesty (such as plagiarism, use of someone else’s papers, or cheating, etc.) are strictly forbidden.

3) Class participation and discussion activity: This will include attendance and idea exchange during the discussion hours and a short presentation on a selected popular work.

4) A response paper: Depending on availability, students will be asked to participate and review a concert according to the criteria learned in class.

Grading:

Two quizzes: 20 %

Paper: 25 %

Final exam: 20 %

Response paper: %10

Class/discussion attendance and participation (includes a student presentation of a given work): 25 %

Required Reading and Listening:

The required readings for the course will be posted to SuCourse under Learning Modules. The listening assignments will either be placed in Student Reserve in the IC or will be posted to SuCourse in mp3 format. The relevant audio-visual material and web resources will also be available in a similar fashion. The students are responsible for the background reading in the syllabus for each week and doing the listening assignments. Borrowing CD’s from IC for further listening is encouraged.

SYLLABUS

UNIT 1: BASICS OF MUSIC

Day 1: Properties of music. Definitions of Genre, Style and Period.

Main Focuses: Rhythm, pitch, harmony, texture, form, orchestration. Historical periodization: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Contemporary. High Art vs. Popular/ folk.

Assignment: Complete online assignments from BBC Website. Glossary of musical terminology.

Day 2: How to listen to music. Critical listening skills, aural tags.

Main Focuses: Application of the terminology learned in previous session to actual music. Different performance forces and ensembles. Performers. Performing practice. Properties of recordings.

Assignment: Filling in a checklist of ten assigned pieces with different propertie: categorizing by listening.

UNIT 2: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Day 3: Piano Music: Suite, Sonata, Character piece.

Practitioners: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Ligeti

Assignment (Listening): You should provide information about the works, performers and style- refer to the CD booklet. Many recordings in CD or DVD format is available in IC.

a) a complete keyboard suite by J.S. Bach or G.F. Haendel.

b) a complete piano sonata by W.A. Mozart or J. Haydn

c) a Ballade/Polonaise/Scherzo by F. Chopin or a Suite by Debussy.

Day 4: Chamber Music: Duets, trios, quartets, ensembles.

Practitioners: Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bartok

Assignment (Listening): You should provide information about the works, performers and style- refer to the CD booklet. Recordings in CD or DVD format is available in IC.

a) a string quartet by J. Haydn or L.v. Beethoven.

b) any quintet (could be a string quintet, a piano quintet, a clarinet quintet, etc)

c) any chamber work from the 20th Century (Bartok, Schönberg, Webern, Messiaen, Schnittke)

Day 5: Concerto: Concerto Grosso, concerto for an ensemble, solo concerto.

Practitioners: Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov

Assignment (Listening):

a) One of the Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach

b) any concerto from the 19th Century (Mendelssohn, Liszt, Chopin, Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Brahms, Grieg, etc)

c) Violin Concerto by A. Berg or Piano Concerto by U.C. Erkin or Piano Concerto by G. Ligeti or Piano Concerto by G. Gershwin.

Day 6: Symphony and Program Music: from 1730’s to 20th Century, abstract (absolute) music and Symphonic suite, symphonic poem, concert overture.

Practitioners: Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Erkin

Assignment (Listening):

a) One symphony by L.v Beethoven.

b) One symphonic poem from the 19th Century (Liszt, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Dvorak, Sibelius)

Quiz I

UNIT 3: VOCAL MUSIC and STAGE ARTS

Day 7: Art song and choral music. Lieds, lied cycles, masses, cantatas

Practitioners: Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Schönberg

Assignment (Listening):

a) J.S. Bach: St. Matthew’s Passion or Johannes Passion or G.F. Handel: Messiah or J.Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem or G. Verdi: Requiem.

b) A complete song cycle (Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, Brahms, Wolf, R. Strauss, Schönberg, etc.)

Day8: Italian Opera: From Baroque to 20th Century

Practitioners: Handel, Mozart, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini

Assignment (Listening):

a) A Baroque opera by Vivaldi, Handel or Monteverdi.

b) An opera by G. Verdi or G. Puccini.

Day 9: French Opera and Russian Opera

Practitioners: Lully, Rameau, Berlioz, Bizet, Poulenc.

Assignment (Listening):

a) An opera by Bizet or Delibes or Saint-Saens or Massenet or Gounod or Debussy)

b) A Russian opera from the 20th Century (Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich)

Day 10: German Opera: From Enlightenment to 20th Century

Practitioners: Mozart, Weber, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Berg

Assignment (Listening):

a) An opera by R. Wagner

b) An opera by R. Strauss or A. Berg or A. Schoenberg.

Quiz II

UNIT 4: POPULAR MUSIC

Day 11: Operetta, Musical and Film Music: Interaction of high art and the popular style. 20th Century hybridization of music.

Practitioners: Offenbach, Johann Strauss, Bernstein, Webber, Kander

Assignment (Listening):

a) Any musical on DVD (could also be in movie format, many available in IC, search either by composer or by title)

b) Any soundtrack recording (many available in IC, search by title)

Day 12: Jazz and Blues.

Practitioners: Ellington, Armstrong, Fitzgerald, Smith, Parker

Assignment (Listening):

a) Free choice of CD or DVD, short presentation of the selected work to class.

Day 13: Pop: Rap, R&B, Reggae

Practitioners: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Eminem, MTV as a cultural phenomenon.

Assignment (Listening):

a) Free choice of CD or DVD, short presentation of the selected work to class.

Day 14: Rock: Rockn’roll, Pop Rock, Heavy Metal.

Practitioners: Elvis Presley, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Metallica.

Assignment (Listening):

a) Free choice of CD or DVD, short presentation of the selected work to class.

FINAL EXAMINATION and TERM PAPER

COURSE MATERIALS

BOOKS:

Forney, K and J. Machlis. 2007. The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening. Shorter Tenth Edition. New york: W. W. Norton & Company. [COURSEBOOK]

Hanning, B. R. 2002. Concise history of western music / Barbara Russano Hanning ; based on Donald Jay Grout & Claude V. Palisca, A history of western music, sixth edition. New York: Norton.

Sadie, S. and A. Latham, eds. 1994. The Norton/Grove concise encyclopedia of music. Rev. and enl. Edition. New York : W.W. Norton.

Sadie, S, and C. Bashford, eds. 1992. The New Grove dictionary of opera. London: Macmillan Press ; New York, NY.

EBOOK:

Forney, K and J. Machlis. 2007. The enjoyment of music ebook and student resource DVD. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, c2007. [PRIMARY MATERIAL]

RECORDINGS:

The Norton recordings: to accompany the Norton scores and the Enjoyment of Music. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. [PRIMARY MATERIAL]

Norton recorded anthology of western music: classic to modern: (6-CD set). W W Norton & Company, 2001.

Recordings from the Information Center CD and DVD collection.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

Online video archive:



Online Music Dictionary



Online supplement for History of Music



Online site for Elements of Music



Video Lectures for Elements of Music



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