Music 190 Course schedule
There are assignments and review exercises for each week. This table provides an overview of the semester. For detailed information about each week's work, see the separate page for that week.
Remember that a given week's written assignment is due on the day of your class meeting for the following week. In order to receive the writing prompts, you must complete the review exercises on the web pages. This means that you will have to work enough in advance to be able to complete the review exercises, get the prompt, and write a draft of your essay before we meet to discuss that topic. The "Hacker topics" listed on the writing prompt page will ask you to write two sentences, one on each topic, that show that you've understood that week's writing topics from the Hacker book.
For example, at your class meeting in week 3, you will turn in your week 2 essay. You'll have with you a draft of your week 3 essay, because that's the topic we'll be discussing. You'll turn in the week 3 essay at our week 4 meeting.
Readings designated as "Chapter x" refer to Willoughby's The World of Music. "Hacker x" refers to the numbered topics in A Pocket Style Manual (we'll cover topics 1-28). "CDx/trx" refers to the CD and track on the two-CD set that comes with the textbook. Some listening selections are found only on the 5-CD set, which is on reserve in the Music Library; this is shown as "5CDset: CDx/trx."
| week | topic | reading | notes | ||
| week 1 | introduction to active listening and format of this course |
Chapter 1 | class meets as a whole all this week | ||
| week 2 | vocabulary for listening: the nature of music | Chapter 2 Hacker 1, 2 |
class meets as a whole all this week | ||
| week 3 | Musical Discourse: the elements of music | Chapter 3 Hacker 3, 4 |
class meets as a whole all this week | ||
| week 4 | Folk Music and the Blues | Chapter 4 Hacker 5, 6 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 5 | American Religious Music | Chapter 5 Hacker 7, 8 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 6 | Jazz in America | Chapter 6 Hacker 9, 10 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 7 | American Popular Music | Chapter 7 Hacker 11, 12 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 8 | Music of the Americas | Chapter 8 Hacker 13, 14 |
Class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 9 | Midterm | review chapters 1-8 Hacker 15, 16 |
Class meets as a whole to review for and take the midterm | ||
| week 10 | Music Beyond the Americas | Chapter 9 Hacker 17, 18 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 11 | Music to 1600; Music of the Baroque (1600-1750) | Chapters 10 & 11; chapter 11 will be focus of
our class meetings Hacker 19, 20 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 12 | Music of the Classic Period (1750-1820) | Chapter 12 Hacker 21, 22 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| week 13 | Music of the Romantic Period (Nineteenth Century) | Chapter 13 Hacker 23, 24 |
class meets in discussion sections | ||
| Fall Break | |||||
| week 14 | Music of the Twentieth Century, Part I | Chapter 14 | class meets as a whole all this week | ||
| week 15 | Music of the Twentieth Century, Part II; Music in Today's Society | Chapters 15 & 16 | class meets as a whole all this week | ||
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This file was last modified on 16 May 2000.
