Discover the Power of Music Listening: A Music Listening
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2008
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Discover the Power of Music Listening is a workbook designed as a secondary text for college level music appreciation courses. Activities emphasize the elements of music and vocabulary through listening exercises. A CD-ROM is packaged in the back of each workbook. Appendix I offers a glossary of vocabulary words in the format of flash cards, while Appendix II gives a basic outline and suggestions for a concert critique paper. The workbook can be integrated into the evaluation process at the discretion of each instructor.
Preface
Pre-Course Survey
Introduction 1
What will a music appreciation class do for you?
What this workbook will do for you
Objectives and Outcomes
How Music Affects Us
What Is Music
Basic Listening
ACTIVITY 1 - In Class - Awareness of the Three Levels of Listening
Melody 9
Listening to Melody
ACTIVITY 2 - Steps and Leaps
ACTIVITY 3 - In Class - Melodic Contour
ACTIVITY 4 - Contour and Phrases
Phrases
Jingle Bells
ACTIVITY 5 - Pitch Direction
ACTIVITY 6 - In Class - Drawing Lines to Depict Melody
ACTIVITY 7 - Gregorian Chant - Dies Irae
Rhythm 27
ACTIVITY 8 - In Class - Duple Meter Exercises
Conducting Duple Meter
ACTIVITY 9 - In Class - Triple Meter Exercises
Conducting Triple Meter
ACTIVITY 10 - Duple or Triple Meter
ACTIVITY 11 - In Class - Quadruple Meter and Beyond
Compound Meters
ACTIVITY 12 - In Class - Listening for Rhythm
Harmony 45
ACTIVITY 13 - In Class - Harmony
Textures in Harmony
ACTIVITY 14 - Popular Music and Monophonic Texture
ACTIVITY 15 - Homophonic Texture
ACTIVITY 16 - Polyphonic Texture
ACTIVITY 17 - Identification of Harmonic Textures
ACTIVITY 18 - In Class Major and Minor Tonality
Structure in Music
ACTIVITY 19 - In Class - Binary Form
ACTIVITY 20 - In Class - Structure in Music
ACTIVITY 21 - Theme and Variations
ACTIVITY 22 - In Class - Sonata Form
Charting Music Listening Assignments
ACTIVITY 23-38 - Charting Music Listening Assignments
20th Century Style
ACTIVITY 38 - Suggested 20th Century Style Projects
Aleatoric (chance) Music
Music Concrete
Score Sheet
Post-Course Survey
APPENDIX
APPENDIX I - Vocabulary
APPENDIX II - Concert Critique
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CD LISTENING GUIDE 129