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Learning Objectives

  • 1.1 To introduce music as a social and scientific object of study.
  • 1.2 To introduce various ways of understanding music.
  • 2.1 To develop tools for listening.
  • 2.2 To understand the basic elements of music.
  • 2.3 To develop a vocabulary of musical understanding.
  • 2.4 To explore the relationships between musical sound and musical meaning.
  • 3.1 To demonstrate how the ideas introduced in chapter 2 can apply to musical examples from three different musical traditions.
  • 4.1 To investigate the ways in which music reflects ethnic identity and values.
  • 4.2 To investigate the ways in which musical ethnicity crosses cultural and social boundaries.
  • 4.3 To become familiar with musical expressions of ethnicity in a few selected times and places.
  • 5.1 To understand relationships between gender, music, and culture.
  • 5.2 To learn how music reflects and shapes cultural understandings about gender.
  • 5.3 To become familiar with important trends, composers, and compositions that exemplify gender issues in music.
  • 6.1 To understand how humankind uses music to express spirituality.
  • 6.2 To investigate musical relationships between the sacred and the secular.
  • 6.3 To become familiar with select works that exemplify spiritual traditions in music.
  • 7.1 To explore overt and hidden political meanings in music.
  • 7.2 To see how music has been used for political aims.
  • 7.3 To examine how music helps form, reflect, and alter national identity.
  • 8.1 To explore the ways music supports, protests, mourns, and remembers war.
  • 8.2 To understand how music reflects human responses to war and/or conflict.
  • 9.1 To examine the expression of love in musical settings from various time periods and genres.
  • 9.2 To hear how different aspects of love can be portrayed musically.
  • 10.1 To demonstrate how social issues are reflected in musical theater.
  • 10.2 To provide an overview of twentieth-century American musical theater.
  • 10.3 To understand three groundbreaking twentieth-century musicals.
  • 11.1 To explore ways that music communicates cinematic characters, action, mood, and emotion.
  • 11.2 To provide a brief overview of the history of music in film.
  • 12.1 To examine dance genres in different cultures and times.
  • 12.2 To see how dance reflects regional/national histories and identities.
  • 12.3 To understand the relationship between music and movement.
  • 13.1 To examine concert traditions of different genres and cultures.
  • 13.2 To learn about different performing forces and styles of music.
  • 13.3 To examine significant works from three concert traditions.

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