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Chapter 1
Musical Foundations
Chapter Goals
- To introduce music as a social and scientific object of study.
- To introduce various ways of understanding music.
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Chapter 2
Listening to Music
Chapter Goals
- To develop tools for listening.
- To understand the basic elements of music.
- To develop a vocabulary of musical understanding.
- To explore the relationships between musical sound and musical meaning.
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Chapter 3
Four Listening Examples
Chapter Goals
- To demonstrate how the ideas introduced in Chapter Two apply to musical examples from three different musical traditions.
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Chapter 4
Music and the Life Cycle
Chapter Goals
- To highlight our important and ever-changing relationship to music as we move through life’s stages.
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Chapter 5
Black American Music
Chapter Goals
- To investigate the way in which music supports and reflects Black identity and values.
- To explore the ways in which a sense of musical ethnicity crosses and bridges both cultural and social boundaries.
- To become familiar with musical expressions of Black American music in select times and places.
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Chapter 6
Music and Gender and Sexuality
Chapter Goals
- To understand relationships between gender, music, and culture.
- To learn how music reflects and shapes cultural understandings about gender.
- To become familiar with important trends, composers, and compositions that exemplify gender issues in music.
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Chapter 7
Music and Spirituality
Chapter Goals
- To understand how humankind uses music to express spirituality.
- To investigate musical relationships between the sacred and the secular.
- To become familiar with select works that exemplify spiritual traditions in music.
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Chapter 8
Music and Politics
Chapter Goals
- To explore overt and hidden political meanings in music.
- To see how music has been used for political aims.
- To examine how music helps to develop, form, reflect, and alter national identity.
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Chapter 9
Music and War
Chapter Goals
- To explore the ways music supports, protests, mourns, and remembers war.
- To understand how music reflects human responses to war and/or conflict.
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Chapter 10
Music and Love
Chapter Goals
- To examine the expression of love in musical settings from various time periods and genres.
- To hear how different aspects of love can be portrayed musically.
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Chapter 11
American Musical Theater
Chapter Goals
- To demonstrate how social issues are reflected in musical theater.
- To provide an overview of 20th-century American musical theater.
- To explore three groundbreaking 20th-century musicals.
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Chapter 12
Music and Film
Chapter Goals
- To explore ways in which music defines cinematic characters and communicates action, mood, and emotion.
- To provide a brief overview of the history of music in film.
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Chapter 13
Music and Dance
Chapter Goals
- To examine dance genres in different cultures and times.
- To see how dance reflects regional/national histories and identities.
- To understand the relationship between music and movement.
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Chapter 14
Music in the Concert Setting
Chapter Goals
- To examine concert traditions of different genres and cultures.
- To learn about different performing forces and styles of music.
- To examine significant works from three concert traditions.
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Chapter 15
Music and Technology
Chapter Goals
- To examine technology’s role in music past and present.
- To think about technology’s potential future impact.
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