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MUSIC 207-4
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SYLLABUS
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Spring Semester, 2006
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COURSE INFORMATION:
CREDIT: 2
HOURS: 9:20-10:10 a.m. MWF
CLASSROOM: M-P 210
PREREQUISITE:MUS 206, or
consent of Instructor.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Lawrence W. Hartzell,
Ph.D.
OFFICE: M-P 309
OFFICE PHONE: 826-2089
EMAIL: lhartzel@bw.edu
OFFICE HOURS: See posted hours on
your teacher's door.
AVAILABILITY OF INSTRUCTOR:It is
my policy to be available to students as much as is humanly possible.
I can be found in my office at times other than stated office
hours. Such times are indicated as yellow boxes on the schedule
card on my door. I must ask, however, that you not disturb my
work in the Electronic Music Studio, and that you not call my
home after 9:30 p.m.
SPECIAL NEEDS: If
any student in the class has special needs because of a learning
disability or other disability, please feel free to discuss these
needs with the instructors. We will make every attempt to accommodate
such needs.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This
course is the fourth and last in a series of courses entitled
HARMONY. For those taking majors that require a complete concentration
in music this series is four in number. The sequence exposes students
to the materials and methods of cultivated music composition as
it developed in western society from 1600 to 1980. The current
section will concentrate on those materials as they developed
between the last third of the 19th Century up to the present time.
The purpose of this section is to concentrate on these materials
in a manner consistent with the special needs of the Music Theater
and Music Therapy programs. Thus, many of the source materials
for study will be taken from vernacular musical sources (particularly,
but not exclusively from Musical Theatre literature of the 1930s
through Stephen Sondheim.)
COURSE
OBJECTIVES: During this
course students will learn:
- the musical materials employed by composers of the Late Romantic
Period(1870-1900) and the 20th Century (1900-1980) of European
cultivated music, and examples using similar materials from the work of
American Broadway and Tin Pan Alley composers of the 1930s through the
1990s,
- the technical skills necessary to write harmonic progressions and
melodic lines typical of the above periods and styles (including from
the 19th Century chromatic sequences, altered chords such as the
Neapolitan sixth, Augmented-sixth harmonies, and Borrowed Chords and
Chromatic and Enharmonic Modulation); and the technical skills
necessary to write harmonic/melodic/rhythmic structures and
progressions typical of the various 20th Century styles,
- melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic analytical techniques for music
of the above periods and styles,
- the names and biographies of composers, arrangers and music
theorists of the periods and styles being studied.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate properly developed
skills in:
- writing the typical harmonic progressions of the period under
study in compositional and/or arranging situations as realizations of
figured bass lines(where appropriate) and as harmonizations of
representative melodic lines,
- performance of standard harmonic progressions from the period
being studied at the keyboard (as part of basic after-beat and
arpeggiated accompaniments to well known vernacular tunes),
- the analysis of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic components of
this type of music.
COURSE CALENDER:
| WEEK |
MATERIAL |
| 1 & 2 |
End of tonal organization, new concepts of scales and chords. |
| 3 & 4 |
Melody and harmony in the 20th Century. |
| 5 & 6 |
Extended study of 20th Century melodic, rhythmic, harmonic
and contrapuntal practices. |
| 6 |
FIRST EXAMINATION
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| 7, 8, 9 |
Extended study of 20th Century melodic, rhythmic, harmonic and
contrapuntal practices.
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| 10, 11 & 12 |
Atonality and Serialism. |
| 13 & 14 |
Since 1950 |
| 14 |
Complete final project |
| 15 |
Review for Final Examination. |
| May 4 |
FINAL EXAMINATION |
PLEASE NOTE: As you should be aware this is a very
special spring semester. Although I do not officially retire
until July 31st, my last day on the job at Baldwin-Wallace College will
be Wednesday, May 10th. This means some very important
things to students in my classes.
1.
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All back assignments from the
first 8 weeks of the semester must be in by Friday, March 17th. |
2.
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All homework assignments and
other graded items (such as keyboard) given after spring break must be
completed by Friday, April 28th. |
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Any term papers and/or final
projects must be completed by the assigned times. |
| 4. |
I will turn in my final grades
during the morning of Wednesday, May 10th. |
| 5. |
Because I will not be back in
the fall, there will be NO incompletes given at the end of this spring
semester. |
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
- Class Participation: Includes
promptness at the beginning of class, attendance and the ability to
participate actively when called upon.
- Homework:
- Homework will be assigned virtually every day.
- Homework is expected on the date assigned.
- Homework will include a final arranging project.
- Examinations: Two written
examinations.
- Keyboard:In general there will be a keyboard assignment
given each week. However, much of the keyboard work will be in-class
(some of this will be graded).
- Final Project:An arrangement of a vernacular song for
piano and soloist vocal soloist. This project will include keyboard
voicings that use type A and Type B voicings employed by jazz pianists
since the 1940s. It will also demonstrate knowledge of two or more jazz
piano stylings, including, but not limited to stride, locked hand, Bill
Evans left-hand voicings, various bop styles. The arrangement will
include a solo line, a piano part, complete trap set parts, a double
bass part, and, at least, one other instrument for contrapuntal melodic
purposes. The final project will be recorded using equipment in the
Multi-Media Computer Lab and will count as an examination.
EXAMINATIONS:
- First Examination,February 17, 2006
- Final Examination, Wednesday, May 3, 2006.
TEXT MATERIALS:
New Materials this semester:
- Gershwin, George. 50 Gershwin Classics Miami, FL:
Warner Brothers, 1989.
- Sondheim, Stephen, Sondheim Hits, Vol. I
- Kostka, Stefan. Materials and Techniques of
Twentieth-Century Music. 2nd ed., Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Materials from previous semesters that will be used this
semester:
- Porter, Cole Words and Music by Cole Porter
- Benjamin et al. Music For Analysis. 3rd ed.,
Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984.
COURSE GRADING:
- Grading Scale: This course uses the grading scale
established by the Music Theory Department and follows the College +/-
grading system.
| A+ = 100 |
B+ = 91 |
C+ = 82 |
D+ = 73 |
F+ = 64 |
| A = 99-93 |
B = 90-84 |
C = 83-75 |
D = 72-66 |
F = 63-60 |
| A- = 92 |
B- = 83 |
C- = 74 |
D- = 65 |
F- = 59 & below |
At the end of the semester the sum of such grades will be averaged
and the proper letter grade will be assigned.
- Grading Procedure:
- Examinations and Final Project.
- The two examinations and the final project will equal 1/3
of the final grade.
- Homework.
- Homework will equal 1/3 of the final grade.
- Homework is expected on the date assigned.
- Homework will be graded as follows:
- Two days late the highest grade that will be assigned
is a B.
- Three days late the highest grade that will be
assigned is a C.
- Four days late the highest grade that will be
assigned is a D.
- Five days late the highest grade that will be
assigned is an F.
- Six days late and thereafter a 0 will be assigned to
the homework.
- Rewriting of homework is permitted only for homework
that is a C- or less. Any rewrites must be turned in within two
days of receipt of the graded paper.
- Homework, pop quizzes, and class participation are all
considered part of the homework page.
- Keyboard:
- Keyboard assignments will be given on Fridays and will be
expected to be prepared for the next Friday.
- In-class assignments will be checked during class time.
Your progress on these will be graded beginning with week four.
- Other Grading Information.
- You will be expected to participate during class time in
various, therefore, you must be prepared with any homework, reading, or
other assignment on the day it was assigned.
- You are permitted 3 absences (excused or unexcused). Absences
over the above number will be calculated against the final grade.
- You must have a passing grade in each of the three graded
areas of harmony (Examinations/Final Project, Homework, Keyboard) in
order to pass the course.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: "Academic
dishonesty refers not simply to dishonesty in examinations, but
to any behavior, such as plagiarism, which violates academic standards.
Matters of dishonesty may be handled by the professor and student
involved, and may be appealed to the Student-Faculty Problems
Committee." Baldwin-Wallace College STUDENT HANDBOOK, p 17.
FINAL CAVEAT: The above
schedule and procedures in this course are subject to change in
the event of extenuating circumstances. Since this is the first
time this course has been offered as a semester course it should
be assumed that adjustments will need to be made as we work through
the semester.