Introduction to the language of music. Students develop skills of score reading, vocabulary for communicating about music, discriminating listening habits, and study several significant complete compositions. Reading knowledge of music desirable. Fall and spring. Students will study the history of style in Western Classical music from roughly 1500 to the present.
Text comes with supporting tapes.
Three papers on selected complete pieces. Fall, spring, summer. Not for music majors. One major work of Western art music will be heard and discussed each week. Music vocabulary and background will be developed appropriate to comprehending each work.