Time Schedule:
Craig Sheppard
MUSIC 327
Seattle Campus
For music majors.
Class description
This quarter we will continue chronologically, taking in the first Viennese School of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, and touching on Chopin at the end.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
As in Music 326, European history and geography will be stressed. How the composers lived their lives, and the parameters for such, are vital to our understanding. Some lectures, particularly those to do with Beethoven, will focus on structure and analysis of key works from that composer's output. For others, we might use the approach of comparative recordings, as we did a couple of times in Music 326. At times, your instructor will play through excerpts of a composer's entire keyboard output, in order to show you the breadth of such.
Recommended preparation
Music 326 is a pre-requisite. Music 326, 327 and 328 are sequential. Otherwise, as stated before, your success in the course is predicated as much on your willingness to share in class your feelings and observations about the pieces we're studying as it is on the listening assignments and quizzes.
Class assignments and grading
Similar to Music 326, students will have weekly listening assignments, five to ten works (or portions thereof) which must be listened to in the Music Listening Center in the basement. CDs will be available for such on the first day of class in the Winter quarter. You will then write a few sentences describing what you've listened to - including a bit about the structure of the piece - and the feelings this work engenders in you.
In addition, you will select a biography of one of the composers we will be studying and submit to me the last class of the quarter (March 9th) a three to four page (double-spaced) book report. You should go to the Music Library to choose this biography, then bring it by for my approval during one of our classes.
30% of the grade is class participation (see my remarks on such under Music 326) and your weekly written-out listening assignments.
20% will be the book report.
50% of your grade will come from the mid-term and final quiz. There will be no final exam this quarter, but rather a final quiz on the last day of class (March 8th). The final quiz in Music 327 will be similar to the final exam in Music 326 - approximately two-thirds written answers, and one thing listening.
