Discover and understand more about music through this course (it's required for music majors, but anyone may take it).
About This Course
Course Name/Code: Basic Music Literature, FIMU 101
Catalog Description: An introduction of sounds, styles, and characteristics in standard music literature from Renaissance to the present. This course serves as the aural foundation for theoretical and historical studies to follow.
Credits/Hours: 3
Instructors and Texts
Instructors Who Teach This Course: Dr. David Ledgerwood
Required Text(s) :
Students must purchase and possess the required text(s) by the first day of class. Order early:
- Machlis, Joseph and Forney, Kristine. The Enjoyment of Music. Tenth Edition.
2 Options:
- Shorter Edition+Student Resource DVD+Norton Recordings, Shorter Version (4 CDs)
- ISBN-10: 0-393-17423-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-393-17423-6
- Shorter Edition Ebook+Student Resource DVD/ The Norton Recordings, Shorter Version
- ISBN-10: 0-393-11094-X
- ISBN 13: 978-0-393-11094-4
- ISBN-10: 0-393-10758-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-393-10758-6
- Purchase from MBS Direct.
Course Workload Preview
The following preview of anticipated course workload is subject to instructor change.
- Six tests and a final.
- Two discussion questions on the reading and two discussion forum on the listening assignments weekly.
- Optional: Extra Credit concert report.