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
- You can purchase your textbook from wherever you can find it cheapest (i.e. Amazon, Half Books.) or you can purchase it from MBS Direct at certain times of the year.
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.