Teaching Plan For A Music Appreciation Class (15-Week
Format)
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Name of Week
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Concepts, including musical works covered
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Week 1
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Introduction to the Class
What is music?
What makes music the
way it is?
Words to cover in class:
orchestra, string
orchestra, soloist, fugue, counterpoint, answer,
episode, pedal
point, theme, recurrent theme, consonance,
aesthetics,
dissonance, resolution, melody, harmony, accompaniment.
The Four Seasons
(Vivaldi)
Little Fugue in G
minor (J.S. Bach)
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Week 2
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Words to cover in class:
toccata, fugue,
oratorio, cadenza, arpeggio, chord
Toccata and Fugue in
D minor for Organ (J.S. Bach)
Messiah (Handel)
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Week 3
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Words to cover in class:
symphony, sonata,
sonata form, exposition, development,
recapitulation,
coda, main theme, closing theme, secondary
theme.
Sonata in C major,
L. 104 (Scarlatti)
Surprise Symphony,
second movement (Haydn)
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Week 4
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Review for Quiz 1
(would cover material in Weeks 1-3)
Quiz 1
Words to cover in class after Quiz 1
Motive,
orchestration, full score, partition, symphony, names of
the common symphony
orchestra instruments.
Symphony no. 40 in G minor, first movement (Mozart)
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Week 5
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Words to cover in class:
Concerto, double
concerto, double exposition.
Piano Concerto no.
20 in D minor (Mozart)
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Week 6
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Words to cover in class:
pianoforte, key,
hammer, soft pedal, damper pedal, damper, chromaticism, key center, minor,
major.
Für Elise for
piano solo (Beethoven)
Symphony no. 5 in C minor, first movement (Beethoven)
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Week 7
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Words to cover in class:
opera, overture,
programmatic music, program music, pizzicato,
arco, trill, climax,
crescendo, decrescendo, tutti.
Egmont Overture (Beethoven)
William Tell
Overture (Rossini)
Barber of Seville
Overture (Rossini)
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Week 8
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Review for Midterm
Exam
(covering material from Week 1-8)
Midterm Exam
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Week 9
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Words to cover in class:
fantasy, impromptu,
funeral march, slow movement, ABA form,
duet sonata,
quasi-operatic
Fantasy-Impromptu
(Chopin)
Funeral March Sonata
in B-flat Minor, third movement (Chopin)
Spring Sonata in F
Major for Violin and Piano, first movement
(Beethoven)
Choral Symphony,
fourth movement (Beethoven)
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Week 10
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Words to cover in class:
Hungarian dance,
phrase, legato, tremolo, stretto, sforzando, piano,
forte, fortissimo,
pianissimo, conducting, 3-beat conducting.
Symphony no. 9 in B
minor, "Unfinished", first movement
(Schubert)
Piano Concerto no. 5
in E-flat Major for orchestra, first movement (Beethoven)
Symphony no. 4 in E
minor, 1st movement (Brahms)
Hungarian Dance in G
minor (Brahms)
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Week 11
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Words to cover in class:
fingerboard, nut,
bowed-string, bow, barcarolle, gondoliera,
rondo, rondo
capriccioso, introduction
Violin Concerto in E
minor, first movement (Mendelssohn)
Barcarolle in
F-sharp minor from "Songs Without Words"
(Mendelssohn)
Introdcution and
Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra
in A minor
(Saint-Säens)
Introduction and
Rondo Capriccioso for piano solo, op. 14
(Mendelssohn)
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Week 12
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Prepare for Quiz 2
(covering material from Weeks 9-11)
Quiz 2
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Week 13
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Words to cover in class:
csardás, lassan
(lassù), friska (frisk), tramscription, arrangement,
Impressionism,
seventh chord, ninth chord, eleventh chord,
art song
Hungarian Rhapsody
no. 2 (Liszt)
Baba-Yaga and
The Great Gate of Kiev from "Pictures At An
Exhibition"
(Mussorgsky/Ravel)
Prelude to an
Afternoon of a Fawn (Debussy)
Clair de lune,
from "Suite Beremasque" (Debussy)
Clair de lune,
French art song for piano and voice (Fauré)
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Week 14
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Words to cover in class:
adagio, fanfare,
bolero, malagueña, flamenco, suspension,
minor-seventh chord,
divisi, accelerando
Adagio For Strings
(Barber)
Fanfare for the
Common Man (Copland)
Bolero (Ravel)
Malagueña
(Lecuona)
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Week 15
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Preparation for
final exam
(involving material covered in all 14 weeks)
Final exam
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Addendum
Concert attendance
assignments:
Excellent sources would be the Dame Myra Hess concerts and the Classical
Mondays
concerts at the Chicago Cultural Center, or some of the
recitals at the Roosevelt University (Chicago), or some of the concerts held at
the Daley Center for their
At The Picasso series
(during the spring and summer, such concerts are done usually
outside the Daley Center).
Note: This class
covers mainly the classical repetoire from the 17th century to the
early 20th century.
