MUSIC APPRECIATION CLASS--COLLEGE LEVEL--SAMPLE TEACHING PLAN (15 WEEKS)

Teaching Plan For A Music Appreciation Class (15-Week Format)
Name of Week	Concepts, including musical works covered
Week 1	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)
Week 2	Words to cover in class: toccata, fugue, oratorio, cadenza, arpeggio, chord Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ (J.S. Bach) Messiah (Handel)
Week 3	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)
Week 4	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)
Week 5	Words to cover in class: Concerto, double concerto, double exposition. Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor (Mozart)
Week 6	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)
Week 7	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)
Week 8	Review for Midterm Exam (covering material from Week 1-8) Midterm Exam
Week 9	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)
Week 10	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)
Week 11	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)
Week 12	Prepare for Quiz 2 (covering material from Weeks 9-11) Quiz 2
Week 13	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)
Week 14	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)
Week 15	Preparation for final exam (involving material covered in all 14 weeks) Final exam

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.