* Music Resources

The purpose of this course is to help students further enhance their appreciation for music as a creative tool of the imagination, as entertainment, and as a window into who we are as social beings. Part of the course also helps students to advance their listening skills, which leads to a better understand of what music actually contains. For this purpose, the course explores western classical music; American folk, popular and religious music; along with a sampling of music from non-western cultures.

Content covers Medieval & Renaissance through 20th Century: Aleatoric, Electronic, and Minimalist Music.

Modules include The Elements of Rhythm - Sound, Symbol, and Time; The Elements of Pitch - Sound, Symbol, and Tone; and The Foundations Scale - Steps and Scales.

This assignment works toward developing students' competency in Inquiry and Problem Solving. The problem solving arises as they negotiate contradictory viewpoints about genres of American music, specifically related to topic areas covered in class (such as class, gender, identity, race, authenticity, and place).

This open set of music dictation assignments, practice assignments, and supplemental videos was created under a Round Ten ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics covered include: Protonotation, Standard Notation, Dots and Ties, Simple and Compound Meter, Modes, Syncopations, Arpeggiations, Harmonic Dictations in Major and Minor Keys, Seventh Chords, Applied Chords, Augmented Chords, Modal Mixture