MUSC101 -- Appreciation of Music

UD Online -- Distance Learning, University of Delaware

Lyle Neff, Instructor (email)

• Message sent to newly enrolled students waiting to access Canvas (should have been sent by instructor)
• Welcome Message (Required reading)
• Syllabus and Policies (Required reading)
• Grading Chart for estimating your ongoing 100%-scale grade with each newly completed assignment or exam; download one of these:
  • Excel spreadsheet
  • Open Office spreadsheet
    
• Quiz-style Assignments and Surveys (online, accessed by clicking "Quizzes" in the white left side-bar in Canvas). 
  • Pre-Course Survey (optional, ungraded)
  • Required Quiz-Assignments (Required)
    • Materials of Music (2 parts)
    • Review of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (related to the previous)
    • Medieval Music
    • Renaissance Music
    • Baroque Music (2 parts)
    • Classical Music (2 parts)
    • Romantic Music (2 parts)
    • Modern Music (3 parts)
  • Post-Course Survey (optional, ungraded, anonymous)
• Required Exams (online, taken with proctor, accessed by clicking "Quizzes" in the white left side-bar in Canvas).
  • Sample Exam (not interactive; for viewing only)
  • Information on the Exams (besides what's in the syllabus)
    • Exam 1
    • Exam 2
    • Exam 3 (final)
• Required Textbook Readings
  • Readings in advance of Exam 1
  • Readings in advance of Exam 2
  • Readings in advance of Exam 3 (final)
• Required Listening Pieces (note:  listening pieces figure into the quiz-assignments and the exams)
  • Listening List for Exam 1
  • Listening List for Exam 2
  • Listening List for Exam 3 (final)
• Required supplementary materials on Canvas
  • Listening to Music (by the instructor, especially for the assignment on Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)
  • Outlines on materials of music (by the instructor, to go mainly with the first "Part" of the textbook)
  • Instructor's comments on the textbook
  • MIDI files to illustrate aurally the basic materials of music in the textbook
  • Diagram of sonata-allegro form in the Classical era (HTML)
  • Diagram of concerto first-movement form in the Classical era (HTML)

• Other links
  
  • W.W. Norton online materials for Enjoyment of Music, 13th edition (valid subscription/permission required for access)
  • A YouTube video of a live performance of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
  • MIDI files to provide additional whole pieces for supplementary listening 
  • Glossary for 9th edition of The Enjoyment of Music, shorter version

Copyright (c) 2018-2019 by Lyle K. Neff

Last updated:  Feb. 20, 2019.