APP2400: Music Appreciation

05/01/2024 to 05/30/2025 • Modified 04/23/2024

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Course Description

This semester-long course provides instruction in basic musical elements and instruments, traces the development and growth of several forms of music, and gives students a foundation to appreciate music more fully. The course will expose students to several genres of music, and students will learn the names and backgrounds of several famous musical composers and their contributions to their particular genres. Students will also study gospel, praise and worship, and contemporary Christian music.

Next Start Date*

Next Monday

Program Restrictions*

  • ESD: Elementary School Diploma (ESDP-ESD-D) Excluded
  • MSD: Middle School Diploma (MSDP-MSD-D) Excluded

High School Diploma Requirements*

  • Contributes .5 credits to LUOA – Fine Art/Career/Tech Ed, Fine Art/Career/Technical Ed Requirement.

Prerequisite

None

Schedule

Module 1: Introducing Music

  • Week 1: Interacting with and Responding to Music
  • Week 2: Quiz & Basic Music Theory
  • Week 3: Presenting Music & Assessments
  • Week 4: Music Theory Test & Music of the Ancient World and Renaissance

Module 2: Music from the Ancients to the Renaissance

  • Week 5: Quiz & Music of the Baroque Period

Module 3: Music of the Baroque Period

  • Week 6: More Baroque Musicians
  • Week 7: Johann Pachelbel & Quiz

  • Week 8: Ancients and Baroque Test & Classical Composers

Module 4: Music of the Classical Period

  • Week 9: Clementi and Beethoven, Classical Period Quiz & Intro to the Romantic Period

Module 5: Music of the Romantic Period

  • Week 10: Musicians of the Romantic Period
  • Week 11: Quiz & More Musicians of the Romantic Period
  • Week 12: Debussy and Rachmaninoff & Quiz
  • Week 13: Classical and Romantic Test & Twentieth-Century Music

Module 6: Music of the Twentieth Century

  • Week 14: Roots and Country Music & Quiz
  • Week 15: Modern Musical Styles
  • Week 16: Hymns, Twentieth-Century Quiz & African Music

Module 7: Cultural Music

  • Week 17: Cultural Music
  • Week 18: Twentieth-Century and Cultural Music Assessments

*Course specifics are tentative and subject to change each year. For the most current information, please refer to the Course Registration Tool.

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