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ONLINE MUSIC APPRECIATION Music
27A, taught by Larry Ferrara City E-mail: LarryFerrara27A@aol.com Office A129,
ph: (415) 239-3856 ORIENTATION—
The
summer class orientation will take place online within the Music Appreciation
course. Your account will be made active on Sunday, June 14th and
the orientation will be held on Monday June 15th, from HOW TO LOGIN—
To login
to the class go to the Insight web page, http://insight.ccsf.edu
and enter your password and username. Your password will be sent to you by
way of e-mail and your user name is your CCSF ID. The username must be in
lower case letters (change a W to w and an X to x) and numbers (not “o” or letters
for numbers). OVERVIEW—
Music Appreciation is an
exploration in the materials and masterworks of great music, from Medieval Chant
to Contemporary Popular styles. Students begin by studying the elements of
music (pitch, melody, rhythm, harmony, form, etc.) then learn about the
instruments of the orchestra and build a comprehensive vocabulary with which
to understand and evaluate musical expression. From there, they survey the
continuum of musical history in Western Civilization, from the Middle Ages
through the present time. Along the way the student will become aware of
musical form, the great works and composers of Classical music and in
ultimately by the end become a better music listener. The 22 web lectures
are embedded with over 90 audio examples. There are reading assignments, and links to other
resources on the Web. Music Appreciation also features a Bulletin Board, and
weekly quizzes that the student can use to test him or herself and prepare
for exams. Once you’ve logged in, visit the Welcome page
and be sure of all the requirements before you start
working online. TEXT BOOK—
There
is one item which must be purchased for this course: 1.) The
textbook: Listen, Brief Fifth or Sixth Edition by Joseph
Kerman, published by, Bedford St. Martin, which comes with an optional CD
set, which not required for this course. How to obtain the text book-
The best place to obtain
the book is at the City College of San Francisco bookstore. But if you run
into problems, you can contact the publisher, Bedford St. Martin, directly by
calling: 1-617-399-4000. If you prefer online ordering you
can try www.amazon.com This site carries new
as well as "gently used" books, which will save you some money. You can use Internet
Explorer, Firefox, or Safari for this course. The only other requirement is an mp3
player, which many computers already have installed in their operating
system. If you don't have one, you can download it using this website: COURSE CONTENT— There will by weekly
Assignments for
you to fulfill with corresponding web lectures, reading homework, and
listening files. To access the appropriate
assignments for each week go to the current blocks of content that will be
dated for that week, work on them, and complete them. There will be two and
sometimes three weekly Quizzes with questions that will help you better understand the
concepts you will be learning and the music you will be listening to. To
access these weekly quizzes, log into this course, go to the current blocks
of content that will be dated, and take the assigned quizzes for the existing
week you are in and submit them for self-evaluation. There will be two weekly Bulletin Board postings with questions and discussions
for you to answer and participate in. To answer these weekly questions, log
into this course, go to the current blocks of content that will be dated, and
look for the discussion room and find the two weekly questions, answer them and
participate. There will by a
scheduled Live Discussion on certain occasions and especially before exams. To access the chat
room, log into this course, and go the Review Session room. ASSIGNMENTS— Each segment of the
website will coordinate the web lectures, the textbook readings and the
listening portions of the class. Each weekly assignment will contain two and
sometimes three units of work that you will need to complete within the
duration of 7 days – in other words – you will need to complete two and
sometimes three units of web-lectures, text book reading, listening and
quizzes in one week. Once you've visited, read and listened to that week’s
units of web-lectures, listening, and textbook reading you will then proceed
to the corresponding quizzes and bulletin board questions. QUIZZES— You will need to take two
and sometimes three quizzes each week and these weekly quizzes are required
for they are a way for you (and me) to make sure you are keeping up with the
listening and learning the material in the text, on the web, and through the
bulletin board. The final exam is to be taken in person at City College of
San Francisco’s Phelan Campus. (see below for date
and time). The weekly quizzes will be recorded and graded. They are open book
and or open computer. The weekly quizzes are in multiple choices, matching,
or true and false format. LISTENING— Most of the genres, terms
and instrument explanations are embedded with sound files or mp3’s. You can
either down load these files to your computer and then open them, or open the
files directly from the server location. If you download them, you will have
them for future reference and can hear them “off line.” It is recommended
that you download them (for future review) as well as listen to them as you
are reading the corresponding information. If you have a fast internet
connection (T1, All of the recorded examples are also available in the
Media Center. If you prefer you can listen to them from the Media Center
located on the 4th floor of Rosenberg library, City College Phelan
campus. When you enter the Media Center ask for the any of the Supplemental
CDs (CD’s 1-7) for Music Appreciation taught by Larry Ferrara. The content of
the CDs will be found in a three ring binder in the front of the media center
and will coordinate with the sequence of web lectures. If you prefer you will
find the CD play list on this link. If you
opt to use the Media Center on the Phelan campus of City College of San
Francisco be sure to keep track of the time you spend there. This is done by
filling out (with the stamped date and time) a blue time card supplied by the
Media Center. Going to the Media Center to do the listening is NOT a
requirement but an option for you to fulfill the listening requirement
because all of the sound files are contained within the online course. You need to do the
equivalent of one hour of music listening a week in this course. The way you
fulfill that requirement is by either downloading the files from the Music
Appreciation website, by listen to streaming audio example available to you
from the weekly web lecture, or optionally visiting the Media Center (see above)
to do your listening. Your listening hours will be kept track of by your
instructor tracking the amount of files you down load from the Music
Appreciation pages and the amount of time you are actually listening to the
streaming sound files from the web lectures. BULLETIN BOARD— Each week during the
summer there will be questions posed to you from each weekly unit of
information and material. These questions will formulate discussion threads
in the class. In addition to the weekly readings, web viewing, listening, and
weekly quizzes, the bulletin board questions will contain critical thinking
inquiries about musical issues for you to consider. These questions are
designed to make you think about what music is and how to listen to in
intelligently and aesthetically. There will be new questions each week for
you to answer. You are expected to keep up with these questions by responding
to them, as well as reacting to other class members
contributions. To keep up these
questions you will contribute with at least two postings each week (a summer
minimum of 15 postings and 15 responses to other class member’s posts): Your
bulletin board participation will be answering a question that I pose and
also commenting on another class member’s response to a question regarding a
current or previous post. Your participation will be graded and you will be
asked similar questions during the final exam. I will read all of your posts
and participate in most if not all of the current weekly discussions. If you
miss a week’s set of questions you can answer questions from the previous
week for partial credit. CONCERT REVIEWS— During the summer session
each student is assigned the writing of three music reviews of classical
concerts, jazz, world music, ballet, choir or opera performances; There is
also the option of reviewing two live music reviews and one video review,
still - three total reviews. These reviews are based on two attended live
performances and one rented video, or three live performances. Your video
choice will be from one of the following: Immortal
Beloved (BEETHOVEN), Impromptu
(CHOPIN) or Amadeus (MOZART). These 3 concert reviews or one video review
and two concert reviews are due by the by the end of the summer and should be
typed and handed in to me before or at the final exam. You must include a
program or ticket stub along with your live concert review and if you rent a
video include the rental receipt. ATTENDANCE— Attendance
in the class will be followed by: 1) how often you log on to the course to do
the work and experience the listening, 2) your weekly quiz performances, and
3) weekly bulletin board participation, 4) showing up to take the final exam.
You are expected to login and do the work each week. Each week you will have
a new reading assignment, two and sometimes three new quizzes and two new
bulletin board questions. You will have only one week to complete the
readings, learn two and sometimes three web lectures, do the listening, take
the quizzes, and answer or respond to two bulletin board questions. If you do
not log onto the course and do the work each week it will directly affect
your grade. If you fail to log on and do the work for one week or seven
consecutive days your letter grade in the class will decline and your
progress directly affected. If you miss two weeks of consecutive work (14
days of not logging on), you will be dropped from the class. The course week
will run from Monday to Sunday. The final will be
multiple choice, matching, true false or fill in/short essay format. In
addition to preparing you for the final the weekly quizzes will indicate how
you are keeping up with the class, website viewing, listening and textbook
reading. FINAL— You will be actively viewing, listening and reading material
on music in this course. The assignments, corresponding quizzes, and bulletin
board bulletin board postings are specifically designed to teach you how to
listen to music and help you prepare for the final exam. The more you do
them, the better you will understand the material and the better you will
fare on the exam. Person to person contact will during the in class final.
The material on the final will be covered by the weekly quizzes, the weekly
listening, text book reading, website viewing and live discussion review. The
final will be multiple choice, matching, true false or fill in/short essay
format. The final will reflect how well you kept up with the class, website
viewing, listening, discussing and textbook reading. The following date and time
will be when the final exam will take place at the Final Exam: In
Person, Thursday, July 23rd, GRADING— Your grade in this course
will consist of: 1. Regular website viewing, listening
and text book reading. 2. Partaking in quizzes two or three
times weekly. 3. Contributing twice weekly to the
bulletin board questions. 4. Handing in three reviews (three
live reviews or 2 live and one film review). 5. Taking an in class final. 1.
Logging on, participating, reading, listening 20% of final grade 2.
Weekly Quizzes 20%
of final grade 3.
Bulletin board participation 20%
of final grade 4.
Concert reviews 20%
of final grade 5.
Final 20%
of final grade 6.
Attendance regular
attendance is mandatory (see above for details) STUDENT/TEACHER INTERACTION— As far as interaction is concerned--
the more the better! There are three different ways to communicate: 1) DIRECT E- 2) BULLETIN BOARD (answering questions that are placed each week 3) LIVE
CHAT: Before
exams the discussion room will be utilized and material will be reviewed
especially before the final exam. 4) The WELCOME 5) The SYLLABUS 6) ASSIGNMENTS
contain links to
the weekly web lectures (2 or 3), listening files and the corresponding
readings from the text. 7) QUIZZES. You will have one week to
complete the assigned quizzes and then they will be replaced with a newer
quizzes which will be based on later course content. In other words you have
a new two and sometimes three new quizzes each week and you have one week to
take those quizzes. Remember the quiz questions will help you greatly on the
final. 8) The GLOSSARY 9) The LINKS |
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