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ONLINE
MUSIC APPRECIATION Music 27A, taught by Larry
Ferrara City E-mail: lferrara.ccsf@gmail.com
ph: (415) 239-3856 ORIENTATION
The summer orientation will
take place online within the Music Appreciation
course. Your account will be made active on Monday,
June,15th. Please log as soon as possible
after that so you know how to, build your profile,
introduce yourself, navigate the course, and be
familiar with how to find the online orientation
which will be held the evening, Tuesday, June 16th,
from Orientation time on Tuesday
evening, June 16th,
2015
When you enter the
online Music Appreciation orientation at the
appropriate time, I will welcome you live, provide
information and procedures on how to successfully
complete the course, and go over the class
requirements.
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, informative
web-lectures and links to MyMusicLab and other
resources on the Web. Music Appreciation also
features a lively discussion board, and a weekly
quizzes that will help prepare you for the final
exam. TEXT
BOOK
You will need to
purchase a text for this course. You can either
acquire a hard bound copy, electronic e-book, or
a 3rd edition REVEL online e-text, with
accompaning three-hole-punched, binder-ready
book for offline use. It can be acquired in one
of formats below: 1.)
The textbook is: Listen to This, Second
Edition by Mark Bonds, published by, Pearson,
2011 or the Listen to This, Third Edition
REVEL which features an online text with the same
hard copy of a three-hole-punched, binder-ready
reference for offline use. All of the audio
for the course will be accessed or downloaded from
both the CCSF Insight pages or the http://www.musicappreciation.com
pages. It will not be necessary to buy the CD set or
the Music Lab (MyMusicLab), only the text or
REVEL option is required. You may purchase the CD's
or the music lab (www.mymusiclab.com) as an OPTION
but they are NOT REQUIRED. Only the text book Listen to This
by Mark Bonds is required (2nd edition, or 3rd
edition REVEL, ONLINE TEXT with accompaning hard
copy
of a three-hole-punched, binder-ready reference
for offline use. If you purchase the 3rd
edition of the Listen to This e-text, it
will come as an online e-book called REVEL, and a three-hole-punched,
binder-ready reference of Listen to This for
offline use. Either the 2nd or 3rd edition will do.
One of the best ways to purchase the text is at the City College San Francisco bookstore. But you may wish to buy it online.
1) LISTEN TO THIS, BOUND BOOK,
2/Edition, by BONDS,
Pub. by Pearson, ISBN-9780205777365
You can use Internet Explorer or Firefox, while
Safari (which is a good browser, may have a few
short comings) can be used for this course I would
recommend IE or Firefox.
The only other requirement is an mp3 player, and a
video 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 by both reading, listening, and video
viewing to corresponding web lectures, text book
reading, and guided listening. At the end of the
week you will be asked to take ta set of chapter
quizzes, a unit quiz and also answer a critical
thinking question. To access the appropriate
assignments for each week go to the current section
or link of content labelled "Assignment." It will be
dated for the current week, and you will be asked to
work on it, and complete it. There will be weekly Quizzes with
questions that will help you better understand the
concepts and listening skills you will be learning
and developing. To access the weekly quizzes, log
into this course, go to the homepage of the class
and look for a red check mark which indicates that
the link will lead you to a test. The quizzes will
be based on material you have been working on for
that week such as reading the text and the
web-lectures, and also listening to the steaming
sound files and videos. You will then precede to
take the assigned quizzes, which will have content
questions as well as listening questions. There will be a weekly Fourm with
questions, projects, and discussions for you to
participate in. To take part in these weekly
discourses, log into the course, go to the current
dated section and look for the discussion board (a
small people icon) to fulfill the weekly critical
thinking question. After you answer it, also respond
to a classmates contribution and participate. There will be 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, and the textbook
readings. Each weekly assignment will contain one
unit of work that you will need to complete within
the duration of 7 days – in other words – you will
need to complete a set of quizzes, a set of
web-lectures, videos and word-scores to view, text
book reading, and bulletin board discussion. Once
you've visited, read and listened to that week’s
units of text book reading, web-lectures, listening,
you will then proceed to the corresponding quizzes
and related bulletin board question. QUIZZES You
will
need
to
take a set of chapter and unit quizzes with embedded
listening questions for each weekly assignment.
These 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, the
listening, and through the discussion board. The
final exam is to be taken online (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. The final is closed book and
closed notes. 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, either
from the CCSF
Insight page or the http://www.musicappreciation.com
website. If you download them, you will have them
for future reference and can hear them “off line.” 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 or from the Insight pages, or
by repeated listening to the streaming audio
examples available to you from the course website.
Your listening hours will be kept track of by your
instructor by tracking the amount of time you spend
listening to the files or by how often you download
them from the Music Appreciation pages. ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM Each
week
there
will
be a question 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 discussion forum
question 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 an intelligent and
aesthetical way. There will be new questions each
week for you to answer. You are expected to keep up
with these questions by responding to the
instructor's questions, as well as reacting to other
class members
contributions. To
keep
up
with
these
questions you will have to contribute by the end of
the session (a minimum of 10 postings and an
additional 10 responses to other class member’s
posts): Your discussion forum participation will be
graded based on your answer to the question that the
instructor poses. Also, commenting on another class
member’s response to a question regarding a current
or previous post will earn you additional points for
each discussion question. Your participation will be
rated 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 that move from Monday until Saturday. If
you post your discussion forum response on a Sunday
(no penalty) I will read and rate it and not
necessarily give a written response. If you miss a
week’s set of questions you can answer them from the
previous week for partial credit, and I will read
and grade your responses but not necessarily give a
written reply to a late post. CONCERT REVIEWS During
the
course
of
the
summer session each student is assigned the writing
of two music reviews of classical music concerts,
chamber music, jazz, world music, ballet, choir or
opera performances; These reviews are based on two
attended live performances. These two concert
reviews are due by the end of the summer session.
The reviews are of classical music performances and
one can be of a jazz concert. The first review is
due by mid summer session and should be uploaded
from the course homepage. You must include a
program, photo of performance, or ticket stub along
with your live concert review. There will be a
listing of free and fee recommended concerts for
your consideration on the Insight course
homepage. One of the best resources for free
classical music concerts held almost everyday of the
week is the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50
Oak St. (Van Ness at Market). More information on
the Conservatory will be found on the course
homepage. Also in the summer there are very good
free concerts at the Stern Grove, in San Francisco. ATTENDANCE Attendance in the class will be
followed by: 1) how often you log into the course
each week to do the work and experience the
listening, 2) your weekly quiz performances, 3)
weekly discussion forum participation, 4) logging in
for the final exam. 5) Attending three live concerts
and then submitting a review based on your
experience at those concerts. You are expected to
log in and do the work each week. Each week you will
have a new reading assignment, a set of quizzes to
take and a new discussion forum. You will have only
one week to complete the weekly readings, learn the
web lectures, do the listening, take the quizzes,
and answer and respond to the discussion forum
question. If you do not log into the course and do
the work each week it will directly affect your
grade because you will miss that weeks assignment.
If you fail to log in and do the work for two weeks
or 14 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 in), you will be dropped
from the class. Keeping up with the work
continuously throughout the session is the best way
to ensure that you are learning the material in a
steady way. Each weekly unit will build on previous
concepts that you have learned. Therefore, regular
attendance is essential. The course week will run
from Monday until Sunday and new content will be
updated each ensuing Monday. FINAL You
will be actively viewing, listening to 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. The material on Final will be
covered by the weekly quizzes, the weekly listening,
text book reading, word scores, website viewing and
live discussion review. The final exam questions
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,
word-scores, discussing and textbook reading. Final
Exam: Online, July 23, 7:00 pm GRADING— Your
grade
in
this
course
will consist of: Regular website viewing, listening and text
book reading. Partaking in weekly quizzes Contributing
weekly to the forum discussions. Handing in two live concert reviews (2
classical or 1 classical and 1 jazz). Taking an online final exam. - Logging in, participating,
reading, listening, 25% of final grade taking weekly
quizzes
- Discussion forum
participation
25% of final grade - Concert
reviews
25%
of
final grade - Final Exam
25% -
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) DISCUSSION FORUM
(answering critical thinking 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
text
or
E-text
reading tasks, links to the weekly web lectures,
listening files and every goal you will need to
fulfill for that week. 7) QUIZZES. You
will have one week to complete the assigned quizzes
and they will be replaced with newer quizzes
subsequently, each new set of quizzes will be based
on later course content. Remember, the concepts
asked about on the quiz questions will help you
greatly on the final exam. 8) The GLOSSARY
9) The LINKS
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