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ONLINE MUSIC APPRECIATION Music
27A, taught by Larry Ferrara City E-mail:
lferrara.ccsf@gmail.com
Office MUB 60, ph: (415) 239-3856 ORIENTATION
The
fall 2018 orientation will take place online
within the Music Appreciation course. Your account
will be made active on Monday, August 20th.
Please login on then to become acquainted with the
course layout, to build your profile, learn how to
navigate the course, and be familiar with how to
login to the live orientation online which will be
held the evening of, Tuesday, August 21st, from
When you enter the
online Music Appreciation orientation I will
welcome you live, provide information and
procedures on how to successfully complete the
course, and go over the class logistics and
requirements.
HOW TO LOGIN
To
login go to the Canvas login page, https://ccsf.instructure.com/courses
and enter your password and username by using your
RAM ID.
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, a survey of the continuum
of musical history in Western Civilization will
take place, 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, word
scores, listening guides, critical thinking
questions, and links to videos, and other
resources on the Web. Music Appreciation, Mus-27A,
also features a lively discussion board, and a
weekly quizzes that will help you learn the
material and prepare you for the midterm and final
exam. TEXT BOOK
You
will need to purchase a text for this course.
It is called Listen to This, by Evan Bond 1.) Listen to This, Third Edition
2014, ISBN 978-0205978618.
OR Listen to This, Second
Edition by Mark Bonds, published by,
Pearson, 2011, ISBN
978-0205777365 All of the audio for
the course will be accessed or downloaded from
both the CCSF Canvas
page or the http://www.musicappreciation.com
pages (they have the same downloads).
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. If you
prefer online ordering you can obtain the text
directly from the publisher, Pearson
Or, www.amazon.com The Amazon site
carries new as well as "gently used" books, which
will save you some money, especially if you opt
for the 2nd edition. Be aware that when you buy
this book new or used you do NOT need the music
lab that comes along with it (the lab is an option
and NOT a requirement) or you do NOT need REVEL.
Some generic online college bookstores also carry
the text, i.e. campusbooks.com
2) LISTEN TO LISTEN TO THIS, by Evan Bond, 2/ Edition, Bound Book; ISBN: 9780205777365 (you can get used copies of this 2nd edition for cheap, and it will be fine for the course)
You can use Internet
Explorer, Google Chrome, or Firefox, while Safari (which is
a good browser, may have a few short comings) can
be used for this course as well, I would recommend
Google Chrome. 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. This is achieved by
both reading, listening, video viewing, following
web lectures to corresponding weekly material,
chapter readings and word-scores (music videos
with streaming written explanation on form and
content), and listening guides (similar to
word-scores but no video). At the end of the week
you will be asked to take two short chapter
quizzes, a unit quiz, and also answer, and discuss
a critical thinking question. To access the appropriate
assignments for each week go to the weekly section
or link of content labelled "Assignment." It will
be dated for the current week, and you will be
asked to work on the above content, and to
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, doing the listening, following
the web-lectures, videos, listening guides, and
word-scores. You will then precede to take the
assigned quizzes, which will have listening
identification, and questions on the musical terms
and concepts. There will be a
weekly Discussion Forum with
questions, projects, and discussions for you to
participate in. To take part in these weekly
discourses, log into the class homepage, go to the
current dated section and look for the discussion
forum board (marked with a small people icon) and
then participate and fulfill the weekly critical
thinking assignment. After you answer the
question, also respond to another classmates
contribution and engage in dialogue. 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 text book reading,
the word-scores, web lectures, videos, and
listening guides. 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, one week's worth of web-lectures, text
book reading, word scores, listening guides, and a
critical thinking question. Once you've visited,
read and listened to that week’s units of web
lectures, listening, word-scores, listening
guides, and textbook reading you will then proceed
to the corresponding quizzes and related
discussion question. QUIZZES
You
will
need to take two chapter quizzes and one unit quiz
(three total) 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 the learning
of the material in the course. The midterm and
final exam is to be taken in person at City
College of San Francisco’s Ocean/Phelan Campus. (see below for dates and
times). 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. Then, the in
person midterm and final is closed book and closed
notes. LISTENING The
web-lectures, word scores, listening guides, and
videos are embedded with sound files or mp3’s. These audio
excerpts or complete pieces will help in your
understanding of the genres, forms,
terms, and instrument explanations you encounter
in the course. You can either down the audio files
to your computer and then open them later for
study, or listen to the files directly from the
server location, either from the Canvas
music download link or the http://www.musicappreciation.com
website (they are the same). If you download the
audio, you will have the excerpts or entire pieces
for future reference and can hear them “off-line.”
Still, course content, listening, and related
assignments are located on the CCSF Insight page,
and the best way to learn how to listen to music
is by way of the content pages with
accompanying audio. 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, the web-lectures,
listening guides, videos, and downloadable mp3's.
Your listening hours will be kept track when the
instructor (me) tracks or follows the amount of
time you spend listening to, following, or
downloading the files from the Music Appreciation
pages, and the time you spend listening during the
weekly tests. Listening Log - There
will be many masterworks from the symphonic, and
piano literature that will be studied and listened
to in this course. You will be asked to keep track
of your listening experience by keeping an ongoing
listening log. This journal, and account of your
listening experience should be kept up with each
week. After listening to a particular work one or
more times, you will write a short summary and put
in your own words what you have heard. This will
include any ideas, images, feelings, or thoughts
that come to mind. You will summarize in the log
what you heard by making a descriptive snapshot of
your listening experience hearing the music. ONLINE
DISCUSSION Each
week
there will be a critical thinking question asked
of you based on the unit of content, information,
and listening material. These questions will
formulate discussion threads in the class and are
in addition to the weekly readings, web viewing,
listening, and weekly quizzes,n required. These
discussion forum questions will contain critical
thinking inquiries about musical issues for you to
consider. The questions are designed to make you
think about what music is, and how it factors into
each weeks learning material. The idea is to get
you to think and listen to music within an
intelligent and aesthetically process. 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 reaching out and reacting to other class members contributions. To
keep
up
with these questions you will have to contribute
by the end of the semester a minimum of 15
postings and an additional 15 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 midterm
and final exams. 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 semester 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 classical music
performances. These 2 concert reviews are due at
separate times throughout the semester. One of the
reviews must be of classical music performance and
one can be of a jazz concert. Both can be reviews
of classical music concerts, and not two jazz
concerts. So, either two classical reviews, or one
classical, and one jazz. The first review is due
by the midterm period and should be uploaded from
the course homepage under the link titled, Concert
Review Submission. The second review is due by the
final exam due date. You must include a
program, ticket stub, or picture of the concert,
along with your concert review(s). 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. 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) showing up to take the midterm
and final exam. 5) Attending three live concerts
and then submitting reviews based on your
experience at those concerts.
MIDTERM
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 face-to-face midterm and final exam. The
more you do them, the better you will understand
the material and the better you will fare on the
exams. Person to person contact will occur during
the in-class midterm and final. The material on
these tests will be based on content covered by
the weekly quizzes, the weekly listening,
web-lectures, listening guides, word scores, and
text book reading. The midterm and final exam
questions will be multiple choice, matching, true
false or fill in/short essay format. The midterm
and final will reflect how well you kept up with
the class, website viewing, listening,
discussing and textbook reading. The
following
dates
and times will be when the midterm and final exams
will take place at City College of San Francisco,
Ocean/Phelan campus. You only need to attend one
midterm and one final exam. The two times
are offered so that they may better match your
schedule. Midterm Exam: face-to-face, either
Thursday, October 18, 6:00-7:00 pm
in the Mulit-Use Building (MLB) room
TBA OR
Saturday, October 20,
9:00-10:00 am in
the Mulit-Use Building (MLB) room TBA. It won't
be necessary to attend both sessions, instead
one or the other. The Multi-Use Building is the
newest CCSF structure. It is located on the west
side of Phelan Ave. slightly south of Riordan
High School and opposite the CCSF Science
building.
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 in class
midterm and final exam. Logging
in, participating, reading, listening,
20% of final
grade &
taking weekly
quizzes
Discussion
forum
participation
20%
of final grade Listening
Log
10% of final grade Concert
reviews
20%
of final grade Midterm
and Final Exam
15% midterm + 15% final 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, web-lectures, listening, word scores, and
other tasks with links to the weekly content
pages, and every goal you will need to fulfill for
that week's learning. 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 midterm and
final exams. 8) The GLOSSARY 9) The LINKS
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