MUS1376 Music Appreciation

Current Status
Not Enrolled
Price
Free
Get Started
Login to Enroll

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This Music Appreciation course provides students with a comprehensive overview of music history, beginning with the Middle Ages and extending to contemporary times. It is designed to develop students’ listening skills, enabling them to engage with and appreciate various musical genres. In addition, the course will offer a brief exploration of the various musical instruments commonly used in orchestral arrangements.

Music, a fundamental aspect of every culture, is a powerful medium that can evoke profound emotional responses. This course will help students refine their listening skills, deepening their understanding and enjoyment of music. By experiencing a broad spectrum of musical styles, students will enhance their appreciation for the art of music and its emotional and cultural significance.

Key Topics Include

  • Achieve a Working Vocabulary of Musical Terms and Concepts: Develop fluency in fundamental musical terminology, including rhythm, harmony, melody, tempo, and dynamics, to analyze and discuss music effectively.
  • Recognize Distinct Characteristics from Various Historical Eras: Identify and differentiate the unique styles, techniques, and forms of music from different periods, such as the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras.
  • Understand Various Approaches to Musical Works Throughout History: Gain insight into the evolution of musical composition, performance, and cultural significance from early music to contemporary works.
  • Knowledge of Orchestral Instruments: Familiarize with the instruments that form an orchestra, understanding their roles and how they contribute to a composition’s overall sound and structure.
  • Enhance Listening Skills for Music Appreciation: Develop refined listening skills to analyze musical compositions, enabling a deeper appreciation of music’s intricacies and emotional depth.
  • Recognize the Emotional Power of Music: Explore how music influences human emotions, evoking a range of responses and playing a significant role in personal and cultural experiences.
  • Experience a Broader Range of Musical Types: Broaden exposure to diverse musical styles and genres, enriching students’ musical knowledge and expanding their appreciation of global musical traditions.

REFERENCE MATERIALS
for
Full-CLC Students

“A CLC award signifies that the student has attained the knowledge, (through either prior education or experience), equal to or greater than the student would have learned in a traditional college course.”

 “Based upon your CLC award, physical classroom attendance is not required; however, you will be required to successfully pass a final exam for each course.”

Based upon your HESEAP Application, you have received full-CLC for this course; therefore, this is a test-out course which does not include traditional education on the subject.

USILACS wants to help you succeed. If you feel you need a little knowledge refresher or want to expand your knowledge on this subject, we recommend that you consider reviewing some of the vast online education resources and search topics below.

Thousands of FREE Online College Courses:

Search Topics: Publications/Videos/Papers

(The majority of the exam questions for this course are based upon information contained in the below search topics)

 

Please note: USILACS is not the source of these links. Therefore we do not have control over the accessibility of the links. You may find that some links are no longer active. We therefore encourage you to copy and paste the title into Google or YouTube to find an alternative source. You are also welcome to email our academic team at academics@usilacs.org for assistance or to inform them of an inactive link so we can replace it with a new one.

Sometimes the links may invite you to download reference material into a PDF. Although we have been diligent in finding safe sources of information, we encourage you to be diligent in ensuring a download is safe on your device.

Although we are providing comprehensive study material, if you feel you require more, please copy and paste the topics and titles into Google and YouTube. 

 

Tips for success

Remember, these exams are all open textbook. Meaning, you can keep your reference material open in other tabs to refer back to during your exam.

Some of the reference materials are large, extensive books with hundreds of pages. If you have a question on your exam that you want to find the answer to within the book, here’s a quick way of doing so:

Choose a keyword or phrase from the exam question. Go to the reference material. Press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F’ on your keyboard. This will bring up a search bar. Type your keyword or phrase into the search bar and click search. This will show you all the locations that they appear in the reference material.

Course Content