Introduction to Music | Defining Music Group Discussion | Queens College | Fall 22
Six different definitions of music are included on this handout. In small groups, students read the definitions and discuss the following prompts […]
Tag: music appreciation
Introduction to Music | Soundscape Report | Lehman College | Spring 2020
This is an assignment intended to serve alongside the traditional concert report, in which the students would observe and report on all […]
Introduction to Music | Second Concert Report | Lehman College | Spring 2020
This was an assignment developed to serve as an alternative to a concert report during the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic […]
Introduction to Music | First Concert Report | Lehman College | Spring 2020
This was an assignment I devised as an alternative to a concert report during the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic in […]
Introduction to Music | Syllabus | Queens College | Spring 2022
In-person, non-major introduction to music featuring quizzes in combination with a midterm presentation and final project. Assigned textbook: Esther M. Morgan-Ellis’ Resonances: […]
A Thousand Years of Listening | Syllabus | Hunter College | Fall 2021
This is a non-major, online and synchronous introduction to Western art music. The workload of the course consists of a combination of blog […]
Introduction to Music | Dance Notation Group Activity | Queens College | Fall 2019
A small group activity in which students interpret an example of Renaissance dance notation: “The Washerwoman’s Branle,” taken from Thoinot Arbeau’s 1589 […]
Introduction to Music | Sacred Music Group Activity | Queens College | Fall 2019
In-class activity for small groups of 3-4 students; intended to review the musical characteristics associated with four genres of sacred music: plainchant; […]
Introduction to Music | Collected Blog Prompts | Queens College | Spring 2021
A collection of nine blog prompts developed for an introductory music course that incorporates world music, popular music, and Western art music […]
Introduction to Music | Syllabus | Lehman College | Fall 2021
Chronological survey of Western art music taught online (synchronous). Assigned Textbook: Cohen, Doud, Music: Its Language History, and Culture (OER, Brooklyn College). […]
