You will need to be able to identify some of the chords for C major as well as the different types of musical notes, time signatures, and the notes on the treble and bass clefs.
Saint Paul’s College: Department of Humanities & Behavioral Sciences
Humanities
Class Time: Office: RH 137
Classroom: Office Hours:
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Email: raphaeljohncomprone@gmail.com
Website: www.comprone.info
Pre-requisite: The Humanities course is a general education course.
Endorsmement Competencies for Education Majors:
Knowledge of reading strategies and techniques used to enhance reading comprehensive skills.
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with art and music throughout the world. Students will receive a broad historical understanding of the major movements in art and music throughout history. They will also study different cultural traditions throughout the world on a comparative basis. By the end of this course, students should be able to identify different artistic and musical traditions throughout the world.
Required/Recommended Textbooks:
These texts are recommended, yet they are not required.
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Other material for the class will be available on this website and on the blog.
Rationale for Course: The purpose of this course is to develop an appreciation of artistic and musical traditions throughout the world.
Course Goals, Objectives, and Corresponding Program Outcomes:
1 Develop a comprehensive overview of world musical and artistic traditions
2 Discuss the significance of artistic and musical traditions and their relationship to history and culture
3 Develop students’ ability to identify musical and artistic traditions
4 Develop an understanding among students of the importance of artistic and musical traditions for all of society
Format:
Lecture, but class discussion will be required. In this course, you will be asked to identify paintings and artworks, so attendance will be crucial. You will also be asked to identify various musical traditions.
Expectations for Student Behavior:
Please arrange for meeting with me during office hours. Students must behave appropriately by: 1) avoiding talking when the professor is speaking, 2) being punctual (students will lose points for tardiness and excessive absences), 3) ALWAYS bringing their textbooks to class, 4) actively participating in class, 5) not plagiarizing, 6) avoiding the use of foul language and abusive behavior, 8) being polite to other students, and 9) following the dress code and wearing appropriate attire, 10) send all revisions of your assignments with an email to raphaeljohncomprone@gmail.com (you must CLEARLY label your assignment and the attachment when you send it to my email. Please use your own email account and clearly identify your name in your email message and in the title of your email message. Please send me Microsoft Word documents and DO NOT SEND PAPERS IN THE TEXT OF YOUR EMAIL. In your email message, put your name, the course you are taking, and the assignment that you are attaching. If you send an assignment to the wrong email, you are responsible for the missing assignment.
Disabilities:
Students with disabilities must refer to the Center for Academic Support Services. They must make an arrangement with me to complete assignments and course material. If supplemental instruction is necessary, they must contact me at raphaeljohncomprone@gmail.com. Students with disabilities should attend class, and I will provide supplemental instruction to these students upon request. Students with disabilities must notify their instructors.
Class Format, Process, and Methods of Instruction:
Grading Strategy:
All grades are weighed equally.
You will have four exams throughout the semester in which you will have to write an in-class essay and identify different artistic and musical traditions.
Exam #1: 20%
Midterm Exam (exam #2): 25%
Exam #3: 20%
Final Exam: 25%
Participation and Attendance: 10%
Total: 100%
Please note that attendance in this course is crucial. Blog posts also count towards class participation, and it is required that you post at least 10 comments on the blog. Please refrain from using inappropriate language on the blog. Also, please check your comments for spelling and punctuation.
Tentative List of Assigned Readings and Assignments:
In class assignments and blog posts:
Please note that to sign in to the blog, you must have a gmail account. You also can only use certain computers in the computer center in order to use Google Blogger. Please use Google Chrome as your web browser when you sign in, and if that does not work, try a different computer or ask a computer technician (Mr. Macklin) which computer works with Blogger.
Online instruction in this class does not replace class participation.
List of Exams and Exam Material:
I. The Birth of Art and the Rebirth of Art: This is an outline of the reading material for the first exam.
I. The Birth of Art
a. Stonehenge
b. prehistoric art
c. Mesopotamian ziggurats and cities
d. Egyptian pyramids, sculptures, hieroglyphics
e. Greek society, Greek art styles, Classical sculpture, architecture
f. Rome: Greek versus Roman styles, Pompeii, Colosseum
g. Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas: Art of the Native Americans before European contact
h. Asian Art
i. The Middle Ages: The Reign of Religion
j. Byzantine Art
k. Romanesque Art
l. Gothic Art
II. The Rebith of Art in the Renaissance and the Baroque periods
a. The Italian Renaissance
b. The Northern Renaissance
c. The Renaissance in the Low Countries
d. The German Renaissance
e. The Spanish Renaissance
f. The Italian Baroque
g. The Flemish Baroque
h. the Dutch Baroque
i. the English Baroque
j. Spanish Baroque
k. French Baroque
l. Rococo
III. Musical Theory
a. History behind Music
b. Understanding Pitch
c. Timing and Rhythm
d. Keys and Scales
e. Time and Tempo
f. Minor Scales
g. Intervals
h. Harmonic Theory
i. Gropus and Phrases
j. Non Diatonic Scales
k. Performance Issues
l. Performance Issues
m. Instrumental Matters
n. Dictionary of musical terms
o. ancient world musical traditions
p. ancient world religious music
q. medieval music
r. Baroque music
s. Classical music
FIRST EXAM
The first exam will have a multiple choice section dealing with musical theory.
The second section will be a matching section in which you will have to identify 50 slides.
The third section will be an essay section where you will have to write about any of the different artistic movements prior to the nineteenth century.
Extra credit: for the listening comprehension test, identify various scales. Any points that you get that are correct will be added to your test grade.
This exam will take several class periods to complete.
Material for the second exam:
I. The Nineteenth Century: The Birth of Isms
a. Neoclassicism
b. Goya
c. Romanticism
d. Realism
e. Architecture
f. Art Nouveau
g. Birth of Photography
h. Impressionism
i. Rodin
j. Post-Impressionism
k. Early Expressionism
l. Symbolism
m. The birth of modern architecture
II. 19th century musical traditions
a. Romantic composers: be able to identify romantic composers
b. African American spirituals
c. Music theory and romantic music
Second Exam:
In the section of the class on world music, you will be asked to identify one musical piece from each of the following selections in a matching section. This will give you an appreciation of the various musical traditions of the world.
In the essay section, you should write about the artistic traditions of the 18th century.
In the matching section, you will have to identify 20 artworks from the 19th century.
Material for the Third Exam:
I. The Twentieth Century: Modern Art
a. Fauvism
b. Twentieth century Sculpture
c. Matisse
d. Picasso
e. Cubism
f. Modernism
g. Futurism
h. Constructivism
i. Precisionism
j. Expressionism
k. Mondrian
l. Mondrian
m. modernist architecture
n. Dadaism
o. Surrealism
p. photography
q. American art
r. Abstract expressionism
s. figural expressionism
t. Post-War sculpture
u. Color field
v. Hard Edge
w. Pre-pop art
x. Pop art
y. Minimalism
z. Conceptual art
aa. contemporary architecture
ab. photography
ac. photo realism
ad. neo-expressionism
ae. postmodern art
II. In depth study of ragtime, blues, and jazz
a. ragtime: the origins of jazz
i. Scott Joplin
ii. Jelly Roll Morton
iii. syncopation
b. the blues
i. began in the 19th century from African American work songs
ii. Blues techniques
blue notes (flattened 3rd, 5th, and 7th of a major scale)
grace notes
crushed notes
walking bass line
call and response
swung notes
iii. twelve bar blues
iv. Delta blues
v. Piedmont blues
vi. Jump blues
vii. Chicago blues
viii. electric blues
ix. blues rock
x. blues as expression of sadness
xi. blues as a celebration of party atmosphere
xii. Saint Louis Blues W.C. Handy
xiii. Ma Rainey
ix. Jelly Roll Morton
x. juke joints
xi. trains and moving from the countryside to the city
xii. blues and relationships; sexuality
xiii. controversies regarding the blues
xiv. Memphis Blues W.C. Handy
xv. Robert Johnson (Delta blues)
xvi. Memphis Slim (Memphis blues)
xvii. Bessie Smith
xviii. 1930s and 1940s boogie woogie
xix. Earl Hines (boogie woogie)
xx. Count Basie (1940s Kansas City blues)
xxi. Jump Blues (Kansas City blues)
xxii. Muddy Waters (the founder of modern blues)
xxiii. Johnny Lee Hooker (electric guitar)
xxiv. Jimi Hendrix
xxv. B.B. King and Taj Mahal
xxvi. influence of the blues on modern music: country, rock, jazz, rhythm and blues, hip hop
c. jazz
i. blue notes
ii. improvisation
iii. polyrhythms
iv. syncopation
v. call and response
vi. swing notes
vii. historical evolution of jazz
a. ragtime and New Orleans music
b. the Jazz Age in the 20s and 30s
c. swing
d. beginnings of European jazz
e. Dixieland revival (1940s and 1950s)
f. Modal jazz (1940s and 1950s)
g. Bebop (1940s and 1950s)
h. Cool jazz (1940s and 1950s)
i. Hard Bop (1940s and 1950s)
j. Free jazz (1940s and 1950s)
k. Latin jazz (1960s and 1970s)
m. Post-bop (1960s and 1970s)
n. Soul jazz (1960s and 1970s)
o. Jazz fusion (1960s and 1970s)
p. Jazz funk (1960s and 1970s)
r. other trends (1960s and 1970s)
s. traditionalists vs. experimentalists (1980-present)
t. smooth jazz (1980-present)
u. acid jazz, nu jazz, and jazz rap (1980-present)
v. punk jazz and jazzcore (1980-present)
w. Mbase (1980-present)
The third exam:
You will write an essay on the contributions of blues, jazz, and/or ragtime to modern music. You can use your notes in class as well to compose this essay.
In section two of the exam, you will be asked to match different slides of artworks with a list of artists (20 works total).
In section three of the exam, you will be asked to identify some of the major musicians in ragtime, jazz, and the blues.
In section four of the exam, you will have multiple choice questions on the blues, jazz, and ragtime.
Oral Presentation: For your oral presentation, you will be asked to make a brief five minute presentation on one song that you find interesting. Please choose a song that you find is musical; it has to be a song or musical piece that you find moving. Discuss the lyrics of the song and the artist who composed it. It can be a contemporary artist, or it can be an artist from a different time period or culture. Please feel free to explore music from different cultures, or alternatively, you can discuss contemporary music. Discuss the context in which the music was composed.
Please avoid using explicit lyrics in your presentation.
In Class Assignments: The blog will be important for your participation grade. Please post at least 10 times.
Recommended Internet Sites: www.comprone.info for updates on assignments, syllabi, poetry club submissions (extra credit)
Please turn in a copy of this syllabus to me with your signature and the date:
