Topic Name Description
File Online Introduction to Music Syllabus
Unit 1: Fundamentals Page Unit 1 Lecture 1

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Page Unit 1 Lecture 2

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Page Lecture 3 Unit 1

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Page Lecture 4 Unit 1

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Page Lecture 5 Unit 1

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File Unit 1 Reading
File Introduction to Music Unit 1 Assignment
File BSC Intro to Music Unit 1 Test
File BSC intro to Music online 5 Unit 1
File Introduction to Music Lecture 2 2022 Online
File BSC Intro Unit 1 Lecture 3
File BSC Intro Unit 1 Lecture 4
Unit 2: Aesthetics of Music and Borrowed Music Page Lecture 1, Unit 2 Video: What Does Music Mean?

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Page Lecture 2, Unit 2 Video: Aesthetics in Different Time Periods



Page Lecture 3, Unit 2 Video: The Baroque and Rhetorical Meaning
Page Lecture 4, Unit 2 Video: Aesthetics from the Classical to the Modern Period

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File PDF of Unit 2 Musical meaning Lecture 1
File PDF of Unit 2 Lectures 2-4
File Reading Assignment for Unit 2 Introduction to Music online
File Reading: Adorno the Angry
Page Plato on Music

This excerpt is from Book III from Republic by Plato in which he discusses ethos and pathos in music.

Page Plato on art (poetry) , imitation, and fakery

This is a translation of Book X in Republic by Plato. This discusses Plato's worry about the arts (poetry in particular) and how they can be used to manipulate.

Page Brief Summary of Schoepenhauer on Music— see 5.2.5 in the text

This is a summary of Schoepenhauer's metaphysics of music

Page Milton Babbitt's Who Cares if You Listen?
File Unit 2 Test Aesthetics 2020
Unit 3: Topics and Form (Types of Pieces and Form) File Unit 3 Listening List
Page Video Lecture 1, Unit 3
Page Video Lecture 2, Unit 3
Page Video Lecture 3, Unit 3
Page Video 4, Unit 3: Leonard Bernstein's "What is a Sonata?"
File Unit 3 Review
File Unit 3 intro to music lecture PDF
File Unit 3 Intro to Music Listening Assignment
File Unit 3 Forms test
Unit 4:Sacred Music from the Middle Ages to Present day Page Unit 4 Video Lecture
File Reading on Post-Vatican II Music
File Reading on Gospel Music (This is an older reading and therefore the terminology is dated, but provides good historical and cultural background)
File Unit 4 Sacred Music Listening List
File Reading on Music at Contemporary Evangelical Christian Youth Conferences
File Unit 4 Assignment Introduction to Music
File Unit Test 4 and Listening Quiz
Unit 5: Jazz and Blues Page Unit 5, Video Lecture 1
Page Unit 5, Video Lecture 2 "What are the Blues?"
Page Unit 5, Video Lecture 3
File Unit 5 Listening Assignment
File Unit 5 Intro to Music Test
File Unit 5 Listening List
File Unit 5 Intro to Music Lecture 3
File Unit 5 Jazz Lecture 1
File Unit 5, Lecture 2 The Blues PDF
Unit 6: 20th Century Classical, Popular Music Music, World Music Page Unit 6, Video Lecture
File Unit 6 Listening List and Assignment
File Unit 6 test
Final Paper Upload File Intro to Music Final Paper