Course Syllabus

Course: MUSC 3540

Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Music
Title: Music Form and Analysis

Semester Approved: Summer 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2025
End Semester: Spring 2025

Catalog Description: Music Form and Analysis is an upper level course designed to provide students with a comprehensive background in the major compositional styles and forms of art music during the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. The course is designed to aid students in the proper interpretation of musical lines and structures. An extensive focus will be placed on the study of musical scores and the development of aural skills in relation to these scores.

Semesters Offered: Fall
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0

Prerequisites: MUSC 2120

Justification: This course is required for a Bachelor of Music Degree.It combines theoretical principles of music that can be applied to standard performance practices. An understanding of these principles is necessary for all performing musicians, composers, and educators.


Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will demonstrate the ability to identify musical forms through critical listening.  This outcome will be assessed through listening exams.

Students will understand the relationships between art and popular music forms.  This outcome will be assessed through written assignments, papers, and exams.

Students will demonstrate an ability to write informed, critical analytical papers about musical form.  This outcome will be assessed through written assignments, papers, and exams.

Students will understand the evolution of Western musical form since 1650.  This outcome will be assessed through written assignments, papers, and exams.


Content:
1. Forms of Western Classical/Art Music from the Baroque through the Contemporary Periods.2. Forms in Jazz and American Popular Music.3. Development of Critical Listening Skills4. Development of Skills in Analytical Writing Skills in Music.

Key Performance Indicators:
Written Assignments 20 to 30%

Research Paper 20 to 30%

Listening Exams 20 to 30%

Written Exams 20 to 30%


Representative Text and/or Supplies:
As selected by the instructor.


Pedagogy Statement:
This course will be delivered through direct instruction, class discussion, demonstration, and modeling.

Instructional Mediums:
Lecture

Maximum Class Size: 20
Optimum Class Size: 12