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ONLINE
MUSIC APPRECIATION Music 27A, taught by Larry
Ferrara City E-mail: larryferrara27A@gmail.com
Office A129, ph: (415) 239-3856 ORIENTATION—
The fall orientation will take
place online within the Music Appreciation course.
Your account will be made active on Monday,
January16th. Please login on that day so
you know how to, build your profile, navigate the
course, and be familiar with how to find the online
orientation which will be held the next day,
Tuesday, January 17th,
from I will be holding four
orientations and the schedule will be as follows: Orientation times on Tuesday
evening, January 17, 2012
When you enter the
online Music Appreciation class orientation at the
appropriate time I will welcome you live, provide
information and procedures on how to successfully
complete the course, and go over the class
requrements.
HOW
TO LOGIN—
To login to the class go to the
Insight web page, http://insight.ccsf.edu
and enter your password and username. Your password
will be sent to you by way of e-mail and your user
name is your CCSF ID. The username must be in lower
case letters (change a W to w and an X to x) and
numbers (not “o” or letters for numbers).
OVERVIEW—
Music
Appreciation
is
an exploration in the materials and masterworks of
great music, from Medieval Chant to Contemporary
Popular styles. Students begin by studying the
elements of music (pitch, melody, rhythm, harmony,
form, etc.) then learn about the instruments of the
orchestra and build a comprehensive vocabulary with
which to understand and evaluate musical expression.
From there, they survey the continuum of musical
history in Western Civilization, from the Middle
Ages through the present time. Along the way the
student will become aware of musical form, the great
works and composers of Classical music and in
ultimately by the end become a better music
listener. The 22 web-lectures are embedded with over
90 audio examples.
There are reading assignments, informative
web-lectures and links to MyMusicLab and other
resources on the Web. Music Appreciation also
features a lively discussion board, and a weekly
quizzes that will help prepare you for the midterm
and final exam. TEXT
BOOK—
You will need to
purchase a text for this course. You can either
acquire a hard bound copy or and electronic
e-book. It can be acquired in one of formats
below: 1.)
The textbook is: Listen to This, Second
Edition by Mark Bonds, published by, Pearson,
2011. All of the audio for the course will be
accessed or downloaded from both the CCSF Insight
pages or the http://www.musicappreciation.com pages.
It will not be necessary to buy the CD set or the
Music Lab (MyMusicLab). You may purchase the CD's or
the music lab (www.mymusiclab.com) as an option but
they are NOT REQUIRED. Only the text book Listen to This
is required.
One of the best ways to purchase the text is at the City Colllege San Francisco bookstore. But you may wish to buy it online. If you prefer online ordering
you can obtain the text directly from the publisher,
Pearson
Or,
www.amazon.com The
Amazon site carries new as well as "gently used"
books, which will save you some money. Be aware that
when you buy this book new or used you do NOT need
the music lab that comes along with it (the lab is
an option and NOT a requirement).
1) LISTEN TO THIS, BOUND BOOK,
2/Edition, by BONDS,
Pub. by Pearson, ISBN-9780205777365
You can use Internet Explorer or Firefox, while
Safari (which is a good browser, may have a few
short comings) can be used for this course I would
recommend IE or Firefox.
The only other requirement is an mp3 player, and a
video player which many computers already have
installed in their operating system. If you don't
have one, you can download it using this website:
COURSE CONTENT— There will by weekly Assignments for
you to fulfill by both reading, listening, and video
viewing to corresponding web lectures, text book
reading, and guided listening. At the end of the
week you will be asked to take two chapter quizzes,
a unit quiz and also answer a critical thinking
question. To access the appropriate
assignments for each week go to the current section
or link of content labelled "Assignment." It will be
dated for the current week, and you will be asked to
work on it, and complete it. There will be weekly Quizzes with
questions that will help you better understand the
concepts and listening skills you will be learning
and developing. To access the weekly quizzes, log
into this course, go to the hompage of the class and
look for a red check mark which indicates that the
link will lead you to a test. The quizzes will be
based on material you have been working on for that
week such as reading the text and the web-lectures,
and also listening to the steaming sound files and
videos. You will then precede to take the assigned
quizzes, which will have content questions as well
as listening questions. There will be a weekly Discussion with
questions, projects, and disscussions for you to
participate in. To take part in these weekly
discourses, log into the course, go to the current
dated section and look for the discussion board (a
small people icon) to fulfill the weekly critical
thinking question. After you answer it, also respond
to a classmates contribution and participate. There will be a scheduled Live Discussion on
certain occasions and especially before exams. To
access the chat room, log into this course, and go
the Review Session room. ASSIGNMENTS— Each
segment
of
the website will coordinate the web lectures, and
the textbook readings. Each weekly assignment will
contain one unit of work that you will need to
complete within the duration of 7 days – in other
words – you will need to complete a set of quizzes,
one week of web-lectures, text book reading, and
bulletin board discussion. Once you've visited, read
and listened to that week’s units of web-lectures,
listening, and textbook reading you will then
proceed to the corresponding quizzes and related
bulletin board question. QUIZZES— You
will
need to take two chapter quizzes and one unit quiz
(three total) with embedded listening questions for
each weekly assignment. These are required for they
are a way for you (and me) to make sure you are
keeping up with the listening and learning the
material in the text, the listening, and through the
discussion board. The midterm and final exam is to
be taken in person at City College of San
Francisco’s Ocean/Phelan Campus. (see below for dates and
times). The weekly quizzes will be recorded and
graded. They are open book and or open computer. The
weekly quizzes are in multiple choices, matching, or
true and false format. The in person midterm and
final is closed book and closed notes. LISTENING— Most
of
the genres, terms and instrument explanations are
embedded with sound files or mp3’s. You can either
down load these files to your computer and then open
them, or open the files directly from the server
location, either from the CCSF Insight page
or the http://www.musicappreciation.com
website. If you download them, you will have them
for future reference and can hear them “off line.” All
of the recorded examples are also available in the
Media Center. If you do not do the listening online
and If you prefer to, you can listen to the course
audio from the Media Center located on the 4th
floor of Rosenberg library, City College Phelan
campus. When you enter the Media Center ask for the
any of the Listen to This CDs (CD’s 1-7) for Music
Appreciation taught by Larry Ferrara. The content of
the CDs will be found in a three ring binder in the
front of the media center and will coordinate with
the sequence of web lectures. If you opt to use the
Media Center on the Phelan campus of City College of
San Francisco be sure to keep track of the time you
spend there. This is done by filling out (with the
stamped date and time) a blue time card supplied by
the Media Center. Going to the Media Center to do
the listening is NOT a requirement but an option for
you to fulfill the listening requirement because all
of the sound files are contained within the online
course. You
need
to do the equivalent of one hour of music listening
a week in this course. The way you fulfill that
requirement is by either downloading the files from
the Music Appreciation website or from the Insight
pages, or by repeated listening to the streaming
audio examples available to you from the course
website. You can also opt to visit the Media Center
(see above) to do your listening. Your listening
hours will be kept track of by your instructor by
tracking the amount of time you spend listening to
the files or by how often you download them from the
Music Appreciation pages. BULLETIN BOARD DISCUSSION— Each
week
there will be a question posed to you from each
weekly unit of information and material. These
questions will formulate discussion threads in the
class. In addition to the weekly readings, web
viewing, listening, and weekly quizzes, the bulletin
board question will contain critical thinking
inquiries about musical issues for you to consider.
These questions are designed to make you think about
what music is and how to listen to in an intelligent
and aesthetical way. There will be new questions
each week for you to answer. You are expected to
keep up with these questions by responding to the
instructor's questions, as well as reacting to other
class members
contributions. To
keep
up these questions you will contribute each week (a
minimum of 15 postings and 15 responses to other
class member’s posts): Your bulletin board
participation will be graded and by answering the
question that the instructor poses, and also
commenting on another class member’s response to a
question regarding a current or previous post, you
can earn up to 100 points for each discussion
question. Your participation will be rated and you
will be asked similar questions during the midterm
and final exams. I will read all of your posts and
participate in most if not all of the current weekly
discussions. If you miss a week’s set of questions
you can answer them from the previous week for
partial credit, and I will read and grade your
responses but not necessarily give a written reply
to the late posts. CONCERT REVIEWS— During
the
course
of the semester each student is assigned the writing
of three music reviews of classical concerts,
chamber music, jazz, world music, ballet, choir or
opera performances; There is also the option of
reviewing two live music reviews and one video
review, still - three total reviews. These reviews
are based on two attended live performances and one
rented video, or three live performances. Your video
choice must be taken from one of the following: Immortal
Beloved (BEETHOVEN), Impromptu (CHOPIN) or
Amadeus (MOZART). These 3 concert reviews (or
one video review and two concert reviews) are due by
the by the end of the semester and should be typed
and handed in to me before or at the final exam. You
must include a program or ticket stub along with
your live concert review and if you rent a video
include the rental receipt. There will be a listing
of free and fee recommended concerts for your
consiteration on the Insight course homepage. ATTENDANCE— Attendance in the class will be
followed by: 1) how often you log on to the course
each week to do the work and experience the
listening, 2) your weekly quiz performances, and 3)
weekly bulletin board discussion participation, 4)
showing up to take the midterm and final exam. You
are expected to login and do the work each week.
Each week you will have a new reading assignment, a
set of quizzes to take and a new bulletin board
discussion question. You will have only one week to
complete the weekly readings, learn the web
lectures, do the listening, take the quizzes, and
answer and respond to the bulletin board question.
If you do not log onto the course and do the work
each week it will directly affect your grade. If you
fail to log on and do the work for two weeks or 14
consecutive days your letter grade in the class will
decline and your progress directly affected. If you
miss three weeks of consecutive work (21 days of not
logging on), you will be dropped from the class. The
course week will run from Monday until Sunday and
new content will be updated each ensuing Monday. MIDTERM You
will be actively viewing, listening to and reading
material on music in this course. The assignments,
corresponding quizzes, and bulletin board bulletin
board postings are specifically designed to teach
you how to listen to music and help you prepare for
the face-to-face midterm and final exam. The more
you do them, the better you will understand the
material and the better you will fare on the exams.
Person to person contact will during the in class
midterm and final. The material on these tests will
be covered by the weekly quizzes, the weekly
listening, text book reading, website viewing and
live discussion review. The midterm and final exam
questions will be multiple choice, matching, true
false or fill in/short essay format. The midterm and
final will reflect how well you kept up with the
class, website viewing, listening,
discussing and textbook reading. The
following
dates
and times will be when the midterm and final exams
will take place at the City College or San Francisco
Ocean/Phelan campus. You only need to attend one
midterm and one final exam. Two are offered so that
they may better match your schedule. Midterm
Exam: face-to-face, either Thursday,
March
15, 6:00 – 7:00 PM in
a room TBA or Saturday, March 17,
9:00-10:00 AM in the
new Mulit-Use Building (MLB) room TBA. The
Multi-Use Building is the newest CCSF structure.
It is located on the west side of Phelan Ave.
slightly south of Riordan High School and opposite
the CCSF Science building.
GRADING— Your
grade
in
this course will consist of: Regular website viewing, listening and text
book reading. Partaking in weekly quizzes Contributing
weekly to the bulletin board discussions. Handing in three concert reviews (three live
reviews or 2 live and one film review). Taking an in class midterm and final exam. Logging on, participating,
reading, listening
15% of final grade Weekly
Quizzes
15%
of final grade Bulletin board
participation
15%
of final grade Concert
reviews
15%
of final grade Midterm and Final Exam
20% + 20% of final grade Attendance
regular
attendance
is
mandatory
(see above for details) STUDENT/TEACHER
INTERACTION— As
far
as interaction is concerned-- the more the better!
There are three different ways to communicate: 1) DIRECT E- 2) BULLETIN BOARD
(answering questions that are placed each week 3) LIVE CHAT: Before
exams
the discussion room will be utilized and material
will be reviewed especially before the final exam. 4)
The WELCOME 5)
The SYLLABUS 6) ASSIGNMENTS contain
text
or E-text reading tasks, links to the weekly web
lectures, listening files and every goal you will
need to fulfill for that week. 7) QUIZZES. You
will have one week to complete the assigned quizzes
and then they will be replaced with a newer quizzes
which will be based on later course content.
Remember the quiz questions will help you greatly on
the midterm and final exams. 8) The GLOSSARY
9) The LINKS
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