Student Learning Outcomes

• Synthesize the contributions of important composers, their works, and formal structures.
• Distinguish different instrumental timbres.
• Analyze and evaluate the development of structure and form in the music of the time periods being studied.
• MUS 11A students will, upon hearing a one-minute excerpt of pre-assigned music repertoire along with the excerpted score between the Medieval and late Classical periods, be able to identify the compositional techniques and stylistic characteristics unique to the period.
• MUS 11A students will, upon hearing a one-minute excerpt of pre-assigned music repertoire along with the excerpted score between the Medieval and late Classical periods, be able to describe the stylistic characteristics unique to the genre and period.
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• Define technical musical terms and make use of those terms in written reports.
• Analyze basic elements of musical sound such as rhythms, melody, tonality, harmony, and counterpoint as those elements apply to a variety of examples both western and non- western