Student Learning Outcomes

• Identify and discuss musical elements, using accurate terminology to describe melody, rhythm, harmony, tonecolor, form, and dynamics.
• Apply critical listening skills to the analysis of musical performances, in both recorded and live formats.
• Identify stylistic trends, genres, and historical time periods in music.
• Identify the interactions between gender and the social systems which have historically influenced the creation of musical works.
• Identify female composers and musicians, and place their lives and work in an historical and cultural context.
• Combine subjective and objective responses in order to articulate a critical opinion about selected musicalworks.