Music

Teaches students how to listen to music and understand it by identifying the basic materials of music and relating them to other areas; e.g., poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture. By way of reading, lectures, and listening to music, the course proceeds from basic concepts in music to an understanding of form, movement, and style.

A brief history of jazz from its beginning to the present through lectures, listening, and reading. The various styles will be presented as well as the lives and history of selected performers.

This course surveys the history of the genre, starting with music's roots in Africa to its emergence as one of America's global cultural legacies. Key trends, subgenres and artists will be examined, as will rock music's place, influence, and reflection of American and British society. A music background is not required.