Music 1293 Study Tips
[ Names, Titles, & Termonology | Timeline or Chronology | Listening ]
The following are some introductory Study Tips for Music 1293. These are preliminary suggestions, and represent only a small proportion of the overall preparation required for successful completion of the course. These are suggestions for preparing your own study notes. (These are not assignments to be submitted to the instructor.)
Names, Titles, and Termonology.
Students should prepare a definition, description, and (or) explanation of every name, title, or term discussed in class. In essence, each should follow the principle of "who, what, when, where". This definition, description, or explanation should include each of the following:
Brief description—one or two sentences—of what the name, title, or term represents. (This might be the sort of thing found as the first few lines of a dictionary entry for the name, title, or term. For a composer, this must include the place of birth, and locations where the composer worked, visited, and lived.)
A date, or span of dates, that applies for the name, title, or term. This should be one or both of a specific date, or pair of dates, and an overall general description, such as "early seventeenth century".
An indication of the place, or places where the person or item was present or active. This might include a city, a state, a country, and a continent, as appropriate.
For terminology, an example of the item named as it normally appears in music notation.
Examples of music, with dates, that represent the name, title, or term. For a composer, this would be music composed by the composer; for a performer, music performed by that performer. For terminology, this would be examples of music that use the item in question. When appropriate, the examples may be very specific, including not just particular pieces, but also exact locations within individual pieces.
Timeline or Chronology.
Students should prepare Timeline or Chronology (or both). Every name, title, or term discussed in class should be placed in the appropriate location(s) on this Timeline or Chronology. [For samples, see: Timelines & Chronologies]
Listening.
Students should listen to recordings of several musical examples for every name, title, type of music, and term discussed in class. This listening should include the items discussed in class. In addition, futher listening should include other pieces of music composed by the same composer, and music of the same and similar types composed by others. Within these musical examples, students should begin to recognize, by ear, examples of particular techniques, devices, and other features represented by the terminology discussed in class.
[The quizzes and examination will include music not mentioned in class, as well as musical examples discussed in class.]
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