MUS 115 music, art & ideas

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Syllabus –

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Extra credit assignment

Concert Review Guidelines SOME CONCERT SUGGESTIONS

Art Museum Visit Report Guidelines

Your choices:  Legion of Honor, SF MoMA, Cantor Center at Stanford University, or the de Young Museum.

 (follow links for location, hours of operation and ticket information)

Lecture Visuals and Handouts

 Introduction

            Line in Art (large PowerPoint file or pdf file format)

            Line in Music (ppt file or pdf file format)

            Composition in art & music (ppt file or pdf file format)

            Color in Art (large PowerPoint file or pdf file format)

            Color in Music (PowerPoint file or pdf file format)

Principles of Design in art (PowerPoint file or pdf file)

Principles of Design in music (PowerPoint file or pdf file)

Perspective (ppt)

Texture (ppt)

The Very Idea of Art (ppt)

Media (ppt)

Study Tips (ppt)

Handout 1 -- Line, Principles of Design, Elements of Music (html)

My Cranky Complaints about the textbook CD (html)

Textbook website:  www.prenhall.com/bishop

Chapter 1 – Introduction:  read it!

Chapter 2 – The Ancient World: skim

Chapter 3 – Ancient Greece:  The Classical Spirit

            Lecture: full PowerPoint file or a more compact pdf (6 slides per page)

Chapter 4 – Ancient Rome:  The Art of Empire

           Lecture: full PowerPoint file or a more compact pdf (6 slides per page)

Maps of War animated map – a great view of history

Chapter 5 – Early Christianity:  The Spirit of Monotheism

           Lecture: full PowerPoint file or a more compact pdf (6 slides per page)

Review handout (#2) for Exam #1 on Chapters 3, 4,& 5 (html)

EXAM 1 RECOVERY

Chapter 6 – The Early Middle Ages:  The Feudal Spirit

The Culture of the Book (lecture ppt) a more compact pdf (with 6 slides per page, for more economical printing!)

Chant (lecture ppt) a more compact pdf (6 slides per page)

Romanesque Style (lecture ppt) a more compact pdf (6 slides per page)

Nice websites about the Bayeux Tapesty, 1066 & all that:
scene by scene story; overview; images with captions. 

Even more fun – an animated version (“Starts about halfway through the original work at the appearance of
Halley's Comet and concludes at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.”)

Chapter 7 – The Late Middle Ages:  The Gothic Awakening

Gothic Art (lecture ppt) a more compact pdf (6 slides per page)

Late Medieval Music (lecture ppt) a more compact pdf (6 slides per page)

Medieval Review (Chapters 6 & 7) (lecture) timeline (in PowerPoint). The same timeline chart in html format.

Handout – Medieval Music is on the combined Medieval & Renaissance CD on Reserve in the library – pdf handout

Handout – Medieval Art (pdf)

Medieval Review lecture slides: Powerpoint or pdf

Chapter 8 – The Renaissance Spirit in Italy (except that Italy doesn’t exist yet)

Early Renaissance Art – Florence (lecture ppt) or pdf (6 slides per page)

High Renaissance Art – Rome (lecture ppt) or pdf (6 slides per page)

nice Sistine Chapel link

Renaissance Music – Josquin (lecture ppt) or pdf (6 slides per page)

Chapter 9 – Reformation and Late Renaissance

Art & Music (lecture ppt) or pdf (6 slides per page)

Mannerism (lecture ppt) or pdf (6 slides per page)

 Handout – Renaissance Art (pdf)

Renaissance Music is on the combined Medieval & Renaissance CD on Reserve in the library – pdf handout

Renaissance Review (lecture ppt)

Exam 2 Recovery

Chapter 10 – The Spirit of the Baroque

Art (lecture ppt) or pdf (6 slides per page)

Music ppt or pdf (6 slides per page)

Northern Art ppt or pdf (6 slides per page)

 Handout #6 Baroque Art & Music (html); CD on reserve (the CD covers Baroque through Early Romantic)

Chapter 11 – The Styles of the Enlightenment

Art (lecture part 1, Rococo & Genre; part 2, Neo-Classical) or pdf (6 slides per page)

Music or pdf (6 slides per page)

Opera & Mozart or pdf (6 slides per page)

HANDOUT #7 (html)

Chapter 12 – Revolution & Romanticism

Art (lecture) or pdf (6 slides per page)

Music (1808-1913) lecture (covers music in Ch 12 AND Ch 13) or pdf (6 slides per page)

Exoticism in Music in the Early 1800s [not covered]

HANDOUT (html) covers art & music from chapter 12; some Ch. 13 music, too.

Exam 3 Recovery Questions

 Chapter 13 – The Industrial Age: The Spirit of Materialism (1850-1900)

Art (lecture) or pdf handout

HANDOUT (html)

Chapter 14 – Modernism

Art lecture PowerPoint file or pdf handout

Music lecture PowerPoint file or pdf handout

handout & CD contents (html) (also has links to video clips on YouTube)

Chapter 15 – Post-Modernism

Final handout (art & music) (html)

            REVIEW FOR FINAL 20^TH CENTURY (ch 13 & 14) PowerPoint file or pdf handout

FINAL take-home questions Spring 2009

 Updated May 2009

DC Meckler

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