TOPIC 1: Critical Listening and “Music as Culture”
Read: Levitin, What Does It Mean to be Musical? in in Neuron 73. Cell Press. 633-637. Read: Thomson, “Taste in Music,” in Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles. (Library of America, 2014) 24-28.
Read: Thomson, Taste in Music, in Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles. (Available in Library of America, 2014) 24-28.
Read: Davis, “Learning to Sing” in Granta Magazine, 2018.
TOPIC 2: Elements of Music
Read:Copland, “How We Listen”, What to Listen For in Music. (First New American Library Printing, 2009). 46-53.
Read: McGlothlin and Bill, Chapter 1, Musical Instruments and Ensembles and 2: Elements of Music, in The Art of Music: Music Appreciation with an Equity Lens
Explore: Musical Instruments Classification (Sachs-Hornbostel), – Part I, Jolin Jian, July 07, 2020.
Suggested poetry: Auden, W. H.: The Composer
TOPIC 3: Music as Globalization: From the “Old” to the “New World”
Read: Martin, The Musical Heritage of Slavery: From Creolization to ʺWorld Musicʺ in Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters (Indiana University Press, 2012), 17-23.
Listen: https://thegroundtruthproject.org/tracing-yoruba-influence-cuban-music/ in The Groundtruth Project.
Suggested poetry: The Visitation, by Sun Ra
Explore the Origins and Forced Relocations of Enslaved Africans Across the Atlantic World
