Syllabus

Required Text (i.e. you must have access to):

Manoff, Tom. Music: A Living Language. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.

This is available in the U. of Oregon bookstore.

Supplemental Texts:

Apel, Willi and Ralph T. Daniel. The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music. New York: Washington Square Press. 1960 and newer.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, multi-volume resource on music in Douglass Music Room

Horst, Louis, and Carroll Russell. Modern Dance Forms in Relation to the Other Modern Arts. Brooklyn, New York: Dance Horizons, 1972.

*Karolyi, Otto. Introducing Music. New York: Penguin, 1999.

Kennedy, Michael and Joyce Bourne (ed.). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. ?

Kerman, Joseph and Gary Tomlinson. Listen. Boston, Massachusetts:
Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Nettl, Bruno et al. Excursions in World Music. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1997.

The New York Times On-Line: http://www.nytimes.com

Research and Education Association. Super Review: Basic Music. Piscataway, New Jersey: REA. 2002.

Titon, Jeff Todd. gen. ed. Worlds of Music. Schirmer Books, New York. 1992.

Zorn, Jay T. The Music Listener's Companion, 3^rd edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998.

These others can be gotten via amazon.com or in the library or at Smith Family Bookstore. There are many more texts that would be either relevant or useful, but these are a few of more pertinent that I have used for class in the past. I encourage you to treat the library as your resource for both music and writing on music. We might all make a list of the people in class via email so that we can have out-of-class discussions.

I) Course Description

This course is designed to develop musical awareness and musicality in dance by expanding the music/dance vocabulary and experience. This course will also explore through movement studies, writing and viewing dance, various issues of the artistic, collaborative and creative processes. It is above all, the goal of this course to develop a level of comfort with musical languages. It also serves as a broad survey of musical form, style and expressive content. DAN 252 is a perquisite for 458/558.

II) Course Content and Procedure

Discussion/Lecture on the basic language of both Music and Dance

Exploration of issues in composition through analysis and critique of video and live performance

Workshop/lab time for personal exploration of the music and movement interaction

Written assignments: formal writing assignments will include rough drafts and returns for correction of critique in a journalistic style

Active participation in the class through discussion, lecture and conversation especially the completion and comprehension of required reading and assignments

Movement studies and improvisation exploring musical elements, style and movement material

Testing

III) Evaluation

· Full Participation in class, discussion and lab - 25%

· Quiz and Test Performance - 25%

· Writing and quality of work - 25%

· Musicality and Development/Progress - 25%

Participation means that you actively engage in conversation in class and in completion of assignments. In addition, there will be demands of you to take ideas and work with them in a lab/experimentation process.

Quiz and Test Performance is comprised of several tests (two midterms and listening tests) and various quizzes throughout the semester. These allow me to assess your development (especially intellectual) throughout the semester. Musicality is hard and takes both time and patience!

Writing is a component which is often taken lightly. We all write at different levels. The key to improvement is to rewrite! You will have to do one full critique and other smaller assignments. Any writing assignment can be resubmitted as a 'rewrite' for a better grade provided that improvements have been made.

Musicality and Development/Progress means the effectiveness with which you apply the concepts we work on. There will be various problems presented to you in different ways. Your solutions to these problems demonstrate your development over a period of time. We all start at different levels and that is part of both dance and the arts in general. Please be patient with yourself and with me in delving into this most intimate and sensitive part of the human being - the psyche.

The attendance policy for the Department of Dance is in effect for this class. i.e. more than three absences will affect your grade.