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)

Line in Music (ppt file)

Composition in art & music (ppt file)

Color (large PowerPoint file)

            Some Principles of Design PART 1 PowerPoint (ppt) PART 2 (ppt)

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 Part 1 (ppt)

Lecture Part 2 (ppt)

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

Chapter 4 – Ancient Rome:  The Art of Empire

Lecture part one (ppt)

Lecture part two (ppt)

Maps of War animated map – a great view of history

Chapter 5 – Early Christianity:  The Spirit of Monotheism

Lecture (ppt) (note: page numbers might not be correct)

Chapter 6 – The Early Middle Ages:  The Feudal Spirit

The Culture of the Book (lecture ppt)

Chant (lecture ppt)

Romanesque Style (lecture ppt)

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)

Late Medieval Music (lecture ppt)

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

Handout #3 – Medieval Music CD (CD on Reserve) (handout in .doc format)

Handout #4 – Medieval Review (handout in .doc format)

Medieval Review lecture slides: Powerpoint or pdf (updated 27 Oct 2007)

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

Early Renaissance Art – Florence (lecture ppt)

High Renaissance Art – Rome (lecture ppt) nice Sistine Chapel link:  http://www.wga.hu/tours/sistina/

Renaissance Music – Josquin (lecture ppt)

Chapter 9 – Reformation and Late Renaissance

Art & Music (lecture ppt)

Mannerism (lecture ppt)

 Handout #5 – Renaissance Music & Art (.doc format) (CD on Reserve)

Renaissance Review (lecture ppt) or pdf (updated 27 Oct 2007)

Chapter 10 – The Spirit of the Baroque

Art (lecture ppt)

Music ppt

Northern Art ppt

 Handout #6 Baroque Art & Music (html); CD on reserve

Chapter 11 – The Styles of the Enlightenment

Art (lecture part 1, Rococo & Genre; part 2, Neo-Classical)

Music

Opera & Mozart

HANDOUT #7 (html)

Chapter 12 – Revolution & Romanticism

Art (lecture)

Music (1808-1913) lecture (covers music in Ch 12 AND Ch 13)

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

HANDOUT (.doc)

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

Art (lecture)

HANDOUT (html)

Chapter 14 – Modernism

Art lecture PowerPoint file

Music lecture PowerPoint file

handout & CD contents (html)

Chapter 15 – Post-Modernism

handout on Art and final (.doc format)

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

 Updated Jan 2008

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