Student Learning Outcomes

• Define technical musical terms and make use of those terms in written reports.
• Analyze basic elements of musical sound such as rhythms, melody, tonality, and harmony as those elements apply to Western music in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as non-western music that influenced that music.
• Distinguish different instrumental timbres.
• Analyze and evaluate the structure and form of the music being studied.
• Synthesize the contributions of important composers and assess ways in which their context affected their music.