Course Objectives

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME

• Identify different elements of Western art music styles and place the music within historical and cultural contexts.
  
  

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Define and explain the elements of music.

• Distinguish among the various major musical styles through listening.

• Describe and analyze the characteristics that define the style of a particular period of music.

• Examine the ways that music gained in complexity as time passed.

• Relate the names and significant works of the great composers of Western art music.

• Match historical events and works of art and literature of each era to the significant works of Western art music.