FA 1302 - Music Appreciation

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours Lecture: 3
Contact Hours Lab: 0

This course develops music appreciation through an exploration of the relationship between musical symbolic sounds and technological innovations with a focus on instrument construction and musical composition. The course familiarizes students with music technology in a broad array of historical and geographical music environments through readings, lectures and hands-on exercises covering the timbres, scales, rhythms and forms that instruments produce, the contexts people play instruments in, and the reasons why they play.

Campus: ALP

Texas Common Core: Creative Arts Core
Course Level: Freshman