| 授業概要 |
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| The Music Appreciation Class offers the opportunity to be familiar with different musical styles, different structures and meanings, and to learn new ways of listening to music. New musical instruments like a Prepared Piano are built and played during the class, and a Pipe organ is explored from the inside. Furthermore, the wonders of acoustics are experimented with the student’s own music in several venues. Since many little concerts take place during the class, every student has the opportunity to play in front of an audience and improve the own performing skills. |
| 到達目標 |
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1) Knowledge and understanding. Students are encouraged to develop the ability to explore diversity in music.
2) Attitude and interest, positive thinking. The students’ Communications Skills are addressed through their expression of informed opinions, researched ideas, and visual or musical presentations.
3) Technique and expression. The Active Learning techniques used at this class improve creative thinking, innovation, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
4) Self evaluation and judgement. Every student is motivated to find a better awareness of the own possibilities as performing musician. Evaluation is obtained trough written assignments and quizzes, and video contributions. |
| 授業計画 | 授業形態 | 授業時間外学習 |
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| 【1】 | Stage Fright. Practicing the techniques to prevent or reduce performance anxiety. | Lecture, exercise | Exercise the mindfulness and meditation techniques explained at class (60 minutes) |
| 【2】 | Acoustics for performers. Elements of acoustics explained, related to the performers on stage. | Lecture | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【3】 | Practical application of acoustics knowledge in the Music Faculty’s Murasaki Hall. Students play in different locations and evaluate the acoustical results. | Lecture, exercise | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【4】 | Concert by students who take part to the Tokushima Music Competition. | Exercise | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【5】 | Biography and music by rather unusual but interesting composers like Schubert, Mahler, Berg, Widor, Gesualdo and other. | Lecture | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【6】 | The history of the printed score. How music scores were prepared before the computer age. Real antique score are shown to students. | Lecture | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【7】 | Music Faculty’s Pipe Organ. Explanation and Exploration of the instrument, especially of the inside construction and of the sound possibilities. | Lecture | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【8】 | Aleatory Music. Music generated by chance or by the determination of the composer. Students compose pieces using pseudo-Mozart’s and Kirnberger’s Musikalisches Würfelspiel. | Lecture, exercise | Compose a Waltz or a Polonaise with dices following the pseudo-Mozart or Kirnberger tables (60 minutes) |
| 【9】 | The three types of musicians: the static, the ecstatic, the expansive. Students find out which kind of musician they belong. Performance of the little pieces composed with the Musikalisches Würfelspiel system. | Lecture, exercise | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【10】 | Historical Performance Practice. Explanation of the main features of baroque and romantic music like the correct performance of slurs, staccato, portato, and other phrasing techniques. | Exercise | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【11】 | Auditory illusion. The aural equivalent of an optical illusion and how it is used by composers. | Lecture, exercise | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【12】 | Concert by students as rehearsal for the examinations. | Exercise | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【13】 | Concert by students of Special Course in Murasaki Hall. | Lecture | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【14】 | Concert by students of Special Course in Murasaki Hall. | Lecture | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
| 【15】 | An introduction to Music Psychology. Explanation of the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to. | Lecture | Preparation for the next lesson (60 minutes) |
