MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Musical Form, Saxophone, Club Mtv
Document Summary
This unit introduces the breadth and common pitfalls of the scholarly study of popular music; it will also begin to familiarize you with some common terms used in the discussion of music. Try to use these terms whenever you discuss music outside of this course to help cement their proper contexts and meanings in your mind. How to use the textbook and course site. This course consists of 3 major elements: assigned reading from your textbook, the material on our course website, and the assigned listening in the form of popular songs. All of this material is integral to the course and will be tested on the quizzes and on the final exam. The page assignments for your required textbook reading are found within each unit. Flip through the unit pages on our course website to find the assigned readings. They will be at the top of each page.