FPA 142- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Contemporary Arts
• Course: FPA 142
• Professor: Arne Eigenfeldt

Document Summary

Fpa 142 is a post-modern course in music appreciation. You will develop a critical ear and advanced listening skills through the presentation of a diversity of music from many cultures, styles, and periods, in an effort to discover similarities, differences, and defining characteristics. You will build your music appreciation repertoire around basic style characteristics such as rhythm, harmony, melody, timbre, and texture. We will cover such general topics as form, song, political music, technology, story telling, background music, sacred music, improvisation, dance music, women in music, and others. Furthermore, you will develop critical listening skills, or the ability to understand and discuss music on a more informed level. Maybe you will understand better about why you may like a certain style of music, and why you may not like another style as much. And in the process, i"ll introduce you to some music that may have similar characteristics, which you may then also enjoy and understand better.