31 January

Start of class: "Bad Girl, pt. 1" by Lee Moses from Time and Place (1971)

Start of class: "Two Headed Boy, pt. 2" by Neutral Milk Hotel from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

Early Tin Pan Alley: "After the Ball" composed by Charles K. Harris (1892), performed by Joan Morris and William Bolcom from After the Ball and Other Highlights from Vaudeville (1974)

Example of acoustic recording: "Dippermouth Blues" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (Louis Armstrong, cornet) (1923)

Example of electric recording: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five (1928)

Example of syncopated dance music: "Castle House Rag" from Europe's Society Orchestra from CD accompanying textbook (1914)

Contemporary recording of syncopated dance music: "Castle House Rag" by the New England Ragtime Ensemble from The Art of the Rag (1973)

Example of New Orleans style jazz: "Tiger Rag" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band from the CD accompanying textbook (1917)

28 January

Start of class: "Who Knows Where You Are" by The Harpeth Trace from On Disappearing (2008)

Example of concert band: "Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa and his Orchestra from Sousa's Band Historical Recordings (2003, recorded 1913)

Example of concert band: "Stars and Stripes Forever" by Gunther Schuller and the Incredible Columbia All-Star Band from Footlifters: A Century of American Marches (2005)

Example of ragtime: "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin from Classical Treasures: Maple Leaf Rag (2003)

End of class: "Maple Leaf Rag" performed by Jelly Roll Morton from Library of Congress Recordings: Jelly Roll Morton (2005, recorded 1938)

26 January

Start of class: "Modern Man" by the Arcade Fire from The Suburbs (2010)

First example of timbre: "Sweet" by Jay-Z from American Gangster (2007)

Second example of timbre: "Champion" by Kanye West from Graduation (2007)

Stephen Foster - Ethiopian song: "Camptown Races" by unknown performers from Stephen Foster: American Heritage Best (2010)

Stephen Foster - Sentimental song: "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" from textbook CD

24 January

Start of class: "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You" by Jens Lekman from Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)

Examples of texture: "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes from Fleet Foxes (2008)

First form example: "Things We Said Today" by the Beatles from A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Second form example: "Civil Twilight" by the Weakerthans from Reunion Tour (2007)

End of class: "Young Folks" by Kanye West (Peter, Bjorn, and John) from Can't Tell Me Nothing (Mixtape) (2007)

21 January

Start of Class: "Heavy Metal Drummer" by Wilco from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)

Example of triple meter: "Between the Bars" by Elliott Smith from Either/Or (1997)

Example of quadruple meter: "Living After Midnight" by Judas Priest from British Steel (1980)

Example of irregular/compound meters: "Whipping Post" by the Allman Brothers Band from The Allman Brothers Band (1969)

Example of riff: "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin from Led Zeppelin II (1969)

19 January

Start of class: "Cliffhanger" by Britta Persson on the record Kill Hollywood Me (2009)