30 January

Start of class: "Absolutely Still" by Better Than Ezra from Paper Empire (2010)

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)

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: "St. Louis Blues" by Bessie Smith (Louis Armstrong, cornet) (1925)

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

End of class: "Esta Noche" by the Twilight Singers from Live in New York (2011)

27 January

Start of class: "Teenage Wristband" by the Twilight Singers from Live in New York (2011)

"Big Kick, Plain Scrap!" by Nick Lowe from Labour of Lust (1979)

Example of minstrel show song: "De Boatmen's Dance" composed by Dan Emmitt, performed by Peter DiSante et al. from The Early Minstrel Show (1985)

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

End of class: "Pinball Wizard" by the Who from Tommy (1969)

"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath (1970)

25 January

Start of class: "And You and I" by Yes from Close to the Edge (1972)

"Say It Ain't So" by the Thrills from So Much For the City (2003)

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

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

Example of dynamics in popular music: "More Than a Feeling" by Boston from Boston (1976)

Example of popular music production: "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" by Amy Winehouse from Lioness (2011)

Example of popular music production: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" by the Shirelles (1960)

Example of popular music production: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" by Carole King from Tapestry (1971)

Example of the producer's role in popular music: "Needles in the Camel's Eye" by Brian Eno from Here Come the Warm Jets (1974)

Example of the producer's role in popular music: "Even Better than the Real Thing" by U2 from Achtung Baby (1992)

Example of the producer's role in popular music: "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay from Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)

End of class: "Too Blue" by 7 Worlds Collide from The Sun Came Out (2009)

23 January

Start of class: "Nothing Left to Make Me Want to Stay" by Sloan from One Chord to Another (1996)

"Turn Up the Sun" by Oasis from Don't Believe the Truth (2005)

Example of melodic phrases: "Things We Said Today" by the Beatles from A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Example of riff: "Torture" by King Khan and the Shrines from The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines (2008)

Example of key: "Things We Said Today"

Example of monophony and homophony: "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes from Fleet Foxes (2008)

Example of polyphony: "Impossible Germany" by Wilco from Sky Blue Sky (2007)

Example of verse/chorus form: "Kind of a Girl" by Tinted Windows from Tinted Windows (2011)

Example of AABA verse form: "Things We Said Today"

Form breakdown song: "Civil Twilight" by the Weakerthans from Reunion Tour (2007)

End of class: "Mysterious Ways" by U2 from Achtung Baby (1992)

20 January

Start of class: "So Come Back, I Am Waiting" by Okkervil River from Black Sheep Boy (2005)

Example of musical meaning: "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson from Waylon and Willie (1978)

Example of duple meter: "When I'm Sixty-Four" by the Beatles from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Example of triple meter: "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman" by Carole King from Tapestry (1971)

Example of quadruple meter: "Official" by Q-Tip from The Renaissance (2008)

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

Example of compound meter: "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"

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

Example of syncopation: "Clocks" by Coldplay from A Rush of Blood To The Head (2002)

18 January

Start of class: "The Waive" by Okay Paddy from The Cactus Has a Point (2006)

"Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by Klaatu from 3:47 EST (1976)

Song in The Archive short film: "Music" by John Miles from Rebel (1976)

End of class: "Long Legs" by the Magic Numbers from The Magic Numbers (2005)