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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2017 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- MUS 214
- Course Title:
- Music of Broadway
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
- Development of listening skills for recognition of emotional triggers that are enhanced through music in order to make personal emotional and cultural choices
- Recognize the evolution of musical styles that connect with genres, eras, and cultures in order to gain a broader view of history, politics, pop culture, and cultural mores.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
-Qualitative/quantitative aural examinations
-Qualitative/quantitative written examinations
-Research paper(s)
-Attendance and participation
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
-Origins and history of New York (American) theatre: English
and 18th century colonial theatre, 19th century blackface
minstrel shows, burlesque, vaudeville, P.T. Barnum, The Astor
Place riot.
-From downtown to midtown, Union Square to Times Square
-The theatre syndicate and establishment of “Off-Broadway”
theatre
-Early musicals
-Theatre for the masses
-Gilbert and Sullivan and other English and European works.
-African-American theatre
-Composers of Tin Pan Alley
-The Great White Way
-Actors Equity Association
-The Jazz Singer and film compete with Broadway
-The Roaring 20s and the Beginning of the Golden Age of
Theatre
-Works of the greats: George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome
Kern, Vincent Youmans, and Rodgers and Hart.
-The Ziefield Theatre and Showboat
-Oklahoma!
-Contemporary works
-Disney
-Musical elements and enhancement of drama
-The incredible shrinking orchestra pit