Music Appreciation

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the music of Beethoven, including his life and his relationship with music.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the importance of studying music from around the world, including music as part of social context, the role of music in American society, the role of music in other cultures, and the different kinds of music from around the world.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to identify the shifts, rhythm, form, tempo, cadence, and key changes in specific pieces of music.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to summarize the music from the Baroque period, including the composers, the musical forms, and the influence of Louis XIV on music from this period.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe music from the Classical Era, including key political and social influences of this era, characteristics of opera, and the influence of Mozart.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the different elements of music, including melody, pitch, rhythm, tempo, harmony, different musical forms, how music is organized, how music is made, what makes up an orchestra, rehearsals, live performances, recorded performances, and historical references of music.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the significant musical developments that took place in the Middle Ages, including why the church was so essential in the development of music.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe early romantic music from the nineteenth century, including the ways in which social and political changes influenced the music.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe mid-to-late romantic music from the nineteenth century, including the ways in which social and political changes influenced the music.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the music of the Renaissance, including life during the Renaissance, the forms of music during this period, the role of the church in this music, and differences of music between the early and late Renaissance.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe classical music from the twentieth century, including influential musical composers, societal influences, political influences, technological influences, and the influence of Symbolism, Primitivism, and Expressionism.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the history of jazz in America, including different jazz forms, and the origins of jazz.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe popular American music, including elements of popular music, the origins of popular music, types of popular music, popular music groups, and influences on popular music.