Music 185 Update

Good morning Music 185,

Hopefully all of you received my email this morning about the notecards - they are your tickets for the quarter! This means no trip to the UW Arts Ticket Office is necessary. All you need to do when you go to the concerts is present the ticket we gave you yesterday. I will also mention this in class next week, but I wanted to make sure that you were all notified of this as soon as possible. This change is also reflected in the syllabus.

Additionally, some of you had concerns about the speed of my lectures and retaining the lecture notes. As the syllabus states, we do not hold review sessions or provide notes for lectures online. However, for any lecture I give, the notes will always be available for 10 minutes after class ends on the computer in Kane 120. You are welcome to review as much as you want in that time. Additionally, when we have guest lecturers, I will ask that they either leave their notes behind, or stay an additional 10 minutes after class to answer questions. You can also see Jason in his office hours to review the notes if that is preferred.

We want everyone in this class to succeed, and understanding the first 2 weeks of material is crucial. If you want to stay on top of things this quarter make sure you can recall which instruments are in instrument families, the differences between musical periods, and some of the general terms in music we've discussed (concerto, fugue, homophony, polyphony, etc.). If these terms still seem out of reach or foreign to you, please see us now before you have other midterms/projects due.

Thank you, and have a great week!

Jason Wells, TA
Professor Harreld