Hey guys, I'm re-doing my schdule for next term and am deciding to drop my Communications course (seeing as the prof changed and she's made it stupid now) and am pretty set on either Music 1AA3 or music 1A03


I was just wondering what the significant difference between them is? I cant seem to find any outlines for them, and I kinda have the jist of what they cover....

Could someone perhaps enlighten me? I would appreciate any help here

I'm not taking these courses so don't take my word for it.

They are both geared towards History of Western music, but focus on different composers.

For more information, compare the course descriptions here.
http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /CALEN...nt/pg1885.html

Pretty much what justinsftw said. I'm in 1a03 right now and it's pretty much an easy 12 if you're good at music (especially the first midterm), or just good at memorizing.

Basically for 2/3 midterms, you have a list of songs you have to listen to and then name the composer and song title, and two stylistic forms about the piece (ie: date and polyphonic)

Then some random MC questions/fill in the blanks.

Easy stuff. And the prof is awesome. Love Gerry. <3

(Look at the link justin posted. Basically, 1a03 covers medieval, renaissance, baroque era and pretty sure we're gonna get into some classical stuff)

ya what lawleypop said 1a03 covers medieval, renaissance, baroque eras and 1aa3 covers classical and romantic eras. I preferred 1aa3, I took 1a03 in 1st year and 1aa3 in 2nd, and in my first year the prof seemed to not like the symphonic works and had us listen to a lot of for lack of a better term "popular" songs, where in 1aa3 all we did was "real" classical music (with some opera pieces)

I took 1AA3 - it's an easy course, but I do listen to "classical" (broadly-speaking) all the time. I found that having to listen to pieces and remember details about them really took the fun out of listening to them in the first place, actually, since the tests were basically "memorize these pieces, we'll play random parts of random ones and you have to identify them".

Easy, though.