Instructor of Music
Office: Dawson 212B
Phone: 570-963-2696
Fax: 570-963-2535
Email: sat11@psu.edu
Education:
B.M. (Music): Marywood University
M.M. (Music):The Catholic University of America
Further graduate studies: Manhattan School of Music
Doctoral Studies: Temple University
Scholarship Interest:
Piano Literature; Piano Pedagogy; Music History; Music Theory
Personal Hobbies:
Dog Shows
Golf
Shopping
MUS 005: Introduction to Western Music
INART 115: The Popular Arts in
America: Popular Music
Students who are currently enrolled in one or more of the above courses can
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ANGEL
MUSIC 005(GA): Introduction to
Western Music is a 3-credit course
which is a general survey of music in the western society, highlighting
important composers and stylistic developments. Music 005 is a course
on listening, with emphasis on the relationship between musical style and
historical context. The course begins with an introduction to the elements of
music. The goal of this section is to give all students, whether they have
previous experience as performers, the basic skills necessary to approach any
musical work as intelligent listeners. Then this course is spent surveying
the history of Western art music, with that history treated as a series of
case studies: particular works are considered stylistically with regard to
the historical circumstances of their production and consumption. From this
activity students gain experience considering artworks in discipline-specific
terms, even as they learn to relate particular artistic features to nonmusical
factors of culture and society.
MUSIC 007(GA): Evolution of Jazz
is a 3-credit course
which is a general survey of the study of the origins and development of jazz
as an art form. Music 007: Evolution of Jazz is a course
designed to examine the historical and sociological aspects of the American
art form - jazz. This general education course is for non-music majors.
The material covered in this course begins with the precursors to jazz and
then emphasizes the African musical traditions and white American (initially
European) influences that have shaped jazz as an American art form. This
is followed by period studies of the various jazz styles: New Orleans
Dixie, Chicago Style Dixieland, Swing, Be-Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Free Jazz,
Fusion Jazz, Neo Bop, Latin Jazz, and New Age. The various jazz styles are
examined from musical, sociological and economical perspectives.
PART I. Introduction and Pre-Jazz Black Music
a. What is jazz?
b. How to listen to jazz
c. Jazz heritages
d. The Blues
PART II. Chronological Development of Jazz Styles
a. New Orleans Dixieland Style
b. Ragtime
c. Chicago Dixieland Style
d. Boogie Woogie
e. Swing
f. Bop
g. Cool
h. Hard Bop-Funky
i. Free form-Avant Garde
j. Crossover-Fusion
PART III. Jazz Effects on World Population (Global Perspective)
a. Big Band legacy
b. Jazz in television and motion pictures
c. Vocal jazz
d. Jazz and the new technology
e. Jazz esthetics and criticism
The primary objectives of the course
are to create a great appreciation for jazz music by providing
knowledge about the intercultural development of jazz in America, by developing
critical listening skills, and exposing students to the music representing
various eras and performers of this music.
MUSIC 008(GA): Rudiment of Music is a 3-credit course
which is an introduction to the elements of music: notation, scales, meter,
rhythm, interval and basic chord structure. For nonmusic majors.
Music 008 is a course of basic
instruction in notation will include: the staff, clefs, rhythmic values,
metrical organization (time signatures), and standard major and minor key
signatures.
Basic areas of theory to be covered include: major and minor
scales, the construction and identification of intervals and triads, the
dominant seventh chord, the process of inversion, and elementary features of
harmonic progression.
This course in “musical literacy” enables students:
(1) to deepen their appreciation of music
(2) to begin studying a musical instrument and
(3) to enter the rigorous study of music theory required of music majors.
MUSIC 083(GA): CAMPUS BAND (1
credit per semester, maximum of 8 credits). Rehearsal and performance of
concert band literature. The student must have their own instrument. No
audition is necessary but must meet the approval of the Director of the
Chorale. Rehearsals are held weekly throughout the semester. REQUIREMENTS: Students taking MUSIC 083 for credit will
be required to attend all rehearsals and participate in all
performances.
The Campus Band plays for various events on campus such as: December and
May Commencements, Awards Dinners, Christmas Concerts, and Campus Open House
Events. Off campus performances include the Red Baron's Baseball game at Lackawanna
County Stadium.
MUSIC 104(GA): CHAMBER SINGERS
(1
credit per semester, maximum of 8 credits). Rehearsal and performance of choral
repertoire appropriate to mixed-voice ensemble of approximately twenty-four
voices. No audition is necessary but must meet the approval of the Director of
the Chorale. Rehearsals are held weekly throughout the semester.
The Chamber Singers perform for various campus events such as: December
and May Commencements, Awards Dinners, Open House events, and Christmas
Concerts. Off campus performances include singing for the Red Baron's Baseball
game at the Lackawanna County Stadium.
INART 115(GA): The Popular Arts in
America: Popular Music is a 3 credit course which examines the roots,
development, and significance of popular music in our culture. It covers
the origin of popular music in the early nineteenth century and introduces the
major genres of the art: blues, jazz, country, mainstream pop, and rock and
roll.
The thrust of the course is sociological and cultural rather than
musicological and will trace the music's development in a historical context.
The intent of the course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview
of popular music, the significance of major artists in its development, and
its importance in our social and cultural history.
