Next week, week 11 and the last week of classes before we return for final exams during week 12, includes a lot of important deadlines for Music 1A students. A few of them are listed below. (Note that further important/critical details are found in the course calendar and elsewhere on this website.)

• There are two listening assignments due next week, one at each class meeting.
• The retake quiz for the next week’s new quiz will happen at your second class meeting of the week.
• The optional second concert report is due at your first class session of the week, if you have chosen to do this. Note that I do not accept late optional second concert reports.
• The remaining extra credit concert events all occur next week. Your “reviews” and related materials are always due at the very next class meeting — late extra credit concert materials are not accepted.
• You have the option to resubmit one earlier listening assignment (from among assignments #1-#8) at your first class meeting of the week. I do not accept this work after the deadline.
• If you wish to retake test #1 or test #2 at the final exam session you must notify me in writing at your first class of the week as described in the class calendar .
• Students in the Tuesday/Thursday class only may turn in assignment #8 on Tuesday.

OK, I know that many of you are already serious about Music 1A! But there is a lot to learn and master in the final few weeks — mostly because there are so many composers in the final two historical eras we study.

At a few recent class sessions I have mentioned subjects that everyone should already be familiar with — only to see a few too many blank faces staring at me as if I had just asked how many of you have visited Mars recently. ;-)

Yes, there is a lot of material to contend with during the final weeks of the term. Yes, the time is limited. Yes, this can seem daunting. (more…)

Listening assignment #8 is due next week. However, the Tuesday/Thursday class does not meet next Thursday, which is the day it would normally be due. Thursday is part of the Thanksgiving holiday and the campus is closed.

Students in the Tuesday/Thursday class (but NOT the Monday/Wednesday class — see below [1]) have three options for turning in this assignment:

1. You may turn it in early at next week’s Tuesday class meeting.
2. You may come to the start of the MW class on Wednesday, November 25 to turn it in — or bring it to me during an office hour that day.
3. You may wait and turn it in the following week on Tuesday, December 1.

The third option probably sounds the most appealing, but a warning: Two other assignments are already due that week, and if you wait you will be completing and submitting three assignments during the last week of classes. While that is OK, I think you can see why it may not be the best idea.

[1] Note: This change does NOT apply for students in the Monday/Wednesday class. Your assignment is still due on Wednesday, November 25 as listed in the course calendar.

I have posted grades for test #2 in the usual place. A few notes:

• You may notice that your written points plus your scantron points do not equal your total points. The difference between the expected sum of those two number and the listed value is your extra points.
• As I said I would do I have altered the grade distribution in ways helpful to you as a result of our compressed schedule. For the most part I expanded the size of higher grade ranges and compressed the size of grade ranges containing fewer points — with the result being a shifting toward higher grades. This explains the very large number of A grades.
• An oddity of the distribution on this test is that the largest groups were near the top and bottom of the scale with a reasonable but smaller number right in the middle.

I have updated the concert list for students who plan to do the optional second concert report.

There are now also several events on the extra credit concert list. Read the extra credit page carefully before attending. (You do have to write something on the extra credit concerts, but it is easy and it is not another concert report!)