Spring 2027

The Musical Experience

The Musical Experience covers songs, opera, musical theater, chamber/orchestral music, and jazz within social and cultural history.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Matthew Richardson

Quizzes were exclusively based on lecture content, requiring attendance at discussion sections for weekly one-question assessments. Lectures were sometimes dry, as the instructor read from slides but added extra information.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe what they hear in music using basic technical terminology.

  • Recognize and contextualize several genres of music.

  • Reflect on personal daily relationship to music and sound in general.

  • Explore the ways that music, sound, and society interact in our daily lives.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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MUSIC 101

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CHARLES DILL is recorded teaching in Fall 2009, Fall 2010. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DAVID CROOK is recorded teaching in Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2012. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

EMMA CIFRINO is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ERIN BROOKS is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

GABRIELLE CORNISH is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JESSICA COURTIER is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Fall 2012. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LAWRENCE EARP is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2015, Fall 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LUCILLE MOK is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MATTHEW ENDRES is recorded teaching in Spring 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MATTHEW RICHARDSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TREVOR BACA is recorded teaching in Fall 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Gabrielle Cornish

Professor Cornish delivered engaging lectures filled with jokes and demos, using easy-to-follow slides. She was approachable and willing to answer questions, making the material accessible and fun.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.55 GPA, 79.8% A/AB (n=114 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.73 GPA, 87.8% A/AB (n=139 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 91.4% A/AB (n=139 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Matthew Richardson

Quizzes were exclusively based on lecture content, requiring attendance at discussion sections for weekly one-question assessments. Lectures were sometimes dry, as the instructor read from slides but added extra information.

Past student reviews · Lucille Mok

Students found the course slightly difficult without prior musical background, but manageable with any previous music class experience. Lectures were available on Zoom, which was helpful for those who could not attend in person.

Topics

  • Songs, opera, and musical theater
  • Chamber and orchestral music
  • Jazz
  • Social and cultural history of music

Skills

  • Describing heard music using basic technical terminology
  • Recognizing and contextualizing various musical genres
  • Exploring interactions between music, sound, and society

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

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Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 3 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.20 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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letter grades

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Typical course in this group: letter grades.

About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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