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MUSIC 113 Pre-Core Ear Training (0-1, max. 1) A&H
Pre-core course in musicianship. Offered: ASp.
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MUSIC 116 Elementary Music Theory (2) A&H
For nonmusic majors. For people with no hands-on music experience. Rudiments of music; notation of time, small pitch structures (e.g., some scales, chords, rhythmic patterns), some analysis.
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MUSIC 117 Elementary Music Theory (2) A&H
For nonmusic majors. For students who can read music, having some performance experience. Course overlaps with: T ARTS 125. Prerequisite: MUSIC 116.
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MUSIC 118 Elementary Music Theory (2) A&H
For nonmusic majors. For students who read music, have some performance experience, are familiar with scales, chords, intervals. Includes analysis of composition in various styles. Prerequisite: MUSIC 117.
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MUSIC 119 Introduction to Music Theory and Musicianship (3) A&H
Basic elements of music theory: introduction to acoustics, major and minor scales, triads and seventh chords, keys, four-part writing, functional harmony, modes, simple forms, and jazz notation. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 120 Introduction to Classical Music (5) A&H
Studies in listening, with emphasis on the changing components of Western art music. Illustrated lectures, laboratory section meetings, and presentations by guest artists. Intended for non-majors.
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MUSIC 121 The Orchestra (2) A&H
Development of the orchestra and its literature.
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MUSIC 122 The Opera (2) A&H
An introduction to opera through selected masterworks, from Monteverdi to the present. Primarily for nonmajors.
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MUSIC 131 History of Jazz (5) A&H
Extensive overview of important musicians, composers, arrangers, and stylistic periods of jazz history from emergence of the first jazz bands at the turn of the twentieth century through post-modern bebop era of the 1990s.
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MUSIC 160 American Folk Music (5) A&H, DIV
Explores the U.S. as a complex multicultural society through folk music traditions of European Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Jewish Americans. How racial, ethnic, and cultural groups have influenced each other and the power dynamics; historical/contemporary inequities in race, ethnicity, class, national origin, and immigration status. Folk music as a means of protesting social injustices.
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MUSIC 161 American Musical Theater (5) A&H
Historical and stylistic study of the development of the American musical theater. European roots in opera and operetta. Contributions from jazz and popular music. Selected musicals studied. Course overlaps with: T ARTS 160.
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MUSIC 162 American Popular Song (5) A&H, DIV
Historical, social, and stylistic study of popular idioms from late nineteenth century to present. Students develop basic vocabulary and skills for describing musical sound/style and learn about the diverse racial, ethnic, and regional communities who have shaped the commercial mainstream of U.S. popular music. Course overlaps with: AFRAM 337. Offered: AWSpS.
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MUSIC 185 The Concert Season (2) A&H
Performances from the School of Music concert season, supplemented by lecture topics related to concert repertoire. Analysis of applicable musical topics appropriate for enhanced appreciation of historical and cultural contexts of works performed. Attendance at ten concerts required.
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MUSIC 191 Composition (3, max. 9) A&H
One-hour private instruction and one-hour laboratory session each week. Intended to develop skill in creative musical expression. For composition majors only.
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MUSIC 200 Music, Child, and Family (3) A&H
Study of music in childhood as part of socialization and enculturation of the child within family and community. Emphasis given to songs and music listening experiences provided by parents to nurture the child's musical, social, and intellectual development from infancy through middle childhood. For nonmajors.
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MUSIC 201 First-Year Theory I (3) A&H
Introduction to tonal harmony and counterpoint; triadic progressions in root position; first and second species counterpoint; analysis of simple works. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 119. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 202 First-Year Theory II (3) A&H
Continued instruction in tonal harmony and counterpoint; triadic progressions with inversions; third and fourth species counterpoint; further analysis of basic forms. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 201. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 203 First-Year Theory III (3) A&H
Further introduction in tonal harmony and counterpoint; seventh chords; modulations to closely related keys; secondary dominants; introduction to chromaticism; emphasis on analysis and writing of four-part chorales in early eighteenth-century style. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 202. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 204 First-Year Ear Training I (0-1, max. 1) A&H
Core ear-training sequence for majors. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 113; corequisite: MUSIC 201. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 205 First-Year Ear Training II (0-1, max. 1) A&H
Core ear-training sequence for majors. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 204; corequisite: MUSIC 202. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 206 First-Year Ear Training III (0-1, max. 1) A&H
Core ear-training sequence for majors. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 205; corequisite: MUSIC 203. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 216 Introductory Composition (2) A&H
For students not majoring in composition. Prerequisite: MUSIC 116 or MUSIC 119; and MUHST 100 or MUSIC 120.
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MUSIC 217 Introductory Composition (2) A&H
For students not majoring in composition. Prerequisite: MUSIC 216.
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MUSIC 218 Introductory Composition (2) A&H
For students not majoring in composition. Prerequisite: MUSIC 217.
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MUSIC 240 Reed-Making Techniques (1, max. 6) A&H
Applies basic reed-making principles and techniques. Individualized instruction allows students of all levels to take the course simultaneously.
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MUSIC 245 Roots and Routes of Rap (3) SSc/A&H, DIV
Opportunities for creativity situating rap in a larger history of African American music. Different forms of rap. Explores issues of race, gender, class, resistance, community building, notions of authenticity, the impact of mass media, appropriation, representation, politics of sampling, creativity, concepts of Blackness, and the place of rap in and beyond African American culture. Recommended: MUSIC 160 or MUSIC 162.
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MUSIC 250 World Music (3) A&H/SSc, DIV
Introduction to world musical traditions, including both sound and socio-cultural dimensions of music. Topics include instruments, rhythm, melody, form, composition, improvisation, music in the family and community, politics, economy, religion, and case studies of major world musical traditions. Prerequisite: MUSIC 201; MUSIC 204.
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MUSIC 251 Music Cultures of the World: the Americas (5) A&H/SSc
Music of the Americas.
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MUSIC 252 Music Cultures of the World (5) A&H/SSc
Near East, Central Asia, Far East, South and Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Content varies.
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MUSIC 260 Orchestral Music (5) A&H
Orchestral music from its beginnings in the seventeenth century through recent developments; evolution of the symphony.
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MUSIC 261 Mozart (5) A&H
Introduction to Mozart's music and to musical life in Habsburg Austria during the Enlightenment. Mozart's musical personality studied through masterpieces in all genres, with principal emphasis on listening. Ability to read music not required.
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MUSIC 262 Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music (3) A&H
Listener's survey of important composers and trends from Debussy through electronic music.
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MUSIC 263 Opera (5) A&H
Contributions of music, text, and staging; study of representative works concentrating on problems of combining these elements into a composite work of art.
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MUSIC 264 Sacred Music in the European Tradition (5) A&H
Surveys European and American sacred music from the twelvth to twentieth centuries, examining the important role of music in religious worship. Considers the means composers used to make musical works sound the way they do to convey the messages of the texts through music. Offered: jointly with RELIG 264.
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MUSIC 269 Music Cultures of the Silk Road (5) A&H/SSc, DIV
Explores music cultures of the Silk Road lands of Central Eurasia, China, and the Middle East from anthropological perspectives. Examines the interconnections between music and culture, and the political ramifications and the sociohistorical contexts of colonization, imperialism, and sovereignty on the production of musical expressions. Topics include culture, ethnicity, diversity of musical expression, literature, religion, and colonialism. Offered: jointly with MELC 269.
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MUSIC 270 World Popular Music (5) A&H/SSc
A global survey of popular music, including Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. Emphasis on students' ability to recognize styles and to analyze the social and historical processes that have shaped them.
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MUSIC 291 Composition (3, max. 9) A&H
One-hour private instruction and one-hour laboratory session per week. Prerequisite: MUSIC 191.
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MUSIC 300 Fundamentals of Music Technology (3) A&H
Introduction to the principles of music technology. Exploration of different categories of music software, in terms of their functionality as well as the fundamental basis of these theories. Prerequisite: MUSIC 203; MUSIC 206.
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MUSIC 301 Second-Year Theory (3) A&H
Further study of modulation and chromatic harmony; analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century short forms; technical exercises; model composition. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in both MUSIC 203 and MUSIC 206. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 302 Second-Year Theory (3) A&H
More advanced study in mid- to late nineteenth-century chromaticism and compositional style; analysis of representative works; technical exercises; model composition. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in both MUSIC 301 and MUSIC 304; corequisite: MUSIC 305. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 303 Second-Year Theory (3) A&H
Core theory sequence for majors. Introduction to the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in both MUSIC 302 and MUSIC 305; corequisite: MUSIC 306. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 304 Second-Year Ear-Training I (0-1, max. 1) A&H
Core ear-training sequence for majors. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in both MUSIC 203 and MUSIC 206. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 305 Second-Year Ear-Training II (0-1, max. 1) A&H
Core ear-training sequence for majors. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in both MUSIC 301 and MUSIC 304; corequisite: MUSIC 302. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 306 Second-Year Ear-Training III (0-1, max. 1) A&H
Core ear-training sequence for majors. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in both MUSIC 302 and MUSIC 305; corequisite: MUSIC 303. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 307 Diction for Singers (2) A&H
Application of basic rules of diction, enunciation, and articulation in Italian. Materials include texts from the basic vocal repertoire. Primarily for voice majors at freshman and sophomore levels; nonmajors on a space-available basis.
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MUSIC 308 Diction for Singers (2) A&H
Application of basic rules of diction, enunciation, and articulation in French. Materials include texts from the basic vocal repertoire. Primarily for voice majors at freshman and sophomore levels; nonmajors on a space-available basis.
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MUSIC 309 Diction for Singers (2) A&H
Application of basic rules of diction, enunciation, and articulation in German. Materials include texts from the basic vocal repertoire. Primarily for voice majors at freshman and sophomore levels; nonmajors on a space-available basis.
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MUSIC 318 Music Cultures of the World (5) A&H/SSc
Folk and popular music in Western and Eastern Europe and the Americas. Content varies.
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MUSIC 319 Afro-American Music (5) A&H/SSc
Centers on Black music in the United States, but also clarifies the relationship of this music to the musics of other Afro-American cultures as well as to their African roots.
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MUSIC 321 Powwow Cultures in Native North America (5) A&H/SSc, DIV
Introduction to powwow cultures in Native North America. Covers historic and contemporary powwow practices by engaging in a variety of participatory and hands-on activities, ranging from interactions with powwow musicians, dancers, organizers, and community members, via guest lectures and participation in the annual UW First Nations Powwow, to analyses of print and audiovisual media, including social media. Offered: jointly with AIS 321; Sp.
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MUSIC 325 Music in Cinema (5) A&H/SSc
Surveys representative film soundtracks from the past one hundred years. Examines the role of music and sound design within cinematic narrative form; explores theories of film music; and lays the groundwork for engaging film as a multimedia art form. Offered: S.
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MUSIC 326 Repertoire (2) A&H
For music majors.
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MUSIC 327 Repertoire (2) A&H
For music majors.
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MUSIC 328 Repertoire (2) A&H
For music majors.
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MUSIC 332 Music in European Society: Antiquity to 1700 (5) A&H/SSc
Music and its relationship to aspects of European culture and society - philosophy, politics, social conditions, and the visual arts from antiquity to 1700.
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MUSIC 333 Music in Western Culture (5) A&H/SSc
Music in Europe and North America, drawn from classical, popular, jazz, opera, and musical theatre traditions. Emphasis on the relationship between musical works and their social, philosophical, political, and other contexts.
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MUSIC 334 Band Arranging (2) A&H
Prerequisite: MUSIC 303.
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MUSIC 336 Jazz Arranging (2) A&H
Writing in jazz style for various instrumental combinations. Students should be able to arrange for modern jazz orchestra. Prerequisite: MUSIC 303.
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MUSIC 344 Psychology of Music: Cognition (5) A&H/SSc
Critical examination of questions, designs, and conclusions of previous research in a variety of areas related to music cognition including music perception, music performance, musical development, musical affect, musical preference, social psychology, and neuroscience.
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MUSIC 350 Choral Conducting (1) A&H
Overview of choral conducting patterns. Score, voice warm-up, and intonation. Tempo fluctuation, left hand, diction, discipline. Designed for music and music education majors. Prerequisite: MUSIC 302; corequisite: MUSEN 307, MUSEN 350 or MUSEN 351.
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MUSIC 351 Choral Conducting (1) A&H
Overview of choral conducting patterns. Score, voice warm-up, and intonation. Tempo fluctuation, left hand, diction, discipline. Designed for music and music education majors. Prerequisite: MUSIC 350: corequisite: MUSEN 307, MUSEN 350 or MUSEN 351.
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MUSIC 352 Choral Conducting (1) A&H
Overview of choral conducting patterns. Score, voice warm-up, and intonation. Tempo fluctuation, left hand, diction, discipline. Designed for music and music education majors. Prerequisite: MUSIC 351; corequisite: MUSEN 307, MUSEN 350 or MUSEN 351.
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MUSIC 367 Essential Skills in Jazz Improvisation I (2) A&H
Addresses acquisition of crucial skills in jazz improvisation. Emphasizing strengthening inner time, control of form, and fundamental harmony while addressing motivic development through rhythmic exercises. Students engage in transcription and analysis of exemplarity solos by jazz legends.
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MUSIC 368 Essential Skills in Jazz Improvisation II (2) A&H
Addresses skills in jazz improvisation at a more complex level. Emphasizing control of complex cross rhythms and ear training. Harmonic knowledge acquired through improvisational techniques and analysis of selections from the American Songbook. Prerequisite: MUSIC 367
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MUSIC 369 Essential Skills in Jazz Improvisation III (2) A&H
Addresses skills in jazz improvisation at a more complex level. Emphasizing advanced harmonic approaches that address extensions, altered extensions and resolutions, intervallic inventions, polytonality, chromatics, and triadic chromatics. Addresses improvisation in odd meter. Prerequisite: MUSIC 368.
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MUSIC 379 Junior Recital (1) A&H
For participants in the Bachelor of Music degree program only.
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MUSIC 380 Instrumental Conducting (1) A&H
Acquaints the beginning conductor with beat patterns and their expressive modifications, basic rehearsal techniques, and score study. Prerequisite: either MUSIC 212 or MUSIC 302.
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MUSIC 381 Instrumental Conducting (1) A&H
Acquaints the beginning conductor with beat patterns and their expressive modifications, basic rehearsal techniques, and score study. Prerequisite: MUSIC 380.
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MUSIC 382 Instrumental Conducting (1) A&H
Acquaints the beginning conductor with beat patterns and their expressive modifications, basic rehearsal techniques, and score study. Prerequisite: MUSIC 381.
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MUSIC 384 Ideas In Music (5) SSc/A&H
Examines selected sources and compositions of music from the Western tradition (from the tenth through the twentieth centuries), in relation to the intellectual background of the periods and countries that produced them. Musical studies accompanied by assigned readings in philosophical, religious, literary, and artistic texts in addition to the primary readings in musical history.
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MUSIC 388 Jazz Pedagogy (2) A&H
Stylistic and esthetic developments in the performance of jazz. Key musical ingredients in the evolution of jazz as an art form and the skills commensurate with teaching these. Designed for music majors.
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MUSIC 390 Special Topics in Music (3, max. 9) A&H
Topics vary.
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MUSIC 391 Composition (3, max. 9) A&H
One-hour private instruction and one-hour laboratory session each week. Prerequisite: MUSIC 291.
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MUSIC 400 Computer Applications to Music (3, max. 9) A&H
Music workstation applications using microcomputers, music synthesizers, and analog-to-digital converters: music editing and score production, transcription, waveform and spectral analysis, and introduction to programming.
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MUSIC 401 Digital Sound Synthesis (5) A&H
Introduction to software sound synthesis techniques. Project-based course focused on creating experimental sound compositions framed by context of the Western Art Music Tradition. Includes acoustics and psychoacoustics; virtual synthesizers; wavetable synthesis; additive synthesis; ring, amplitude, and frequency modulation synthesis; granular synthesis; and noise and subtractive synthesis. Offered: jointly with DXARTS 461; A.
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MUSIC 402 Digital Sound Processing (5) A&H
Introduction to digital sound processing techniques. Project-based course focused on creating experimental sound compositions framed by context of the Western Art Music Tradition. Includes digital effects; delay lines; introduction to digital filtering; FIR and IIR filters; reverberation; virtual-room acoustics and sound location; time-domain transformation of sound; andgranulation and time stretching. Prerequisite: DXARTS 461/MUSIC 401. Offered: jointly with DXARTS 462; W.
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MUSIC 403 Advanced Digital Sound Synthesis and Processing (5) A&H
Advanced sound processing and synthesis techniques. Includes sound time warping; analysis-synthesis techniques; linear predictive coding; the phase vocoder; frequency-domain sound transformations; introduction to physical modeling. Prerequisite: DXARTS 462/MUSIC 402. Offered: jointly with DXARTS 463; Sp.
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MUSIC 405 Liturgics and Hymnology: Practical Applications I (3) A&H
Prepares organ majors and other advanced organ students to play hymns in a manner that inspires congregational singing. Includes a study of hymnology from the early church to contemporary hymns of today. Explores several denominational hymns and many styles of improvisation, including baroque, romantic, and contemporary techniques. Prerequisite: MUSIC 302; MUSIC 305; MUHST 212. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 406 Liturgics and Hymnology: Practical Applications II (3) A&H
Surveys small and large choral works including anthems, oratories, Requiem Masses, and Mass settings of major composers of the sixteenth century to present day. Resources drawn from the performing ensembles library, and from area church libraries, and include a detailed study of choral styles and editions. Prerequisite: either MUSIC 303, MUSIC 306, MUHST 210, or MUSIC 405. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 407 Liturgics and Hymnology: Practical Applications III (3) A&H
Includes a survey of the necessary skills to run a successful music program in a church or synagogue. Provides an overview of traditional and contemporary liturgies, handbells, orchestral instruments and their use in worship and a special emphasis on the directing of children's choirs. Prerequisite: either MUSIC 303, MUSIC 306, MUHST 210, or MUSIC 406. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 410 ElectroAcoustic Music: History and Analysis (3) A&H
Examines the music of major electro-acoustic composers. Emphasis on the relationship between technological resources and compositional advances. Addresses issues raised by the diversity of approaches to musical composition; relates particular creative contributions to the historical, cultural, and technological contexts in which they originated. Prerequisite: MUSIC 303; MUSIC 306; MUHST 210. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 411 Free Improvisation/Modern Jazz Composition I (2) A&H
Guides students through the process of experimentation while discovering and developing musical originality and striving for innovations in jazz. Students address conceptual approaches to non-idiomatic group improvisation and original composition that incorporates and fosters improvisation, and explore techniques in generating and developing building blocks of musical material and form. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 412 Free Improvisation/Modern Jazz Composition II (2) A&H
Continuation of MUSIC 411, working at a more developed and complex level to experiment and strive for originality and innovation in jazz. Students address conceptual approaches to non-idiomatic group improvisation and original composition that incorporates and fosters improvisation, and explore techniques in generating and developing building blocks of musical material and form. Prerequisite: MUSIC 411. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 413 Free Improvisation/Modern Jazz Composition III (2) A&H
Continuation of MUSIC 411, working at a more advanced and complex level to experiment and strive for originality and innovation in jazz. Students address conceptual approaches to non-idiomatic group improvisation and original composition that incorporates and fosters improvisation, and explore techniques in generating and developing building blocks of musical material and form. Prerequisite: MUSIC 412. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 414 Finding an American Voice (3) A&H
Investigation of why certain works have been received as characteristically and representatively "American" in nature, extending the inquiry concerning an "American voice" to arts like poetry and painting, along with music. Examples for study include music by composers such as Gershwin, and Dickenson's poetry, along with composers' settings of it. Instructor: Starr.
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MUSIC 415 The American Musical (3) A&H
Advanced course in the American stage and film musical, emphasizing detailed study of representative works as totalities: Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, shows by Rodgers & Hammerstein and Sondheim, film musical starring Astaire and Rogers, and others. Contributions of composers, lyricists, choreographers, directors, and performers to development of the genre. Instructor: Starr.
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MUSIC 416 The Blues (3) A&H
Investigation of the many forms, styles, and genres of music linked with the blues, and of the ways in which the blues has contributed to the shaping and essence of musical culture, from the early twentieth century to the present. Instructor: Starr.
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MUSIC 417 Classical Music in America (3) A&H
History of classical music composers, performers, audiences, and institutions in America, with a critical look at the situation of these groups and institutions today, in light of how they arrived at their current status, and a consideration of what the future may hold for them. Instructor: Starr.
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MUSIC 418 Baroque Ornamentation and Improvisation (3) A&H
The study of ornamentation and improvisation for keyboard, woodwinds, voice, and strings of selected German, Italian, French, and English repertoire from 1600 to 1800.
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MUSIC 420 Organ Improvisation and Service Playing I (2) A&H
Prepares students to improvise, especially for the church/synagogue service. Includes a brief study of hymnology, hymn elaboration, altered harmonizations, improvisation based on existing hymn tunes, interludes, chorale preludes, ornamented chorales. Prerequisite: MUSIC 303; MUSIC 306. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 421 Organ Improvisation and Service Playing II (2) A&H
Continuation of MUSIC 420. Includes brief review of figured bass and functional harmony, free improvisation in simple antecedent/consequent ABA forms and more complex forms (rondo, theme, and variation), improvising partitas, interludes, improvisations based on plainchant. A survey of important improvisation texts. Prerequisite: MUSIC 420. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 422 Organ Improvisation and Service Playing III (2) A&H
Continuation of MUSIC 421. Advanced improvisation: baroque improvisation techniques, fughettas, baroque praeludias and fantasias, canons, toccatas, duos, trios, and simple fugues. Prerequisite: MUSIC 421. Offered: Sp.
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MUSIC 423 Original Interpretation (2) A&H
Investigates elements of interpretative choice. Captures information in innovative ways that deepen practice, increase ability to perceive specific sounds, and encourage development of an extended reflective process. Uses the approaches for making music of any kind. Open to singers and instrumentalists. Prerequisite: MUSIC 302 and MUSIC 305. Offered: A, even years.
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MUSIC 424 Improvisation for Classical Musicians (1, max. 12) A&H
Improvisation techniques for the classical music performer, emphasizing creative expression and spontaneous composition. Recommended: any 300-level or 400-level MUSICP course. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 426 Advanced Jazz Arranging (2) A&H
Advanced arranging techniques for jazz ensembles of various sizes, exploring methods employed by Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, and others. Assignments include one original arrangement each for small-combo and full-jazz ensemble. Prerequisite: MUSIC 336. Offered: W.
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MUSIC 427 Music of Africa (3) A&H/SSc
Music cultures of Africa. Traditional styles and more recent developments. Open to all students with an interest in the area. Prerequisite: MUSIC 317.
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MUSIC 428 Music of North India (3) A&H/SSc
Classical music of North India, the Hindustani tradition with emphasis on the Dhrupad and Khyal styles.
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MUSIC 429 String Orchestral Repertoire (2, max. 18) A&H
Intended for undergraduate BA/BM and BM music majors. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 430 Organology (3) A&H
Systematic study of musical instruments, involving the history, acoustical phenomena, and physical topologies of instruments from around the world, with emphasis on non-Western music.
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MUSIC 433 Music of Latin America (3) A&H/SSc
The music of the Spanish-, French-, and Portuguese-speaking New World countries.
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MUSIC 434 Pedagogy (2) A&H
Principles of effective studio teaching; survey and evaluation of teaching materials.
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MUSIC 435 Pedagogy (2) A&H
Principles of effective studio teaching; survey and evaluation of teaching materials.
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MUSIC 436 Pedagogy (2) A&H
Principles of effective studio teaching; survey and evaluation of teaching materials.
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MUSIC 437 Studio Class (2, max. 24) A&H
Performance and pedagogical concepts. Topics vary. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 438 Problems in Contemporary Music Performance (3, max. 9) A&H
An active course examining and solving problems relevant to the successful performance of twentieth-century music. Preparation for complex rhythms, odd groupings, new notation, and extended performing techniques.
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MUSIC 439 Music of Indonesia (3) SSc/A&H
Includes the traditions of Sumatra, Sunda, Java, Bali, Sunda Islands, and the Philippines. Open to students in music and to students with an interest in the area.
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MUSIC 440 Music in Asian America (3) A&H/SSc, DIV
Introduces students to Asian American communities through examination of music and issues related to music, including migration, memory, gender, the body, tradition, and generation. Explores how Asian Americans have expressed their experiences and asserted their senses of identity through music, thereby making sense of and claiming Americanness. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 442 Comparative Analysis and Musicianship (3) A&H
Analysis of selected world music genres, with an emphasis on concepts and skills that are required to perform.
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MUSIC 443 Music and Community (3) A&H/SSc, DIV
Explores music's social functions, with special attention to social justice projects and inclusive/collaborative approaches to music research and education. Alternates between discussion of readings and music-making with guest artists from diverse local communities. Students attend community music events and workshops of their own choosing off-campus. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 444 Music of the Near East (3) A&H/SSc
Classical and folk musical traditions of Iran, Turkey, and the Arab world. Prerequisite: MUSIC 316.
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MUSIC 445 Selected Topics in Ethnomusicology (3/5, max. 15) A&H/SSc
Deals with areas not covered by other courses in ethnomusicology. Content varies with different instructors.
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MUSIC 446 Music in American Cultures (3) A&H/SSc
Compares musical history and experience of selected American cultures that have fed into the American musical mainstream or had significant popularity on its periphery. Case studies may include African Americans, Latino/a Americans, Jewish Americans, Asian Americans, or European Americans. Considerations of social identity as well as musical styles. Offered: jointly with AES 446.
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MUSIC 447 Music of Southern India (3) A&H/SSc
Classical music of South India, the Karnatic tradition, with emphasis on the concert repertoire.
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MUSIC 448 Music of China (3) A&H/SSc
Confucian philosophies that relate to music, theory, scale systems, cosmology. Development of instrumental styles, vocal and dramatic regional forms from early historical periods to the present.
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MUSIC 449 Advanced Piano Repertoire (2, max. 6) SSc/A&H
For piano majors who wish an in-depth survey of major areas of the piano repertoire. Prerequisite: MUSIC 328. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 450 Percussion Education Institute (2) A&H
Intensive four-week institute focusing on techniques in percussion, timpani, and mallet performance. Intended for music educators with little or no percussion experience desiring additional training to enhance their careers as music teachers. Includes private instruction, master classes, and percussion ensemble participation. Prerequisite: MUSAP 217.
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MUSIC 451 Summer Jazz Institute (1) A&H
Intensive one-week institute designed for the serious jazz student as well as for music educators. Six hours of daily instruction in jazz theory, ear-training, improvisation, arranging, as well as emphasis on rehearsal and performance techniques through sectional workshops and small group "jam sessions."
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MUSIC 452 Career Building for Musicians (2) A&H
Helps students identify the unique skill sets they develop as music majors and learn how to use and market these skills to create achievable and exciting career paths in music. Recommended: Music major status. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 453 Grant Writing for Music (2)
Grant-making and grant-writing in classical music. Prepares performers, conductors, and composers to enter the field with experience, as well as to provoke reflection about what musical work means to oneself, in the broader community, and how one can articulate that to funders. Offered: Sp, even years.
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MUSIC 454 Organ Pedagogy (3) A&H
Pedagogical approaches to organ techniques and performance practice; provides opportunity for practical application by means of student teaching. Offered: Sp, even years.
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MUSIC 455 Choral Arranging (3) A&H
Primarily for choral conductors who need to modify, arrange, or compose material to suit the capabilities of specific choral groups and performance situations.
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MUSIC 457 Jazz Laboratory: Theory and Application of Rhythm (1) A&H
Establishes a fundamental comprehension of the complex and nuanced rhythmic structures inherent in traditional and modern jazz. Through transcription, analysis, dictation, composition and performance. Students develop a personal understanding of, and the ability to execute, the detailed rhythmic language that defines this art form. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 458 Organ Repertoire: Middle Ages through Baroque (3) A&H
Analysis and performance practices of organ literature, Middles Ages through baroque period. Development of the organ as musical instrument. Prerequisite: either MUHST 400, MUHST 401, MUHST 402, MUHST 403, MUHST 406, or MUHST 407. Offered: A, even years.
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MUSIC 459 Organ Repertoire: Bach to Present (3) A&H
Analysis and performance practices of organ literature, classical period through the twentieth century. Development of the organ as a musical instrument. Prerequisite: either MUHST 408, MUHST 409, MUHST 410, MUHST 411, MUHST 412, MUHST 413, MUHST 414, MUHST 415, MUHST 417, MUHST 418, MUHST 419, MUHST 423, MUHST 424, or MUHST 426. Offered: W, even years.
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MUSIC 460 Advanced Vocal Repertoire: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Art Songs (2, max. 6) A&H
Professional preparation of pre-nineteenth-century songs with a view to total artistic-musical realization in performance. Appropriate style, character, balance, phrasing, diction, and projection for vocalists and pianists. Prerequisite: MUSIC 328.
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MUSIC 461 Advanced Vocal Repertoire: Nineteenth-Century Art Songs (2, max. 6) A&H
Professional preparation of works from the literature of nineteenth-century German lieder, with a view to total artistic-musical realization in performance. Appropriate style, character, balance, phrasing, diction, and projection for vocalists and pianists. Prerequisite: MUSIC 460.
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MUSIC 462 Advanced Vocal Repertoire: Twentieth-Century Art Songs (2, max. 6) A&H
Preparation of works from the twentieth-century repertoire of French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English songs, with a view to total artistic-musical realization in performance. Appropriate style, character, balance, phrasing, diction, and projection for vocalists and pianists. Prerequisite: MUSIC 461.
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MUSIC 464 Jazz Laboratory (1, max. 9) A&H
Forum for testing new technical skills, improvisational techniques, and jazz compositions and/or arrangements in a formal laboratory setting.
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MUSIC 465 Acting for Singers (2, max. 6) A&H
Workshop designed specifically for the singing actor, focusing on character analysis, movement, and audition deportment skills.
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MUSIC 467 Advanced Jazz Improvisation I (1) A&H
Performance techniques in jazz improvisation for the advanced student. Prerequisite: MUSIC 369.
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MUSIC 468 Advanced Jazz Improvisation II (1) A&H
Performance techniques in jazz improvisation for the advanced student. Prerequisite: MUSIC 467.
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MUSIC 469 Advanced Jazz Improvisation III (1) A&H
Performance techniques in jazz improvisation for the advanced student. Prerequisite: MUSIC 468.
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MUSIC 470 Analysis of Tonal Music: Introduction to Schenker (3) A&H
Introduction to the theories of Heinrich Schenker and their subsequent development; analysis of music from the common-practice period (1700-1900), with possible excursions into the twentieth century. Prerequisite: either both MUSIC 303 and MUHST 212 or both MUSIC 312 and MUHST 215.
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MUSIC 471 Introduction to Atonal Theory and Analysis (3) A&H
Theory of atonal music, including the "classical" twelve-tone repertoire. Analysis of works by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, and others. Prerequisite: either both MUSIC 303 and MUHST 212 or both MUSIC 312 and MUHST 215.
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MUSIC 472 Analysis of Twentieth Century Music, 1900-1950 (3, max. 6) A&H
Analytical examination of musical works of the first half of the twentieth century in Europe and the United States, with emphasis on music other than that of the second Viennese school. Prerequisite: either both MUSIC 303 and MUHST 212 or both MUSIC 312 and MUHST 215.
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MUSIC 473 Keyboard Harmony and Transposition (3) A&H
Keyboard harmonization from the baroque period to present; transposition of vocal and instrumental pieces to different pitch levels. Prerequisite: either both MUSIC 303 and MUHST 212 or both MUSIC 312 and MUHST 215. Offered: A, odd years.
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MUSIC 474 Keyboard Harmony and Transposition (3) A&H
Keyboard harmonization from the baroque period to present; transposition of vocal and instrumental pieces to different pitch levels. Prerequisite: MUSIC 473. Offered: W, odd years.
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MUSIC 475 Figured Bass Realization (3) A&H
Various styles of continuo realization for keyboardists, emphasizing Bach cantatas, Haydn symphonies, and Mozart operas. Prerequisite: MUSIC 474. Offered: Sp, odd years.
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MUSIC 476 Advanced Vocal Repertoire: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2) A&H
Opera repertoire, 1600 to the Bel Canto era (Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti); style, traditions, embellishments in Italian, French, and German arias. Prerequisite: MUSIC 328.
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MUSIC 477 Advanced Vocal Repertoire: Nineteenth Century (2) A&H
Opera repertoire, the post Bel Canto era through Verdi, Puccini and verismo, and significant German, French, and Slavic repertoire. Prerequisite: MUSIC 476.
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MUSIC 478 Advanced Vocal Repertoire: Twentieth Century (2) A&H
Opera repertoire, twentieth-century opera literature (Barber, Menotti, Bartok, Dvorak); understanding of style, character, and overall artistic and musical needs of the present. Prerequisite: MUSIC 477.
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MUSIC 479 Senior Recital (1) A&H
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MUSIC 480 The Anthropology of Music (3) A&H/SSc
Analysis of aspects of anthropological thought influential in ethnomusicology. Critical evaluation of dominant theoretical schools and modes of explanation, e.g., evolutionist, diffusionist, historical particularist, structuralist, functionalist, symbolist, and semiotic, through detailed examination of seminal texts. Offered: jointly with ANTH 430.
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MUSIC 481 Choral Repertoire: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (3) A&H
Sacred and secular choral literature from the Renaissance through the early Baroque. Studies music of continental Europe and England, as well as artistic influences from the Middle East. Various genres and styles of diverse composers, as well as performance practice, rehearsals, and conducting. Prerequisite: MUHST 212.
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MUSIC 482 Choral Repertoire: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (3) A&H
Sacred and secular choral literature of the mid-Baroque through Classical eras. Focuses on music of continental Europe and England. Covers history, context, influences, stylistic development and analysis, and performance practice. Prerequisite: MUHST 212.
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MUSIC 483 Choral Repertoire: 1800-1945 (3) A&H
Sacred and secular choral literature from the nineteenth century through World War II. Explores repertoire of continental Europe, England, Scandinavia, North America, and South America, with historical context, and theoretical and stylistic analysis of choral works by diverse composers. Prerequisite: MUHST 212.
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MUSIC 484 Choral Repertoire: The Modern Era, 1945 to Present (3) A&H
Recent choral literature and styles of the late twentieth century through present day. Covers the global diaspora of European styles as well as global influences on European traditions. Includes recent repertoire by composers of diverse cultures and gender. Historical context, theoretical and stylistic analysis, and performance practice. Prerequisite: MUHST 212. Offered: WSp.
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MUSIC 485 Topics in the Analysis of American Music (3, max. 9) A&H
Includes close analytical study of specific repertoires of American music. Prerequisite: MUHST212 AND MUSIC302, or permission of instructor
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MUSIC 486 Special Topics in Music and Law (3, max. 9)
Examines the various ways in which the fields of law and music intersect. Uses principles of music theory and music history to critically examine intellectual property laws and court decisions relevant to music and musicians. Covers the work, both legal and musical, of historical figures who have worked within both fields. Topics vary. Prerequisite: MUSIC 203; MUSIC 206; MUHST 210; MUHST 211; and MUHST 212. Offered: AWSpS.
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MUSIC 487 Counterpoint (3) A&H
Introduction to counterpoint through exercises in analysis and composition in either modal or tonal idioms, focusing on the styles from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Study of contrapuntal principles in 2-6 voices, historical genres (madrigals, motets, dance forms, inventions, fugue), and advanced contrapuntal techniques (invertible counterpoint, stretto, mensural canon). Prerequisite: MUSIC 301.
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MUSIC 489 Special Topics in Music Theory (3/5, max. 15) A&H
Prerequisite: either both MUSIC 303 and MUHST 210 or both MUSIC 312 and MUHST 314.
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MUSIC 491 Composition (3, max. 18) A&H
One-hour private instruction and one-hour laboratory session each week. Prerequisite: MUSIC 391.
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MUSIC 492 Opera Direction and Production (4) A&H
Practical experience with problems of the theater.
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MUSIC 493 Opera Direction and Production (4) A&H
Practical experience with problems of the theater. Prerequisite: MUSIC 492.
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MUSIC 495 Music of Japan (3) A&H/SSc
Survey of major Japanese musical traditions. Open to students in music and East Asian area studies. Prerequisite: MUSIC 316.
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MUSIC 496 Instrumentation (3) A&H
Survey of the basic characteristics and techniques of instruments of the orchestra and practical experience in scoring for various instrumental combinations. Also covers topics such as transcription of solo works for ensemble and basic arranging in jazz and other styles. Prerequisite: MUSIC 303; MUSIC 306.
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MUSIC 497 Orchestration (3) A&H
Study of the instruments of orchestra and practical experience in combining them. Examines questions of timbre, acoustics, psychoacoustics, as well as orchestration analysis of a variety of works. Prerequisite: MUSIC 496.
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MUSIC 498 Senior Thesis (3-, max. 9) A&H
Design and completion of an individual research project and writing of a thesis under supervision of a faculty member.
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MUSIC 499 Undergraduate Research (*, max. 6)
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MUSIC 504 Ethnographic Research in Music (3)
Seminar in ethnographic research in music, with attention to the nature of participant-observation and informal interviewing suitable to the discovery of the social and cultural life of individual musicians, and communities and institutions of music.
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MUSIC 511 Seminar in Field and Laboratory Methods (3)
Methodology of field research in ethnomusicology along with practical experience. Prerequisite: graduate student standing in ethnomusicology or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 512 Seminar in Ethnomusicology (3/5, max. 30)
Deals with advanced theoretical and methodological problems in ethnomusicology, and with the relationship of ethnomusicology to allied disciplines. Prerequisite: graduate-student standing in ethnomusicology or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 520 Music in Higher Education (3)
Philosophical and practical issues surrounding music within the context of higher education. Topics include mission and structure of music programs, development of teaching expertise, teacher/student evaluation, academic freedom, and job opportunities. Appropriate for all graduate music students and does not require background in teaching or education.
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MUSIC 523 Seminar in Music and Socialization (3, max. 9)
The socialization process and music, including the interaction whereby music culture is learned. Prerequisite: MUSIC 345 or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 526 History of Theory (3)
Ancient, medieval, early Renaissance.
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MUSIC 527 History of Theory (3)
Renaissance, baroque, early classic.
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MUSIC 528 History of Theory (3)
Classic, romantic, twentieth century.
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MUSIC 530 Seminar in Music Cognition (3, max. 9)
Study of research literature in cognition and music cognition, particularly as it relates to nonverbal musical experience. Prerequisite: MUSIC 344, or MUSIC 544, or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 531 Proseminar in Ethnomusicology (3)
Theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology based on historical and contemporary major writings. Critical evaluations of works with a broad view toward developing ethnomusicological research. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 532 Opera Direction and Production (2, max. 8)
Provides practical instruction for staging opera theatre. Offered: A.
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MUSIC 533 Preceptorial Readings in Ethnomusicology (5)
Significant ethnomusicological literature on the music cultures of Asia. Meets with MUSIC 316. Prerequisite: graduate student standing in ethnomusicology and permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 534 Preceptorial Readings in Ethnomusicology (5)
Significant ethnomusicological literature on the music cultures of Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Meets with MUSIC 317. Prerequisite: graduate student standing in ethnomusicology and permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 535 Preceptorial Readings in Ethnomusicology (5)
Significant ethnomusicological literature on the music cultures of Europe and North America. Meets with MUSIC 318. Prerequisite: graduate student standing in ethnomusicology and permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 536 Transcription and Analysis (3)
Study of the methodological principles of transcription and analysis, together with practical exercises in developing transcription skills. Prerequisite: graduate student standing in ethnomusicology and permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 540 Music in Asian America (3)
Introduces students to Asian American communities through examination of music and issues related to music, including migration, memory, gender, the body, tradition, and generation. Explores how Asian Americans have expressed their experiences and asserted their senses of identity through music, thereby making sense of and claiming Americanness. Offered: AWSp.
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MUSIC 542 Comparative Analysis and Musicianship (3)
Analysis of selected world music genres, with an emphasis on concepts and skills that are required to perform.
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MUSIC 543 Music and Community (3)
An introduction to theories and methods of community arts facilitation and community-building, including active engagement with local artists and organizations.
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MUSIC 544 Psychology of Music: Music Cognition (5)
Critical examination of questions, designs, and conclusions of previous research in a variety of areas related to music cognition including music performance, musical creativity, musical affect, musical preference, social psychology, and neuroscience. Discusses the role of theory, method, and typical procedures for psychological research.
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MUSIC 551 Practicum in Music Instruction (3, max. 9)
Practical application and validation of results of investigation in curriculum, music teaching and learning, performance, and theoretical studies. Prerequisite: teaching experience, or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 553 Advanced Choral Techniques (2, max. 18)
Practical application of technique and pedagogy related to choral music. Surveys major choral repertoire. Concurrent enrollment in MUSIC 583 required.
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MUSIC 559 Master's Recital (3, max. 6)
Public performance for students in the Master of Music degree program. Prerequisite: permission of instructor and Master of Music program standing.
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MUSIC 570 Seminar in Schenkerian Analysis (3, max. 9)
Advanced work in Schenkerian analysis. Prerequisite: MUSIC 470.
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MUSIC 571 Seminar in Serialism (3, max. 9)
Advanced theoretical and analytical work in serialism and other nontonal systems. Prerequisite: MUSIC 471, or equivalent.
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MUSIC 572 Advanced Topics in Computer Music (3)
Topics vary. Offered: AWSpS.
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MUSIC 573 Seminar in Tonal Analysis (3, max. 9)
Modern theoretical and analytical methods appropriate to study of western music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, conceived independently of or in response to the work of Heinrich Schenker. Prerequisite: MUSIC 470 or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 574 Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music: 1950 - Present (3)
Analytical examination of major works of second half of twentieth century. Prerequisite: MUSIC 471; MUSIC 472, or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 575 Seminar in Theory (3, max. 18)
Development and discussion of current student and faculty research in compositional/analytical theory and metatheory.
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MUSIC 576 Critical Theory of Music (3, max. 18)
Philosophical foundations of the criticism of music, including relevant contemporary thought in the criticism of literature and the other arts.
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MUSIC 577 Composers of the Twentieth Century (3, max. 9)
Analytical examination of the work of a major composer of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: MUSIC 574, or permission of instructor.
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MUSIC 580 Advanced Conducting (3, max. 9)
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MUSIC 581 Advanced Conducting (3, max. 9)
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MUSIC 582 Advanced Conducting (3, max. 9)
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MUSIC 583 Advanced Choral Conducting (2, max. 18)
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MUSIC 590 Keyboard and Doctoral Lecture Recital or Concerto Recital (6, max. 18)
Lecture recital or concerto recital for students in the Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance, in harpsichord performance, and in organ performance degree programs.
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MUSIC 591 Graduate Composition (*, max. 30)
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MUSIC 599 Advanced Selected Topics (1-3, max. 27)
Selected readings on current issues and problems in music. Prerequisite: permission of a supervising music faculty member.
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MUSIC 600 Independent Study or Research (*-)
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MUSIC 700 Master's Thesis (*-)
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MUSIC 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*-)
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