Performing Arts Degrees

...Gottschalk, Beach, and Joplin. Score-reading ability is beneficial. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Part 1: Intimacy and the (Self-)...

...you will hone your own preferences and aim to understand the motivations behind and importance of a wide diversity of compositional orientations...

...(though that is indeed a goal). We will be most concerned with larger questions of continuity and change in music. We will also consider questions of reception... Learn about: Music History...

...on Islam in the media, this course explores how many aspects of Islamic practice and thinking might be understood as media technologies that facilitate the inscription...

...It focuses on works by classical composers from around the world. Topics include the impact of rock, as it developed during the 1960s -...

...and develop insights through listening, readings, and concert attendance. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Ruckert, George. The Classical Music of North India... Learn about: Classical Music...

...Each of the three written papers reviews a concert attended during the term. Since this is a participatory subject, each student will give oral presentations...

...as well as lecture-demonstrations by guest artists. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session The core of this course consists of lectures...

...Westernization, globalization, the impact of recording industries, and the post-colonial era. Case studies will include Afro-pop, reggae, bhangra...

...the musical vocabulary of current popular music styles. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session There are no prerequisites for this course...

...will be a continuous theme. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session 21M.030 Introduction to World Music or permission of the instructor This class... Learn about: Early Years...

...analysis, and work in sight-singing and keyboard musicianship. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Sight-singing Laboratory: 1 session /... Learn about: Classical Music...

...and chromatic modulation; lecture study and discussion are complemented by work in the keyboard laboratory and sight-singing laboratory. All areas of study... Learn about: Classical Music...

...1 session / week, 1 hour / session Musical composition is an art, not a science. There are no absolute rights and wrongs, or formulae for success...

...techniques of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Musicianship laboratory is required. Lectures: 2 session / week, 1.5 hours / session Musicianship...

...(totaling 20 pages, one to be revised) and one oral presentation are required. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Some aspects of our experience...

...convolution, algorithms, and simple mixing. The class focuses on sonic and compositional aspects rather than technology, math, or acoustics...

...Weekly lab sessions support work on musical technique. Guest artist / lecturers will engage students through mini-residencies in jazz with...

...Lectures: Two sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Course meetings are divided into two categories. Topic meetings combine lecture, demonstration... Learn about: Music Technology...

...and model sounds and resynthesize them with the open-source graphical programming environment Pure Data (Pd). Our work will be guided by Andy Farnell's... Learn about: Music Technology, Sound Design...