Performing Arts Degrees

...your craft by hearing how your compositions work in practice. Another benefit is that, as a performance venue, the RNCM is a magnet for world-class composers...

...screenings culminating in a final project. Starting with a brief introduction to the basic principles of classical narrative cinema, we will proceed...

...Relativistic Quantum Field Theory II (8.324) GR, QFT or sufficient willingness to temporarily suspend disbelief. Previous exposure to string theory recommended but not essential... Learn about: Mathematical Physics, GCSE Physics...

...(two of which satisfy the CI-M requirement) in addition to a capstone thesis (including a pre-thesis tutorial). With an emphasis on artistic practice...

...visualization, and aesthetics. Weekly programming assignments in python are included. Student teams build an original, dynamic, and engaging interactive... Learn about: Team Training...

...Major composers and their works will be placed in social and cultural contexts. Weekly lectures feature demonstrations by professional performers...

...and ethnographic research projects. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Plus two required concert outings, outside of class time This course... Learn about: Cross Cultural...

...emphasizing singing and keyboard practice in the required piano labs. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course covers the following topics...

...whether these instructions are notated in prose, as graphic images, or in symbolic notation. No formal training is required. Weekly listening...

...and an in-class demonstration of the chant Office of Sext (Feria Secunda ad Sextam). Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session 21M.301 Harmony... Learn about: Ms Office, Office IT...

...of the actions of everyday life, we show ourselves to be knowledgeable in a special way. Often we cannot say what it is that we know. When we try to describe...

...based on live performances as well as listening and reading assignments. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session 21M.301 Harmony and Counterpoint...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session 21M.301 Harmony and Counterpoint I or permission of instructor. In 21M.235 we will study the music...

...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...