Music courses have spaces available in Fall 2022
The music courses detailed below have spaces available for students to enroll for Fall 2022!
Want to sing or play an instrument?
See the music performance classes in a separate posting…
MUSC 105 Instrumental Ensembles
MUSC 107 Private Music Lessons
MUSC 109 Jazz Ensemble
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MUSC 101 Basic Musicianship (1.25 credits)
MWF 10:00-10:50 AM
Professor Dan Romàn
All Music 101 students must register for one of the practicum sessions listed below.
An introduction to the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic structure of tonal music, with emphasis on the development of a chordal vocabulary equally adaptable to classical and popular music. A required weekly practicum will stress ear-training (recognition of intervals, chords, rhythms, etc.) and its practical applications at the keyboard. Prerequisite for MUSC 201. May not be counted toward the music major.
Practica:
MUSC-101-20 M 1:30-2:20 PM
MUSC-101-21 M 2:40-3:30 PM
MUSC-101-22 W 2:40-3:30 PM
MUSC-101-23 R 2:55-3:45 PM
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MUSC 113 Introduction to World Music (1.00 credit)
MW 2:55-4:10 PM
Professor Eric Galm
A comprehensive survey of global musical traditions that encompasses rural and urban music from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, India, Asia, and the Americas. This course is designed to highlight the central role of musical expression in human life, exploring musical sound and movement in sacred, secular, ritual, and non-ritual contexts. Students No previous musical knowledge is required. Students are expected to learn basic listening skills and identify musical styles. The course culminates in a final research project about a world music tradition, ensemble, performer, or other related topic. Also listed in International Studies–African studies, International Studies–Asian studies, and International Studies–Latin American and Caribbean studies.
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MUSC 133 Blues Women to Nicki Minaj (1.00 credit)
TR 1:30-2:45 PM
Professor Gail Woldu
This course explores the music of Black American women in music from the era of blues queens of the 1920s through Nicki Minaj. Along the way we will listen to and read about the music of blues greats Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith; trailblazer Marian Anderson; jazz legends Billie Holiday, Elle Fitzgerald, and Dinah Washington; Motown superstar Diana Ross and the fabulous Supremes; disco queen Donna Summer; gospel and soul diva Aretha Franklin; rocker Tina Turner; and, ultimately, women in hip-hop, among them Queen Latifah, Lil’ Kim, and Nicki Minaj. Because context is critical to the understanding of the music of these women, course readings will situate the women in their social and musical times.
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MUSC 201-01 Diatonic Harmonic Practice (1.50 credits)
MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
Professor Dan Romàn
MUSC 201-20 Practicum
R 1:40-2:30 PM
Ms. Christine Melson
Prerequisite: C- or better in MUSC 101 or equivalent preparation (permission of instructor)
All MUSC-201-01 students must also enroll in the practicum session of the course, MUSC 201-20
Study of the harmonic practices of the 18th and 19th centuries, through exercises and the analysis of typical works. An intensive course with integrated practicum sessions, which focus on the development of skills in sight-singing, dictation and keyboard proficiency, and written exercises modeled after those works.
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MUSC 260 Advanced Recording Arts
T 1:30-4:10 PM
Professor Christopher Swist
Prerequisite: C- or better in MUSC 175, or permission of instructor
Building on the knowledge and techniques learned in MUSC 175 Introduction to Recording Arts, students will engage in recording projects of multiple musical genres. This class will incorporate more advanced recording and mixing philosophies and will continue development of technical critical listening skills in a studio environment.
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MUSC 274 Jazz: 1900-Present
TR 10:50 AM – 12:05 PM
Professor Jennifer Allen
Through listening, discussion, and reading, this course will survey the development of jazz from ragtime and pre-jazz through New Orleans swing, be-bop, and modern jazz. Among composers and performers to be studied include Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Thelonious Monk, Charles Parker, and Woody Shaw. No previous training in music is required. Also listed under American Studies.
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MUSC 311 Music: from Plato through Bach (1.00 credit)
TR 2:55-4:10 PM
Professor Gail Woldu
Prerequisite: C- or better in MUSC 101 or permission of instructor
This course explores music from the time of Plato and Aristotle through Baroque composers Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel. We will consider the most significant traditions, trends, genres, innovations, and historical developments in the history of music in Europe as we discover, listen to, and write about key works by composers whose music is the cornerstone for much of today’s music.
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MUSC 313 Music: Stravinsky to John Adams (1.00 credit)
MW 1:30-2:45 PM
Professor Dan Romàn
Prerequisite: C- or better in MUSC 201 or permission of instructor
A study of contemporary art music from the late-1890s to the present, focusing on the greatest composers of the era in their historical, political, and social contexts. Composers studied will include Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartók, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Ives, Copland, Gershwin, Ellington, Bernstein, Reich, and Adams.
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