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Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Instructor: music faculty
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
An intensive, performance oriented exploration of the chamber music of literature. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Instructor: Music Faculty
Credits: 2
An intensive, performance oriented exploration of the chamber music literature. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and experience. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Advanced Counterpoint: Fugue Writing — MTH4249.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A course in counterpoint, focusing on the virtuosic practice of writing fugues. The class will focus on the watershed fugues of Bach and later touch on contemporary versions by Bartok, Hindemith, and Shostakovich. Students will be expected to write fugues for two, three, and four voices.

Advanced Electronic Music Composition and Performance Workshop — MCO4119.01

Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Credits: 2
This is an electronic music composition intensive class that will focus on performance. Over the course of the class students will be expected to home in on personal electronic music instrument set-ups that can be used live in performance. Throughout the course students will be composing for different ensembles assigned to them - solos, duos, trios. Each week will consist of

Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Individual or small group lessons of advanced study on guitar. Continued studies from Intermediate Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, playing in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire, emphasis on finger picking styles.

Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Individual or small group lessons of advanced study on guitar. Continued studies from Intermediate Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, playing in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire, emphasis on finger picking styles.

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians and will also collaborate with Thorsten Dennerline's Printmaking class to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This class will be co-taught by Dance Faculty from the BFA and BA Dance program and is open to both groups of dance students as well as music students. This class is for students who have had training in improvisational practices. Students will explore and perform structures, paying attention to pattern recognition, arcs of development and the building of gestural, sonic,

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.02) (cancelled 2/26/2024

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in improvisation techniques. Development of a movement vocabulary, pattern

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This class is for advanced dancers and musicians who have had some improvisation experience. We will work on Solo Practice and Ensemble Practices. Attention will be focused on the development of sound and movement vocabulary, pattern recognition, the arc of compositional forms and polyrhythms. Musicians and dancers will engage in deep listening, exchange of sonic and movement

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
This course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, group ensemble structures, and the exploration of emergent forms. For musicians, attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
This class is for advanced musicians and dancers who have had some improvisation experience. We will work on Solo Practice and Ensemble Practices. Attention will be focused on the development of sound and movement vocabulary, pattern recognition, the arc of compositional forms and polyrhythms. Musicians and dancers will engage in deep listening, exchange of sonic and movement

Advanced Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01

Instructor: Christopher Lewis
Credits: 2
Private piano instruction. Study of instrumental technique and musical interpretation of classical repertoire. Requirements: attendance at weekly lessons; participation in Music Workshop; performance at end-of-term recital. Students accepted by audition.

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Instructor: Jen Allen
Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano offered to experienced pianists interested in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to play various non-classical styles. Areas covered: chord-voicings, chord-scales, reharmonization of chord progressions and stylistic approaches to improvisation (both melodically and rhythmically).

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Instructor: Jen Allen
Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, pop, folk, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Intermediate-to-Advanced piano skills, a good understanding of music theory (basic major and minor scales + chord inversions) and the ability to read music notation are required. Audition and/or permission of the instructor.

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.