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Experimental Sound Practices — MSR2123.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
In this introductory course, students will expand their understanding of electroacoustic music by creating their own sonic narratives. The topics will include soundscape composition, 3D sound recording, surround sound (5.1), site-specific sound work, and electromagnetic field listening. There will be an emphasis on production and experiential learning through exercises and
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Experimental Sound Practices Goes Remote — MSR2123.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: senempirler@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
In this introductory course, students will expand their understanding of electroacoustic music by creating their own sonic narratives. The topics will include but are not limited to: soundscape composition, beat-making practices, and electromagnetic and binaural field listening. We will look at recent music-making experiments during the time of COVID-19 and explore the creative
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Explorations in Movement and Sound — DAN4029.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the myriad ways that sound and movement can intersect in a performative practice. Designed for students interested in compositional and co-creation strategies for both music and dance, we will consider historical and contemporary innovations in pairing sound and movement from a broad range of cultural and aesthetic perspectives. Regardless of
Dance Music

Explorations in Public History — HIS2232.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Public History, meaning history that is generated for wide general audiences through collaborations among community activists, historians, museum professionals, artists, preservationists, archivists, policy makers and public officials. Public History is an umbrella for the fascinating universe of museums, landmarks,
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Exploring 20th Century American British Art Song — MHI2119.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Rachel Rosales
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class will delve into the commonalities and differences between the two countries: The poetic, prosaic and political influence of the time on compositional style, structure, invention and unconventionality from the “Industrial Revolution” to WWII. Some composers of note: Edward MacDowell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Amy Beach, Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten,
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Extreme Music Production Techniques — MSR2238.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Eli Crews
Credits: 2
This course will dive deep into non-traditional music production techniques, and look at the history of pioneering musicians, engineers and producers whose work changed how we listen to recordings, including the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joe Meek, George Clinton, Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Pierre Henry, The Residents, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Public Enemy. This history will be a
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Faculty Performance Production — DRA4143.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kirk Jackson Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
A faculty directed production is to be determined. Mostly likely it will be a contemporary playwright and include live music either centrally or peripherally; music direction by Kerry Ryer-Parke and stage direction by Kirk Jackson, with a target performance date of early November. This course is for students cast or otherwise assigned production responsibilities and represents
Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Everything That Never Happened by Sarah Mantell — DRA4152.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
"Jessica and Lorenzo are in love, but in order to be together they must plan an escape from her father’s house, the Venetian ghetto, and her entire culture. Taking place in the gaps between "The Merchant of Venice" and the realities of Jewish history, "Everything That Never Happened" is a play about a father, a daughter, disguise, assimilation, pomegranates, and everything
Dance Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" — DRA4308.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare weaves the rebellious lovers, rude mechanicals, and fairies into the woods and everyone is transformed. This production will cast a dada/surrealist light on this popular comedy of gender friction, identity confusion, and the push and pull of rationality and dream logic. In this multi-media production we will re
Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: The Christians Onstage Gospel Choir — MPF4224.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke Kirk Jackson
Credits: 2
The Christians, by Lucas Hnath, explores difficult questions surrounding faith and revelation, community and personal responsibility. Set in a contemporary American mega-church, fractured by dispute over salvation and damnation, the play operates as a series of contradictory arguments with no single argument deemed the winner. Not unlike any family break-up, whether the family
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Faculty Performance Production: “H G, a great and terrible story,” by Anna Maria Hong, Jean Randich, Sue Rees, and Allen Shawn — DRA4407.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This is a faculty performance production of a new multimedia music theater piece freely inspired by Anna Maria Hong’s novella, “H G,” a cubistic re-envisioning of the Grimm’s tale of Hansel and Gretel as a surreal, feminist hero’s journey. Here abandonment, enchantment, and the fear of being consumed challenge the protagonists to imagine the unimaginable: how do you give birth
CAPA Drama Music

Fascinating Rhythm: Costume Design for Musicals — DRA2283.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This class will focus on designing the costumes for a series of increasingly complex stage musicals. We will listen to recordings, read and discuss scripts and investigate character. Possible projects might include a non- scripted work such as ‘Songs for a New World’ by Jason Robert Brown, a documentary based musical such as ‘Grey Gardens’ by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and
Dance Drama Music

Fascinating Rhythm: Costume Design for Musicals — DRA4266.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
In this class we will focus on designing the costumes for a series of increasingly complex stage musicals. We will listen to recordings, read and discuss scripts and investigate character. Possible projects might include a non- scripted work such as 'Songs for a New World' by Jason Robert Brown, a documentary based musical such as 'Grey Gardens' by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel
Drama Music

Feminist Theory and Electronic Music — MHI2209.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Suzanne Thorpe
Credits: 2
In the 1960s, a number of female-identified electronic music composers directly addressed the politics of the time through their choices in composition and technology, querying themes of embodiment, agency, power and materiality. This class will engage close listening and reading of works by Oliveros, Williams, Amacher, Radigue, Oram, Nova, and Spiegel, to discover how second
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Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+ years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling: Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (3+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This course is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills for
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Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+ years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling: Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (3+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world) and to give practical music
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world) and to give practical music
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (3+years of playing) violinist/violist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This course is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world) and to give practical music
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Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish & Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: F 1:00PM-1:50PM
Credits: 2

For the experienced (3+years of playing) violinist/violist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This course is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world) and to give practical

Ethnomusicology Instrumental Study

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills
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