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In the Box: Tools and Techniques for Working with Digital Audio — MSR4111.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course offers a thorough overview of digital audio tools, how they work, and techniques for putting them to use. Students will be guided through digital audio theory, compositional strategies and modern audio workflows covering digital synthesis, sample manipulation and impulse response design. Our focus will be on VST and VSTi plugins, impulse response based reverb and
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Indie Record Making — MSR2117.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 2
The independent record label movement started as a spark in the nineteen-eighties. Today, most records are either self or independently released. We will look at important indie labels through analysis of significant independently released records. What’s the difference between Sub Pop and Rough Trade?  How did 4AD shape the sound of the eighties? Why do artists like Adele
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Instrument Building — MUS4014.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on experimental instruments and unheard-of sounds. A survey will introduce students to the innovations of Harry Partch, new gamelans, circuit bending, and interfaced instruments. Students are required to design, construct, and perform on at least two different instruments during the term. Students will be asked to be critical
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Instrument Building — MUS2229.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on acoustic experimental instruments and unheard-of sounds. A survey will introduce students to the innovations of Partch, new gamelans, circuit bending, and interfaced instruments. Students are required to design, construct, and perform on at least one instrument of significant complexity during the term. Students will be asked
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Instrument Building — MUS2229.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on experimental acoustic instruments. Students are required to design, critique, and eventually construct instruments collaboratively and individually. We will also work with the Schonbeck instruments at MoCA, and new prototypes for Commons. Students will be expected to work on projects early and progressively, creating proof-of
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Interdisciplinary Improvisation Ensemble — APA2135.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra; Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
When you see a flock of birds migrating south, how does self-organization form the patterns that result in their flight? When you observe dancers moving along a path without a choreographer and musicians creating music without each note written down, how do they follow and listen to each other? How do collaborative structures support dialogue or destroy communication?
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Interdisciplinary Projects in EMusic and Sound — MPF4701.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This advanced course focuses on the creation of interdisciplinary projects that include electronic music/sound as a primary component. Students will work in collaborative pairs or individually to develop a substantial semester-long compositional, installation, performance or intermedia project. Projects will be informed by students' ongoing  interdisciplinary research,
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Intermedia Performance — MPF4225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 4
In this course, we will focus on hybrid practices and explore various forms of intermedia art such as video/audio mashups, audiovisual performance and installation, movement for the camera, and sound and video for movement. The readings and discussions will give an introduction to the intermedia art practice as well as the history of early audiovisual tools, theories on
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Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
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Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01) (cancelled 5/8/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
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Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
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Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and write music from melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Students will learn to identify key signatures, intervals, 7th chords, triads, common cadences and phrase structures, larger forms, tempo markings, and more. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared
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Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and write music from melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Students will learn to identify key signatures, intervals, 7th chords, triads, key relationships, common cadences and phrase structures, larger forms, tempo markings, and more. Classwork will include singing melodies with
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Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking
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Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
In this course, students will develop skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Students will learn to identify key signatures, intervals, 7th chords, triads, key relationships, common cadences and phrase structures, larger forms, tempo markings, and more. Classwork will include singing melodies
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Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course, students will develop skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Students will learn to identify key signatures, intervals, 7th chords, triads, key relationships, common cadences and phrase structures, larger forms, tempo markings, and more. Classwork will include singing

Fundamentals Music Theory

Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
In this course, students will develop skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Students will learn to identify key signatures, intervals, 7th chords, triads, key relationships, common cadences and phrase structures, larger forms, tempo markings, and more. Classwork will include singing melodies
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Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking
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