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Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer) — MIN2224.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning personal music making skills on the Mountain (aka Lap) Dulcimer. History of the Dulcimer and many different styles will be learned both traditional and contemporary. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform ( as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Corequisites: Students must also
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Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer) — MIN2224.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the mountain (aka lap) dulcimer. We will learn the history of the dulcimer and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform (as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Students will purchase a lap dulcimer kit and construct the instrument as
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Movement Practice: Sénémali I- Drumming & Dancing — DAN2423.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

This course provides a vibrant introduction to the traditional West African rhythms and movements of the Mandingo and Wolof communities. Students will embark on a journey through both drumming and dancing disciplines, mastering intricate rhythms that will expand their musical vocabulary and enhance their dance techniques.

Black Studies Dance Composition Musical Performance

Mozart's Idomeneo — MVO4265.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 2
Gods, kings, princesses, sea serpents...at Bennington! This seven week class invites students to participate in a concert performance of Mozart's "choral opera" Idomeneo performed by the Bennington Choral Society with professional singers and orchestra. Students will learn the extensive choral sections and be considered for minor roles. The chorus will play different roles
Drama Music

Music and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology — MET2136.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
This course will be a hands-on introduction to ethnomusicology, the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists think about the role music plays in everyday life. How do music and musicians build community, ignite protest and revolution, articulate racial identity, express and complicate gender and sexuality, or affirm faith? Some ethnomusicologists
Music Society Culture and Thought

Music and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology — MHI2206.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
This course will be a hands-on introduction to ethnomusicology, the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists think about the role music plays in everyday life. How do music and musicians build community, ignite protest and revolution, articulate racial identity, express and complicate gender and sexuality, or affirm faith? Some ethnomusicologists
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Music and Dance Collaboration — DAN4132.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati; Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This course brings together intermediate and advanced choreographer-dancers with student composer counterparts, for a group of assigned collaborative projects. After some preliminary exercises and discussions, choreographers and composers will be paired off for three two-week projects that deliberately explore different ways of working. They will make a piece in which the dance
Dance Music

Music and Dance Collaborations — DAN4133.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
Music and dance can influence each other from the beginning of the creative process. Over the course of a collaboration, the two disciplines can fall in and out of alignment, at different times acting mutually supportive or independent. In this course, students will explore and play with the relationship between sound and movement, through a series of exercises, projects, and
Music Dance

Music and Mathematics — MAT4124.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre; Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
How may mathematics be used to analyze music? How may it be used to compose music? What connections may be found between music and mathematics on the level of metaphor? This class will be not so much a survey as an exploration. The instructors and students will work together over the duration of the term to try to frame these questions, decide what we need to learn to answer
Science Mathematics and Computing Music

Music and Mathematics — Canceled

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew mcintyre; kitty brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How may mathematics be used to analyze music? How may it be used to compose music? What connections may be found between music and mathematics on the level of metaphor? This class will be not so much a survey as an exploration. The instructors and students will work together over the duration of the term to try to frame these questions, decide what we need to learn to answer
Science Mathematics and Computing Music

Music and Moving Image — MUS2030.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
The practice of underscoring moving images is as old as the medium itself, from early improvised accompaniments to modern experimental approaches. In this course, we will look and listen to a variety of films and sound scores throughout the ages, analyzing the way in which they act as counterpoint to a visual score. Written analysis of film sound design, foley, and musical
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Music as an Instrument for Social Change — MHI2114.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 4
This course will examine how music has provided strength and solidarity to various protest movements of the 20th century, often with dedicated support from student populations. We will look for examples of injustice and oppression which resulted in powerful musical expressions of both descriptive concern and angry defiance. Some of the social movements with a rich partnership
CAPA Dance Music

Music Composition for Dance — MHI2105.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Music composition for dance takes a retrospective look at seminal twentieth-century compositions composed for dance. Composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Ellington, Cage, and Copland revolutionized musical form, tonality, and rhythm, creating landmark compositions for iconic dance companies and choreographers, such as the Ballets Russes, Martha Graham, Katherine
Music Dance

Music Composition for Dance — MCO4152.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Music Composition for Dance looks retrospectively at collaborative twentieth-century works for ballet and modern dance from Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Ellington, Ailey, Cage, Syvilla Fort, Copland, and Martha Graham, amongst others. These collaborations helped revolutionize dance choreography, philosophies and musical methods from their use of tonalities, sonorities,
Music Dance

Music Composition for Dance — MCO4152.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Music Composition for Dance looks retrospectively at collaborative twentieth-century works for ballet and modern dance by Igor Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Duke Ellington, Alvin Ailey, John Cage, Syvilla Fort, Aaron Copland, and Martha Graham, among others. These collaborations helped revolutionize dance choreography and musical methods from their use of tonality, sonorities, texture,
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Music Composition for Dance — MHI2105.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
A retrospective look at twentieth-century compositions composed specifically for dance. Composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Ellington, Cage, and Copland revolutionized musical form, tonality, and rhythm during the twentieth century, creating compositions for iconic dance companies and choreographers such as the Ballets Russes, Martha Graham, Katherine Dunham, Alvin
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 2
Open to students who have good notational skills, have taken other composition classes, and are ready to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted.
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: allen shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students who wish to study composing intensively may be eligible for a small group tutorial or where appropriate, individual lessons. In general, students taking this course are expected to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. This course may be taken at the intermediate or advanced level. Students must have taken previous
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students who wish to study composing intensively may be eligible for a small group tutorial or where appropriate, individual lessons. In general, students taking this course are expected to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. This course may be taken at the intermediate or advanced level.
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
****** New course code as of 1/14/20 ****** This is a course for students who want to work in a concentrated way on their (usually notated) compositions, and to take their work to a more developed and ambitious level. They are expected to produce a substantial amount of work, often in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. Students
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students who wish to study composing intensively may be eligible for a small group tutorial or where appropriate, individual lessons. In general, students taking this course are expected to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. This course may be taken at the intermediate or advanced level.  
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 2
Open to students who have good notational skills, have taken other composition classes, and are ready to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted.
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: allen shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Students who wish to study composing intensively may be eligible for a small group tutorial or where appropriate, individual lessons. In general, students taking this course are expected to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. This course may be taken at the intermediate or advanced level. Students must have taken previous
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