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Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
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Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
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Music Theory 1 – Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
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Music Theory I – Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
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Music Theory I – Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
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Music Theory: Beats Bars — MTH2129.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
A deep dive into rhythmic notation and sight reading. A course for acquiring useful skills to notate sight read, rhythmic melodic notation. Topics: syncopation, compound meters, interpretation, ear training conducting. Student will bring instrument and/or voice to class for practice and application. Instruments can include: any strings, brass, woodwind, or percussion.
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Music Toolkit: Rhythm — MFN2107.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 1
This course is meant for almost‐beginners and intermediate students wanting to gain a better understanding of RHYTHM. We will review how meters function, how syncopation and polyrhythms are created and how rhythmic patterns are notated.  The ability to recognize and execute various rhythms is critical to improving one’s musicianship. Rhythm adds interest and energy to all
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Music Toolkit: Theory for Singers and Performing Musicians — MFN2214.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 1
This course is designed to further the understanding and identification of the symbols of music and to integrate them into practical application.  Scales, intervals and rythmic notation will be reviewed and be used to sing simple pieces of music.  We will deal with melody and harmony through reading single melodic lines, four part Bach Chorales and other music in most
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Music Toolkit: Theory for Singers and Performing Musicians — MFN2214.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 1
We will meet to sing together once a week. Madrigals, plainchant, large a cappella choral works ancient and new. Develop an understanding of the theory every musician should know by heart, ear and eye—particularly the singer—in order to perform. Learn how to sight-sing by applying music theory. Ability to match pitch and sing in harmony are recommended but not required.
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Music Workshop — MUS2001.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Music Faculty
Credits: 0
Workshop provides a weekly student-led forum for students to perform prepared works and/ or present their compositions, and receive feedback from the music faculty, instrumental teachers, and students. In addition, lectures and performances will be presented by the music faculty and occasional visiting artists. Corequisites: Students taking performance classes are
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Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MHI2252.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
This course will explore the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a musical lens. Drawing on ethnomusicological, historical, sociological and anthropological research in the region, the course will examine music-making as a process of representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of sexuality and gender identities. We will talk
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Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MET2137.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
This course will examine the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a musical lens. Drawing on research in ethnomusicology, queer studies, gender studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and other interdisciplinary fields, we will study music-making and other modes of performance as processes of representation, assertion, and sometimes
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Music, Politics, and Society in the Modern Middle East — MHI2108.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
The Middle East, home to many of the world’s oldest civilizations and major religions, remains a region of remarkable cultural diversity. From the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 to the Arab Spring and the current refugee crisis, this vast territory has experienced extraordinary political and social change over the past nearly one hundred years. While often riven by conflict
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Musical Explorations — MTH2278.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This Course is open to any and all students hoping to learn more about music who have limited [or no] experience reading music and limited or no experience studying music theory. The class will explore music notation through small composing assignments. We will also explore the basics of music theory, will study some of the high points of music history, with an emphasis on 20th
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Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This class focuses on musical architecture, by examining beautiful works from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. We will listen to music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Fanny Hensel, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Ives, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Berg, Rzewski, Bernstein, Cage, Kurtag, Takemitsu and Gubaidulina (among others), analyzing their structures in detail. We will
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Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 2
This class focuses on musical architecture, by examining important and beautiful works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and discussing the traditional forms they exemplify. We will listen to works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Rzewski (among others), analyzing their structures in detail. Forms to be studied will
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Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class focuses on musical architecture, by examining beautiful works from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. We will listen to music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Fanny Hensel, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Ives, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Berg, Rzewski, Bernstein, Cage, Kurtag, Takemitsu and Gubaidulina (among others), analyzing their structures in detail. We will
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Musical Taste and Monetization – The Business Side of Music — MHI2244.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Why do we like the music we like? How do we discover music? How do we monetize music? This course will explore the factors that influence our musical taste and how the industry monetizes our love of music. In the first half of the course, the class will examine the latest research on music, media, and science, bringing awareness to our freedom, or the lack of, in our everyday
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