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Piano Lab: Piano Improv for Beginners — MIN2361.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Chris Rose
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Instructor will provide musical prompts such as chordal patterns, melodic fragments, and rhythms as a basis for evocative and expressive improvisation. While we will learn some music theory terminology, the class will de-emphasize sheet music in order to focus on navigating the keyboard itself. All experience levels are welcome.<

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Piano – Intensive — MIN4418.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
Credits: 4
Individual private lessons for motivated intermediate and advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor twice per week on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of one hour practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons.
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Piano – Intensive — MIN4418.01) (cancelled 12/6/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
Credits: 4
Individual private lessons for motivated intermediate and advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor twice per week on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of one hour practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons.
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Pieces of Time — MPF4105.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: susie ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In honor of the quartet recording of drums and percussion music by Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Famadou Don Moye and Kenny Clarke, Pieces of Time delves into the vocabulary and structures of jazz drumming and percussion. While studying the styles of these drummers , the class will also examine drumming and percussion styles within the genre. This ensemble will reconstruct
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Pieces of Time — MPF4105.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
In honor of the quartet recording of drums and percussion music by Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Famadou Don Moye and Kenny Clarke,  Pieces of Time delves into the vocabulary and structures of jazz drumming and percussion. While studying the styles of these drummers , the class will also examine drumming and percussion styles within the genre. This
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Placing Art at the Heart of Community Building — APA2304.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
“Great art is like bypass surgery. It allows us to go around all of the psychological distancing mechanisms that turn people cold to the most vulnerable among us.” Lin-Manuel Miranda While recent crises have revealed troubling divides in most societies of the world, the resulting disruption invites the possibility of kinder, more peaceful and equitable communities. When the
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Poets' Love: The Song Cycle — MVO4127.01

Spring 2020
Instructor:
Credits: 2
This class is directed toward the somewhat advanced vocal performer. They will learn about German Lieder, the wonderful confluence of text and music, which is a highpoint of the Romantic period in music. They will study and perform Schumann’s Dichterliebe, one of the greatest song cycles ever written. Students will together and separately learn all of the sixteen songs and
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Polyrhythms — MPF4124.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
This performance ensemble will study polyrhythmic theory practiced in the Sub-Sahara, Southeast Asia , Caribbean , and Western music cultures. The individuals and ensemble will learn to play music that incorporates playing two or more contradicting rhythms at once. Each student will compose a piece for the ensemble to perform that is influenced by one or more of the
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Popular Culture and Music in Post-Colonial Africa — MET2140.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

In this course we will examine the role of music as a vehicle for political and social change in Africa. Our focus will be music-making throughout the continent of Africa during the nationalist struggles that resulted in independent African states and how musicians responded (and continue to respond) to the persistent challenges faced by those post-colonial states. We will

Black Studies Ethnomusicology Music History Anthropology

Popular Culture and Music in Post-Colonial Africa: From Palm Wine to Kuduro — MHI2253.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
In this course we will examine the role of music as a vehicle for political and social change in Africa. Our focus will be music-making throughout the continent of Africa during the nationalist struggles that resulted in independent African states and how musicians responded (and continue to respond) to the persistent challenges faced by those post-colonial states. We will
CAPA Music Society Culture and Thought

Post-Mao Chinese Rock and Roll — CHI4511.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a
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Producing the Sound of Tomorrow’s Albums and Television Shows — MSR4370.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This 7-week course offers a hands-on exploration of the challenges faced by today’s audio professionals as they prepare media for record labels, streaming platforms, and television studios. The audio producer’s role is to translate the abstract aesthetic goals of artists from many disciplines into real-world solutions. Each week, we’ll tackle a specific problem in sound
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Professor Milford Graves: Improvisor, Naturalist, Activist — MHI2212.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This seminar investigates various aspects of Professor Graves music, philosophy, research, and visual art. Graves taught at Bennington College for 39 years. He was a visionary drummer who contributed to the exploration of music improvisation during the 60s and 70s while collaborating with many noted composers in the avant-garde category. During this time, Graves observations of
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Rebetiko Ensemble: Songs of the Greek Underworld — MPF4359.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
Rebetiko was an urban underground music genre that flourished in Greece in the early 20th century. A kind of outlaw blues, rebetiko emerged from the poorest quarters of Athens in the 19th century, its songs typically dealing with themes of exile, wandering the streets after dark, taking drugs and drinking to excess, loving the wrong person, imprisonment, death, and the harsh
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Recording and Mixing Music — MSR2116.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 4
An introduction to the basic art of audio recording, editing, and mixing, through lectures and hands-on experiences with guided and individual studio projects. Pro Tools, microphone technique, audio processing, and basic mixing will be covered, alongside analysis of commercial recordings with in-studio recreation of their techniques. Want people to listen to your music?
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Recording and Mixing Music — MSR2116.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
An introductory course to recording and mixing.  We will learn the basics of recording, editing, and mixing in the Jennings Recording studio. Microphone types and placement for acoustic instruments.  Pro Tools operation. Outboard microphone preamps. Audio editing. Monitoring correctly and efficiently. Basic mixing of multitrack material. This is a hands-on course
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Recording and Mixing Music — MSR2116.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david baron
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
An introduction to the basic art of audio recording, editing, and mixing, through lectures and hands-on experience with guided and individual studio projects. Pro Tools, microphone technique, audio processing, and basic mixing will be covered, alongside analysis of commercial recordings with in-studio recreation of their techniques. Want people to listen to your music? Stop
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Recording and Mixing Music — MSR2116.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 4
An introduction to the basic art of audio recording, editing, and mixing, through lectures and hands-on experiences with guided and individual studio projects. Pro Tools, microphone technique, audio processing, and basic mixing will be covered, alongside analysis of commercial recordings with in-studio recreation of their techniques. Want people to listen to your music?
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Recording and Mixing Music II — MSR2208.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 4
Segues from MSR 2116.01 as the next step in in sound recording and mixing. We’ll working on advanced microphone technique, dynamic processing, producing, mixing, and mastering, starting start with hands-on A/B comparisons of microphone techniques, and capturing audio in diverse spaces around campus. The course will consider the merits of various formats, analog vs digital,
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Recording Studio as an Instrument — MSR2210.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The Beatles came to Abbey Road as a typical musical combo.  A few records into their career the recording studio got more and more important as a part of the compositional, arrangement, and creative process. We will approach the recording studio as an instrument. Creative uses of sampling, microphone techniques, composing in the studio, musique concrète, collaging,
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Rediscovering Early American Vocal Music — MPF2203.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Credits: 2
In this workshop, we will form a performance group to explore ancient Americana:  17th-century psalmody, shape-note music, Shaker chants, revival and gospel tunes, Victorian hymns, spirituals, music of California and the Southwest, etc.  Some of this music will come directly from forgotten, crumbling 19th-century songbooks, so we must resurrect this music quickly
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Reinventing Radio — MSR2118.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience. Through reading and
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Reinventing Radio — MSR2118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture.  This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound.  Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience.  Topics
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