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Basso Continuo and You — MTH2110.01

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
*** Time Change *** The practice of putting chords over a bass line and a melody on top - sound familiar? - exploded in the Early Baroque and we haven't been the same since. Listening changed. Ensembles changed. And a new era of functional harmony began. Learn about figured bass, chordal voicing and interpretation, the Spanish rhythmic ostinati which fueled popular dances from

Battle of the Bands — MHI2115.01

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Bands of today have a deep American ancestry. Minstrel bands in blackface snapped their banjos to the backbeat, clicked bones in swing-time and ran gags that begat shtick. Regional pride was embedded in every town's homeboy brass band, decked out in gold braid uniforms, mustaches, and the latest European harmony, these outdoor musical armies broadcast more than tunes - sex,

BC American Jazz Combo — MPF4274.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: WE 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 1

The BC American Jazz Combo explores jazz standards that have become signature works by some of America’s most innovative and enduring composers within the jazz lexicon. Students will explore works by Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Chick Corea, Charles Mingus, and others. Students will develop their sight-reading, improvisation,

BC Soundscape Dub Ensemble — MSR4373.01

Instructor: Cristian Amigo
Days & Time: TU 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

This ensemble-based course explores the intersection of live performance, experimental soundscapes, and dub aesthetics. Rooted in the traditions of dub music—including remix culture, delay and reverb manipulation, and bass-driven textures—students will create immersive sonic environments using a mix of acoustic instruments, electronic

Beans Give Back 2.0 — APA4263.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Beans have a long shelf life packed with nutrition. How could this food source extend itself to the local community? Beans are a legume coming from the French word légume and the Latin word leger meaning to gather or to pick. With a cultural significance across several continents, beans have nourished humans, animals and soil health. As a seasonal progression of Beans Give Back

Beat by Beat — DRA4122.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be

Beat by Beat — DRA2122.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays drawn from a contemporary and classic canon of dramatic literature.  Students will  be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and study of given playwrights and their

Beat by Beat — DRA4122.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be

Beat By Beat Script Interpretation: Pulitzer Version — DRA4192.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Students in this class will read a weekly selection of Pulitzer Prize winning plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is an in-depth script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure, arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights

Beat by Beat: Script Interpretation for Theatre Makers and Their Friends — DRA4254.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be explored in

Beauty — PHI4111.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
The purpose of education is to bring us to love beauty. This, at least, according to Socrates in Plato’s Republic (403c5-6). The Greek word Plato uses for ‘love,’ here is ‘erotika,’ that is: erotics: passionate, intense desire such as one has for a lover. It is this kind of love that Plato insists we should have for the beautiful (the fine, to kalon). What does it mean to

Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) — MIN4226.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) is a drum set seminar that surveys specific drumming architects of Bebop, Funk, and Rock music while investigating innovative drum set performers of today who are blending traditional rhythms from global communities into mainstream and improvised forms of music. Students will listen to drum set innovators Ed Blackwell, Art Blakey, Alex Acuna,

Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) — MIN4226.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) is a drum set course that looks at the drumming architects of Bebop and Rock while discovering the innovative drummers of today who are mapping traditional rhythms from various cultures and adapting them for drumset. We’ll learn about Ed Blackwell, Art Blakey, Alex Acuna, Ignacio Berroa, John Bonham, Daphnis Prieto, Steve Jordan, and many

Bebop, Rock Beyond I — MIN4216.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
Bebop, Rock Beyond is a drum set course exploring the musical techniques associated with cutting edge drummers while expanding your musicianship. We will look at the drumming architects of Bebop and Rock, such as Max Roach, Elvin Jones, John Bonham, and Bill Buford, in addition to innovative musicians who are taking drum set playing Beyond the traditions of rock and jazz. This

Bebop, Rock, and Beyond (Advanced Fundamentals) — MPF4223.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Bebop, Rock and Beyond surveys numerous drum set innovators, architects, and developers of the American drum set. Students will investigate multiple music genres from Swing, Bebop, Funk, Fusion, and Rock from drummers such as, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Ed Blackwell, John Bonham, Steve Jordan, and Cindy Blackman, to global approaches on drum set by artists, Alex Acuna, Terry Lynn

Beckett (19x19) — MA4103.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will use a variety of texts of Samuel Beckett as the basis for the class. These will include the short stories, plays and radio plays.  We will watch a selection of the Beckett on Film (19 films x 19 directors) series produced by Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney.  The series includes a number of interpretations for the plays from the directors. This approach

Bedrock Geology — CANCELLED

Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Understanding solid‐earth processes requires detailed observations of both the mineralogical/chemical makeup of rocks, and of textures and structures within rocks. The emphasis of the course will be on field and laboratory observation of rock textures and structures, including depositional features that allow us to interpret how the rocks formed, and tectonic

Beethoven Seminar — MTH4106.01

Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 2
In this seven week seminar we will study a variety of works by Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) in detail, while familiarizing ourselves with his life sufficiently to put the music in context. The main focus will be on Beethoven's musical language and the structures of the works. Students need to be able to read notation fluently and to have a good working knowledge of harmony.

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion. Corequisites: Attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm – 8:00pm) seven times per term

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term's conclusion. Corequisites: Must attend and participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Instructor: Nat Parke
Credits: 1
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term's conclusion.

Beginning Cello — MIN4354.02

Instructor: Nat Parke
Credits: 1
The basics of cello, part two. In a small group, students will learn how to play cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion.

Beginning Cello — MIN4354.01

Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the terms conclusion.