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Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as previously authoritarian states seek to craft democratic constitutions, while established and new democracies contend with non-democratic, illiberal, or populist challenges to their political systems. This course
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as many previously authoritarian states seek to craft their first democratic political institutions or constitutions. This basic course introduces students to major political institutions and the debates about their
Society Culture and Thought

Composing for Drum Set — MCO2131.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 1

This 7 week course will shift how drummers think and play the drum set. Students will be encouraged to move beyond just playing beats and grooves to thinking more compositionally. If you are able to play the drums, we will not completely ignore rhythms, however,learning how the drum set can be a melodic and harmonic instrument is one of the

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Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community — MCO4140.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
This course is for students interested in investigating musical improvisation and composition, and their relation to a musical community. Selected students will form an ensemble and will be guided to compose at their own level: 1) for the ensemble, 2) for a section of the ensemble, e.g., duos, trios, and 3) for solo. Through working together, participants will develop a common
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Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community — MCO4140.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is for students interested in investigating musical improvisation and composition, and their connection to a musical community. The students selected for this course will form an ensemble. They will be guided to compose, at their own level, 1) for the ensemble, 2) for a part of the ensemble (duos, trios) and 3) for solo. There is no right or
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Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community — MCO4140.01) (new course code as of 11/7/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is for students interested in investigating musical improvisation and composition, and their connection to a musical community. The students selected for this course will form an ensemble. They will be guided to compose, at their own level, 1) for the ensemble, 2) for a part of the ensemble (duos, trios) and 3) for solo. There is no right or wrong approach. The
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Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Performance — MCO4129.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course is for students interested in investigating musical improvisation and composition through examining and performing works by contemporary composers. Students will also be guided to compose music at their own level. Basic ability to follow scores is encouraged, but not mandatory. We will first examine and play through works by contemporary composers who incorporate
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Composing for Instruments — MCO4151.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This class gives composers hands-on practice notating their music and hearing it played by performers playing a variety of instruments. It is meant for fledgling composers, for those who may have composed a lot of music already but have trouble writing their music down, or for those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try. There are specific
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Composing for Instruments — MCO4151.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This class gives composers hands-on practice notating their music and hearing it played by performers playing a variety of instruments. It is meant for fledgling composers, those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try, as well as for those who may have composed a lot of music already but need more experience writing it down. There are specific
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Composing for Instruments — MCO4151.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This class gives composers hands-on practice notating their music and hearing it played by performers playing a variety of instruments. It is meant for fledgling composers, for those who may have composed a lot of music already but have trouble writing their music down, or for those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try. There are specific
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Composing for the Choir — MCO4130.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Composers who sing (or would like to), singers who compose (or would like to), songwriters who would like to stop singing alone, writers who would like to hear their writings sung (and maybe sing some too) and anyone who's always wanted to learn how to shape music for a vocal group---this class is for you. We will compose, rehearse and then perform our own repertoire in several
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Composing for the Choir — MCO4130.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Composers who sing (or would like to), singers who compose (or would like to), songwriters who would like to stop singing alone, writers who would like to hear their writings sung (and maybe sing some too) and anyone who's always wanted to learn how to shape music for a vocal group---this class is for you. We will compose, rehearse and then perform our own repertoire in several
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Composing for the Choir — MCO4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kitty brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Composers who sing (or would like to), singers who compose (or would like to), songwriters who would like to stop singing alone, writers who would like to hear their writings sung (and maybe sing some too) and anyone who's always wanted to learn how to shape music for a vocal group---this class is for you. We will compose, rehearse and then perform our own repertoire in several
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Composing for the Choir — MCO4130.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Composers who sing (or would like to), singers who compose (or would like to), songwriters who would like to stop singing alone, writers who would like to hear their writings sung (and maybe sing some too) and anyone who's always wanted to learn how to shape music for a vocal group---this class is for you. We will compose, rehearse and then perform our own repertoire in several
Music

Composing for the Lever Harp — MCO2132.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Rachel Clemente
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

In this course we will be taking a hands on approach to understanding the lever harp both historically and compositionally. We will be building and stringing small 19 string harps which will be used as the basis for our compositional work where students will be creating new works of varying length for the lever harp to be presented at the end of the semester. We’ll look at

Composition Music History

Composing In Traditional Forms — MCO4396.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This is a course primarily for notating composers,to give them the experience and pleasure of composing in a few of the musical structures often used in the Western Music of the 18th and 19th centuries. We will study works that exemplify Sonata Form, Theme and Variations, Passacaglia, and Fugue, among others, and try to create our own versions of these. In the early twentieth
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Composing Performers’ Ensemble — MCO4239.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 4
This ensemble will be comprised of performing musicians who also compose and/or improvise. The focus will be on the reading of new works, composed specifically for the instrumental possibilities within the group. By reading
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Composing with Sound — MUS2254.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sam Pluta
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class presents an open environment for creativity and expression through electronic music composition. Students will create music with sounds recorded in the real world, while studying electronic music techniques from the rich experimental and popular traditions of the past half century. We will cover the theory and practice of digital signal processing for audio and
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Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works — MCO4247.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 6
This six credit course is a collaborative music creation experience for composers and singers. This course will be taught in two sections (Section 1: Singers, Section 2: Composers) which will meet separately and as a combined group on a weekly basis. It will be co-taught by Virginia Kelsey and Allen Shawn. Composers and singers will work together over the course of the
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Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works- Composers — MCO4172.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This 4-credit course is a collaborative music creation experience for composers and singers. This course will be taught in two sections (Section 1: Singers, Section 2: Composers) which will meet separately and as a combined group on a weekly basis. It will be co-taught by Virginia Kelsey and Allen Shawn. It will be co-taught by Virginia Kelsey and Allen Shawn. Composers and
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Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works: Singers — MCO4170.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
Credits: 4
This 4-credit course is a collaborative music creation experience for composers and singers. Composers and singers will work together over the course of the semester to create new music for solo voice and small vocal ensemble using various collaborative practices to highlight and celebrate the individualistic nature of the voice. Singers will receive technical vocal instruction
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Composition Intensives and Music Research Projects — MCO4397.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This course is open to composers who want to work in a focused way on an ambitious composition project, or to those who have a specific musical research project they wish to pursue. Musical research projects could include such things as a serious study of a composer or musical topic, or a detailed analysis of a musical work. The class will meet in small groups and individually,
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Composition Intensives and Music Research Projects — MCO4397.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 2
This course is open to composers who want to work in a focused way on an ambitious composition project, or to those who have a specific musical research project they wish to pursue. Musical research projects could include such things as a serious study of a composer or musical topic, or a detailed analysis of a musical work. The class will meet in small groups and individually,
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Composition Projects — MCO4109.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Credits: 4
In this course, students propose a term-long project with extended instrumentation or length (8+ minutes), of which a part will involve live instrumentalists. We will work together to recruit faculty, student, or outside instrumentalists (with resources provided), towards an end-of-term concert. Class discussion will involve feedback on projects and compositional process, and
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