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Music Toolkit: Theory for Singers and Performing Musicians — MFN2214.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time:
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.
Music

Music Workshop — MUS2001.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Music Faculty
Days & Time:
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
Music

Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MET2137.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
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
Music Society Culture and Thought

Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MHI2252.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
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
CAPA Music Society Culture and Thought

Music, Politics, and Society in the Modern Middle East — MHI2108.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
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
Music

Musical Explorations — MTH2278.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
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
Music

Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
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
Music

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
Music

Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2013
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 Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
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
Music

Musical Taste and Monetization – The Business Side of Music — MHI2244.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
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
Music

Musical Taste and Monetization – The Business Side of Music — MHI2244.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
How do we find the music we like? Recommendations from friends? Listening to the opening band at a live concert? Movies? Video games? Algorithms? Music is everywhere. But (as of 2024), when more than 100,000 tracks are being uploaded every day to digital streaming platforms and Spotify gives us access to over 100 million tracks, the chances of encountering a piece of music
Music

Musical Taste and Transformation: the Self, Algorithms and the Human Connection — MHI2254.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
With so much recorded music available at our fingertips, recommender systems such as algorithmic playlists have become a routine part of our daily lives. By focusing on the self and examining our own listening history and habits, this course will build a chain of musical works which will allow us to investigate how we encounter music and become more aware of what actually
Society Culture and Thought Music

Musical Taste and Transformation: the Self, Algorithms and the Human Connection — MHI2254.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
What affects our tastes? Why do we like the music we like? How do we discover music? How effective are algorithms? Using music as the entry point, we will try to answer these questions by focusing on the self, and by digging into the newest research regarding music, media and science. The aim of the course is to become more aware of our freedom, or the lack
Music

Musical Theatre Writing - Book Lyrics — DRA4154.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sarah Hammond
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
"Words can be graceful, but music is grace itself. Music is a blessing that enters the soul through the ear." -Tony Kushner, from the foreword to Caroline or Change How do we write words that sing? What drives a character to sing? How can a words-writer best use the constraints of the musical form to make a character come alive in the theater? In this creative writing course,
Drama Music

Musicianship — MFN2112.02; section 2

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will introduce those with little or no musical training to the basics of music, through training in notation, aural skills, keyboard skills, sight singing, and harmony. Corequisite: Students must participate in Music Workshop, T 6:30 – 8:00pm.
Music

Musicianship — MFN2112.01; section 1

Spring 2017
Instructor: Evan Williams, Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will introduce those with little or no musical training to the basics of music, through training in notation, aural skills, keyboard skills, sight singing, and harmony. Corequisite: Students must participate in Music Workshop, T 6:30 - 8:00pm.
Music

Musing on Miles - An American icon — MHI2214.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American icon whose approach and innovation on the trumpet set him apart from the mainstream. Davis explored new approaches to creating and composing music. Davis was a trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. When

Black Studies Music History

Musique et Résistance — FRE4801.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Coming from the United States, Hip Hop culture arrived in France in the early 1980s. Since then, France has become one of the world’s most dynamic sites of production and consumption of Hip Hop cultures. With a focus on rap music, the course will delve into how social, political-economic, and historical issues of contemporary France have continuously 

Languages

Mutants: Genetic variation and human development — BIO2210.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant” humans
Science and Mathematics

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: amie mcclellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely five fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a "normal" human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. "Mutant"
Science Mathematics and Computing

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our biological sex? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant”
Science and Mathematics

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant” humans
Science and Mathematics

Myths and Legends from the Spanish-Speaking World — SPA2113.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Days & Time:
Credits: 5
Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of wide array of rural, urban, modern, and ancient folk tales from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American foundational narratives, as well as popular texts and cultural artifacts, will allow students to consider
Cultural Studies and Languages

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the 'classical' film era, to the institution of 'master' narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts