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Music Composition Project: Acoustic/Electronic — MCO4501.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
In this course students will compose a substantial work for one solo instrument with electroacoustic accompaniment. Class will meet twice a week and will be team taught. In Tuesday's session we will review the history of compositions involving acoustic instruments with electronics and there will be technical instruction in the electronic music studio. On Thursdays, we will have
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Music Composition Project: Acoustic/Electronic — MCO4501.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Allen Shawn Sergei Tcherepnin
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Credits: 4
In this course students will compose a substantial work for one solo instrument with electroacoustic accompaniment. Class will meet twice a week and will be team taught. In Tuesday’s session we will review the history of compositions involving acoustic instruments with electronics and there will be technical instruction in the electronic music studio. On Thursdays, we will have
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Music Compositions for Dance — MHI2105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Music Compositions for Dance views and reflects on landmark compositions created for dance companies and choreographers in the 20th 21st centuries. Students will be challenged with composition and choreography assignments using traditional and non-traditional notation, graphics, texts and alternative recording approaches.
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Music History Lecture Series — MHI2000.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The class will meet weekly for twelve lectures on varied topics, given by music faculty on a rotating basis. The lectures will be arranged chronologically, focusing on a diversity of musical traditions. Lecture topics will include, among others: discussions of Medieval and Renaissance Music; gamelan and other Asian traditions, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, the Romantic era, the 20th
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Music Lab: 2 - For Advanced Musicians (Spontaneous Composing for All instruments) — MPF4127.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Music Lab: 2 - Spontaneous Composing for all instruments is a course for advanced players of music who are interested in composing by improvising spontaneously. It's anticipated that students in this course have a command of their instrument(s) allowing them to access a range of sound, color, techniques, and abilities that can advance the music. Through weekly guided
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Music Lab: Improvisational Music Workshop for all Instruments — MPF2166.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
The Music Lab: Improvisational Music Workshop for all Instruments is a guided improvisation class allowing students to play music without knowing what will happen e.g. from silence to sound to silence. Repeating this process allows one to learn how to play in real time in the moment while responding to sound and environment without thinking. The goal through this process is for
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Music Lecture Series — MHI2000.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The class will meet weekly for 12 lectures on a wide range of musical topics, given by faculty and visiting speakers on a rotating basis. The course will provide snapshots into musical performance and scholarship, across genres, cultures, and histories. Lecture topics will be drawn from several areas, including ethnomusicology, music history, Black Music Studies, Queer Studies,
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Music Lecture Series — MHI2000.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: MO 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 2

The class will meet weekly for 12 lectures, workshops, and performances on a wide range of musical topics, given by faculty and visiting speakers on a rotating basis. The course will provide snapshots into musical performance and scholarship, across genres, cultures, and histories. Classes will consist of active participation, even performance, in

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Music Maps — MTH4115.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Time is precious. Memories are fleeting. Music is sound-in-time, so how can we most efficiently remember and teach others our musical ideas? In this course, the basics of chart writing and music notation will be explored by looking at examples of various simple maps that indicate form, melody, harmony (chord symbols) and essential rhythmic figures, then by creating our own lead
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Music Maps — MTH4115.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Time is precious. Memories are fleeting. Music is sound-in-time, so how can we most efficiently remember and teach others our musical ideas? In this course, the basics of chart writing and music notation will be explored by looking at examples of various simple maps that indicate form, melody, harmony (chord symbols) and essential rhythmic figures, then by creating our own lead
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Music of Medieval Spain — MPF2162.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In the Middle Ages, Spain was a fascinating confluence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures. At times antagonistic, at times cooperative, at times positively cozy, the chemistry between these three cultures was red-hot, gorgeous, and endlessly creative. In this course, we will form a medieval Spanish band to investigate medieval Spain's musical traditions, particularly as
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Music of the Civil Rights Movement — MHI2211.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will study the African-American Struggle for Freedom and Civil Rights in the United States through the music that emerged, accompanied and embodied this journey. Using the award winning documentary “Eyes on the Prize” series as our primary text, we will focus on the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1970s, singing the songs, and exploring audio and video recordings,
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Music of the Future Past — MTH4126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Advanced seminar for music theory students will trace a path from Richard Wagner’s  “artwork of the future” to Hollywood. Analyzing directly from operatic and film soundtrack scores, we will explore how extended tonality, romantic orchestration and mimetic practices like the leitmotiv transfused from continental Europe into the bloodstream of U. S. moviegoers in the 1940s,
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Music Since 1968 — MHI2228.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we focus our attention on a few of the most exciting and influential composers of the late twentieth century. Works by such composers as Elliott Carter, Toru Takemitsu, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Alfred Schnittke, Luciano Berio, Charles Wuorinen, Frederick Rzewski, John Adams, John Harbison, Galina Ustvolskaya, Gyorgi Kurtag, Gyorgi Ligeti, Sofia
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Music Since 1968 — MHI2228.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we focus our attention on a few of the most exciting and influential composers of the late twentieth-century, and discuss how their music has influenced the music of the current period. Works by such composers as Elliott Carter, Toru Takemitsu, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Alfred Schnittke, Luciano Berio, Charles Wuorinen, Frederick Rzewski, John Adams, John
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Music Since 1968 — MHI2228.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we focus our attention on a few of the most exciting and influential composers of the late twentieth-century, and discuss how their music has influenced the music of the current period. Works by such composers as Elliott Carter, Toru Takemitsu, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Alfred Schnittke, Luciano Berio, Charles Wuorinen, Frederick Rzewski, John Adams, John
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Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
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,

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Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
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,

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Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time:
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

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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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