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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course serves as both repertoire survey and discussion of performance practice topics from antiquity through the high Renaissance. Performance practice discussions will include notation, music ficta, editions, and vocal considerations. Genres discussed include chant, motet, psalm-setting, anthem, and mass. Offered in alternate years, in fall only. Required of choral conducting majors. 2 hours weekly; 1 credit
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2.00 Credits
This course serves as both repertoire survey and discussion of performance practice topics through the Baroque period. Cantata, motet, mass, and oratorio will be addressed as will Bach and H?ndle with specific emphasis. Editorial concerns and useful performance editions will be a significant topic in this semester.Offered in alternate years, in spring only. Required of choral conducting majors. 2 hours weekly; 1 credit
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2.00 Credits
Special offerings in the area of vocal/piano and instrumental/piano collaboration. Examples might include "French Art Songs for Pianists and Singers"; "Partnership 101: A course for pianists, singers, winds and brass exploring issues inmusical partnership"; "Music of the Last Fifty years: a course for pianists, singers andinstrumentalists exploring duos, trios, or larger ensembles written since 1952";"The Bach Sonatas""The String Sonatas of Brahms"; "Songs from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century" etSatisfies chamber music requirement for String, Brass, and Woodwind majors and the collaboration requirement for piano majors. 2 hours weekly; 1 credit
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3.00 Credits
Course objectives are to discern each student's personal goals in music, to expand our awareness of what is possible to do as musicians, to cultivate each person's creativity as an individual and as a collaborator, and to explore each student's potential as an imaginative performer, teacher, colleague, and creative being. This course challenges students with creative assignments and materials; includes guest presenters such as innovative performers, child development specialists, and therapeutic musicians; expands awareness of other art forms; introduces modern teaching techniques such as Dalcroze and Music for People; and provides a place for open dialogue. Fall Semester; 2 hours weekly; 2 teachers; 1 credit
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The elementary technique of conducting applied to both choral and instrumental music. Principles of attack and release, setting and changing tempi, phrasing and interpretation; practice in score reading. Required of all instrumental majors except pianists. The second semester is required only of composition majors; other students may pursue it as an elective. 1 hour weekly; 1 credit
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8.00 Credits
The study of more advanced vocal repertoire, with an emphasis on physical characterization and deeper understanding and dramatic interpretation of texts in all languages. The study and integration of singing, movement and acting, which leads to the performance of the senior recital. 2 hours weekly; 1 credit
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2.00 Credits
Advanced training in aural techniques with an emphasis on orchestral textures, chromatic and atonal melody, and complex rhythms. Prerequisite: MU214 or permission. 2 hours weekly; 2 credits
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3.00 Credits
An analytical exploration of 20th- century music through detailed study of a number of seminal works, incorporating improvisatory work and compositional exercises in specific styles. Required of all composition and instrumental performance majors; a useful elective for voice performance majors. Prerequisite: MU318 and MU352 or permission. 2 hours weekly; 2 credits
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2.00 Credits
Advanced study in music theory and musical analysis focusing on a particular composer, genre, period or topic. Offerings change each semester. Fall 2008: Beyond the Double Bar: The Natures of Transcription. When does the composition process officially end? Is the composer's transcription of his own work a mere arrangment, or an extension of the process? When another transcriber is involved, how does the original work maintain its own identity while collaborating with an alternate perspective and instrumentation? This course will explore the various natures of transcription, from basic transference to more creative translation. Works will include transcriptions of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Moussorgsky, Mahler, Ravel, Schoenberg, Webern and others. Prerequisite: MU317 or permission. Spring 2009: Temperament and Western Tuning This course develops an understanding of the ways in which Western tuning systems have influenced specific composers and works. The course will examine the consequences of the Pythagorean, meantone, well-tempered and equal tempered tunings up to contemporary usage of quartertones, overtones, and just intonation. Prerequisite: MU317 or permission. 2 hours weekly; 2 credits
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of Romantic and Contemporary repertoire. 1 hour weekly; 1 credit
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