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  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    The practice of exploring and writing about the musical experience through a wide variety of styles and genres. A "writing intensive" course designed to improve the student's craft of writing and nurture a personal, critical, creative voice. Satisfies the CA Upper Level Core and Upper Level Writing Intensive requirements. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Contemporary Arts College Music Department Course Attributes: CA-School Core-300 Level
  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Virtually all musical traditions include elements of improvisation. In this course, students will learn how to practice improvisation in different styles, listen to important examples of musical genres from around the world, and discuss theories of improvisation, communication and creativity. Based on experiencing how each approach to improvisation comes with its own set of parameters and creates a specific sound, students are then encouraged to practice these various elements and develop their own projects. These can draw from acoustic and electronic music as well as improvisation in theater, dance, and multimedia contexts. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Studio Contemporary Arts College Music Department
  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    A study of sound and music as designed for narrative and documentary film, radio, television, advertising, multimedia, and a wide range of public spaces, commercial venues and events. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Contemporary Arts College Music Department Course Attributes: CA-School Core-300 Level
  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    A study of the vanguard musical traditions in both European and American cultures through the 20th century. The focus is on the music itself as well as its various theoretical and ideological foundations, the pivotal role of technology, and the more recent shifts in music's meanings and functions within post-modern culture. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Contemporary Arts College Music Department Course Attributes: CA-School Core-300 Level
  • 0.00 - 1.00 Credits

    Individual private instruction on a musical instrument or voice at an advanced level with an approved teacher. May be repeated once for credit. For information on teachers, fees charged, and for permission to register, see music faculty coordinator Roger O. Johnson. 0.000 TO 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lab Contemporary Arts College Music Department
  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    The DJ has emerged as a cultural power broker and a new type of musician. This course will explore the history of various types of DJs, and their roles in commercial and pirate radio, disco, hip-hop, house and techno. The DJ's relationships to other cultural icons, and the emergence of turntablism will also be examined. Materials for this course will include the range of recent critical literature, video documentaries such as the films Wild Style and Scratch, audio recordings and eyewitness accounts compiled by members of the class. The aim is to develop and strengthen critical perspectives and their articulation, both orally and in writing, using DJ culture as a setting that is ripe for academic exploration. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Contemporary Arts College Music Department Course Attributes: CA-School Core-300 Level
  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    This course will examine two key operational components within the music business -- marketing and management. The guidance and image-making of artist or product to the marketplace will be given careful analysis from the view of the company executive and the entertainment industry at large. The course will also study the dynamic of producing entertainment product in the midst of changing, economic and cultural currents worldwide. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Contemporary Arts College Music Department
  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    The continuation of Musicianship II in the further development of aural, performance, analytical and creative skills and understandings. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Studio Contemporary Arts College Music Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is a course for experienced and committed singers, selected by audition with a prerequisite of Ramapo Chorale. The ensemble will study and perform diverse, international and challenging repertoire, ranging from early music to 21st century works, including new works. Performance practice, together with style and music analysis, will be studied and demonstrated in performances scheduled in a variety of venues. This course is available to both music majors and non-music majors. In addition to a minimum of three hours of ensemble rehearsal time, singers will be required to work in smaller sections and independently. The course requires the genuine desire to learn and perform challenging repertoire, as well as the willingness to work with fellow ensemble members to achieve significant musical goals. The Intermediate Performing Ensemble will provide each student with the opportunity to enhance and demonstrate his/her individual abilities through rehearsals and performances. Each student is expected to strive to improve his/her capabilities in singing, music reading, ear training, musical analysis, and overall musicianship. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Studio Contemporary Arts College Music Department
  • 0.00 - 4.00 Credits

    A study of the rich, global musical diversity at the end of the century and the many new and integrated ways of making sense of it as art as social and cultural practice, and as an evolving set of technologies and media for creative production, communication and enterprise. We will examine major interpretive, analytical and critical methods and apply them to specific musical examples. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Contemporary Arts College Music Department Course Attributes: CA-School Core-300 Level
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