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3.00 Credits
A hands-on study of music making with computers, using the facilities of the Bates Computer Music Studio. Topics include digital synthesis, sampling, MIDI communications, simple programming, and the aesthetics of art made with computers. No computing experience is presumed, and the course is especially designed for students of the arts who wish to learn about new tools. Work produced in the course is performed in concert. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 18. Instructor permission is required. Normally offered every year. W. Matthews.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a variety of composition and arranging styles from recent American popular song. Students develop skills necessary for contemporary composition, gaining knowledge through listening and analysis, harmonic and/or melodic transcription, in-class ear-training exercises, and composition assignments. The final project is a complete piece of music, either composed or arranged, performed or prerecorded for an in-class presentation. Recommended background: competence on keyboard or other harmony instrument. Prerequisite(s): Music 231 or permission of the instructor. Open to first-year students. T. Snow.
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3.00 Credits
Using the music, letters, and critical writings of the Schumanns and their peers, students explore Romanticism in European music from the 1830s to the 1850s. Musicians include Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Nicolai Paganini, Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, and Hector Berlioz. Not open to students who have received credit for Music 240D. Open to first-year students. W. Matthews.
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3.00 Credits
American jazz offers a rich tradition through which one can study music, race, and American history. Through extensive listening, reading assignments, and interaction with musicians themselves, students explore the recorded history and contemporary practice of jazz. Prerequisite(s): one of the following: Music 101, 103, or 231. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 96. D. Chapman.
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3.00 Credits
The last thirty years have witnessed a sea change in contemporary society, as dramatic technological and economic transformations have altered the way we see the world. This course addresses recent developments in popular music, jazz, and "art" music, examining how trends running from minimalism to hip hop and MTV comment upon this cultural environment. The course raises many questions: How has information technology altered our worldview How does recent music reflect our ideas about race, class, gender, and sexuality How does it disrupt conventional ideas about the separation between "high" and "low" culture Prerequisities(s): African American Studies/American Cultural Studies 119 or American Cultural Studies 100. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 60. D. Chapman.
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3.00 Credits
How do music and drama go together, and how are the possible relationships between them exploited in different media This course is a study of dramas that use music, not only opera, but also musicals, movies, and non-Western musical theater. Works are heard and seen through audio and video recordings, and the class may attend an opera performance in Boston or Portland. Open to first-year students. J. Parakilas.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the life, music, and cultural significance of Miles Davis, using his work and persona as windows into the turbulence of mid-twentieth-century America. The course considers such issues as his role in challenging historically entrenched representations of race, as well as his controversial defiance of musical conventions. Students develop a critical understanding of his musical output, from his early work with Charlie Parker to his late explorations of funk, psychedelic rock, and hip hop. Miles Davis is studied in the context of other major jazz musicians such as John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Wayne Shorter, and Wynton Marsalis. Prerequisite(s): Music 231 or 247. Not open to students who have received credit for Music 265F. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 30. D. Chapman.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the literature for voice or a solo instrument through weekly instruction. Problems of performance practice, style, form, and technique are emphasized equally. Individual instruction is available in banjo, double bass, electric bass, bassoon, clarinet, drum set, euphonium, fiddle, flute, French horn, guitar, harpsichord, oboe, organ, oud, classical or Middle Eastern percussion, classical or jazz piano, saxophone, sitar, tabla, trombone or bass trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin, violoncello, and voice. Instruction may be available in other classical, jazz, folk, and non-Western instruments when demand exists. One-half credit is granted upon completion of every semester of Music 270. The course may be repeated for a maximum of four course credits. Students register for Music 271 the first time they take the course, and for Music 272 in every subsequesnt semester; the actual sequential course number (271-278) is recorded in the student's registration. Those who register for applied music instruction on an instrument must have at least a beginner's facility with that instrument. For the first semester of applied music (Music 271), permission of the instructor of record (named below) is required; for subsequent semesters (Music 272), it is not. A special fee of $320 per semester is charged for each course. Open to first-year students. Normally offered every semester. J. Corrie.
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3.00 Credits
See Music 270 for course description. Students register Music 280 only if they are also taking Music 270 in another medium during the same semester. One-half credit is granted upon completion of every semester of Music 280. The course may be repeated for a maximum of four course credits. Students register for Music 281 the first time they take the course, and for Music 282 in every subsequent semester; the actual sequential course number (281-288) is recorded in the student's registration. Those who register for applied music instruction on an instrument must have at least a beginner's facility with that instrument. For the first semester (Music 281), permission of the instructor of record (named below) is required; for subsequent semesters (Music 282), it is not. A special fee of $320 is charged for each course. Corequisite(s): Music 270. Open to first-year students. Normally offered every semester. J. Corrie.
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3.00 Credits
Each of the courses in musical ensemble performance provides instruction and experience for qualified students in the skills and repertories of ensemble performance through rehearsal and performance in one of the music department's faculty-directed ensembles. Any of the Music 290 courses may be taken more than once for credit, but no more than one may be taken for credit in a single semester. One-half credit is awarded for the completion of each semester in a course. Open to first-year students. Instructor permission is required. Normally offered every semester. Staff.
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