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1.00 Credits
Credits:1 credit Prerequisites:Ensemble rating 4444 Course Chair:S. Tiernan Required of:None Electable by:Piano principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description An advanced performance lab for piano principals providing the opportunity to study, analyze, and perform the music of selected jazz pianists in a master-class setting. Transcriptions of materials to be studied will be distributed to provide the basis for faculty-led analytical discussions. The addition of bass and drums will allow for performance in a complete group setting.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:Private instruction level 4, performance track, and current enrollment in RPXX-311 Course Chair:M. Marvuglio Required of:All fifth-semester PERF majors enrolled in Recital Preparation 1 Electable by:Fifth-semester PERF majors Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Required for all fifth-semester performance majors. Each student will perform three times during the semester. Students will critique one another's performances. Topics to be discussed will include repertoire, stage presence, constructive criticism, and mental preparation.
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1.00 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:First-semester cello principals (other than those placing into Cello Reading Lab 2 through entrance audition) Electable by:Cello principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This class will teach cellists how to be fluent and expressive readers of standard music notation. It involves learning how to process both the quantitative aspect (pitch, rhythm, and form) and the qualitative properties (phrasing, dynamics, articulation, etc.) of written music. Using a variety of styles, students in this class will work on recognizing common pitch patterns and rhythmic motives, "road maps" (repeats, da capos, codas, parallel and contrast phrase structures, and typical harmonic progressions). Ear training skills will be emphasized to develop the strong inner hearing crucial for good reading.
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1.00 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:First-semester violin and viola principals (other than those placing into ILST-211 through entrance audition) Electable by:Violin and viola principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This class will teach violinists/violists how to be fluent and expressive readers of standard music notation. It involves learning how to process both the quantitative aspects (pitch, rhythm, and form) and the qualitative properties (phrasing, dynamics, articulation, etc.) of written music. Using a variety of styles, students in this class will work on recognizing common pitch patterns, rhythmic motives, and "road maps" (repeats, da capos, codas, parallel and contrast phrase structures, and typical harmonic progressions). Ear training skills will be emphasized to develop the strong inner hearing crucial for good reading. Upon completion of this course students will have improved their ability to read standard music notation fluently and musically in a variety of styles.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:None Electable by:String principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Advanced improvisational concepts and their application in strings. Reading charts with jazz phrasing, higher-level bowing, and left-hand development. Instrumentation: violin, viola.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description This is an improvisational lab designed to strengthen the basic skills needed for improvisation, including jazz harmony, phrasing, melodic development, reading chord charts, and technical aspects of playing jazz on string instruments.
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2.00 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILST-131 Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:None Electable by:String principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description This improvisational lab is designed to continue to strengthen the basic skills needed for improvisation, including jazz harmony, phrasing, melodic development, reading chord charts, and technical aspects of playing jazz on string instruments.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:None Electable by:String principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course will introduce the classically trained string player to performance techniques and repertoire of popular music. Using standards from the repertoire, students will explore riffing and playing in dance time, swing time, funk time, in different parts of the beat, and without vibrato, as well as other techniques that differ from their classical training. The goal is for the student to be able to play convincingly in several styles of dance music.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:None Electable by:String principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This lab provides students with the opportunity to develop improvisational skills through free improvisation. Players are encouraged to create dynamic and rhythmic pieces using existing musical skills. Skills are expanded through the study of the musical elements, complex time signatures, form, and musical roles. Students learn to trust their instincts for the ebb and flow of music as they create satisfying ensemble pieces with no prior plan or discussion.
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2.00 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILST-110 Course Chair:M. Glaser Required of:Cello principals Electable by:Cello principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This class will teach cellists how to be fluent and expressive readers of standard music notation. It involves learning how to process both the quantitative aspect (pitch, rhythm, and form) and the qualitative properties (phrasing, dynamics, articulation, etc.) of written music. Using a variety of styles, students in this class will work on recognizing common pitch patterns and rhythmic motives, "road maps" (repeats, da capos, codas, parallel and contrast phrase structures, and typical harmonic progressions.) Ear training skills will be emphasized to develop the strong inner hearing crucial for good reading.
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