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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
The Music of Tudor England. Examines music created amidst the political and religious changes under Tudor monarchs, including the Eton Choirbook, emergent genres of Anglican liturgy, sacred Latin music of Tallis and Byrd, secular song, and instrumental music.
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4.00 Credits
Early Polyphony: Music of the Winchester Troper. A practical and theoretical exploration of the earliest Western part-music, with emphasis on its first great repertory, from Winchester Cathedral about the year 1000.
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4.00 Credits
The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Analytical discussions and source studies of selected string quartets. Students prepare short presentations throughout the semester and discuss their research in a final presentation and paper.
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4.00 Credits
The Operas of John Adams. Focus on Nixon in China, The Death of Dr. Klinghoffer, Doctor Atomic and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. Looking at genre, politics, historical context, librettos, film adaptations and musical language.
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4.00 Credits
Global Pop Music. Exploration of current trends and issues in popular music production from around the world, including fusion, sampling and local and global scenes, through consideration of a broad range of contemporary examples.
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4.00 Credits
Exploring about 1000 years of western music history (c.800-1800), this course will consider the musical styles of particular periods and specific composers including Machaut, Du Fay, Josquin, Palestrina, Monteverdi, Handel, Bach, and Mozart.
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4.00 Credits
Continues the survey started in Music 1a, beginning with the transition from the Classical to the Romantic period. Explores the history of music in its stylistic and cultural contexts, including aspects of form, composition, social significance, and politics. Composers studied include Beethoven, Schubert, Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, Berlioz, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Stravinsky, Debussy and later 20th c. figures.
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4.00 Credits
Seeks to develop a greater understanding of musical language, the conceptual foundations of musical literature, and of how critical listening and analysis can be performed. We will make use of traditional prose analysis in the form of written essays as well as musically specific writing and analytical techniques. While reading knowledge of simple musical notation is helpful, there will be at least one section for students with no previous experience.
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4.00 Credits
The first part of the course concentrates on increasing understanding and fluency in writing within the musical language of "common practice tonality". The second part of the course looks at 20th-century techniques for composing music. The final project is a short composition that will be performed during reading period. Teaching takes place in groups of 10-12, divided according to background, with full group lectures every week.
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4.00 Credits
Open to students with little or no prior experience in composition. Explores ways of thinking about and organizing basic compositional elements such as melody, harmony, rhythm and instrumental color, as well as developing skills of score preparation and analytical listening. The primary focus of the course is a series of short compositional exercises, culminating in a somewhat longer final project. Workshop performances of students' music take place throughout the term.
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