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3.00 Credits
Explores aspects of style, compositional technique, and performance practice in the instrumental music of Johann Sebastian Bach, focussing on his Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006, and his Suites for solo cello, BWV 1007-1012. Specific aspects to be studied include musical texture, harmony, counterpoint, polyphonic melody, rhythm, form, and ornamentation. Students' work will involve listening, analysis, and reading assignments, as well as compositional exercises modeled on Bach's music. As a mid-term project, each student will write a dance movement in the style of Bach (for any melodic instrument), which will be performed and discussed in class. Analytical exam at the end of the semester. (3 credits) Truniger
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3.00 Credits
This is conceived as an intense, "hands on" course, emphasizing score reading, composing, and class performances. The course explores American experimental music from the early 1960s to the present and its close ties with plastic art, film, literature, and theater, as well as with musical traditions from around the world. Composers to be studied in class include Cage, Feldman, Young, Rzewsky, Brown, Monk, Oliveros, Curran and Zorn, among others. Throughout the semester, students will become acquainted with many resources for new music, including journals, festivals, web forums and performance spaces. (3 credits) Miljkovic
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3.00 Credits
Expands sight-singing skills to include a broad range of musical styles and application to contemporary literature. Topics include further investigation of reading skills with respect to note patterns, transpositions, interval studies, complex rhythms, complex tonal systems, and score reading from an advanced perspective. Continuation of THYU 202. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208 or instructor's permission. (3 credits) Buys
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes Lassus's canons and two-voice motets; composing compositions in the style. Readings in Pietro Aaron, Aldrich, Cook, and Wittkower. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Davidson
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes composition of motets and mass movements in three or four voices. Readings from Zarlino. Continuation of THYU 411T. Prerequisite: THYU 411T. (3 credits) Davidson
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3.00 Credits
Through graduated singing exercises, students learn to hear the half step divided into six equal parts. Written harmony, melody, and counterpoint exercises explore microtonal sonorities, along with an investigation of rhythmic language that reflects tonal implications of the music. Students perform their own works, using their own instruments and two pianos tuned one quarter-tone apart. Listening assignments: Carillo, Haba, Wyshnegradski, Sims, Johnston, Maneri, and others. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Werntz
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of THYU 417T. Prerequisite: 417T. (3 credits) Werntz
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3.00 Credits
Designed for singers, but also encourages instrumentalists, who need additional music reading skills and proficiency in sight-singing. Emphasizes the development of sight-reading skills from the perspective of application to vocal repertoire and practice. Develops score reading skills from Renaissance motets to operatic excerpts and their application to a cappella ensemble sight-reading, score analysis and prepa ration for auditions and recitals. (3 credits) Scripp
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1.00 Credits
Teaches the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and explores rules and techniques for pronunciation and projection in singing. Introduces the IPA in American English and compares/contrasts to Italian, French and German. Learning activities include applied oral exercises, class discussion, critical listening to recordings and written and oral examinations. (1 credit) Blaich
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3.00 Credits
Explores the rules and techniques for pronunciation and projection in singing Italian using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Classroom activities include applied oral exercises and class discussion, lecture, critical listening to recordings, written and recorded homework, quizzes, and a final written and oral exam. Texts: Diction by John Moriarty and Singers' Italian: A Manual of Diction and Phonetics by Evelina Colorni. Prerequisite: VC 121 (2 credits) Faculty
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