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3.00 Credits
Introduces the student to the ways in which sound may be represented using a computer. Topics include digital audio recording and editing, MIDI sequencing, software-based synthesis, and notation. The technical side of these areas is balanced with active discussion of compositional considerations and historical context. Students are required to compose short projects using the skills and techniques acquired over the course of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
Develops aural and music reading skills through dictation and singing of simple to complex rhythms and intervals, diatonic scale patterns to chord progressions. Prerequisite: MU151.
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3.00 Credits
Traces the history of electronic music, examining the impact of technology on artistic thought and the creative process in late 19th century, 20th century and current sonic art. Influential musicians, movements and venues associated with electronic sound will be discussed including the Futurists, early electronic instruments, Varese, Cage, Stockhausen, Musique Concrète, Elektronische Musik, tape recorders, synthesizers, Text-Sound Art, radio plays, Minimalism, Sound Installation Art, Site-Specific Sound Compositions, Soundscape, Computer Music, algorithmic composition and Live Interactive Electronic Sound and Internet Audio. Students will regularly analyze important works in an effort to gain insight into processes utilized by composers working with technology.
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of Theory of Music II including diminished seventh chords, augmented triads, Neapolitan sixth, ninth, eleventh and thirteenth chords, and advanced modulation. Prerequisite: MU152.
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3.00 Credits
A study of musical forms and their development through analysis of representative works. An introduction to twentieth century compositional devices and analysis. Prerequisite: MU251.
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3.00 Credits
Fundamentals of Guitar Fingerboard Harmony
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Independent Study in Music each
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3.00 Credits
The techniques explored in Computer Music I are further developed with emphasis placed on digital synthesis and live applications of electronic and/or digital music. Students are required to devote at least one of their compositional projects to the combination of live and pre-recorded electronice sources. Special attention is paid to the enhancement of one sonic parameter, for example, the illusion of movement through space, through the orchestration of other sonic parameters. The ability to “intermodulate” between diverse sound sources isalso emphasized. Students are required to complete composition assignments throughout the semester. Prerequisite: MU215.
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3.00 Credits
Music of the Middle Ages
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3.00 Credits
Renaissance Music
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