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3.00 Credits
McDonagh, Staff Content: Listening and music reading exercises and assignments drawn from more advanced melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials, predominantly from Western music. Prerequisites: Music 111 or placement examination. Concurrent enrollment in Music 222. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits.
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Leonard Content: Electronic music synthesis. MIDI sequencing and editing, drum and rhythm programming, use of loops, introduction to digital audio, basic synthesis techniques, digital effects processing. Overview of technical development. Relevant historical considerations and basic compositional techniques. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Leonard Content: Recording and editing with a digital workstation. Microphone basics. Use and manipulation of audio in samplers and pattern programmers, creation and utilization of loops. Advanced MIDI and synthesis techniques. Combining audio with MIDI sequencing. Prerequisite: Music 220 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
McDonagh Content: Melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic practices of Western music from circa 1700 to 1890. Instrumental and vocal forms from these years; writing of compositions in similar styles. Prerequisites: Music 121 or placement examination. Concurrent enrollment in Music 212. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Johanson Content: Introduction to the art of creative musical communication. Musical gestures, repetition, contrast. Students compose exercises and pieces, perform works, study contemporary music and ideas. Prerequisite: Music 121. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits. May be taken twice for credit.
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E. Beck, Skipworth Content: Opera as a dramatic, multidisciplinary music-theatrical form that has developed in specific ways in different countries, cultures, eras. Several operas studied, with emphasis on Western examples from the baroque to contemporary. Literary, musical, and dramatic elements. Use of visual and audio materials, live performances when possible. Prerequisite: Music 162 or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: A well-defined study project carried out under regular supervision by a faculty member. Because the course is intended to allow advanced students to work in areas and on projects not normally included in scheduled courses, it may not be substituted for a course with similar content in the regular curriculum. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Taught: Annually, 2-4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Becker, Berkman Content: Jazz as an American art form, exploring musical and social developments throughout its history from the turn of the last century to the present. Musical styles of performers from each period of the development of jazz. Prerequisite: Music 101, Music Performance 113, or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Survey of musical traditions from the Near East, Middle East, India, and Africa. Study of music, instruments, and performance through readings, recordings, live performance when possible. Historical developments. How the music is used. Social organization, poetry, literature, religion, dance as they assist in understanding the music and its culture. Prerequisite: Music course, anthropology course, or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Berkman Content: Survey of musical traditions and styles of the Caribbean and Middle and South America, including Afro-Cuban music, salsa, Latin jazz, and folk music of the Andes. Study of the music, instruments, and performance through readings, recordings, live performance when possible. Historical developments, how the music is used. Social function, political context, art, poetry, literature, religion as they assist in understanding the music and its culture. Prerequisite: Music course, anthropology course, or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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