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3.00 Credits
Variable credit: either one-half course or zero credit for one semester. The Collegium rehearses and performs vocal music suitable for a small group. Audition required. See above for pre- or corequisite for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Variable credit: either one half-course or zero credit for one semester. A small jazz ensemble selected by the instructor will rehearse and perform. Rehearsals will include improvisational techniques, soloing, and accompanying. Audition required. See above for pre- or corequisite for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Variable credit: either one-half course or zero credit for one semester. Available by audition when there are enough advanced students to form an ensemble of one player per part. This course consists of weekly coaching sessions and the chance to perform during the semester. Prerequisite: audition. Corequisite: participation in the Reed Orchestra (except for keyboard players). See above for pre- or corequisite for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course examines notation of pitch and rhythm; scales and key signatures; intervals, triads, and diatonic seventh chords; and writing in four parts. It begins with the basic elements of music, but moves swiftly through the contents of a first-semester college-level music theory course. Labs include sight singing, dictation, and keyboard. Lecture and laboratory.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course continues the laboratory skills acquired in Music 111. Students are introduced to principles of melodic construction, modal counterpoint, and more advanced tonal harmony, applying them to appropriate musical examples. Prerequisite: Music 111 or equivalent skill, to be determined by a placement examination given at the beginning of the academic year. Lecture-conference and laboratory.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will explore the history of art music in Europe from the early polyphony of the medieval Roman Catholic Church to the late Baroque music of Bach and Handel. Among the topics explored will be the relationship between music and language, the characteristics and development of major vocal genres such as chanson, mass, madrigal, cantata, and opera; and the growing prominence of instrumental music. Lecture-conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Beginning with the new philosophical orientation of the Enlightenment, this course will explore the history of art music in Europe from the mid-18th century to the present. We will examine formal features, aesthetic ideals, and social meanings of major instrumental genres such as the sonata, string quartet, concerto, and symphony; and study the musical manifestations of romanticism, modernism, and avant-gardism. Lecture-conference.
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3.00 Credits
The symphony emerged as a recognizable genre in the early 1700s, but only attained its status as the preeminent form of European orchestral music toward the end of the 18th century. Focusing on selected works by composers that include Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Dvo ?, and Tchaikovsky, this course will examine the development of the symphony as a musical genre and as a site of discourse on social, cultural, and aesthetic ideals in Europe from the French Revolution to the end of the 19th century. Prerequisite: ability to read music. Lecture-conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. We will study the development of American musical theatre as exemplified mainly but not exclusively in the Broadway musicals of the past 80 years. Shows to be studied will include Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, The Cradle Will Rock, Lady in the Dark, Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Cabaret, Into the Woods, Rent, and Urinetown. We will look at the construction of individual songs and scenes and study the evolving ideal of integrating music and drama. Conference. Cross-listed as Theatre 247. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course is a survey of European art music during the 19th century, with a focus on the historical context and on listening to works in a variety of genres by many of the principal composers of the era including Schubert, Berlioz, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and Dvorák. Lecture-conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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