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3.00 Credits
This course is a hands-on study of the science, aesthetics, history and current practices of electronic music. Creative projects include work with MIDI synthesizers and sequencers, as well as digital sampling and software synthesis. Offered Interim, 2007, and alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a study of the historical development of jazz, from its roots in blues and ragtime at the beginnng of the 20th century to the present, focusing on its principal forms and styles, its role in American culture and contributions of major artists. Offered Interim only.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to American sacred, art, folk and popular music from ca. 1650 to the present. Selected music "hits" from each genre and era are examined for their distinctive musical styles and forms as well as for what they reflect about American culture and values. Intended for non-music majors, the course covers basic listening skills, vocabulary, and forms. The ability to read musical scores is helpful but not required. Offered Interim only.
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3.00 Credits
Students study the musical history of hymnody and its relationship to the history of the church. In addition, this course explores the Biblical Psalms and their use in worship of the church and includes references to their musical settings in Gregorian chant, Anglican chant, responsorial settings, and choral music. Offered Interim 2007 and alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how basic conventions, styles, and forms of music convey drama, emotion, and meaning in dance, opera, musicals, and film genres. Intended for the general student (non-music major), this course provides fundamental musical listening skills and vocabulary to analyze and describe how music can partner with movement, texts, and visual images to portray time, place, and plot, while simultaneously depicting a character's mental state, conveying political messages or predicting the future. Offered Interim only.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to non-Western music, this course explores ethnically diverse performance practices and styles, ethnomusicological techniques for studying non-Western music, and the relationship of music of various cultures to events important to those cultures. Offered Fall Semester.
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3.00 Credits
Students encounter the history and development of Western European music from the Middle Ages to ca. 1750 and study the genres and styles of music from monophonic chant to concerted music of the Baroque. Prerequisite: Music 114. Offered Fall Semester.
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3.00 Credits
Continuing the study begun in 241, students encounter the history and development of Western European music from ca. 1750 to the present and study the major forms, styles and representative literature of the Classic and Romantic eras and the 20th and 21st centuries. Prerequisite: Music 114. Offered Spring Semester.
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0.50 Credits
Students learn basic conducting gestures, with and without baton, through exercises in meter patterns, preparatory beats and cut-offs, cueing, dynamics, fermata, articulations, phrasing, left hand independence, and face/eye usage. Prerequisite: Music 114 or permission of instructor. Offered Spring Semester.
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0.50 Credits
Students learn conducting techniques for choral literature including rehearsal techniques, vocal preparation and auditioning and selecting voices. Course work includes observation of conductors on campus and in the community. Prerequisite: Music 251. Offered Fall Semester.
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