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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Pre- or co requisite: V2318-V2319. A survey of Western music from Antiquity through Bach and Handel, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and analysis of selected works. - G. Gerbino 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Pre- or co requisite: V2318-2319. A survey of Western music from the Classical era to the present day, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works. - W. Frisch 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: HUMA W1123 or the equivalent. This course examines the music of John Cage and the other New York School composers-Morton Feldman, Earle Browne, and Chrisitian Wolff-postwar New York City. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the music of Brahms, examining a wide range of genres as well as his historical and cultural position. Prerequisites: HUMA W1123 or the equivalent, and the ability to read musical notation. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Surveys and analyzes the major litetature for piano and other keyboard instruments by 17th through 21st century composers. We will address issues of performing, competitions, historical performance practices; compare the major "piano schools" (Russian, German, French, American); and consider the history and evolution of the instrument. Live performances inside and outside the classroom. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
The course examines ways in which musical forms, canons, and histories are created and constructed as part of an "economy of symbolic goods" that incorporates and is mediated by conceptions of race, ethnicity, and national identity. The course will examine cases from US and international popular music, 20th and 21st Century classical music, film music, and conceptions of "world music," focusing on how the creation and reception of forms embodies the intersections of the gendered dynamics of racial formation with debates over national character. Reading knowledge of music is not required. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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The course examines the importance of music and improvisation to the arts of the Black Atlantic, proceeding in semi-chronological fashion in presenting creative writing, recorded performances, and visual forms in which music is a central metaphor. Critical/historical texts are used to support topics that include African oral narrative, music during American chattel slavery, minstrelsy, the music of Harlem Renaissance composers, bebop and the world of the Beats, free improvisation, hip-hop, classical music and opera, and contemporary avante-garde digital technologies of text and sound. Reading knowlege of music is not required. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the musical forms, techniques, and intellectual and social issues surrounding Jazz and improvised music after 1950, via listening and reading assignments, guest musicians and scholars, and representative live performances. Topics include genre and canon formation, gender, race and cultural nationalisms, debates around art and the vernacular, globalization, and media reception. Reading knowledge of music not required. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Historical and critical survey of American musical theater from the late nineteenth century to the present, with a focus of selected major works. Prerequisites: HUMA W1123 or the equivalent. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Composition in more extended forms. Survey of advanced techniques of contemporary composition. (Previously called Advanced Composition.) Prerequisites: MUSI V3310 or instructor's permission. 3 points
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