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3.00 Credits
This course offers a general survey of black music of the African Diaspora with major emphasis on significant forms and styles and their historical and sociological environments in the Americas. Lectures are supplemented by films, demonstrations, live concerts, visiting artists, and listening assignments. Student participation is required. 3 CREDITS
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses primarily on North American Englishlanguage styles but makes reference to other popular musics from around the world. It begins with a survey of popular musics of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, includes a unit on older19th and 20th century forms, and concludes with music from the recent past. This course engages the sounds, form, and structure of popular musics, but it also examines how these musics address, sustain, and transform their social context. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1100 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC THEORY
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2.00 Credits
This course surveys the past, present, and future of the blues and the impact Chicago, as the "Blues Capital," has had onthe world culturally, sociologically, and economically. This course will give students the opportunity to study the living tradition of the blues through readings, videos, live performances, and the music itself. The class will feature workshop sessions where students perform some of the compositions they've encountered. 2 CREDITS
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3.00 Credits
This course utilizes lectures and demonstrations to explore jazz in all its forms, including its musical and social antecedents. Covered are ragtime, New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz, with special emphasis on Bird, Gillespie, Coltrane, Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton. 3 CREDITS
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3.00 Credits
This course examines musical traditions from around the world. Many kinds of music are considered, including folk genres, contemporary popular styles, and court and classical traditions. It examines music as a vital component in culture and lived experience. It considers the roles music plays in national society and public culture, and it develops students' musical vocabularies, teaching them to listen analytically. Classroom instruction will include discussions, lectures, films, and recordings. 3 CREDITS
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1.00 Credits
Rehearse, discuss, and perform choral repertoire of various genres including classical masterworks, indigenous world music, and popular styles. Perform a cappella as well as with piano, percussion, and assorted instrumental accompaniment. Receive instruction in healthy vocal technique and desirable ensemble attributes: intonation, blend, balance, appropriate tone quality, and critical listening. 1 CREDIT
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1.00 Credits
Entry-level music students learn and perform solo and ensemble gospel literature, including traditional spirituals and anthems. Students will initially learn by ear and then learn to read and notate as well as analyze and describe gospel music. Additional emphasis is placed on understanding the relationship among gospel music, the other arts, and the cultural context in which contemporary gospel music functions. 1 CREDIT PREREQUISITES: 32-1100 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC THEORY
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1.00 Credits
Understanding and mastery of jazz and pop will be advanced through rehearsal and performance of group repertoire in a variety of styles. Traditional choral skills of blend, balance, unison, and harmonic intonation, and articulation in swing, pop, and latin genres will be studied through rehearsal and performance using microphones and sound reinforcement. Students will learn to sing with a rhythm section, a capella, as soloists, and in men's, women's, and mixed small groups.An end-of-semester performance has been scheduled, and additional performances will be added on and/or off campus, subject to member availability. Occasional master classes and workshops may be substituted for rehearsals. Independent practice and memorization is required, as are weekly sectional rehearsals. 1 CREDIT
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1.00 Credits
Performance class centers on popular music, particularly the various grooves of rock and roll, and culminates in a concert performance. 1 CREDIT PREREQUISITES: 32-1100 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC THEORY
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1.00 Credits
Entry-level music students will learn to play the blues as an ensemble in a professional setting. Course will examine sociological and historical aspects of the blues and its current and future role in society. Chicago's unique position as a world blues capital will be featured through visits to local blues clubs and jam sessions. 1 CREDIT PREREQUISITES: 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS I
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