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3.00 Credits
G. Cashman A study of American jazz from 1920 to the present, through readings, intensive study of recordings, and class lectures. Several topics are studied in depth: listening skills, the quality of swing, group interaction, the development of solo improvisation, the blues, and the evolution of jazz performance practice. Several important composers, bands, and soloists are featured, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and the Miles Davis groups.
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3.00 Credits
Joscelyn Godwin A survey of music history from about 900 to 1600, the period of the medieval cathedrals and the courts of the Renaissance. The course attempts to understand the ideas and circumstances that formed the music, both sacred and secular. Open to any student with basic score-following skills and some musical background. Can be taken without or before MUSI 212, 213, 214.
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3.00 Credits
Joscelyn Godwin A survey of music history from about 1600 to 1800, the period of Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, J.S. Bach and his sons, Rameau, Mozart, and Haydn. Open to any student with basic score-following skills and some musical background. Can be taken without or before MUSI 211, 213, 214.
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3.00 Credits
Joscelyn Godwin A survey of music history from Mozart or Haydn through the 19th century, including Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler. Open to any student with basic score-following skills and some musical background. Can be taken without or before MUSI 211, 212, 214.
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3.00 Credits
Joscelyn Godwin A survey of music history from Debussy onwards, including Ravel, Strawinsky, Schoenberg, Bartók, Britten, the post-war avant-garde, and the American experimentalists. Open to any student with basic score-following skills and some musical background. Can be taken without or before MUSI 211, 212, 213.
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3.00 Credits
A course on Wagner's four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung and his three later operas Tristan und Isolde, The Mastersingers, and Parsifal, in their musical, philosophic, and mythic aspects.
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3.00 Credits
Joscelyn Godwin These electives offer an intensive study of the works of a different composer each year. Prerequisite: any one course in the music history sequence ( MUSI 211, 212, 213, or 214).
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3.00 Credits
This course covers examples of every type of J.S. Bach's work: organ and harpsichord music, chamber and orchestral music, cantatas, passions, and the B Minor Mass.
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3.00 Credits
An approach to Mozart's life and times, his personality and the myths that have grown up around him, mainly through his operatic works including Idomeneo, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute.
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3.00 Credits
J. Swain The republic of Venice offers a special opportunity to study the interaction of the various fine arts that flowered simultaneously at the peak of one of Europe's greatest cultural centers. The course examines artistic achievements of the Renaissance and early Baroque ages (ca. 1400-1700), chiefly in architecture and music. Students make frequent excursions to exemplary churches an d palazzi , may attend local concerts, and learn to sing some Italian Renaissance music. Major credit by permission of the department. Prerequisite: admission to the Venice Study Group. This course is crosslisted a s ARTS 311.
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