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4.00 Credits
An ensemble that performs repertoire from the 17th century through the present. Recent concerts have included works by Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert and Henry Cowell.
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4.00 Credits
This ensemble explores a range of music covering over 200 years of repertoire in a variety of styles. There is no audition requirement, and the ensemble is open to all wind, brass and percussion players with three or more years of playing experience. The group typically performs one concert per semester.
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4.00 Credits
This ensemble takes a particular strand of vernacular music as its focus each semester, and is open to guitarists, percussionists, pianists, vocalists, and woodwind and brass players. Possible topics for study include Hawaiian music, the music of Motown, and New Orleans rhythm and blues.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of music, this course includes the development of listening skills as well as an overview of the basic materials and techniques of musical organization. The music is chosen from a wide range of times and places. Students use the resources of the music library and the Newell Center for Arts Technology lab for listening, research and composition. As a complement to class work, students attend concerts and recitals on and sometimes off campus. The course does not require previous music study. Students who wish to include individual lessons in voice or on an instrument as part of their work for this course enroll in Music 101.
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4.00 Credits
Music is an interaction between the production of sound and the listeners' perceptive abilities. In this course, the physical details of the production and perception of "musical" sound and theirinteraction are explored. In a hands-on, experiment-based course, the physics of sound vibrations and waves, the overtone series, the workings of the human ear, the construction of various types of musical instruments, methods of sound recording (both analog and digital) and other topics are explored. This team-taught course satisfies the natural science distribution requirement; it is typically taught every other year. Also offered as Physics 120.
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4.00 Credits
This course is meant to develop abilities in listening to, analyzing, performing and creating music. We engage in different kinds of musical activities: studying the sight and sound of music, playing and singing snippets of music, composing short pieces. Throughout, the intent is to provide critical skills for deepening the understanding of music. Students who wish to include individual lessons as part of their work for this course enroll in Music 201. Prerequisite: Music 100/101, a score of 4 or 5 on the AP music theory test, or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores selected musics from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Americas, by means of recordings, films, readings, concerts and hands-on experience. Broad topics for investigation include the development of popular musical styles, the preservation of traditional musical styles and the circulation of indigenous sounds in the world music market. Also offered through African Studies and Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An in-depth look at the practical and artistic issues involved in making music with computers. This includes a study of some fundamental concepts and a practical application of these concepts using the resources of the Newell Center for Arts Technology. The course is divided into two broad sections - (1) the MIDI protocol: what it is, how it works, what you can do with it; (2) digital audio: a brief introduction to acoustics, how audio is recorded and played back digitally, the uses of digital signal processing. Prerequisite: Music 100/101, 200/201, or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores some of the artistic and practical aspects of using sound in support of theatrical production. The course employs concepts of design drawn from the theater and applies those concepts to the choice of music and sound effects for the stage. We explore the potential of sound and music for the reinforcement of dramatic content and production design concepts, and introduce the production organization common to most theater productions: the collaborative design process and the team approach to production assignments. Also offered as Performance and Communication Arts 202.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores songs from New York City's "Tin Pan Alley ?to be selected from such songwriters as the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Irving Berlin - and songs from earlier times and places, such as Franz Schubert in early 19th-century Vienna or Thomas Campion in Elizabethan England. Primary focus is on the music and the lyrics, but we also study the social and cultural contexts of these songs. Some required concerts and video screenings outside of class time. Prerequisite: Music 100/101, 200/201, or permission of the instructor. Also offered through European Studies.
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