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  • Music 205: Vocal Music Arranging

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    This course gives students practical training in the dictation and arrangement of music for vocal ensemble performance. Prerequisite: 125.
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  • Music 206: Music in the United States

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    This course explores the wide variety of music that composers and musicians created to reflect their own experience of and attitude toward American culture. The course explores not only the diverse means by which identity is encoded in musical language, including race, class, gender, ethnicity, and local practices, but also the ways in which music is employed within American culture, including religious life, social movements, wartime conflicts and protest movements, labor, and geo-political commentary. Unlike other courses at Dickinson, Music in the United States draws examples from a lengthy time-span (1600s to the present day), fosters critical listening skills (i.e., how do I listen to jazz?), and interrogates the dialogues between musical genres that are often viewed as being on opposite sides of the "high/lo" art divide (classical, religious, folk, blues, jazz, pop, rock, hip hop). Offered every two years.
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  • Music 209: World Music

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    This course explores the musical cultures of six regions (Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Middle East, North American, and Europe) from the disciplinary perspective of ethnomusicology, a field that emphasizes the direct connections between social structures and musical sound/aesthetics. Students are exposed to the disciplinary methods of ethnomusicology, including its basic terminology and classification systems, and then apply these tools to the study of non-Western musics in a series of analytical assignments and presentations. Some of the questions posed in the class include: What differentiates music from sound, speech, and dance? How does music reflect cultural values and social structures? How does one learn to listen to non-western music? How has globalism affected local musical cultures? How does western musical terminology limit our understanding of another's music? What are the ideological and physical boundaries that hinder the experience of another culture's music? Offered every two years.
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  • Music 213 ,214: Performance Studies II

    1.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    Private study open to students who demonstrate a basic technique, and who should continue to study voice or an instrument at the intermediate level. One-half or one course each semester. Prerequisite: 114 and permission of the instructor.
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  • Music 221: Music in Film

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    An introduction to the role and subject of music in film. This course will focus upon films made between ca. 1933 and the present, chosen for the variety and significance of their musical scores. Through critical reading, listening, and viewing, students will be taught to analyze the various functions of music in film, and to appreciate music as an essential and distinctive component of film narrative. No prior background in music is required for this course.
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  • Music 245 ,246: Theory of Music II

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    Introduction to the basic materials of music continued. Evolution of chromatic harmony in the 19th century and selected techniques in 20th century music. Increased emphasis is placed upon stylistic and critical analysis. Prerequisite: 126.
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  • Music 251: Score Study and Conducting

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    An intermediate course in conducting vocal and instrumental ensembles following fundamentals of conducting taught in Music Theory 125-246. Principals of score study and analysis, score preparation, baton technique, expressivity, recitative and concerto-accompanying will be addressed. Texts include tradition choral and instrumental repertoire, examining the variety of problems and technical challenges of leading an ensemble and in developing an interpretation. Prerequisite: 245.
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  • Music 253: Orchestration

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    A course in orchestrating music for a complete range of traditional Western orchestral, chamber and solo instruments. Issues of balance, transposition, score format, instrument ranges, characteristics and technical limitations will be studied. Students will practice arranging for a thorough array of instruments and will have their final orchestrations read by an ensemble. Prerequisite: 126.
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  • Music 255: Techniques of Composition

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    An introduction to various compositional trends which emerged during the twentieth century. Techniques such as extended chromaticism, modal composition, free atonal counterpoint and serialism, are explored as well as the resources of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Current notational procedures are examined and practiced. The course concludes with a final composition project for solo or chamber instrumental or vocal forces. The music department is equipped with a computer music lab for student use on assignments and projects. Prerequisite: 125 and 126 and permission of the instructor.
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  • Music 256: Composition Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    Dickinson College

    This course explores in depth composition for instruments or voices, and emphasizes scoring for large ensembles, including orchestra, symphonic band, and chorus. Extended instrumental techniques are discussed as well as advanced notational procedures. The course concludes with a final composition project appropriate to one of the college co-curricular ensembles. Prerequisite: 255 or permission of the instructor.
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