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4.00 Credits
A survey of musical forms from the smallest units of sectional forms (motive, phrase) through binary, ternary, rondo, and sonata forms. Constant analysis of music of all periods embodying various structural principles. Reading and listening assignments semester project. Prerequisite: MUS 211 Music Theory III
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4.00 Credits
A study of counterpoint focusing on the countrapuntal practices of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Analysis and written exercises leading to several composition projects. Readings from historical treatises secondary source readings and listening assignments. Prerequisite: MUS 211 Music Theory III
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4.00 Credits
A study of the compositional techniques and styles of the twentieth century. Analysis and written exercises leading to compositional projects in a variety of styles. Reading and listening assignments semester project. Prerequisite: MUS 211 Music Theory III
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4.00 Credits
The history of musical style from the early Christian period up to the midEighteenth Century: Gregorian chant repertory, the development of polyphony, the Renaissance flowering of sacred and secular vocal music, the rise of national styles in opera and instrumental music, and the culmination of the Baroque period in the music of Bach and Handel. Reading and listening assignments concert attendance and reviews semester project. Required of majors. Meets general academic requirement A and W.
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20.00 Credits
Preclassical styles and schools the Viennese classicists (Haydn, Mozart) Beethoven and the Romantic expansion of form and technique beginnings of modernism (Debussy, Stravinsky) and later developments to midcentury and beyond. Reading and listening assignments concert attendance and reviews semester project. Required of majors. Meets general academic requirement A and W.
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4.00 Credits
A study of symphonic music ranging from Haydn to Stravinsky. Composers may include Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms, Berlioz, and others. Readings and listening assignments semester project. Meets general academic requirement A.
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4.00 Credits
A study of musics from nonWestern cultures. Topics may include the culture, music, and musicaltheoretical systems of India, China, Japan, Africa, and Latin America. Readings and listening assignments performance projects and semester project. Meets general academic requirement A or D.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the vernacular (popular) and cultivated (classical) traditions in American music from the Colonial period through the twentieth century sacred and secular vocal and instrumental music, the influence of European and African practices in concert music and jazz, and the rise of musical institutions in the context of our developing nation. Reading and listening assignments, concert attendance and reviews, semester project. Offered in alternate years. Meets general academic requirement A.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the literary and musical aspects of opera from Monteverdi to Berg with greatest attention to repertory works by Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Beethoven, Weber, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, and Berg. Reading, listening, and viewing assignments field trips to performances reviews semester project. A music background will be helpful. Offered every three years. Meets general academic requirement A.
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4.00 Credits
This survey of a uniquely American art form traces jazz roots and origins from lateNineteenth Century blues and ragtime: the first recordings the great soloists, composers, and bands of the 1920s the "swing era" of the 1930s and '40s "modern jazz" of the late '40s through the 1960s and new developments othe last twenty years. Reading and listening assignments concert attendance and reviews. Meets general academic requirement A.
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