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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): MUS 030A or MUS 030B or MUS 030C (may be taken concurrently). Students learn music sequencing techniques in the context of the creation of an original piece of music. Topics covered include basic computer skills, benchmarking a digital orchestra, composing using a click track, and techniques of musical composition specific to the editorial potential inherent in music sequencing.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 0-2 hours; listening, 2-3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A historical and cultural overview of the genre of American popular music known as "rock." Covers themes ranging from musicalform and structure, aesthetics, and audio technology to community and individualism, gender and racial identity, political resistance, and the music industry. Cross-listed with HISA 139.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 1 hour; discussion, 1 hour; workshop, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Familiarizes the beginning composer with proper music notation, presentation, and score production. Surveys notation techniques used in the composition of a variety of music, from traditional arrangements through the most complex contemporary hybrid scores. Teaches established practice through the study of published scores and recordings.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. College math is recommended. An introduction to the theory and practice of manipulating digital sound. Provides students with an understanding of digital audio devices associated with media production and of audio processing in general. Topics covered include basic psychoacoustics, digital audio theory, and digital audio editing.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 1 hour; online discussion and listening, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history of electronica and electronic music. Focuses on particular issues, including youth culture, dance and ecstatic trance, subcultures and club cultures, hallucinogenic drugs and psychedelic aesthetics, globalization, audio piracy, media and audio technologies, music and politics, and gender and sexuality.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Study of basic techniques of orchestral string instruments.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Study of basic techniques of orchestral woodwind instruments.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Study of basic techniques of orchestral brass instruments.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Study of basic techniques of orchestral percussion instruments.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; studio, 2-3 hours. Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor. Fundamentals of baton technique, score study, transposition, and stylistic analysis as they relate to problems of conducting.
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