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Fall
2007 Undergraduate Courses
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The
Art of Listening - V71.0003
Tuesday & Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 (Silver 320)
Please refer to Albert for lab sections
Instructor: TBA
Students acquire a basic vocabulary of
musical terms, concepts, and listening skills in order to describe
their responses to musical experiences.
Elements of
Music - V71.0020
Monday & Wednesday 11:00 - 12:15 (Silver 320)
Please refer to Albert for lab sections
Instructor: TBA
Explores the underlying principles and inner workings of the tonal
system, a system that has guided all of Western music from the years
1600 to 1900. It includes a discussion of historical background and
evolution. The focus is on concepts and notation of key, scale,
tonality, and rhythm. Related skills in sight-singing, dictation, and
keyboard harmony are stressed in the recitation sections.
History of
European Music: Medieval & Renaissance - V71.0101
Monday & Wednesday 2:00 - 3:15 (Silver 218)
Instructor: Stanley Boorman
Topics include the music of the medieval church; the codification and
extension of the plainsong repertory and the emergence and development
of polyphony; music of the medieval court (troubadours,
trouvères, and
minnesingers); the ascendancy of secular polyphony in the 14th century
and the subsequent Renaissance balance between sacred and secular; mass
and motet, and chanson and madrigal; the beginnings of an autonomous
repertory for instruments in the 16th century.
History of
European Music: I9th Century and the Post-Romantics - V71.0103
Monday & Wednesday 9:30 - 10:45
(Silver 218)
Instructor:
Rena Mueller
The works of major composers from Beethoven to the death of Mahler.
Topics include the effect of romanticism on musical genres (symphony,
sonata, lieder, opera); the central importance of Wagner and his legacy
(musical, dramatic, narrative); concepts of virtuosity; musical
criticism.
Topics in 20th
Century Music: Musical 'Complexities'/Theoretical Perplexity - V71.0111
Monday & Wednesday 11:00 - 12:15 (Waverly 365)
Instructor: Elizabeth Hoffman
This seminar will analyze a segment of contemporary concert music that
embodies radical approaches to 1) music notation systems, 2) demands on
performers, and 3) expressive connections between the
composer-score-audience.
The course will include a major emphasis on exploration of the 'New
Complexity' (as it was sometimes labeled) movement, and concurrent
developments. We will consider the philosophical and socio-political
stances that motivated/motivates these composers.
Brazilian
Music and Globalization - V71.0155
Monday & Wednesday 3:30 - 4:45 (Silver 320)
Instructor: Jason Stanyek
A study of Brazil's social and political history through its music and
dance traditions, emphasizing questions of identity and performance in
the international and transnational geographies of globalization.
Harmony &
Counterpoint I - V71.0201
Monday & Wednesday 11:00 - 12:15 (Waverly 365)
Instructor: TBA
Tuesday
& Thursday 2:00 - 3:15 (Silver 318)
Instructor:
Jairo Moreno
Please
refer to Albert for lab sections
General principles underlying tonal
musical organization. Students
learn concepts of 18th- and 19th- century harmonic, formal, and
contrapuntal practices. Weekly lab sections are devoted to skills in
musicianship and are required throughout the sequence.
Harmony &
Counterpoint III - V71.0203
Tuesday & Thursday 11:00 - 12:15 (Silver 318)
Instructor: Jairo Moreno
Please
refer to Albert for lab sections
The continuation of V71.0201-002 covers
chromatic extensions of
tonality, intensive analysis of representative works from the tonal
literature, and more advanced contrapuntal practices of the 18th and
19th centuries. V71.0204 also includes an introduction to 20th-century
music theory and popular music.
Principles of
Composition -
V71.0209
Tuesday & Thursday 3:30 - 4:45 (Silver 318)
Instructor: Louis Karchin
This course is designed for students who
have mastered the fundamentals of Harmony and Counterpoint and would
like to study the art of free composition. Students will analyze
works of composers of different styles and from different periods, and
use their study as a backdrop to create original work. They will
receive detailed commentary on their music from the instructor
throughout the course, and will write music for diverse
groups of instruments.
Prerequisite: Harmony and Counterpoint I and II, or permission of
the instructor.
German Romantic Music (1815 - 1850) - V50.0313
Thursdays 2:00 - 4:30 (Waverly 268)
Instructor: Robert Bailey
Internship -
V71.0981
Open to music majors and minors, in each
case with permission from the director of undergraduate
studies or music department chair.
Independent
Study - V71.0998
Seniors majoring in music who, in the
opinion of the department, possess unusual ability are permitted to
carry on individual work in a selected specialized area under the
supervision of a department member.
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