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Freshman Seminar
Twelve Masterworks of 20th-century Music - V50.0397
Monday & Wednesday 2:00 - 3:15 (Waverly 365)
Instructor: Stanley Boorman
The last hundred years have seen radical changes in classical music,
not only in the sound-world, but also in aesthetic and technique --
ranging from the breakdown of tonality and the use of electronic and
computer resources in performance to questions of the relationship of
composer and performer, of the place of noise, and even of what music
is or could be.
This course presents outstanding works by a range of composers (among
them Stravinsky, Carter, and Messiaen) both because of their
importance, and as illustrations of ideas about music. Each
composition will be explored for itself, and also as a stimulus to
discussion about one or more of these issues: each will be one that has
stood the test of time, and been hailed as a major work -- and those
criteria will also need discussion.
The course will involve considerable listening, alongside readings: it
will require a willingness to re-assess conventional views about music,
and to accept unconventional solutions.
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.
Music in Opera - V71.0006
Monday & Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45 (Silver 320)
Instructor: Rena Mueller
A survey of opera from 1600 to 1900, including the works of Monteverdi,
Purcell, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Rossini, Bellini,
Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, and Puccini. Emphasis on librettists, opera
singers, set and costume design, and orchestras and conductors. A
midterm, final, and concert report.
Elements of
Music - V71.0020
Monday & Wednesday 9:30 - 10:45 (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 318)
Instructor: TBA
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.
Anthropology of Music: Music in the
Post-9/11 World - V71.0153
Monday & Wednesday 11:00 - 12:15 (Silver 218)
Instructor: Martin Daughtry
The events of September 11, 2001, radically altered the trajectory of
American domestic and foreign policies, prompting a series of reactions
and counter-reactions that have set a contentious tone for global
relations in the early 21st century. At the same time, these events
resonated with surprising force in the world of music production and
reception, both within and beyond the borders of the United States.
This course, designed principally for junior and senior music majors,
seeks to probe the messy intersection of music, politics, and violence
in the weeks and months immediately following 9/11.
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Introduction
to Celtic Music - V71.0182
(cross-listed with Irish Studies - V58.0152)
Monday & Wednesday 3:30 - 4:45 (Silver 320)
Instructor: Mick Moloney
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the traditional
and contemporary music of the Celtic areas of Western Europe—Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and Galicia. Recordings and live
performances present the extraordinary range of singing styles and the
musical instruments employed in each culture, including harps, bagpipes
and a variety of other wind, free reed, keyboard and stringed
instruments. Forms and musical styles are explored in depth along with
a study of their origin, evolution, and cultural links.
Harmony
&
Counterpoint I - V71.0201
Monday & Wednesday 11:00 - 12:15 (Silver 318)
Instructor: TBA
Tuesday
& Thursday 2:00 - 3:15 (Silver 318)
Instructor:
TBA
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: TBA
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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