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Spring
2008 Undergraduate Courses
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The
Art of Listening: Sound and Significance in Popular Music -
V71.0003
Tuesday & Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 (Silver 320)
Instructor: Joe Schloss
Popular Music is often studied as a social phenomenon, historical
artifact, form of literature, or business endeavor. Yet for musicians
and listeners alike, it is often "the way the music sounds" that is
most meaningful. This class will explore why and how that is the case.
What kinds of decisions go into making recordings and live performances
sound a particular way? Why do popular musicians choose particular
chord progressions, song forms, rhythms, instruments, arrangements and
recording technologies - and what do those choices symbolize for
listeners? How and why do listeners interact with, and alter, sound to
suit their own needs and desires? Drawing upon a variety of theoretical
reading and case studies, this class will develop a range of strategies
for interpreting the relationship between sound and meaning in popular
music.
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: Baroque & Classical - V71.0102
Tuesday & Thursday 9:30 -
10:45
(Silver 218)
Instructor: TBA
Topics include the works of Monteverdi, Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Handel,
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; the ascendancy of the secular over the
sacred resumed and maintained; a new harmonic basis for musical
structure: the basso continuo; the theatricalization of music in opera,
oratorio, and the cantata; the expansion of the span of time music can
sustain and, in the instrumental forms of sonata and concerto, a new
musical independence from nonmusical ideas; the concert as music’s own
occasion; musical autonomy in the symphonies and quartets of the
Viennese classicists.
History of
European Music: 20th Century Music - V71.0104
Monday & Wednesday 2:00 - 3:15 (Silver 218)
Instructor: Stanley Boorman
Major revolutions of the early 20th century: Debussy, Schoenberg,
Stravinsky, Bartòk; and later serialism: Webern, Boulez,
Babbitt, Stockhausen. Discussion of Cage, minimalism, and other recent
developments.
Anthropology of Music:
Improvisation - V71.0153
Wednesday 2:00 - 4:30 (Silver 318)
Instructor: Jason Stanyek
This course on the “anthropology of improvisation” tracks varied modes
of improvisative performance in dance, theater and music. During the
first part of the semester we will concern ourselves with an
interdisciplinary corpus of readings drawn from fields such as
musicology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, sociology, management
studies, law, literature, history and anthropology. Our goal will be to
create a critical framework through which we can analyze recorded and
live improvised performances from across a range of genres and
practices. By mid-semester we will move into doing fieldwork and
students will be expected to develop a substantial ethnographic
research project that examines, in depth, a particular form of
improvisative performance in New York City.
Introduction
to Celtic Music - V71.0182
(cross-listed with Irish Studies - V58.0152)
Tuesday & Thursday 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 II - V71.0202
Monday & Wednesday 11:00 - 12:15 (Silver 218)
Monday & Wednesday 3:30 - 4:45
(Silver 218)
Instructors:
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 IV - V71.0204
Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 - 3:15 (Silver 318)
Instructor: Louis Karchin
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.
Honors Seminar: Wagner's Ring - V71.0901.001
Thursdays 2:00 - 4:30 (Waverly 268)
Instructor: Robert Bailey
Studies in inception, theory, drama, and musical design of Wagner's
operatic cycle, Der Ring des
Nibelungen. The group will attend the final dress rehearsal of
the Metropolitan Opera's production of Die Walküre.
Honors Seminar - Spectral music: a chord or
an attitude?
- V71.0901.002
Mondays & Wednesdays 12:30 - 1:45 (Silver 318)
Instructor: Elizabeth Hoffman
In-depth analysis of and listening to music by representatives of this
influential movement, including Murail, Dufourt, Lèvinas, and
Grisey. Careful consideration of the historical and cultural
relationship of the Spectral movement with late 1960s French political
thought.
CAS ADVANCED HONORS SEMINARS IN MUSIC
The
Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan - V28.0124
Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 - 3:15 (Silver
218)
Instructor:
Rena Mueller
Soundscapes
of Contemporary War - V28.0150
Tuesday & Thursday 11:00 - 12:15
(Silver 218)
Instructor:
Suzanne Cusick
What are the sounds of contemporary war? How have military planners,
strategists and commanders used sound (including music) to expedite
battle? How have ordinary soldiers used sound (including music)? How
have both kinds of military use interacted with civilian aural culture?
This seminar will explore these questions with reference to major wars
of the "American century" - World Wars I and II, the "Cold War," the
Vietnam conflict - so as to understand better the acoustical practices
of US forces in detention camps. Readings, films, listening,
discussion, individual research projects and contribution toward a
class web site.
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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