Mondays 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (LAB) or Wednesdays 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (LAB)Ĭourse Description: Chromatic harmony as developed and practiced by composers of the 19th century and beyond. Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM (SEM) Students must also register for one of the two listed LAB sections. Weekly lab sections are devoted to skills in musicianship and are required throughout the sequence. ![]() ![]() Exercises in four-part voice-leading and species counterpoint are supplemented by analyses of music from around the world and from a variety of genres, including concert and popular music. Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30 AM- 10:45 AM (SEM)Ĭourse Description: Students study principles of tonal music composition including 18th and 19th century harmonic, formal, and contrapuntal practices. Course can be counted toward the Music minor as a theory course. Related skills in sight-singing, dictation, and keyboard harmony are stressed in the recitation sections.Ĭourse does not count toward the Music major. Focuses on concepts and notation of key, scale, tonality, and rhythm. It includes a discussion of historical background and evolution. Mondays 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (LAB) or Wednesdays 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (LAB)Ĭourse Description: 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. Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (LEC) Students must also register for one of the two listed RCT sections. This is the foundational course for CAS music majors, but it is open to any students who wish to enroll. Through reading, listening, viewing, discussing, and performing, our goal in this class will be to arrive at a more fully embodied, immersive, and sounded (and thereby sound) understanding of how music works in our lives. It lives as sound in social interaction, yet its analysis often takes place in the silence of written forms (scores and articles). Music presents itself as a symbolic form of communication, but what and how it symbolizes and communicates is often mysterious. It is a human universal, yet it must be learned, and musical “systems” are not easily calibrated to each other. Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (SEM)įridays 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (RCT) or Fridays 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (RCT)Ĭourse Description: This course considers a number of deep, long-standing, and telling contradictions in the study of music. Course can be counted toward the Music minor as an elective. ![]() Considers the structure and style of influential works in the Western art music repertoire, popular music, or other musical cultures, with attention to the wider social, political, and artistic context.Ĭourse does not count toward the Music major. Course Description: Students acquire a basic vocabulary of musical terms, concepts, and listening skills in order to describe their responses to musical experiences.
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