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Western Musical Traditions.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A survey of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis on key musical concepts and genres in their historical context and aural recognition of style.

BMus Practical Lessons 1.

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Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.

BMus Practical Lessons 2.

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Practical examination in clarinet techniques.

Music as a Profession 1.

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Music Professional Development: An introduction to information, resources, and skills related to physical, mental, and professional well-being for the musician and scholar.

Musicianship Training 1.

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Rhythm and metre basic subdivisions and conducting patterns; intervals, chords, and scale patterns; non-modulating tonal melodies with treble and bass clefs; harmonic progressions emphasizing two-part outer voice structures.

Musicianship Training 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Rhythm and metre mixed divisions and syncopations; triadic and seventh chord voicings and disjunct pitch collections; chromatically embellished melodies adding alto clef; simple modulating harmonic progressions emphasizing two-part outer voice structures.

Musicianship (Keyboard) 1.

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Harmonic, melodic and rhythmic analysis at the keyboard through the study of rudiments, repertoire, chorale/score reading, transposition and harmonization.

Musicianship (Keyboard) 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Building chordal fluency. Harmonic vocabulary including sequences, chromaticism and modulation. Chorale and score reading with transposing instruments and alto/tenor clefs.

Theory and Analysis 1.

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Diatonic chords and harmonic progressions, focus on outer-voice framework, cadences, embellishments, building chordal fluency in common-practice tonality, applied chords.

Theory and Analysis 2.

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Sequences and modulation, chromatic vocabulary, analysis of simple theme types (sentence, period, hybrids) and fugal techniques.

BMus Practical Lessons 3.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.

BMus Practical Lessons 4.

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Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.

BMus Performance Examination 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Assessment of student's progress in the practical area.

Voice Coaching 1.

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Individual coaching on repertoire.

Voice Coaching 2.

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Individual coaching on repertoire.

BMus Practical Lessons 5.

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Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.

BMus Practical Lessons 6.

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Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.

BMus Performance Examination 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Assessment of student's progress in the practical area.

BMus Practical Lessons 7.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.

BMus Practical Lessons 8.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.

BMus Performance Examination 3.

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Assessment of student's progress in the practical area.

Introduction to Lyric Diction.

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Rules of lyric diction and the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Italian Diction.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Study of International Phonetic Alphabet. Study of Italian pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.

French Diction.

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Study of French pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.

English Diction.

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Study of International Phonetic Alphabet. Study of Standard English pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts with a special emphasis on problematic vowels, diphthongs and consonants.

German Diction.

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Study of German pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.

Theory and Analysis 3.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Compositional resources of late 18th and early 19th century music. Analysis of forms common to the period c. 1770 - 1840, including Classical sonata forms in several media.

Theory and Analysis 4.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Expanded harmonic resources of the 19th century (e.g., advanced chromaticism including enharmonic reinterpretation and symmetrical division). Analysis of characteristic small and large forms. Writing and analytical skills with a goal toward perceiving how levels of musical structure interact.

Theory and Analysis 5.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Exploration of 20th and 21st century organizations of pitch, rhythm, timbre etc. Written and analytical skills for the purpose of gaining insight into the compositional techniques and aesthetics of this repertoire.

Topics in Early Music Analysis.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Music from before 1700 is analyzed using recently developed techniques as well as materials gathered from treatises contemporaneous with the music. The implications of analysis for performance are considered.

Musicianship Training 3.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Rhythm and metre mixed divisions and two-part work; additional chordal voicings and pitch collections; melodies modulating to closely-related keys adding tenor clef; harmonic progression including applied chords; two-part keyboard-style passages.

Musicianship Training 4.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Changing metres; chord voicings and atonal pitch collections; modulating tonal melodies and score reading of transposing instruments; harmonic progression including chromatic chords; two-part passages.

Critical Thinking About Music.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Examination of various periods and styles: e.g., central works from different traditions, the interaction of music and society, performance practice, and music's relation to other arts.

Topics in Performance Practice.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

An overview of the techniques, methods, and problems of historical performance. Topics covered include theoretical matters involving source material, treatises, organology, 17th-century views of rhetoric and emotion, 18th-century composition methods, rhythmic interpretation, embellishment and ornamentation, tuning and temperament, and basso continuo.

Music as a Profession 2.

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An overview of the responsibilities and skills required of professions in music and of the varied career paths leading from a music degree.

Introductory Opera Repertoire Experience.

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Instruction on Acting Methods, Aria as Monologue, theatrical movement, and script/score analysis as well as take part in production singing roles, covering roles, and/or singing in the ensemble. The course culminates in a Scenes Program that may include repertoire from the last 400 years of opera, operetta, Singspiel, op茅ra comique, musical theatre, and 21st century works.

Opera Studio.

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Coachings, rehearsals, stagings, technical/dress rehearsals in the theatre, and performances in front of an audience.

Vocal Chamber Ensemble.

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Vocal ensemble repertoire written after 1800.

Jazz Vocal Workshop.

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Vocal workshop for jazz musicians.

Tabla Ensemble.

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Performance and practice of the tabla of North India.

Cappella Antica.

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An ensemble of 8 to 12 voices specializing in early music. N.B. This ensemble may substitute as a Basic Ensemble in programs that specify Choral Ensemble, with Departmental approval.

Song Interpretation 1.

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Normally open only to Voice and Piano Performance students. Study of the standard song repertoire with emphasis on the singer and pianist as partners. A public recital will be given at the end of each term.

Song Interpretation 2.

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Study of song repertoire for singers and pianists.

Early Music Ensemble.

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An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Cappella 黑料社.

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An ensemble of 16 voices performing challenging repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Since the expectation is a level of performance equivalent to a professional chamber ensemble, singers wishing to join this group should have had considerable ensemble experience, and advanced vocal and sight-reading skills.

Choral Ensembles.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Students enrolling in Choral Ensembles will be assigned to one of the above groups.

Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Ensemble for contemporary music - instruments and voice.

Post-Tonal Musicianship.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Extended tonal and post-tonal harmonic and contrapuntal structures, rhythmic practices of the 20th and 21st century, score reading.

Musicianship for Voice.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Fundamental musicianship issues in the context of performance with an emphasis on intonation accuracy, rhythm, voice-leading and sound texture.

Introduction to Improvisation and Ornamentation.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Principles of improvisation and ornamentation for music before 1800, including harmonic progressions and voice-leading and contrapuntal patterns for instrumentalists and singers, along with examples of ornamented vocal and instrumental works from 17th and 18th century sources.

Topics in Musicianship.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Advanced ear training challenges in rhythm, pitch, harmony, form, or timbre.

Topics in Global Musicianship.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Musicianship skills from one or more global musical practice(s), with specific challenges and approaches corresponding to the selected topic.

Singing Renaissance Notation.

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Choral sightsinging of mensural notation, with a focus on white notation c. 1420-1600. Development of basic fluency in the notation, interpretation of values in triple meter, addition of accidentals given the contrapuntal context as perceived aurally, Renaissance solmisation.

Baroque Opera.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

History of opera from its origins in the musical, literary, and philosophical models available to the Florentine Camerata to the end of the baroque. The development of opera will be studied from the perspective of artistic style and in the light of historical, political, social, and economic conditions.

Medieval Music.

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The medieval style - an intensive study of one or more selected topics from the repertoire. Possible subjects include liturgical chant, Notre Dame, the medieval motet, secular developments, and instrumental literature.

Renaissance Music.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Sacred and secular musical genres of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Various phases of imitative practice, cantus firmus and parody techniques. The emergence of homophonic textures in peripheral areas of the repertoire. Selected problems in the fields of theory, bibliography and aesthetics.

Baroque Music.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

A detailed examination of several selected areas of Baroque music. Topics will be drawn from different geographical regions (e.g., Italy, France, Germany, etc.) and encompass church, chamber and theatre music, as well as performance practice. Each topic will be related to general musical developments of the period.

Classical Music.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The period covered will be from approximately 1740-1828, from the schools of the Italian keyboard composers, opera buffa and seria, and composers centred at Mannheim, Paris, London, Berlin and Vienna, through the Viennese Classic period of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, to the death of Schubert.

Keyboard Literature before 1750.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The solo repertoire for organ, harpsichord, and clavichord from 1400 to 1750: intabulation, cantus firmus treatment, indigenous keyboard genres, German organ literature, French harpsichord repertoire.

Paleography.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The theory and practice of musical transcription for the period 1100 to 1600. Black modal notation, Franconian notation, French and Italian Ars Nova notation, Mannerism, white mensural notation, proportions, and lute and keyboard tablatures will be studied.

Paleography.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

See MUHL 591D1 for course description.