Courses

Reviews tonal harmony, voice leading, and essential aural skills. Includes diatonic triads and seventh chords, modulation, chromaticism, and structural analysis of representative compositions. Prepares graduate students for more advanced work in music theory. Students may register for aural skills only (1 credit), theory only (2 credits), or both theory and aural skills (3 credits). May not be taken pass/fail. For graduate students only. Offered summer and fall. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Discover strategies and techniques for generating and manipulating sound at the computer. Student projects will include compositions, soundscapes, ambient environments, and soundtracks for multimedia. Available to students without prior experience with computer music or composition. Prereq., MUSC 4081. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music undergraduate students only.

Exploration of issues, techniques, and tools of music technology. Topics vary from term to term and may include: interactive systems for performance; teaching and learning; computer music instrument design; digital synthesis and signal processing; music in intermedia; sound design and analysis. Lectures on work sessions will support student projects. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., MUSC 4081. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music undergraduate students only.

Examines music and social elements, rules, and concepts that musicians use to structure and synthesize musical sound, with emphasis on music practices and pedagogies from a variety of world traditions; observing shared principles and making cross-cultural comparisons and investigating a shared (not universal) discourse as well as resources for a new pedagogy that supports the substantive study of global musics. Recommended prereqs., MUSC 2772 or 2782 or 4112. Same as MUSC 5168. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) College of Music majors only.

Study of advanced recording techniques and concepts beyond those covered in MUSC 2091 involving multiplemicrophones for ensemble concerts and recording sessions within and outside of the College of Music. Prereq., MUSC 2091. Restricted to College of Music majors only. Offered spring of even-numbered years. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music undergraduate students only.

Provides a stylistic study of main contrapuntal genres of the period including FREE, TWO-and THREE-part imitative counterpoint in the style of Palestrina. Provides a foundation in species counterpoint, working towards free counterpoint; stresses analysis and composing in 16th-century styles. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Provides a stylistic study of main contrapuntal genres of the period including INVENTION, SUITE, and FUGUE. Provides a foundation in species counterpoint; stresses analysis and composing in the styles. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Provides an advanced study of orchestration techniques through score analysis and student projects. Offered fall only.

Surveys tonal analytical techniques. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation. Offered fall only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Focuses on theory and analysis of post-tonal literature pre-1945. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation. Offered fall and every other spring. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Presents advanced strategies for applying computer technology in several musical disciplines. Emphasizes the use of technology in composition, music theory,and music education. Offered fall only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies contemporary approaches to jazz improvisation and composition. Analysis of innovative composition and improvisation and strategies for integration of the material into a personal vocabulary are explored. Prereq., MUSC 3081. Offered spring only.

Conducts advanced research in techniques and tools of music technology. Topics vary from term to term and may include: user interfaces for computer music; advanced sound design; digital modeling of acoustic sounds; computer-aided analysis of sound; modeling music intelligence in real time. Lectures and work sessions will support student projects. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., MUSC 5081 or instructor consent required.

Analytical study of a specific topic to be determinedby the instructor (e.g., German Lieder, Bartok quartets, tonal rhythm, Schenker, etc). Study published analyses representing a variety of methodologies, and produce original analyses. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation. Recommended prereqs., MUSC 5061, 5071, as appropriate to topic or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Examines music and social elements, rules, and concepts that musicians use to structure and synthesize musical sound, with emphasis on music practices and pedagogies from a variety of world traditions; observing shared principles and making cross-cultural comparisons and investigating a shared (not universal) discourse as well as resources for a new pedagogy that supports the substantive study of global musics. Same as MUSC 4168. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Studies significant and distinctive orchestration techniques of the 20th century, concentrating on works written since 1940. Restricted to doctoral students.

Studies methods and materials for teaching undergraduate music theory, aural skills, and analysis. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation.

Intensive study of a specialized topic in theory and analysis. Students will be guided in critical reading and analysis, class presentations, and independent research. Prereqs., graduate preliminary exams passed, and 6 credit hours of graduate-level theory. Restricted to MUSD and MUAD students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music (MUSD or MUAD) majors only.

Provides advanced study in theory. Students present results of research on individually chosen topics or aspects of a topic central to the class. Requires a major paper or project. Restricted to Music (MUSD) graduate students only. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music (MUSD) graduate students only.