MUS

This course explores Western art music as a humanistic study. It provides a survey of representative styles, musicians, and works from 1600 to the present, including jazz. Readings, writing assignments, and experiences both in and out of class introduce students to the diverse methods of historical musicology, including a variety of critical perspectives, and archival and secondary research. Students engage in close listening, musical analysis, and discussion. Emphasis is placed throughout the semester on the relevance, value, and pleasures of musicological knowledge and approaches.

This introductory survey introduces students to twentieth-century European and North American classical music by exploring the use of major twentieth-century musical styles and individual works in movies. Students develop analytical tools to understand and communicate effectively about a wide range of compositional languages, while also considering how particular styles and compositions are put into dialogue with a film's visual, narrative, and affective content.

An introductory survey of music in the Romantic era (1815-1900) beginning with the late works of Beethoven and Schubert and ending with the works of Mahler and Debussy at the turn of the twentieth century. Students explore historical and stylistic developments through the critical study of representative works from the period. Major genres, the lives of the composers, and the creative process are examined, and the importance of the artist for society is considered.

This course explores a range of 20th and 21st century popular music genres in their social, political, and aesthetic contexts. The course builds critical thinking and listening skills through analysis of sound recordings and close engagement with a variety of popular media, including music criticism, interviews, biography, liner notes, and documentary film. Emphasis will be placed on how musical practices intersect with both historical and contemporary struggles for gender equity and racial justice, alongside other pressing social issues.

Intended for those without prior musical training. Students discover music through physical and intellectual engagement, including performance, improvisation, composition, conducting and other movement, close listening, concertgoing, reading, writing, discussion, and collaboration. Basic note-reading skill is developed. Students should not take MUS 123 if they have taken, or are currently enrolled in, MUS 101/103.

This course critically explores women's contributions to music in a variety of roles and cultural contexts. Figures studied include historical and contemporary popstars, composers, directors, dancers, and everyday women, who make music as part of their daily lives.

Designed for Applied Music students admitted to the Performance degree or other Applied Music students with written permission from the Director of the School of Music. One hour-long or two half-hour lessons per week required. May be repeated for credit. Registration for lessons is throughthe Music office prior to university registration

Designed for Applied Music students admitted to the Performance degree or other Applied Music students with written permission from the Director of the School of Music. One hour-long or two half-hour lessons per week required. May be repeated for credit. Registration for lessons is throughthe Music office prior to university registration

For Applied Music students other than Performance majors. One half-hour lesson per week is required. The choice of materials is left to the discretion of the instructors in each applied music area. In the jury examination given at the end of the term, students are required to perform excerpts from the material studied. Registration forlessons is administered through the Music office.

For Applied Music students other than Performance majors. One half-hour lesson per week is required. The choice of materials is left to the discretion of the instructors in each applied music area. In the jury examination given at the end of the term, students are required to perform excerpts from the material studied. Registration forlessons is administered through the Music office.