Course Schedule—Fall 2007

Music

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MUSIC

376.111

RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP (3) Hardaway  Limit 15 per section  This course introduces written and aural music fundamentals including notation, scales, intervals, chords, rhythm, meter and sight-singing. Students will compose melodies and short pieces and complete listening projects. 

Sec. 01

02

MTW 11

MTW 12

376.211

MUSIC THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP I (3) Crouch   Prereq: Qualifying examination or 376.111   Limit 15   Introduction to basic principles of tonal music through listening, analysis and music making.  Students study melody, harmony, voice leading, figured bass and dissonance treatment, and will also undertake short composition projects. 

Sec. 01

MTW 11

376.212

MUSIC THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP II (3) Smooke  Prereq: 376.211Limit 15      This course continues the written and aural work of the previous course but focuses on chromatic harmony while continuing the study of melody, counterpoint and figured bass. 

Sec. 01

MTW 12

376.213

MUSIC THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP III (3) Hardaway   Prereq: 376.212 Limit 15      Continuation of written and aural work of the previous two semesters. Projects in four-voice writing from figured bass and counterpoint in two and three voices are completed, using as models a variety of styles and composers. Students study simple binary, rounded binary and ternary forms, and compose a short work in a tonal idiom.

Sec. 01

MTW 10

376.231 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC (3) Talle
Limit 20 per sectionStudents will learn aural strategies to focus their listening, as well as vocabulary, cultural and historical context for music of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th century periods.  Composers studied will include Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

MT 3

W 3

W 4

Th 3

Th 4

376.404 (H,E)
(W)

THE HISTORY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (3) Weiss / West   Limit 15  The history, technology, and performance of Western European musical instruments, their precursors, and their non-western counterparts, addressed by experts and explored on visits to historic collections. Co-listed with 530.407

Sec. 01

Th 2-5pm

360.133 (H)
(W)

GREAT BOOKS: WESTERN TRADITION OR THE HUMANITIES: A TRADITION OF CLASSICS (3) Egginton/Patton/Talle/Valládares  
Limit 20 per section
Open to all Undergraduates      
Cross-listed with Classics, German and Romance Languages & Literatures, the Humanities Center, and Interdepartmental

Sec. 01

02

03

04

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

 

 

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