MUSC1700 - Introduction to Theory and Musicianship

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
3
Title (text only)
Introduction to Theory and Musicianship
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
003
Section ID
MUSC1700003
Course number integer
1700
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Description
This course will cover basic skills and vocabulary for reading, hearing, performing, analyzing, and writing music. Students will gain command of musical rudiments, including notation, reading and writing in treble and bass clefs, intervals, keys, scales, triads and seventh chords, and competence in basic melodic and formal analysis. The course will include an overview of basic diatonic harmony, introduction to harmonic function and tonicization. Musicianship skills will include interval and chord recognition, rhythmic and melodic dictation and familiarity with the keyboard. There will be in-depth study of selected compositions from the "common practice" Western tradition, including classical, jazz, blues and other popular examples. Listening skills--both with scores (including lead sheets, figured bass and standard notation), and without--will be emphasized. There is no prerequisite. Students with some background in music may place out of this course and into Music 170, Theory and Musicianship I. Fulfills College Formal Reasoning and Analysis Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1700
Fulfills
Formal Reasoning & Analysis
Use local description
No

MUSC1700 - Introduction to Theory and Musicianship

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
2
Title (text only)
Introduction to Theory and Musicianship
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
002
Section ID
MUSC1700002
Course number integer
1700
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Description
This course will cover basic skills and vocabulary for reading, hearing, performing, analyzing, and writing music. Students will gain command of musical rudiments, including notation, reading and writing in treble and bass clefs, intervals, keys, scales, triads and seventh chords, and competence in basic melodic and formal analysis. The course will include an overview of basic diatonic harmony, introduction to harmonic function and tonicization. Musicianship skills will include interval and chord recognition, rhythmic and melodic dictation and familiarity with the keyboard. There will be in-depth study of selected compositions from the "common practice" Western tradition, including classical, jazz, blues and other popular examples. Listening skills--both with scores (including lead sheets, figured bass and standard notation), and without--will be emphasized. There is no prerequisite. Students with some background in music may place out of this course and into Music 170, Theory and Musicianship I. Fulfills College Formal Reasoning and Analysis Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1700
Fulfills
Formal Reasoning & Analysis
Use local description
No

MUSC1700 - Introduction to Theory and Musicianship

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Introduction to Theory and Musicianship
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
001
Section ID
MUSC1700001
Course number integer
1700
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Jamuna S. Samuel
Description
This course will cover basic skills and vocabulary for reading, hearing, performing, analyzing, and writing music. Students will gain command of musical rudiments, including notation, reading and writing in treble and bass clefs, intervals, keys, scales, triads and seventh chords, and competence in basic melodic and formal analysis. The course will include an overview of basic diatonic harmony, introduction to harmonic function and tonicization. Musicianship skills will include interval and chord recognition, rhythmic and melodic dictation and familiarity with the keyboard. There will be in-depth study of selected compositions from the "common practice" Western tradition, including classical, jazz, blues and other popular examples. Listening skills--both with scores (including lead sheets, figured bass and standard notation), and without--will be emphasized. There is no prerequisite. Students with some background in music may place out of this course and into Music 170, Theory and Musicianship I. Fulfills College Formal Reasoning and Analysis Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1700
Fulfills
Formal Reasoning & Analysis
Use local description
No

MUSC1510 - Music of Africa

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Music of Africa
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
401
Section ID
MUSC1510401
Course number integer
1510
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Carol Ann Muller
Description
African Contemporary Music: North, South, East, and West. Come to know contemporary Africa through the sounds of its music: from South African kwela, jazz, marabi, and kwaito to Zimbabwean chimurenga; Central African soukous and pygmy pop; West African Fuji, and North African rai and hophop. Through reading and listening to live performance, audio and video recordings, we will examine the music of Africa and its intersections with politics, history, gender, and religion in the colonial and post colonial era. (Formerly Music 053). Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1510
Cross listings
AFRC1510401
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

MUSC1500 - World Musics and Cultures

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
World Musics and Cultures
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
401
Section ID
MUSC1500401
Course number integer
1500
Meeting times
MW 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Description
This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process. Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1500
Cross listings
AFRC1500402, ANTH1500402
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

MUSC1420 - Thinking About Popular Music

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Thinking About Popular Music
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
001
Section ID
MUSC1420001
Course number integer
1420
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
undergraduate
Description
Catchy yet controversial. Fun but hard-hitting. Popular music is not just entertaining: it presents societal issues, raises questions, expresses ideas. This course considers how popular music of the 20th century manifested the hopes, contradictions, ingenuity, and challenges of life in the United States, as seen and heard through the experiences of musicians and audiences. We will address three core questions: (1) How is “talent” and “good” music distinguished? (2) What happens when we treat music as “property,” especially with respect to broader ideas of ownership and credit? (3) When, how, and why is music considered dangerous? We delve into these questions by profiling musicians’ lives, analyzing the musical traits of specific repertoire, investigating changes in how music circulates, and situating popular music in U.S. cultural history. This course is not a chronological survey and does not aim to cover all U.S. popular music (or global popular music). Instead, each core question is addressed through case studies. Over the course of the semester students learn listening and analytic skills, how to engage critically with a range of writings about music, how to develop compelling arguments and articulate them verbally in class discussions and in writing assignments.
Course number only
1420
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No

MUSC1400 - Jazz Style and History

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Jazz Style and History
Term
2024C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
401
Section ID
MUSC1400401
Course number integer
1400
Meeting times
F 10:15 AM-1:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Amanda Scherbenske
Description
This course is an exploration of the family of musical idioms called jazz. Attention will be given to issues of style development, selective musicians, and to the social and cultural conditions and the scholarly discourses that have informed the creation, dissemination and reception of this dynamic set of styles from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Fulfills Cultural Diversity in the U.S.
Course number only
1400
Cross listings
AFRC1400401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Use local description
No

MUSC1340 - Performers: Dancers and Musicians

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Performers: Dancers and Musicians
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
001
Section ID
MUSC1340001
Course number integer
1340
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Mary C. Caldwell
Description
This course looks at the history of popular, vernacular, and art music in various time periods. Studying music from the ground up, we examine how performers have influenced music history. This introductory course examines the relationship of musicians and dancers from the Middle Ages up to the emergence of ballet. Engaging with musical scores, iconography, theoretical writings, and a range of other textual sources, we will consider the ways in which dance (and dancers) informed music (and musicians), and vice versa, over the course of several hundred years.
Course number only
1340
Use local description
No

MUSC1300 - 1000 Years of Musical Listening

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
2
Title (text only)
1000 Years of Musical Listening
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
002
Section ID
MUSC1300002
Course number integer
1300
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Description
We know that we like music and that it moves us, yet it is often difficult to pinpoint exactly why, and harder still to explain what it is we are hearing. This course takes on those issues. It aims to introduce you to a variety of music, and a range of ways of thinking, talking and writing about music. The majority of music dealt with will be drawn from the so-called "Classical" repertory, from the medieval period to the present day, including some of the 'greats' such as Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Berlioz, and Verdi, but will also introduce you to music you will most likely never have encountered before. This course will explore the technical workings of music and the vocabularies for analyzing music and articulating a response to it; it also examines music as a cultural phenomenon, considering what music has meant for different people, from different societies across the ages and across geographical boundaries. As well as learning to listen ourselves, we will also engage with a history of listening. No prior musical knowledge is required. (Formerly Music 021). Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1300
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

MUSC1300 - 1000 Years of Musical Listening

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
1000 Years of Musical Listening
Term
2024C
Subject area
MUSC
Section number only
001
Section ID
MUSC1300001
Course number integer
1300
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Mary C. Caldwell
J.W. Clark
Description
We know that we like music and that it moves us, yet it is often difficult to pinpoint exactly why, and harder still to explain what it is we are hearing. This course takes on those issues. It aims to introduce you to a variety of music, and a range of ways of thinking, talking and writing about music. The majority of music dealt with will be drawn from the so-called "Classical" repertory, from the medieval period to the present day, including some of the 'greats' such as Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Berlioz, and Verdi, but will also introduce you to music you will most likely never have encountered before. This course will explore the technical workings of music and the vocabularies for analyzing music and articulating a response to it; it also examines music as a cultural phenomenon, considering what music has meant for different people, from different societies across the ages and across geographical boundaries. As well as learning to listen ourselves, we will also engage with a history of listening. No prior musical knowledge is required. (Formerly Music 021). Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1300
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No