Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A chronological survey of Western music from Gregorian chant to the death of Beethoven. Assigned readings, critical listening, class discussion and concert attendance.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A chronological survey of Western music from Schubert to the present. Assigned readings, critical listening, class discussion and concert attendance.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Topics in music history and theory, including terminology, notation, scales, chords, and basic composition, score analysis and aural skills, historical periods and genres. Assignments include reading, writing, listening, and class discussion.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Survey from Colonial times to the present. Various attempts to create an indigenous style. Folk, religious music and symphonies, jazz and American musical theater. Composers include Billings, Beach, Ives, Copland, Bernstein and others.

Term Offered

Alternates Fall & Spring

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course covers various popular music styles that emerged in the United States of America in the twentieth century, including blues, music theater, jazz, country, rock and hip-hop. In addition to representative musical selections, emphasis will be placed on various social and cultural factors that helped foster these new popular music styles.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The history of music from the Middle Ages to the present presented in the lives and music of women composers, performers, and writers. Assigned readings, critical listening, class discussion and concert attendance.

Term Offered

Alternates Fall & Spring

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Selected topics in the folk and traditional music of Africa, the Near East, the Far East, and the Pacific, examined in the context of their cultures and their roles in the life of the indigenous peoples of those areas. Assigned readings, critical listening, class discussion, and concert attendance.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Evolution of jazz from blues and ragtime through Dixieland and the avant-garde experiments of today. Contributions of major soloists, arrangers and composers. Listening, reading and concert attendance.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Selected topics dealing with the blues from its origins in various Southern regions of the U.S., through its post-war urban relocation, up to modern interpretations in rock, rap, pop, and hip-hop today. Blues music, both technically and culturally, will be considered from the artist's perspective as a form of African-American expression and American/African-American oral history, as well as a unique indigenous form of American music. Influences of European, African, Country and Jazz styles will be examined, as well as the themes of race and alienation, and similar socio-cultural influences that have shaped and defined the music over time.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This class studies the history and development of film music through reading, lecture and class listening. We investigate the process of film scoring, and how music and its relationship to film have changed over the last century. The class includes discussion and evaluation of different compositional styles and practices to listening critically to film scores while viewing movies.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Instructor's Consent.

Course Credits

1.00- 4.00

Description

Students meet with a departmental faculty member to pursue advanced studies in areas of particular interest to them.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement