Music Course Catalog

AFROAMER/DANCE/MUSIC 318: Cultural Cross Currents: West African Dance/music in the Americas

3 credits

The influence of traditional West African dance/music heritage in historical, artistic, social contexts in the development of new hybrid forms of music/dance created by cross-pollination of cultures of Africans, Europeans and indigenous peoples in the New World.

CURRIC/MUSIC 300: Principles of Music Education

Credits unavailable

Principles of music education, including philosophy, history, and current practices and curricular trends. Survey of music education in and out of schools as situated within diverse, pluralistic communities.

CURRIC/MUSIC 301: Music Learning and Teaching 1

2 credits

The learning and teaching of music at the elementary and middle school levels.

CURRIC/MUSIC 302: Music Learning and Teaching 2

Credits unavailable

The learning and teaching of music at the high school level.

CURRIC/MUSIC 304: Composition, Arrangement, and Orchestration for the Music Teacher

2 credits

Introduction to the teaching of musical composition, arrangement, and orchestration. Special emphasis on how music technologies interact with conceptions of composition, arrangement, and orchestration; implications for music learning and teaching.

CURRIC/MUSIC 337: Practicum in Teaching Music

1 credits

Observation and participation in K-12 music education settings.

CURRIC/MUSIC 409: Student Teaching in General and Vocal Music

6–12 credits

Supervised student teaching in general and vocal K-12 settings.

CURRIC/MUSIC 410: Student Teaching in General and Instrumental Music

6–12 credits

Supervised student teaching in general and instrumental K-12 settings.

CURRIC/MUSIC 420: Teaching Popular Instrumental Music 1

1 credits

Development of critical perspectives, musical knowledge, and pedagogical skills needed to teach instrumental popular music. Focus on popular string instruments, their electronic counterparts, and emerging technologies for the performance and production of popular music.

CURRIC/MUSIC 421: Teaching Popular Instrumental Music 2

1 credits

Development of critical perspectives, musical knowledge, and pedagogical skills needed to teach instrumental popular music. Focus on popular percussion instruments, their electronic counterparts, and emerging technologies for the performance and production of popular music.

CURRIC/MUSIC 942: Special Topics in Contemporary Music Education

Credits unavailable

An exploration of wide-ranging topics in contemporary approaches to music learning, music making, and music teaching. Investigate approaches to teaching, curriculum design, performance, and scholarship to expand your perspectives and pedagogy.

CURRIC/MUSIC 944: Thinking with Social Theory in Music Education

Credits unavailable

Focus on investigating and applying social theory to contemporary issues impacting music learning and music teaching in a playful and engaging manner. Develop a "theory toolkit" you can use to understand and consider curriculum planning and experience design, teaching and pedagogy, music making and performance, creating, listening, and investigating interdisciplinary connections. Identify and address a pressing phenomenon or issue related to music making, music learning, and music teaching. Application of social theories to critically consider the phenomenon, and identification of future research and pedagogical practices. Overview of concepts and theories from philosophy and sociology.

CURRIC/MUSIC 945: Human Subjects Research in Music

3 credits

Overview of methodological, ethical, and philosophical considerations pertinent for research engaging with human subjects in, through, or around music. Rooted in a commitment toward engaging in ethical and community-conscious scholarship through methodological bricolage. Develop knowledge and skills by identifying research problems, selecting from and/or combining research methodologies, generating data, and analyzing data. Survey of research genres (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and action research paradigms), to develop an expansive understanding of music scholarship. Continue to hone your research-based skills as readers, writers, musicians, and teachers. Explore ethical concerns related to human subjects research, including navigating the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval process.

CURRIC/MUSIC 946: Past Perspectives on Music Education

Credits unavailable

Focus on analysis of music education in primary and secondary schools via examination of historical, philosophical, and psychological sources. Explore ideas that have shaped the field in the past and investigate the influence of these ideas on current thinking and practice.

CURRIC/MUSIC 948: Cultures of Improvisation

Credits unavailable

Explore multiple improvisation techniques while learning about diversity issues within multiple music teaching contexts. Learn about diverse musical pedagogies and begin (or expand) your improvisation journey.

FOLKLORE/MUSIC 103: Introduction to Music Cultures of the World

Credits unavailable

An introductory ethnomusicology course providing a variety of ways to approach musics typically not covered in music history courses. Active engagement with these musics within their larger world contexts.

FOLKLORE/MUSIC 515: Proseminar in Ethnomusicology

3 credits

Introduction to ethnomusicology, including historical survey of major works in the field, classification of musical instruments, measurement of tuning systems and concepts of scale, mode and rhythm in non-Western music.

FOLKLORE/MUSIC 516: Ethnographic Methods for Music and Sound

Credits unavailable

Focuses on the tools (material, methodological, and ethical) for doing ethnographic fieldwork in musical contexts.

FOLKLORE/MUSIC 915: Seminar in Ethnomusicology

Credits unavailable

Topics in ethnomusicology within a cross-cultural framework; melodic typology, scale and tuning systems, mode, rhythm, ornamentation, improvisation techniques, oral and written traditions of composition, notation systems, and function of music society.

LIS/MUSIC 619: Music Research Methods and Materials

3 credits

Historical and contemporary bibliography resources for musical scholarship; general reference tools of scholarly work and specific musicological works.

MUSIC 101: The Musical Experience

Credits unavailable

Musical genres -- songs, opera and musical theater, chamber and orchestral music, and jazz -- in the context of social and cultural history.

MUSIC 102: Jazz in 20th-century America

3 credits

Examines cultural influences on the development of jazz. Explores historical and ethnographic works by scholars in ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, and communication in order to understand cultural influences of traditional and contemporary genres of jazz. Major topics include syncretism, nationalism, modernity, ethnicity, gender, colonialism, and globalization of modern America. Emphasis on cross-cultural understanding and interdisciplinarity in jazz performance.

MUSIC 104: Study Abroad: Elementary Music Appreciation/theory/history

Credits unavailable

A study abroad equivalency for elementary music appreciation, theory, or history that does not equate to a UW-Madison course. Requires current enrollment in a UW-Madison sponsored study abroad program.

MUSIC 105: Storytelling on Stage: Introduction to Musical Theater and Opera

3 credits

Introduction to musical theater and opera in Europe and America, with emphasis on the ways creators tell their stories through the interaction of music and drama. Topics include the histories and formations of the genres and their relationships to culture and society; principal creators and performers; distinctive features of representative works; relationships to film and other media; and treatments of race, class, gender, and other issues in selected examples of each genre.

MUSIC 106: The Symphony

Credits unavailable

Orchestral music from Haydn to present, relation to other arts.

MUSIC 107: Music & Film

3 credits

A survey of film music by the major film composers. Will include study of film scores by, among others, Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, and Ennio Morricone, as well as a discussion of current trends and film composers. In addition, there will be discussion of the contributions of composers such as Aaron Copland, Serge Prokofiev and Leonard Bernstein. The techniques and styles of film music will be explored through lectures, required listening, readings and viewing of relevant films.

MUSIC 108: Music and Technology From Edison to the Present

Credits unavailable

How has modern technology shaped the composition, performance, and reception of music? In turn, how has music influenced technology? And what sorts of anxieties arose from these cultural currents? Evaluate the changing relationships between music and technology from the late Romantic era to the present day. Considering broader political, cultural, and aesthetic contexts, explore both popular and art music alongside important developments in instrument design, compositional techniques, media, and recording. Consider what it means for something to be considered a "technology" and the social, cultural, and environmental ramifications therein. Musicians to be studied include Bela Bartok, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gyorgy Ligeti, Donna Summer, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Beyonce, and more. Gain a better understanding of the cultural and social constructions of technologies like the wax cylinder, radio, gramophone, microphone, synthesizer, and internet.

MUSIC 113: Music in Performance

1 credits

Descriptive lectures on chamber music with performances by instructor and others.

MUSIC 121: Musica Practica 1

3 credits

Strategies for composing, understanding, and writing about music.

MUSIC 122: Musica Practica 2

Credits unavailable

Continuation of strategies for composing, understanding, and writing about music.

MUSIC 151: Basic Concepts of Music Theory

Credits unavailable

Basic tools of music theory and compositional forms. Explores development of music through general survey of musical styles. Practical application of concepts includes listening maps and simple composition projects. Includes performance opportunities in simulated real world settings.

MUSIC 171: Musica Practica: Aural Skills 1

1 credits

Intoductory istruction in aural skills.

MUSIC 172: Musica Practica: Aural Skills 2

Credits unavailable

Continuation of introductory instruction in aural skills.

MUSIC 202: Delta Blues

Credits unavailable

Traces the history of the blues in America's racial history. Begins by examining the living conditions that produced the blues in rural Mississippi (sharecropping, the cotton industry, the Great Flood of 1927). Continues by detailing the emergence of blues in the early recording industry (Paramount, OKeh), including the earliest examples (W.C. Handy, Mamie Smith), as well as the singers emerging in the 1920s (Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson). Follows migrations northward to Memphis (jug bands) and Chicago (electric blues), tracing the emerging importance of radio and live performance (King Biscuit Time, WDIA, the Chittlin' Circuit), living conditions in Chicago (Maxwell Street). Tracks early marketing of blues to white audiences (Josh White, Lead Belly). Ends with the reemergence of the blues as '60s folk music (Son House, Sonny Boy Williamson II) and British Invasion (Yardbirds). Supplemented with extensive musical selections, documentary footage of interviews.

MUSIC 203: American Ethnicities and Popular Song

Credits unavailable

Examination of the role played by popular song in the formation of ethnic and racial identities in the United States with particular emphasis placed on both music's role in the perpetuation of racism and its use as a form of protest and anti-racist activism.

MUSIC 204: Study Abroad: Intermediate Music Theory or History

Credits unavailable

A study abroad equivalency for elementary music appreciation, theory, or history that does not equate to a UW-Madison course. Requires current enrollment in a UW-Madison sponsored study abroad program.

MUSIC 211: Survey of the History of Western Music

3 credits

Introduction to development of music in the European tradition, before 1750.

MUSIC 212: Survey of the History of Western Music

Credits unavailable

Introduction to development of music in the European tradition, 1750 to the present.

MUSIC 218: Understanding Rock

Credits unavailable

Explore the long history and contemporary life of rock music. Examine the genre's history within the broader cultural context that shaped its production and reception. Study the historical roots of rock music (such as Delta Blues, Rhythm Blues, and Doo-wop) and the association of rock music with youth counterculture throughout the 1960s. Delve into the evolution of rock styles beginning in the 1970s - such as Punk, Heavy Metal, Glam, Grunge, and Nu Metal. Consider how rock participates in the articulation of identity - such as race, gender, and sexuality - as well as themes of capitalism, political liberation, and creativity.

MUSIC 219: Introduction to Ethnomusicology

3 credits

Introduces the intellectual history, methodology, and theoretical concerns of the field of ethnomusicology. Examines how knowledge about music is formed, then explores how music becomes entangled with and productive of social identities and processes. Explores variety of musical styles and aesthetics from multiple social and geographic contexts through the lens of ethnomusicology. Not intended as a broad survey of musical styles around the world.

MUSIC 221: Musica Practica 3

3 credits

Advanced strategies for composing, understanding, and writing about music.

MUSIC 222: Musica Practica 4

Credits unavailable

Advanced strategies for composing, understanding, and writing about music.

MUSIC 229: Jazz Theory & Composition

Credits unavailable

Introduction to the applied theory of functional tonal and modal jazz harmony; analysis of song forms from the standard jazz repertoire; study of reharmonization techniques, chord substitution, and types of chord voicings; principles of melodic writing and motivic development, jazz counterpoint, and voice-leading considerations; and writing for common instruments in jazz ensembles. Students will analyze compositions from the standard jazz repertoire and apply the principles studied to create their own compositions for small jazz ensemble.

MUSIC 236: Bascom Course

Credits unavailable

A low-enrollment course developing skills in critical reading, logical thinking, use of evidence, and use of library resources. Emphasis on writing in the conventions of specific fields.

MUSIC 240: Interplay Between Music, Art, and Society

Credits unavailable

Explore the relationships between the arts as they intersect with aspects of society, historically and in the present day, through various visual, auditory, and text-based expressive forms. Examine personal life experiences and ideas along with current issues related to music and art, and practice self-expression through the arts. No previous experience in any art form is necessary.

MUSIC 252: Introduction to Conducting and Pedagogy

Credits unavailable

Introduction to the basic elements in conducting. Students will learn elementary conducting skills including technique, score study, rehearsal preparation, rehearsal structure, private studio construction, teaching techniques, and professional marketing.

MUSIC 253: Conducting

2 credits

Conducting techniques, emphasis on practical application to vocal and instrumental groups.

MUSIC 254: Conducting

Credits unavailable

Continuation of conducting techniques, emphasis on practical application to vocal and instrumental groups.

MUSIC 256: University Opera

1–2 credits

Opera role: preparation, rehearsal and performance in University opera production. Contact School of Music for audition information

MUSIC 257: Opera Workshop

2 credits

Performance of scenes from standard operas, including singing, accompanying, and dramatic action; instruction in voice projection, posture, and gesture; problems of staging, lighting, costuming, and scenery. Contact School of Music for audition information.

MUSIC 260: Global Hand Drumming Ensemble: Survey of Selected Global Hand Drumming Traditions

1 credits

Exploration of a variety of global drumming traditions culminating in group performance opportunities. Learn specific techniques and rhythms as well as skills required to facilitate drum circles for all levels of players.

MUSIC 262: Jazz Ensemble

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Audition and instructor consent required for students enrolling the first time

MUSIC 265: Ensemble-woodwind

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Audition and instructor consent required for students enrolling the first time

MUSIC 266: Resistance Music Ensemble

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Explore a variety of musical styles created from social movements and generational and cultural identity, through rehearsals and performance. Styles to be covered, studied, and performed include, but are not limited to Hip Hop, Reggae, Jazz, and Cumbia. Audition and instructor consent required for students enrolling the first time

MUSIC 267: Ensemble-brass

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Audition and instructor consent required for students enrolling the first time

MUSIC 268: Ensemble-percussion

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Audition and instructor consent required for students enrolling the first time

MUSIC 269: Ensemble-string

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Audition and instructor consent required for students enrolling the first time

MUSIC 270: Ensemble-guitar

1 credits

Rehearsal, coaching and preparing guitar literature for performance of duos, trios, and quartets. Audition and instructor consent required for students enrolling the first time. Musicians other than guitarists are permitted to enroll and be incorporated into the ensembles.

MUSIC 271: Musica Practica: Aural Skills 3

1 credits

Intermediate aural skills instruction.

MUSIC 272: Musica Practica: Aural Skills 4

Credits unavailable

Intermediate aural skills instruction.

MUSIC 297: Special Topics in Music

1–3 credits

Exploration of wide-ranging topics in music history, music performance, music theory or music education.

MUSIC 317: Musical Women in Europe and America: Creativity, Performance, and Identity

Credits unavailable

Explores women's musical activities and issues related to them by focusing on composers, performers, and audiences in a wide range of contexts, from Europe in the Medieval Era through 21st-century America; no reading knowledge of music is required.

MUSIC 319: Topics in Music and Ethnicity in the United States

Credits unavailable

Explores music of ethnic groups in the U.S., including that of marginalized minorities, in its cultural context. Topics may include the music of African American, Asian American, Native American and Jewish communities.

MUSIC 329: Jazz Arranging

3 credits

Survey of standard musical techniques and devices for arranging lead-sheet-based jazz compositions for medium and large jazz ensembles through score study, musical exercises, and arranging projects for live ensembles. Topics include jazz counterpoint and melody writing; preparing arrangements through outlines and condensed scores; chord substitutions and reharmonization; ranges, timbres, notational and technical considerations of standard jazz instruments; motivic development; voicing techniques, including mechanical, spreads, upper structure triads, and voicings in 4ths, 5ths and clusters; and orchestration techniques, including couplings and concerted writing.

MUSIC 331: Jazz Improvisation

3 credits

Theoretical concepts, development of aural skills, and analysis procedures related to the jazz idiom. Audition required.

MUSIC 332: Jazz Improvisation

Credits unavailable

More advanced theoretical concepts, development of aural skills, and analysis procedures related to the jazz idiom.

MUSIC 34: Study Abroad: Music Performance Ensemble

Credits unavailable

A study abroad equivalency for music performing ensemble that does not equate to a UW-Madison course. Requires current enrollment in a UW-Madison sponsored study abroad program.

MUSIC 340: Pedagogy

1–2 credits

Pedagogical methods for applied music offered on all instruments and voice by appropriate applied staff. Survey of music, methods, and materials.

MUSIC 346: Repertoire

1–2 credits

A comprehensive study of sources, analysis, and style of repertoire for a particular instrument(s) or voice(s).

MUSIC 40: Wind Ensemble

1 credits

Rehearsal and performance of music from wind ensemble and band literature. Audition required.

MUSIC 405: Seminar: Cultural Study of Music

Credits unavailable

Explores various topics in music research from the perspective of contemporary cultural theory and history. Develops skills in critical analysis of music and culture, drawing from literatures in postcolonial studies, critical race theory, studies of empire, colonialism, and capitalism.

MUSIC 41: Concert Band

1 credits

Rehearsal and performance of music from wind ensemble and band literature. Requires audition for placement.

MUSIC 411: Survey of Music in the Middle Ages

Credits unavailable

Major genres and composers of monophonic and polyphonic music, sacred and secular in Western Europe and England (ca. 7th-14th centuries).

MUSIC 412: Survey of Music in the Renaissance

Credits unavailable

Major genres and composers of sacred and secular music (ca. 15th-16th centuries).

MUSIC 413: Survey of Music in the Baroque Era

Credits unavailable

Major genres and composers of sacred and secular music in Western Europe (ca. 1600-1750).

MUSIC 414: Survey of Music in the Classic Era

Credits unavailable

Major genres and composers in Western Europe (ca. 1750-1827).

MUSIC 415: Survey of Music in the Romantic Era

Credits unavailable

Major genres and composers in Europe (ca. 1820-1910).

MUSIC 416: Survey of Music in the Twentieth Century

Credits unavailable

Major genres and composers in Europe and the United States.

MUSIC 417: Jazz Histories

3 credits

Examination of jazz history with an emphasis on scholarship, criticism, and fictional representations of jazz culture especially as they relate to the African American diaspora. Emphasis on relationship between the history of racial inequality in the United States and the development of jazz and jazz scholarship.

MUSIC 418: Music and the City

Credits unavailable

Examine the relationship between music and urban space, broadly conceived. Consider the proposition that music is central to how we understand the social life of cities. Examine the entanglements of space, meaning, and aesthetics in cities across history and geography. Explore concepts of "music scenes," urban planning and creative cities, the production of regional "sounds," and how music produces senses of place.

MUSIC 419: Music in the United States

Credits unavailable

Explores a variety of genres within their social and historical contexts including folk songs and ballads, the Native American Pow Wow, New England psalmody, popular song repertories, musical theater and opera, concert music, blues and jazz.

MUSIC 42: Varsity Band

1 credits

Rehearsal and performance of music for athletic events. Audition required.

MUSIC 422: Fundamentals of Music Production

3 credits

Introduction to the theory and practices of digital audio recording and editing. Covers basic background knowledge of signal flow, culminating in hands-on operation of a digital audio workstation. Introduction to industry standard software and hardware. Related equipment, including microphones, virtual instruments, and outboard processors are covered. Ear Training terms and skills, studio definitions and nomenclature for equipment, and terminology used in the current professional environment. Learn how to make music "in the box" using only a computer, then transition to working with real musicians.

MUSIC 423: Contemporary Issues in Popular Music Studies

3 credits

Explore contemporary discussions in the academic study of popular musics. Emphasis on foundations of critical and social theory, rather than music analysis. Discuss influential theories regarding mass media, music commodities, and the social construction of musical meaning as well as emerging discourses and concerns. Explore research themes related to a variety of genres, such as jazz, K-Pop, rap, and more.

MUSIC 424: Topics in Vocal Chamber Music

Credits unavailable

Perform vocal chamber music from various music traditions, styles, and eras. Audition or permission of instructor required.

MUSIC 43: University Band

1 credits

Exploration and performance of standard and contemporary band literature.

MUSIC 461: Collegium Musicum

1 credits

Early Music Ensemble specializing in performance of instrumental and vocal early music, using the school's collection of replicas of early instruments. Audition required.

MUSIC 463: Acting for Singers

1 credits

Acting and stagecraft skills, including text-targeted work, with a focus on the dramatic aspects of the operatic craft. Text work in will involve a step-by-step process designed to facilitate the assimilation of English and foreign-language texts in rehearsal and performance. Work in these areas will be applied to arias and scenes from the operatic and theatrical repertoire.

MUSIC 465: Marching Band Techniques

Credits unavailable

Exploration of methods and materials related to marching band teaching, philosophy, and performance.

MUSIC 466: Diction for Singers

2 credits

Italian, German, and French diction as related to vocal music; transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

MUSIC 467: Language Diction for Singing I

Credits unavailable

English, German, Italian, and French diction as related to vocal music.

MUSIC 468: Language Diction for Singing II

Credits unavailable

Continuation of English, German, Italian, and French diction as related to vocal music.

MUSIC 497: Special Topics in Music

1–3 credits

Exploration of wide-ranging topics in music history, music theory or music education.

MUSIC 499: Directed Study

1–3 credits

Individual research and projects with faculty. Students must have project and instructor assignment approved by department

MUSIC 50: Concert Choir

1 credits

Choral vocal training, study and performance of concert literature. Audition required.

MUSIC 502: Figured Bass and Basso Continuo

Credits unavailable

Study of theory and practice of 17th and 18th-century figured bass and basso continuo realization and performance. Participants develop extemporized and written realizations that emulate the discipline, style traits, and musical vitality suggested in historical sources.

MUSIC 511: Historical Performance Practices

3 credits

Examination of historical evidence for performance practice and its relevance to modern performances of the music of earlier eras.

MUSIC 513: Survey of Opera

3 credits

Historical development of opera; investigation of main stylistic features of representative masterworks.

MUSIC 517: Proseminar in Music Theory

3 credits

Consider the meaning of the words "analysis" and "theory," specifically as they have been applied to the study of music. Gain an overview of music theory in higher education: the origin of contemporary analytical praxis, as well as critiques of that model. Take a deeper dive into current trends in analysis, focusing on non-conforming, ecumenical, and otherwise "non-theoretical" ways of talking and writing about music, including narrative, semiotics, hermeneutics, performance-based schemata, and others.

MUSIC 52: Treble Choir

1 credits

Explore, rehearse, study, and perform choral repertoire for treble voices.

MUSIC 523: Orchestration I

Credits unavailable

History of orchestration and arranging; study of representative works by means of scores, recordings, and attendance at rehearsals of University organizations; scoring for band, chorus, and orchestra.

MUSIC 529: Jazz Arranging

Credits unavailable

Survey of standard musical techniques and devices for arranging lead-sheet-based jazz compositions for medium and large jazz ensemble through score study, musical exercises, and arranging projects for live ensembles. Topics include jazz counterpoint and melody writing; preparing arrangements through outlines and condensed scores; chord substitutions and reharmonization; ranges, timbres, notational and technical considerations of standard jazz instruments; motivic development; voicing techniques, including mechanical, spreads, upper structure triads, and voicings in 4ths, 5ths and clusters; and orchestration techniques, including couplings and concerted writing.

MUSIC 53: Choral Union

Credits unavailable

Choral vocal training, study and performance. Audition required.

MUSIC 531: Advanced Jazz Improvisation

Credits unavailable

Examine musical improvisation from performers and select repertoire primarily from the Jazz Canon. Explore harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and cultural expansion into the 20th and 21st centuries of improvisational performance practice. Learn elements needed to transform from a performer into a viable and competent improvisor. Emphasis on cross-cultural understanding and interdisciplinarity.

MUSIC 540: Advanced Pedagogy

2 credits

Advanced pedagogical methods for performance.

MUSIC 541: Seminar in Choral Literature

Credits unavailable

Seminar in Choral Literature from Renaissance to the Present.

MUSIC 542: Choral Literature and Performance Practices of Today

2 credits

Seminar in Choral Literature from Renaissance to the Present.

MUSIC 543: Advanced String Pedagogy

2 credits

Survey of contemporary and historical string pedagogy with implications for multiple teaching settings and applied research.

MUSIC 544: Advanced String Pedagogy

Credits unavailable

Survey of contemporary and historical string pedagogy with implications for multiple teaching settings and applied research, with an emphasis on individual projects and applied research.

MUSIC 546: String Literature

Credits unavailable

Relationship of string solo, ensemble and orchestral literature to history, style, form, genre, and performance practice. Emphasis on bibliographic sources; research project required.

MUSIC 55: Masters' Singers

Credits unavailable

Choral vocal training, study and performance of concert literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 550: Percussion Literature

Credits unavailable

Examines a select body of Western art music composed for percussion during the twentieth and twenty-first Centuries. Important compositional styles and repertoire will be presented and discussed with an emphasis on historical perspective and compositional technique.

MUSIC 551: Class Piano Pedagogy

Credits unavailable

Techniques for teaching older beginners or adults in class or individual instruction, piano literature sources and references, evaluation of repertoire and analysis of methods and structure.

MUSIC 553: Advanced Conducting Seminar

2 credits

Study/analysis of conducting techniques; score reading/interpretation of masterpieces from standard repertoire.

MUSIC 554: Advanced Conducting

Credits unavailable

Continuation of study and analysis of conducting techniques and score reading.

MUSIC 556: University Opera

1–2 credits

Opera role: preparation, rehearsal and performance in University opera production.

MUSIC 557: Opera Workshop

2 credits

Performance of scenes from standard operas or of whole operas; singing, accompanying, and dramatic action; instruction in voice projection, posture and movement; problems of staging, lighting, costume and scenery. Audition required.

MUSIC 558: Madrigal Singers

Credits unavailable

Ensemble specializing in 16th and 17th century secular music. Audition required.

MUSIC 559: Graduate Choral Union

Credits unavailable

Weekly rehearsals in preparation of public performance of a masterwork for chorus and orchestra at end of semester. Audition required.

MUSIC 56: Chorale

1 credits

Choral vocal training, study and performance of concert literature. Audition required.

MUSIC 560: Practicum in Advanced Studio Teaching-piano

1 credits

Observation and teaching of an advanced undergraduate student under the direct supervision of a studio professor.

MUSIC 562: Jazz Ensemble

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Students enrolling for the first time should contact the School of Music for audition information

MUSIC 565: Advanced Ensemble-woodwind

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 567: Advanced Ensemble-brass

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 568: Advanced Ensemble-percussion

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 569: Advanced Ensemble-string

1 credits

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 570: University Symphony Orchestra

1 credits

Performance plus additional study of performance practice and orchestral literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 572: Advanced Ensemble-classical Guitar

1 credits

Rehearsal, coaching and preparing guitar literature for performance of duos, trios, and quartets. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 573: Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

Credits unavailable

Assignments in performing ensemble literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 574: Wind Ensemble

1 credits

Limited instrumentation for students having attained exceptional level of performance ability. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 576: Concert Band

1 credits

Rehearsal and performance from band literature; additional study of performance practice. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 577: Chorale

1 credits

Performance and study of choral chamber music. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 578: Concert Choir

1 credits

Performance plus additional study of performance practice and choir literature. Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester

MUSIC 58: Madrigal Singers

Credits unavailable

Ensemble specializing in 16th- and 17th-century secular music. Audition required.

MUSIC 59: University Chorus

1 credits

Exploration and performance of standard choral literature.

MUSIC 591: Organ Literature and Design

Credits unavailable

Survey of organ literature with parallel study of organ design and construction.

MUSIC 60: All-university String Orchestra

1 credits

Rehearsal and study of string orchestra literature at the introductory level.

MUSIC 608: Music Community Engagement

2–3 credits

Actively participate in a diverse exploration of community. Create collaborative music engagement projects and evaluate the impact of the project's implementation. Opportunity to increase self-awareness, enhance creative capacity, and cultivate music career aspirations.

MUSIC 62: University Symphony Orchestra

1 credits

Playing and public performance of music from symphonic repertoire. Audition required.

MUSIC 621: Renaissance Polyphony

3 credits

Analysis and stylistic composition.

MUSIC 622: Baroque Counterpoint

Credits unavailable

Analysis and stylistic composition.

MUSIC 623: Form and Analysis

Credits unavailable

Study of modern analytical techniques; practice in analysis of representative works.

MUSIC 624: Form and Analysis II

Credits unavailable

Continuation of study of modern analytical techniques; practice in analysis of representative works.

MUSIC 629: Jazz Theory and Analysis

Credits unavailable

Introduction to contemporary research into jazz theory through analysis of lead sheet jazz compositions, analysis of large ensemble jazz compositions and improvised solos, and critical readings of jazz theory publications.

MUSIC 632: Graduate Instrumental Conducting Laboratory

1 credits

Develop conducting skills through experience leading an ad hoc ensemble of 9-20 musicians in rehearsal and performance on a range of orchestral and wind ensemble repertoire.

MUSIC 681: Senior Honors Thesis

Credits unavailable

Mentored individual study and research for students in the major writing an honors thesis.

MUSIC 682: Senior Honors Thesis

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Mentored individual study and research for students in the major writing an honors thesis.

MUSIC 720: Music and the Academic Profession

1 credits

Examines music in higher education as a career pathway. Provides preparation for the academic job market to be competitive to enter the higher education workforce after graduation. Topics and activities include higher education program development and planning, basics of higher education budgeting and finance, organizational structures, explorations of the various types of positions in higher education, recruiting in the arts in higher education, mock interviews, introduction to pedagogical structures and methods, and others.