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GPA and percentages are weighted by recorded letter grades. UW comparisons use the same terms. Cross-listed courses count once within this department and once across UW; department totals should not be added together. Grade counts are not unique students. Offering counts reflect captured records, not a complete historical schedule.
Grades have not been recorded for this term. Historical results remain in the overview above.
Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Grade sorting prioritizes courses with at least 100 letter grades.
MUSIC 270 is a guitar ensemble course focused on rehearsal and performance preparation for duos, trios, and quartets.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Fall 2024–Spring 2025 · limited sampleMUSICA PRACTICA: AURAL SKILLS 3 provides intermediate aural skills instruction.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025MUSIC 297 explores wide-ranging topics in music history, performance, theory, or education.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Margaret Butler: Margaret Butler's section is reported as unnecessarily tough on grading and punishing for minor guideline deviations or illness.
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Fall 2023–Spring 2026Jazz Arranging teaches techniques for arranging lead-sheet jazz compositions for medium and large ensembles.
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MUSIC 331 covers jazz theory, aural skills, and analysis, requiring an audition.
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Fall 2023–Fall 2025 · limited sampleMUSIC 340 teaches pedagogical methods for applied music across instruments and voice, including a survey of methods and materials.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2025 · limited sampleMUSIC 346 provides a comprehensive study of sources, analysis, and style of repertoire for specific instruments or voice.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sampleMUSIC 40 is a wind ensemble course focused on the rehearsal and performance of band literature, requiring an audition.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MUSIC 41 is a concert band course focused on the rehearsal and performance of wind ensemble and band literature.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MUSIC 417 examines jazz history, scholarship, and cultural representations within the African American diaspora.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sampleMUSIC 42 is a varsity band course focused on the rehearsal and performance of music for athletic events, requiring an audition for enrollment.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MUSIC 422 introduces the fundamentals of music production, covering digital audio recording, editing, and DAW operation.
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Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sampleExplores contemporary issues in popular music studies through critical and social theory rather than music analysis.
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MUSIC 43 is the University Band, focusing on the exploration and performance of standard and contemporary band literature.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Collegium Musicum is an early music ensemble focused on performing instrumental and vocal works using historical instrument replicas.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleMUSIC 463 teaches acting and stagecraft skills for singers, focusing on dramatic operatic craft and text work.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2025 · limited sampleMUSIC 466 teaches vocal diction in Italian, German, and French, including transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleMUSIC 497 explores wide-ranging topics in music history, theory, or education.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026A directed study course for individual research and projects with faculty approval.
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MUSIC 50 is a concert choir course focusing on choral vocal training and the study and performance of concert literature.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Examines historical evidence for performance practice and its relevance to modern performances of earlier music.
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Spring 2025–Spring 2025 · limited sampleSurvey of Opera covers the historical development of the genre and investigates the stylistic features of representative masterworks.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleA graduate seminar exploring the definitions of music analysis and theory, critiquing contemporary praxis, and examining non-traditional analytical methods like semiotics and hermeneutics.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2024 · limited sampleTREBLE CHOIR explores, rehearses, studies, and performs choral repertoire for treble voices.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026MUSIC 540 covers advanced pedagogical methods for musical performance.
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A graduate seminar examining choral literature and performance practices from the Renaissance era to the present day.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleMUSIC 543 surveys contemporary and historical string pedagogy and its implications for teaching and research.
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MUSIC 553 is an advanced conducting seminar focusing on conducting techniques and the analysis, reading, and interpretation of masterpieces from the standard repertoire.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleMUSIC 556 is a graduate-level course focused on the preparation, rehearsal, and performance of opera roles in a University production.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Opera Workshop focuses on the performance of opera scenes and full operas, including singing, dramatic action, and staging elements.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleNo released grades for this term.
Offering snapshots currently cover Fall 2026. Earlier grade records do not provide a complete offering history.