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1 creditsEnsemble-string course involving assignments in performing ensemble literature.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 20264,369 courses
Ensemble-string course involving assignments in performing ensemble literature.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026ENSEMBLE-GUITAR involves rehearsal, coaching, and preparation of guitar literature for performing duos, trios, and quartets.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2024–Spring 2025 · limited sampleMusica Practica: Aural Skills 4 provides intermediate aural skills instruction, covering solfege, sight singing, rhythmic proficiency, and harmonic dictation.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleSpecial Topics in Music explores wide-ranging topics in music history, performance, theory, or education.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Margaret Butler
Grading was characterized as unnecessarily tough, with specific complaints about penalties for illness and lack of clear direction.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2023–Spring 2026Explores U.S. ethnic group music, including marginalized minorities like African American, Asian American, Native American, and Jewish communities, in cultural contexts.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Susan Cook
Past students reported that exams required writing two essays and short answers within 50 minutes, which was often insufficient time. Lectures also involved random call-outs on long reading assignments, causing anxiety for some.
No recorded grade history
Jazz Improvisation covers advanced theoretical concepts, aural skill development, and analysis procedures specific to the jazz idiom.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2024–Spring 2024 · limited sampleComprehensive study of sources, analysis, and style of repertoire for specific instruments or voices.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sampleWind Ensemble involves rehearsal and performance of music from wind ensemble and band literature. An audition is required for participation.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Concert Band involves rehearsal and performance of wind ensemble and band literature, requiring an audition for placement.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Survey of major genres and composers of monophonic and polyphonic sacred and secular music in Western Europe and England from the 7th to 14th centuries.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2023 · limited sampleSurvey of major genres and composers in Western Europe from ca. 1750-1827.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Margaret Butler
The course featured a heavy reading load and long, difficult assignments. One student advised taking it only during a light credit semester to manage the pace.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2024–Spring 2024 · limited sampleExamines the relationship between music and urban space, exploring music scenes, urban planning, creative cities, regional sounds, and how music produces senses of place.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Varsity Band involves rehearsal and performance of music for athletic events, requiring an audition.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Fundamentals of Music Production introduces digital audio recording and editing theory, covering signal flow and hands-on DAW operation.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sampleUniversity Band explores and performs standard and contemporary band literature, focusing on ensemble skills and expressive performance.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Collegium Musicum is an Early Music Ensemble for instrumental and vocal performance using replicas of early instruments. Audition required.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleFocuses on acting and stagecraft for opera, covering text work in English and foreign languages and applying skills to arias and scenes.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2025 · limited sampleMarching Band Techniques explores methods and materials for marching band teaching, philosophy, and performance.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleSpecial Topics in Music explores wide-ranging topics in music history, music theory, or music education.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Directed study course for individual research and projects with faculty, requiring department approval of the project and instructor assignment.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Concert Choir offers choral vocal training and the study and performance of concert literature, requiring an audition for entry.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Treble Choir explores, rehearses, studies, and performs choral repertoire for treble voices.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Advanced Pedagogy covers advanced pedagogical methods for performance, focusing on curriculum development, repertoire selection, and culturally relevant teaching practices for intermediate and advanced students.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
A seminar in choral literature from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on performance practices and composer stylistic characteristics.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Advanced String Pedagogy surveys contemporary and historical string pedagogy for multiple teaching settings and applied research, emphasizing individual projects.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
String Literature examines the relationship of string solo, ensemble, and orchestral literature to history, style, form, genre, and performance practice, emphasizing bibliographic sources and a required research project.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Advanced Conducting Seminar focuses on the study and analysis of conducting techniques, along with score reading and interpretation of masterpieces from the standard repertoire.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
University Opera involves preparation, rehearsal, and performance of an opera role in a University production.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleOpera Workshop covers performance of opera and musical theater scenes, including singing, accompanying, dramatic action, voice projection, posture, movement, and staging elements like lighting and costumes.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
CHORALE provides choral vocal training and the study and performance of concert literature. An audition is required for enrollment.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026