MUS 101Fundamentals of Music
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- 2023-2024
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Hobart William Smith Colleges · Courses
MUS
45 courses with the subject MUS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MUS 110Introduction to Music Theory
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 120How Music Works How much of your day revolves around listening to music? Do you ever wonder why you
can’t stop singing the melodies to your favorite songs? What exactly are the reasons that one musical style sounds so different from another? Why do certain pieces of music evoke melancholy and nostalgia, while others make you want to get up and dance? This course seeks to answer these kinds of questions through a hands-on approach, showing students how music works by focusing on listening, analyzing, and playing music. Students 1) learn the basic elements of music and how they can be combined to form patterns and styles, 2) develop the theoretical knowledge and aural skills necessary to perceive musical details and concepts, 3) listen to music critically and play it musically, and 4) think artistically about musical form and content. By the end of this course, students will be ac- tively integrating thinking, hearing, and playing, and they will be developing skills in musical notation, songwriting, HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 318 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 190History of Rock and Roll
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 202History of Western Art Music: Medieval and Renaissance
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 203History of Western Art Music: Baroque and Classical
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 204History of Western Art: Romantic and Modern
HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 256 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 205Music at the Movies (eq)
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 206Opera as Drama
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 207Big Band to Bossa, Bop to Blues: A History of Jazz (AL)
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 209Women in Music
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 210American Musical Theatre
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 211Science, History & the Art of Video Game Music
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 214Music Criticism in Theory and Practice
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 215Power, Privilege, and the Other in US Popular Music (AL)
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 216Musics of Asia
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 217Folk & Traditional Music of Africa & America
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 220Performance Lab I Can you see what you hear and hear what you see? Continuing from its prerequisite
MUS 120, this course integrates theoretical patterns and aural skills, and builds the practical musicianship abilities needed to take music from page to performance and from listening to understanding and notating. Students will gain fluency in playing all kinds of written music, from tabs and lead sheets to traditional and modern notation, and become discerning listeners who can hear and understand musical events, structures, and styles. They will also learn to be critical and artistic listeners who can visualize heard notes and rhythms, allowing them to think musically and to write down their compositions or favorite tunes with greater ease. Keyboard proficiency, ear training skills, and creative process will be prioritized. (Offered annually)
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 221Introduction to Music Therapy Many of us can attest to the value of music in supporting well-being
whether we use it to get energized before an important athletic event, seek solace when grieving a painful loss, or calm our busy minds when it’s time to sleep. Although all of these examples apply music therapeutically, none of them constitutes music therapy (MT), which involves the use of clinical, evidence-based musical interventions to accomplish non-musical goals. This course offers an introduction to this rich and diverse field. Over the course of the semester, students learn about the history, institutions, and characteristics of the field of MT; the diverse areas of human experience in which music therapists work, the array of physical, psychological, emotional, and social inter- ventions employed through MT, and the outcomes that are achieved. The course also spends a lot of time trying out the techniques being studied: case studies, role plays, treatment plans, and music-therapeutic activities will bring all of this theory into practice. (No musical abilities? No problem-this course is appropriate for musicians and non-musi- cians alike.) (Offered annually) MUS 305 Conducting This course serves as an introduction to the art of conducting. Exploration and development of the necessary skills involved in becoming a successful musical leader generally and conductor specifically are undertaken. Emphasis is placed on the development of a basic repertoire of gestures needed to beget a variety of musical responses. Physical technique associated with both the right and left hand (including baton technique) is emphasized. Topics related to programming, rehearsal technique, score reading, ear training, and mixed meter are also explored. The final project will normally involve each student recruiting players or singers and leading them in rehearsal of a pre-selected piece of music. Prerequisite: MUS 220 (Offered periodically) MUS 310 People Making Music: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology This course steps back from the study of music as an art form to examine the social and cultural contexts that shape musical communities. After exploring the na- ture, history, and applications of ethnomusicology research, we will embark on a virtual tour across the seven conti- nents to observe the social, historical, and cultural contexts that shape music as diverse as the Brooklyn drill and the Bhatiali of Bangladeshi fishermen. Along the way we will learn the methods, practices, and challenges of conducting ethnomusicological research and bring that knowledge to bear on our own musical observations. Students will have the option to conduct field research at one of dozens of music events at HWS and/or in the Geneva community. Alternatively, students will have the option to work with a recorded sample of music making from around the world. (Offered annually) MUS 311 Global Popular Music Analysis From the first World’s Fair in 1791 to the advent of sampling and the Internet, music’s movement around the globe has been thrilling and accelerating. This course focuses on analyzing global popular music and centers concepts of cultural tradition, timbre, style, harmony, rhythm, and form to look at how popular music from Tejano to K-Pop and from Arab dance orchestras to Afro-Cuban drum beats creates the sounds that move us to dance, to think, and to sing along. Students will develop nuanced and detailed knowledge of the ways global pop music is organized and structured, learn about the theories that describe popular music genres HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 320 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 320Performance Lab II How does jazz differ from rock, rap, and other contemporary new music? How can
a performer make their timing more expressive? How can I sound like a certain genre or artist when I play or write music? Continuing from its prerequisite “How Music Works,” this course focuses on music from the last hundred years and builds applied listening and musicianship skills to hear, play, compose, conduct, and notate modern music; improvise in various styles and genres; and lead bandmates, singing partners, and large groups in creating music together. This course prioritizes the creative process, conducting, listening, and integrating theoretical details with keyboard musicianship and improvisation. (Offered annually)
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 400Orchestration
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 420Advanced Chromatic Theory and Counterpoint
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 450Independent Study
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 4561/Independent Study2
MUS 495/496 Honors
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 460Seminar in Music This seminar provides in-depth capstone study of a selected area within musicology
music theory, or composition, as well as research and bibliographic skills necessary for graduate study in music. Subjects vary, with topics ranging from the works of a single composer (e.g., Mozart’s operas, Stravinsky’s ballets, Bach’s cantatas) or specific themes (e.g., text/music relationships,) to large-scale composition projects and studies, to interdisciplinary, theoretical, critical, analytical, or historiographical investigations. Requirements include active participation in discussion and research projects, as well as a substantive final paper and participation in the Senior Symposium, if eligible. Prerequisites: One of MUS 202, 203, or 204; as well as concurrent enrollment in, or comple- tion of, one 300-level MUS course; as well as permission of instructor. (Offered annually)
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 900Any two private instruction or ensemble courses (900 series) will coun
study not required.
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 903High Brass
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 904Low Brass
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 906Cello
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 907Jazz Saxophone
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 908Violin/Viola
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 910Piano
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 911Voice
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 914Woodwinds
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 915Jazz Improvisation
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 916Organ
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 917Guitar
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 918Drums
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 919Jazz Piano
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- 2023-2024
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MUS 920Colleges Jazz Ensemble
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 927Percussion
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 930Colleges Chorale*
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 935Colleges Community Chorus
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 945Colleges String Ensemble
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
MUS 950Colleges Community Wind Ensemble
*Members of the Colleges Chorale may be considered for additional membership in the Colleges Cantori, a chamber vocal ensemble. Cantori is a not-for-credit ensemble. Note: Students who take half-hour private lessons receive one-half course credit per semester; students who take hour private lessons receive a full credit per semester (although this full credit does not count toward the student’s standard course load in a given semester). Students who participate in any of the above-listed ensembles receive one-half course credit per semester. HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 321 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE
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- MUS
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- 2023-2024
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- www.hws.edu
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