63 courses with the subject AMU, 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.
AMU 010Instrumental and Vocal Lessons0.0
Course Units: 0.0 Private lessons are offered in voice, keyboard, guitar, wind, string, brass, percussion and world instruments once a week at a cost of $540 per term. Scholarships are available by application to music majors, IDs, and minors with demonstrated need to offset the cost of lessons. For registration information and a list of approved instructors see Eugene Jin Byun, Director of Music Performance.
AMU 012Union College Japanese Drumming and Global Fusion Band0.0
Course Units: 0.0 The Union College Japanese Drumming and Global Fusion Band (Zakuro-Daiko) rehearses weekly on a variety of Japanese drums and other types of global instruments. The ensemble regularly performs both on- and off-campus. No previous musical experience is required, though members need to audition/interview to determine participation at the discretion of the instructor. See Professor Matsue. ISP: AIS
Course Units: 0.0 The Union College Concert Choir performs works from a broad chronological and stylistic range, including western and non-western traditions. The ensemble performs at least once each term and normally performs at one off-campus venue each year. This ensemble is open by audition to all students and prior experience is not necessary. See Eugene Jin Byun, Director of Music Performance.
Course Units: 0.0 The Union College Jazz Ensemble meets weekly and performs throughout the year in both formal and informal settings. Experience in improvisation is desirable but not required. Instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome to audition. See Professor Olsen.
Course Units: 0.0 The Union College Schola Cantorum is a select vocal ensemble that performs music from a span of five centuries. The ensemble performs one concert a year.
Course Units: 0.0 The Orchestra meets once a week and presents at least one concert each term. The Orchestra is open by audition to all students and members of the community. Section and principal chairs are assigned according to the audition results. See Eugene Jin Byun, Director of Music Performance.
Course Units: 0.0 The Union College Early Music Ensemble, open to both singers and instrumentalists, is devoted to the study and performance of music from the Middle Ages through the Early Viennese Era. Participants play on both modern instruments and reproductions of historic instruments, including the harpsichord. Emphasis is placed upon historical performance practices, as described in music treatises and other documents and as understood by scholars and performers today. The Ensemble, open by audition, rehearses twice a week. See Professor McMullen.
Course An introductory survey of the main aspects of music theory and practice including rhythm, intervals, scales and keys, melody, harmony, and form, complemented by hands-on creative work in the Music Technology Studio. Designed for students with a minimal background in music CC: HUM
Course American music-cultures approached through performance, lecture, video, and audio. Survey samples from popular, classical, and folk traditions. CC: HUM
Course Black music in America from its African beginnings to present-day pop styles, approached through live performance, lecture, video, and sound recordings. Special emphasis on gospel, blues, jazz, and rap. Prereq/Corequisite(s): Not open to students who have taken AMU 132. CC: LCC, HUM, JCAD, JCHF, WAC ISP:
Not open to students who have taken AMU 131 . ISP: AFR, AMS
AMU 133Music of Latin America1.0
Course Latin American music-cultures approached through live performance, lecture, video, and audio. Survey samples from folk, popular, and classical traditions, with special emphasis on the musics of Cuba and Brazil. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: AFR, LAS
Course A study of compositions from the end of the eighteenth century through the present. A few of the composers we study are Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ives, Copland, Varese, Bernstein, and John Adams. This course is not intended for music majors. CC: HUM, WAC, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT, WAC ISP: REE
Course This course will examine music traditions outside the canon of Western classical music, including American folk, jazz and popular music as well as traditional and popular music from around the world. In order to better understand the theory and practice of these music's, students will pursue topics including the dichotomy between
Course The nineteenth century witnessed the development of countless individual musical styles, as opposed to the more homogeneous sounds of previous generations. Through listening exercises, studies of texts and music, and historical documents, students learn to distinguish characteristics of music written by composers such as Chopin, Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Bizet, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Ethel Smythe, Amy Beach, Coleridge-Taylor, Gottschalk, and others. CC: HUL, JCAD, JCHF, WAC ISP: REE
Course The study of significant styles and developments in the music of the last hundred years (both "classical" and popular), approached through analysis, performance, and composition. Prerequisite(s): AMU 101or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM ISP: REE
AMU 220Mapping Musical Lives: Ethnography of Performing Arts1.0
Course This seminar explores the relationship between music and culture through live performance, discussion, video and audio, and workshops in a variety of world music areas. Students will also consider how one conducts research on performing arts, culminating in a focused project on music-making in the community. Students thus will encounter diverse peoples and their musical practices in cross-cultural comparison while also exploring research methodology through their own work. Cross-Listed: ANT 274 CC: LCC, HUM, JCHF, JSPE, WAC-R ISP:
AMU 221From Rhythm and Blues to Radiohead: The History of Rock & Roll1.0
Course Explores the historical development of Anglo-American rock-and-roll through lecture, video and sound recordings. This course will rely heavily on film, with an accompanying series featuring documentaries, concert films, musicals and more. Students will gain a greater understanding of the socio-cultural contexts that informed stylistic change, as well as consider the continued relevance of rock today. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, JCHF, JCAD, WAC ISP: AMS, GSWS
Course This course introduces Japanese drumming, exploring its origins and subsequent development as a national art form following WWII, and then its ultimate spread globally as a voice of Asian-American activism. The course emphasizes performance on the drums and culminates in a final concert and performance project. No previous musical experience is required. CC: LCC, HUM, JCAD, JCHF, JSPE ISP: AIS, GSW
Course This course introduces Balinese music and culture, exploring the importance of music, dance, and religion in the everyday life of Balinese people. The course emphasizes performance of Balinese gong kebyar (an orchestral form featuring xylophones, gongs, drums, and cymbals) and culminates in a final concert and performance protest. No previous musical experience is required. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: AIS
Course The goal of this course is to give students an in-depth understanding of Afro-Cuban and Afro- Brazilian music through studying genres (rumba, son, mambo, salsa, comparsa, samba, forro) from inside the percussion section. In addition to ensemble work, students will research and transcribe Latin music styles. The course will culminate in a public performance/presentation at the end of the term. Entry to the course by audition; previous instrumental experience desirable but not required. CC: LCC, JCAD, JCHF ISP: AFR, LAS LACS Social Sciences Courses
Course Course Units: 1.0 This course focuses on the music and art of seminal rock group Radiohead. Formed in the 1980s in Oxfordshire, UK, Radiohead has released nine critically acclaimed studio albums and more than 40 music videos, topping thecharts for decades, and rivaling The Beatles for a top spot in the pantheon of British rock legends. They are widely respected not only for their musical innovation, involving creative modality and rhythmic organization but their ecological mindfulness, political edginess and industry changing approaches to the production of popular music, ever critical of consumer capitalism. This combination has allowed the group to maintain creative autonomy and authenticity, while garnering worldwide recognitionand commercial success. The group's emergence from British synth-pop and evolution to contemporary icons will be explored through reading, listening, musical analysis, and video. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, GCHF, GCAD, GLIT, WAC
Permission of the instructor. CQ: GCHF, GCAD, GLIT, WAC
AMU 320Encounters with East Asian Music Cultures1.0
Course Through live performance, discussion, and composition, this course explores key characteristics of East Asian Music Cultures. Particular attention is paid to the processes of cultural exchange between China, Korea, Japan and the rest of the world that have resulted in the rich breadth of performance traditions expressed today. CC: LCC, HUM, JCAD, JCHF, WAC ISP: AIS, GSW
