87 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.
Fundamentals of the notation and underlying concepts of Western European art music and related traditions, including staves, clefs & pitches, rhythm & meter, major & minor scales, key signatures, intervals, and triads.
Intensive study of topics relevant to a wide range of musical traditions, including musical parameters (pitch, duration, timbre, loudness, texture), tuning systems, basic acoustics, notation types, and instrument families.
Introduction to computer/computer applications: word processing, database, spreadsheet, music notation, Internet and online library, Web page and multimedia development. Experience using, creating, and evaluating computer media for music.
The course will introduce students to the people and resources in the community, on campus, and within the CVPA and School of Music that can assist them in developing the general academic and musicianship skills needed to be successful as they consider their individual interests in music.
The lower division sound studies seminar develops attentive listening skills and examines different sound and perception theories drawn from traditions around the globe. A variety of oral communication skills and methods are developed and practiced.
Introduction to the basic tools of musicological inquiry, including music vocabulary, reading in the discipline, basic library research, and a variety of styles of writing; cultural awareness; attentive listening to music from around the world.
Advanced study of Western European art music and related traditions, including chromatic embellishing chords and modulation to distantly related keys; introduction to large forms, including rondo, sonata, and sonata-rondo, plus an introduction to twentieth-century approaches to pitch and rhythm. Intended to be taken with MUS 206.
Advanced study of melody, harmony, and rhythm from Western European art music and related traditions, including tonicization and modulation, modal mixture, and an introduction to cross rhythms, changing meter, and asymmetric meter. Intended to be taken with MUS 201.
Advanced study of melody, harmony, and rhythm from Western European art music and related traditions, including modulation to distantly related keys, whole-tone and octatonic scales, and continued study of cross rhythms and changing meter. Intended to be taken with MUS 202.
The study of elemental pitch patterns and rhythms from Western European art music and related traditions through performance, transcription, memory exercises, and structured improvisation.
Examines popular music in the context of social, cultural, and political climates. Illustrates how music is an inexorable agent of social change and identity. No previous musical experience required.
Examines Hip Hop music from 1970 through 2000 in the context of social, cultural, and political climates. Illustrates how the four art forms of Hip Hop are an inexorable agent of social change and identity. No previous music experience required.
Introductory course focusing on jazz. Students gain understanding of aims and methods of artistic expression and the role of cultural traditions and artistic value in human society. No musical training required.
A music-theoretical approach to the structural, stylistic, and aesthetic principles of popular music. Study of the pitch, rhythmic, textural, and timbral organization of one or more popular music subgenres.
Introduction to the theory and analysis of melody, harmony, rhythm and meter, and form in Western European music of the 18th through 21st centuries.
Survey of rock music from the 1950s to the present. Emphasis will be placed on identifying specific styles and explaining the influence of key performers.
Introduction to Western culture art music through a survey of its history, composers, forms, styles. Requires listening assignments and recital attendance. No musical training required.
Familiarizes students with how music operates in films from the major film industries of the world, and introduces and engages musical-cinematic trends over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Explores the connection between fairy tales and music, particularly regarding the changes these stories undergo when they shift medium. Assignments and class discussions focus on required reading, viewing, and listening in various genres, both classical and popular, including opera, musical theater, film, ballet, and song.
Survey of music cultures from around the world with emphasis on the socio-cultural context in which they are found.
Analysis of selected post-tonal compositions from Western European art music and related traditions, as well as composition exercises based on models.
Rotating theoretical and/or analytical topics in the Western art music tradition such as Sonata Theory, Art Song & Opera, Large-Scale Instrumental Forms, Historical Composition, and Advanced Aural Skills.
Rotating theoretical and/or analytical topics outside the Western art music tradition such as Intercultural Encounters, Global Pop Music, Hollywood Harmony, Funky Pitch Systems, Funky Rhythms & Asymmetric Meters, Feminist Music Theory & Embodiment, and Heavy Metal.
Introduction to the anthropology of music. Cultural analysis of music and sound in contemporary settings.
This course focuses on the ways in which popular musics across the globe intersect with, inform, and reflect issues related to race, class, nationalism, migration, gender, sexuality etc. while exposing students to methods of research and analysis of popular music.
Consideration of five pieces of music both as artworks and moments of cultural history. Study of the techniques of musical listening and the historical context of each premiere.
Consideration of creative works and traditions relating human sound (music, noise, etc.) and the natural environment from artistic, humanistic, and scientific perspectives.
History of Western art music traditions from the early Christian era to about 1750.
History of Western art music traditions from about 1750 to the present.
History of music in America. Ballads, spirituals, gospel, blues, jazz, bluegrass, musical theater, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and Native American music.
Exploration of modern Asian music and culture. Examines relationships between music and national identity, ethnicity, politics, colonialism, religion, and other cultural phenomena in East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Examines the historical phenomenon of the Grand Tour and its repercussions for European musical life since the seventeenth century; includes critical reflection on related modern tourism, including relevant sustainability issues.
Drawing from issues related to politics (broadly defined) and musical practices of the past and present, both local and global, this course exposes students to methods of analysis, research, creating, and writing about music/sound/noise in and as politics, including how diverse musical practices dis/organize social life (gender, race, nationality, etc.).
This number reserved for experimental courses. Refer to the Course Schedule for current offerings.
This course with rotating topics will examine particular music traditions and current issues in the field of ethnomusicology beyond the survey level. Topics may focus on geographical areas (Africa, Indonesia, Native American, etc.) or theoretical/methodological issues (Music and Gender, Music and Identity, Popular Music, Fieldwork, etc.).
Contrapuntal techniques and standard forms of the middle and late Baroque. Analysis of music by composers from Corelli to Bach, composition in representative forms, and aural training.
Advanced study of symphonic styles and techniques from Baroque era to present.
Analysis of selected tonal compositions from Western European art music and related traditions. Reading and discussion of literature on theoretical concepts and on analysis and interpretation; analytical essay writing.
Examines musical traditions before 1600 beyond the survey level. Topics may include gender/sexuality, geography, institutions, orality, performance practice, print/manuscript culture, and/or religion.
Examines musical traditions ca. 1600–1800 beyond the survey level. Topics include performance practice, nationalism, gender and sexuality, religion, orality/notation, organology, and iconography.
Examines musical traditions ca. 1789–1914 beyond the survey level. Topics may include gender/sexuality, institutions, nationalism, nature, performance practice, and/or religion.
Examines musical traditions from ca. 1880 to the present beyond the survey level. Topics may include music and the State, gender/sexuality, ethnicity and identity, cultural policy/politics, religion, and/or multimedia.
This capstone course for the Bachelor of Arts in Music engages areas of music study—musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology—through a series of lectures, discussions, and student presentations.
Principal opera composers and styles from Monteverdi to the present; analytical study of selected major works.
Supervised research in advanced subject area resulting in written document or composition. Project outline (available in Music office) prepared by student and supervising professor and approved by Associate Dean and Dean of School of Music.
This number reserved for experimental courses. Refer to the Course Schedule for current offerings.
Musical bibliography encompassing a range of print and electronic sources and databases. Methods for researching and writing about music, including research papers, music criticism, and other genres.
Music traditions and current issues in the field of ethnomusicology. Topics may focus on geographical areas or theoretical/methodological issues.
This course is used for music-study trips.
Contrapuntal techniques and standard forms of the middle and late Baroque. Analysis of music by composers from Corelli to Bach, composition in representative forms, and aural training.
Survey of philosophies, curricula, course content, and teaching approaches for undergraduate courses in music theory and aural skills. Students will evaluate instructional materials, observe and evaluate the teaching of others, and undertake their own teaching demonstrations.
Advanced study of symphonic styles and techniques from Baroque era to present.
A selective survey of analytic and theoretic approaches to rhythm and meter in Western concert music as well as a sample of non-notated music.
Theories and analytical methods of Heinrich Schenker as applied to the tonal repertory. Selected readings from Schenkerian literature.
Analysis of selected post-tonal compositions from Western European art music and related traditions, as well as an exploration of their theoretical underpinnings. Readings from the secondary literature, analytical essay writing.
Principal opera composers and styles from Monteverdi to the present; analytical study of selected major works.
Examines the historical phenomenon of the Grand Tour and its repercussions for European musical life since the seventeenth century. Includes critical reflection on related modern tourism, including relevant sustainability issues.
In depth study of five pieces of music history selected from a variety of periods.
Examines musical traditions ca. 1789-1914 beyond the survey level. Topics may include gender/sexuality, institutions, nationalism, nature, performance practice, and/or religion.
Examines musical traditions from ca. 1880 to the present beyond the survey level. Topics may include music and the State, gender/sexuality, ethnicity and identity, cultural policy/politics, religion, and/or multimedia.
Instruction and practice leading to the development of aural and keyboard skills sufficient for instructors of music theory and ear training.
Supervised teaching of basic music theory and aural skills, music history, music appreciation, or world music.
Selective survey of the discipline of music theory. Current and historical topics such as rhythm and meter, form, tuning and temperament, scale theory, transformational theory, gender and identity, and meaning and embodiment; analytical approaches to a variety of repertoires such as pop-rock, jazz, and world music.
Analysis of selected tonal compositions from Western European art music and related traditions. Reading and discussion of literature on theoretical concepts and on analysis and interpretation; analytical essay writing.
Supervised advanced research requiring a written document or composition.
Development of a research topic in music theory and composition of a substantial paper on that topic. Involves compiling an annotated bibliography, writing a review of the literature, and creating appropriate figures, examples, and/or tables.
Individual guidance in the development of a specific research problem.
Selected topics in musicology and ethnomusicology, encompassing particular historical periods, geographical areas, genres, performance practices, technologies, politics, and theoretical or methodological approaches.
Rotating topics in musical analysis such as a particular historical period, genre, composer (or set of composers), style, and/or analytical methodology.
Music traditions and current issues in the field of ethnomusicology. Topics may focus on geographical areas or theoretical/methodological issues.
This course is used for music-study trips.
Contrapuntal techniques and standard forms of the middle and late Baroque. Analysis of music by composers from Corelli to Bach, composition in representative forms, and aural training.
Survey of philosophies, curricula, course content, and teaching approaches for undergraduate courses in music theory and aural skills. Students will evaluate instructional materials, observe and evaluate the teaching of others, and undertake their own teaching demonstrations.
Advanced study of symphonic styles and techniques from Baroque era to present.
A selective survey of analytic and theoretic approaches to rhythm and meter in Western concert music as well as a sample of non-notated music.
Theories and analytical methods of Heinrich Schenker as applied to the tonal repertory. Selected readings from Schenkerian literature.
Analysis of selected post-tonal compositions from Western European art music and related traditions, as well as an exploration of their theoretical underpinnings. Readings from the secondary literature, analytical essay writing.
Principal opera composers and styles from Monteverdi to the present; analytical study of selected major works.
In depth study of five pieces of music history selected from a variety of periods.
Examines musical traditions ca. 1789-1914 beyond the survey level. Topics may include gender/sexuality, institutions, nationalism, nature, performance practice, and/or religion.
Examines musical traditions from ca. 1880 to the present beyond the survey level. Topics may include music and the State, gender/sexuality, ethnicity and identity, cultural policy/politics, religion, and/or multimedia.
Supervised teaching of basic music theory and aural skills, music history, music appreciation, or world music.
Selective survey of the discipline of music theory. Current and historical topics such as rhythm and meter, form, tuning and temperament, scale theory, transformational theory, gender and identity, and meaning and embodiment; analytical approaches to a variety of repertoires such as pop-rock, jazz, and world music.
Analysis of selected tonal compositions from Western European art music and related traditions. Reading and discussion of literature on theoretical concepts and on analysis and interpretation; analytical essay writing.
Supervised advanced research requiring a written document or composition.
Thesis Extension.
Research Extension.
Source: University of North Carolina at Greensboro's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
