97 courses with the subject MUSI, 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.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Not open to students already qualified to elect MUSI 2302 or 3310. Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music.
Effective Date 08/01/2021 Symphonic Listening focuses on the sounds and forms of symphonic music. Listening skills are emphasized, with no prior musical knowledge required. We will learn to recognize orchestral instruments by their timbre, discern levels of consonance and dissonance, identify types of textures, and think critically about how musical content expresses cultural context. Students will gain a framework for understanding symphonic music of any genre.
Effective Date 11/12/2020 This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Music.
Effective Date 01/01/2025 We often wonder about an artist’s immense creativity, seemingly harnessed with ease. Each of us has tremendous resources of creativity, often under-explored. In this course, students learn to unlock their own potential. No previous artistic experience is required. Activities include readings & discussions; weekly responses; two reflective papers; a presentation on a “found” resource; & one creative project in a medium of the student’s choice. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MUSI 2559 topic #28 Creative Discovery
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Scholarly and critical study of music circulated through mass media. Specific topic for the semester (e.g. world popular music, bluegrass, country music, hip-hop, Elvis Presley) announced in advance. No previous knowledge of music required.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Centrally, close study of the Beatles’ music, along with biographies, relation to the history of American rock ‘n’ roll, the breathtaking early years, the devastating new sonic landscapes of their later studio work, and the context of the 1960s–that turbulent decade that shaped, and was shaped by, these four English lads.
Effective Date 05/01/2022 When we think about knowing the world through the senses, we are likely to think of the visible world. But sound, hearing, and listening are crucial too. How do sound art, technology, and design create the world we inhabit and our everyday social and political experience? How can vibrations both heal and destroy? We will ponder such questions through theoretical, experiential, and creative explorations.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Listening sets us up to be involved fully in the life around us, and to be interactive in communities that create together. This course explores listening and sound-making in daily life from many angles including field research, reading, writing, discussion, and group performance workshops. We explore ideas about improvisation, uniting the aesthetic sphere with the broader sphere of social life and active engagement.
Effective Date 08/01/2025 Survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists. No previous knowledge of music required.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Jazz has historically been a male-dominated field. Who are the women artists whose work emerged in jazz, what is their music, and what are their stories of inspiration, creativity, struggles and triumphs? Through our exploration of recordings, scholarship, music journalism, video, film and live music performance we will ponder these questions and gain a better understanding of how the politics of gender have challenged jazz music.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Introductory keyboard skills; includes sight-reading, improvisation, and accompaniment at the keyboard in a variety of styles. No previous knowledge of music required. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Intermediate keyboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Fundamentals of playing guitar, along with rhythmic training, music theory, song forms, and more. This class will start from scratch and is meant for beginners. Experienced guitarists are encouraged to enroll in MUSI 3307 Play Guitar! 2.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 This class is designed to teach the fundamentals of healthy vocal production. Classes are designed to improve vocal performance for each student, and to provide a introduction to standard vocal repertoire. This course will also include a look at the anatomy of the voice, resonance and articulation in singing, and voice classifications.
Effective Date 02/16/2023 Training in vocal technique and performance skills for popular music styles. Attention to healthy vocal production, confidence, and expansion of repertory. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MUSI 2559 #27 Pop Music Voice Class
Effective Date 01/01/2024 This vocal course offering allows students to utilize vocal and dramatic skills in the preparation and performance of scenes from both operatic and musical theater works. Students will work with instructors on the musical preparation of assigned scenes and will then develop directorial and design concepts directing each other in short scenes while also having the opportunity to perform in scenes.
Effective Date 02/15/2024 Vocal Performance requires a broad skill set. This course offers students a toolbox of practical techniques & methodologies including study of diction and language, physical expression, textual analysis, dramatic storytelling/acting, collaboration with a pianist, vocal health, and many other components of stagecraft that can be addressed well in group lessons. For students with some experience of vocal performance. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #136 Friday Night Lights
Effective Date 03/24/2009 Study of rhythmic patterns associated with rhythms from West African, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States, through theory and performance.
Effective Date 04/28/2010 “Learn to Groove” hand drumming and rhythmic fluency with Robert Jospe. This is the intermediate level of the class. It is a hands on drumming/percussion class using congas, djembes, claves, shakers, etc. This class is designed to enhance ones knowledge of syncopated patterns associated with jazz, rock, African and Latin American music and to improve ones facility in playing these patterns.
Effective Date 01/01/2020 Technosonics is an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of electronic music and sound art. We will focus on the role of new technology in shaping musical thought, production, and culture from the turn of the century through today. Listening examples are drawn from a broad range of styles and genres, including experimental computer music, ambient and dance music, sound art, and multimedia.
Effective Date 11/20/2024 EcoSonics explores environmental sound and music from a creative perspective. The course focuses on sounds of the natural world and the role of environment in shaping musical thought, production, and culture. Weekly studio sections and creative projects provide opportunities for active exploration of current environmental music production techniques.
Effective Date 03/30/2010 Introduction to the use of computers in music composition, with hands-on experience. Appropriate for non-majors.
Effective Date 01/01/2010 This goal of this class is to develop a basic level of skill in performing, arranging and analyzing standard modern jazz repertoire and styles for the piano. Concepts covered will include chord voicings for the left hand and for two hands; elements of jazz and swing rhythm and melody; reading and interpreting a lead sheet; basic solo jazz piano textures; ii-V-I chord progressions; and transcription and performance of recorded improvised solos.
Effective Date 01/02/2026 Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music through specific contexts and methods. Appropriate for non-majors.
Effective Date 11/06/2023 Non-major level, introductory. Special topics courses, topics announced in advance. Courses combine community engagement activities with reflective interpretation.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Music.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 Studies of various musical topics, with emphasis on relatons between music and cultural context. Taught at the non-major level.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Jazz Improvisation
Effective Date 03/01/2009
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Introduction to crucial shifts in musical culture that signaled the emergence of a self-consciously ‘modern,’ self-consciously ‘European’ musicality over the period 1500-1700; and to the ways such early modern genres as the polyphonic Mass, the madrigal, opera, oratorio, cantata, sonata, suite, and congregational hymnody have been assimilated into 20th-century American ideas about ‘musicality.’ Specific topics announced in advance.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Study of selected repertories from the 17th and 18th centuries, emphasizing compositional style, performance practice, and the role of music within social, political, philosophical, and religious cultures of the time. Composers studied may include Lully, Corelli, Handel, J. S. Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Mozart.
Effective Date 03/01/2009
Effective Date 08/01/2014 Study of art music in the 20th century. Examines ways in which the aims and functions of European/US musical art were re-imagined, particularly in association with modernism. Explores the century’s radical shifts in musical language and their relationship with the pressing cultural, political, and social concerns of the period. Fulfills part of the ‘Critical and comparative studies in music’ requirement for majors.
Effective Date 01/01/2010 Studies the range of music that has flourished since the end of the 19th century including modernist and post-modern art music, popular music, and world music, through historical, critical, and ethnographic approaches.
Effective Date 11/20/2023 This course reviews the history of Motown Recording Company beginning with the Great Migration and examines how Motown helped shape today’s record industry. We will explore topics around artist social responsibility, law, mental health, and technology. Students will also compare how black social movements influenced and reflected the music of Motown, Stax Records, and Philadelphia International Records. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MUSI 2559 topic #31 Motown vs. Everybody
Effective Date 01/01/2026 In our investigation of Black speculative music, film, science fiction and visual art, we will plunge into the nuances of folklore, cosmology, philosophy and ancestral wisdom embedded with themes of liberation in these works. The course will be deepen our understanding of the diversity of Black thought and creativity and transform our own ideas of time, space, place and self. Artists studied include Janelle Monae, Lee Scratch Perry, Octavia Butler, Sun Ra, and more.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Introduction to jazz as an advanced field of study, with equal attention given to historical and theoretical approaches.
Effective Date 01/01/2027 Embark on an immersive journey into the heart of Central Europe with this dynamic seminar that fuses classroom learning with firsthand exploration abroad. Often overlooked by the West, Hungary offers a unique lens through which to understand the complex tapestry of European history, visual art, and music. During Spring Break we visit Budapest and Pecs, walking the boulevards of empire, experience performances steeped in tradition, and see masterpieces by iconic Hungarian artists and architects. Requisites Students cannot enroll if they have previously completed MUSI 2509 Topic #4 Hungarian Music and History
Effective Date 08/01/2024 To develop intermediate and advanced guitar skills. For students who have taken MUSI 2307 or who have appropriate skills for the course.
Effective Date 08/01/2013 Studies the pitch and rhythmic aspects of several musical styles, including European art music, blues, African drumming, and popular music. Focuses on concepts and notation related to scales and modes, harmony, meter, form, counterpoint, and style.
Effective Date 08/01/2013 Studies pitch and formal organization in European concert music of the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes four-part vocal writing, 18th-century style keyboard accompaniment, key relations, and form. Students compose numerous short passages of music and study significant compositions by period composers.
Effective Date 09/27/2021 Technical study of popular music, especially from rock ‘n’ roll onward, addressing harmony, rhythm, form, and semiotics. Instructor permission required. Requisites Students must have completed MUSI 3310
Effective Date 02/16/2023 In this course we read, analyze, and write music in the western classical tradition to learn how it is formed, from its smallest parts (motives) to its largest wholes (sonatas). We focus on music of the High Classical Era: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.
Effective Date 08/01/2013 Lab course providing practical experience with many aspects of musical perception and performance, such as accurate vocal production of pitch, musical memory, identification of intervals and rhythmic patterns, and uses of notation in dictation and sight-singing. Students entering this sequence take a test to determine the appropriate level of their first course. Students enrolled in MUSI 3310, 3320 or 4331 have priority; course open to other students as space permits.
Effective Date 08/01/2013 Lab course providing practical experience with many aspects of musical perception and performance, such as accurate vocal production of pitch, musical memory, identification of intervals and rhythmic patterns, and uses of notation in dictation and sight-singing. Students entering this sequence take a test to determine the appropriate level of their first course. Students enrolled in MUSI 3310, 3320 or 4331 have priority; course open to other students as space permits.
Effective Date 10/10/2019 For majors or those in percussion ensembles, orchestra, band and/or done well in Learn To Groove MUSI 2342. Students gain a broad understanding and facility through hand drumming of the rhythmic language associated with West and Central African, Caribbean, Brazilian, and contemporary styles of jazz, rock and funk from the United States.
Effective Date 01/01/2023 Exploration of activities that involve listening & making sound, at the intersection of music-making & contemplative practices, drawing on the work of Pauline Oliveros, the Fluxus artists, & other artists & thinkers. Weekly reading assignments in relation to the experiential component; weekly email responses to readings & several brief reflective papers. The course is offered sometimes in person, sometimes in an asynchronous online format.
Effective Date 03/12/2025 A high-level performing and research ensemble that explores modern experimental music utilizing improvisation. With a focus on music that incorporates composition, technology and/or improvisation, the ensemble will rehearse, develop and perform a diverse repertoire, which may include the work of selected students. Students are encouraged to develop their language of improvisation, ensemble musicality, composition skills, and musical aesthetics.
Effective Date 03/23/2018 Course focuses on the craft of writing raps. No previous experience writing raps required. Students will listen to, attempt to deconstruct, and evaluate a broad range of rap music while learning the basics of composing lyrics. Along with writing raps, students will learn songwriting techniques and some theoretical approaches to composing larger works such as a ‘mixtape’ or ‘album’ through examinations of music, criticism, and literature.
Effective Date 03/12/2025 A platform for students to develop successful strategies for advancing their careers in music. Students will gain knowledge about multiple aspects of being an independent musician, including songwriting process, copyrights, PROs, marketing, booking shows, live production, tour management, and more. The course includes guest speakers, such as entertainment lawyers, artist managers, and publicists.
Effective Date 11/05/2018 The craft of writing rap songs and the collection, selection, and integration of other media to collaborate toward the composition of a class mixtape. Experience writing raps or producing beats will be helpful, but it is not necessary to take this course. Students will listen to, attempt to deconstruct, create, and evaluate a broad range of music and literature while collaborating on the mixtape.
Effective Date 09/27/2021 Make Beats introduces students to technologies, techniques, and histories of beat making. Students practice critical listening to exemplars across genres, and work to reverse engineer what we hear. Key projects focus on creative practice, applying course content to the composition of original beats and tracks.
Effective Date 09/19/2016 This class focuses on composition techniques in American and European concert music, including the music of various composers and the composition of new music.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Students gain hands-on experience with synthesizers, music notation software, and the control of MIDI instruments via computer.
Effective Date 02/14/2012 Ecoacoustics explores the intersection between ecology and music. It engages with natural systems of change and the unique sonic energy of places. Students learn recording and analysis techniques, and create their own ecoacoustic sound works as we study seminal works from the musical and artistic fields of acoustic ecology, sonology, soundscape composition, sonification, earthwork art, and deep listening.
Effective Date 03/23/2018 This course will examine the symphony orchestra in detail, covering the capabilities of every orchestral instrument, and study how they are combined by master composers. Students will create arrangements for string quartet, woodwind quintet, and full orchestra. The majority of these projects will receive readings by ensembles. Students may be asked to bring instruments to class for demonstration purposes.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Third semester of a sequence designed to develop keyboard technique and musicianship skills to an intermediate level. Skills covered include the playing of intermediate-level piano pieces in a variety of styles, the continuing development of piano technique, sight reading, harmonization, score reading, basic ensemble skills, and improvisation.
Effective Date 02/21/2025 Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music through specific contexts and methods. Appropriate for music majors and others at that level.
Effective Date 11/21/2023 Special topics courses, topics announced in advance. Courses combine community engagement activities with reflective interpretation.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Music.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 Studies of various musical topics, with emphasis on relatons between music and cultural context. Taught at the major level.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 In this class, we will study the popular, folk, and Indigenous musics of Hawai’i and Puerto Rico, including hula, slack key guitar music, Hawaiian reggae, bomba, Latin jazz, salsa, and reggaeton. We will focus on music’s involvement in US colonization, tourism, diasporic identity formation, and decolonial movements in both Hawai’i and Puerto Rico. This course is open to students across the university and no pre-requisites in music are needed. Requisites Students cannot enroll if they have previously completed MUSI 3559 Topic #39 Music, Hawai’i and Puerto Rico
Effective Date 03/01/2009
Effective Date 03/12/2025 Exploration of the role of sound and listening in film. We will consider the history of sound recording in film and will listen to and watch examples and techniques of sound storytelling. Students will also learn about different types of microphones, experiment with making recordings, and create their own short sound films. No musical experience necessary.
Effective Date 05/01/2021 This course focuses on critical analyses of and questions concerning the “Black Voice” as it pertains to hip-hop culture, particularly rap and related popular musics. Students will read, analyze, discuss a wide range of thinkers to explore many conceptions and definitions of “Blackness” while examining popular artists and the statements they make in and about their art.
Effective Date 01/01/2023 Through discussion, reading, writing, viewing/listening, we explore African performance theory associated especially with Ewe (Ghana) and BaAka (Central African rainforest) music/dance we are learning to perform, experimenting with abstracting concepts and remaking them in the immediate context of the course. No experience required, but dedication to an interactive, interdependent intellectual and creative community is expected from each student.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Studies in 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century techniques and styles through analysis and composition.
Effective Date 11/05/2018 Study of the evolving styles of orchestration, from the Classical era through the present-day. Close study of orchestral masterworks spanning these eras. Students will create short orchestrations emulating styles of specific composers. Requisites Must have completed MUSI 3410
Effective Date 01/01/2023 Study of the life and works of a composer (or school of composers); topic announced in advance.
Effective Date 03/29/2016 Topics, announced in advance, about folk, popular, jazz or art music traditions in American culture.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks.
Effective Date 11/14/2014 Topics, announced in advance, exploring the world of jazz music.
Effective Date 04/13/2016 Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within critical frameworks.
Effective Date 10/29/2019 Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within critical frameworks.
Effective Date 10/24/2019 An intensive experience with ethnomusicology and performance studies, this seminar explores musical ethnography (descriptive writing), experiential research, sociomusical processes, and other interdisciplinary approaches to musical performance. Addresses issues involving race, class, gender, and identity politics in light of particular topics and areas studies.
Effective Date 11/17/2015 Addresses specific issues and cultural areas according to the interests of the students and instructor.
Effective Date 11/14/2014 Addresses specific issues and cultural areas according to the interests of the students and instructor.
Effective Date 11/14/2014 Various approaches to musical analysis; readings from theoretical literature; and practical exercises in analysis of music from all periods.
Effective Date 03/14/2022 Includes advanced ear-training, sight-singing and keyboard harmony.
Effective Date 04/14/2017 The class is designed for composers, performers and all students interested in interactive technology for music, programming real-time computer music systems, and in music for multimedia. Emphasis is placed on gaining both technical and artistic understanding of the possibilities of real time music technology and multimedia.
Effective Date 11/14/2014 Studies in sound processing, digital synthesis and multichannel audio using RTCmix running under Linux. Students learn techniques of computer music through composition, analysis of representative works, and programming.
Effective Date 12/06/2021 Studies in computer music studio techniques, sound synthesis using a variety of software packages based on the Macintosh platform, and the creation of original music using new technologies.
Effective Date 02/20/2023 Topics involving the composition, performance, and programming of interactive computer music systems.
Effective Date 08/18/2020 Topics in contemporary music that will focus on different areas in rotation. Each will involve focused readings, analysis of selected works, and the creation of original compositions that reflect the issues under discussion.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Music.
Effective Date 08/01/2025
Effective Date 12/06/2021
Effective Date 08/01/2025 The course teaches a blended approach to performance, composition and computer programming through the context of a computer music ensemble. Students from various backgrounds work collaboratively in a technological ensemble context while building skills in interactive media programming, sound art design and human-computer interaction. They explore a new way of making ensemble music in collaboration with interactive and networked computer systems.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 This course will cover the basic skills needed for building new musical interfaces. The first skill, and the primary topic of this course is Sound Synthesis. We will learn about the most common ways for digitally generating (synthesizing) musical sounds. This includes various concepts from musical acoustics and psychoacoustics. But it also includes the practical details of how to actually synthesize sound on a digital computer.
Effective Date 10/11/2016 This is a course in audiovisual composition and time-based new media. Over the course of the semester, you will create fixed video pieces, learn interactive & real-time audiovisual techniques, and explore sculptural & networked approaches to combining sound and light.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 In this course we engage electronic dance music (EDM) from a variety of perspectives, including learning to listen to and analyze the structure of EDM works. We will read about and discuss the histories of various EDM scenes around the globe, from the 1970’s into the 2020’s. We will compose musical works using our DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), exploring the use of audio effects to make our sounds compelling. Lastly, we will perform our music in a venue designed for this music. Requisites Students cannot enroll if they have previously completed MUSI 4559 Topic #19 EDM Production and Performance
Effective Date 08/01/2010 Studies in the basic technique and art of conducting, with weekly experience conducting repertoire with a small choral ensemble.
Effective Date 08/01/2010 Studies in the basic technique and art of conducting, with weekly experience conducting repertoire with a small choral ensemble.
Effective Date 10/05/2016 This class will explore the art of writing for chorus and small vocal ensemble, and will aim at developing practical skills in creating and transcribing arrangements. Students will study a variety of examples from the repertoire, and attention will be paid to fundamentals of writing for the voice, setting text, etc. In addition the class will serve as workshop chorus, such that student arrangements can be performed and studied in the classroom.
Effective Date 10/03/2017 Provides intensive instruction in voice or on an instrument, broadens and deepens repertory knowledge, and provides experience in public performance as well as the evaluation of performance. Students perform at least one solo recital per semester. Students write self-evaluations of their performance and receive feedback from instructor.
Effective Date 03/01/2009
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