MUSIC 1040 Musics of the World

This course provides an introduction to the field of ethnomusicology as well as a survey of selected musics from around the world. We will investigate not only musical sound itself but how music interacts with other cultural domains, such as religion/cosmology, politics, economics, and social structure. The course will use case studies from regions around world (such as Indonesia, India, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America) to illustrate the conceptual problems and methodologies raised by the cross-cultural study of music, as well as acquaint you with the rich variety of music around the globe.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1050 Popular Music in American Culture

American popular music from 1800s to the present, with emphasis on technology, social and political contexts, and popular music as a realm of interracial encounter. Musics covered include early jazz, classic blues, swing, classic pop, rock and roll, soul, disco, hip hop and the changing relationship between popular music, film, and television.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1060 Beethoven in His Time and Ours

Ludwig van Beethoven not only composed some of the most significant works of Western classical music -- he continues to make his mark as the prototypical troubled genius, symbol for a wide range of political causes, subject of numerous films, and classical music's main representative in American pop culture. We will begin with an exploration of Beethoven's life, music, and historical context and continue by tracing how, after his death, Beethoven became a cultural hero whose image took on a life of its own. Throughout, we will unravel the interaction of music, culture, and mythmaking. No previous musical experience required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1070 Mozart: Comedy, Science, Politics, Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most recognized composers of classical music and has come to symbolize beauty, genius, and technical perfection. In this course, we'll peer behind this beauty and discover that Mozart speaks to some of our most complex present-day concerns. Mozart's music reflects the world of the Enlightenment, as well as challenges to its beliefs about reason and human nature. He also created musical comedies that make provocative, strikingly contemporary statements about power, gender, privilege, and sexuality. And, he delighted in musical engineering challenges and thought carefully about how we perceive music. Our focus works will range from symphonies and piano music to musical theatre. We'll also explore Mozart's afterlife: how his music has figured in film and popular culture. This course is open to all - no previous musical experience is required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1080 Teamwork in Science and Music

Teamwork is required for accomplishment in most fields where goals cannot be realized by single contributors. Biographers and human nature tend to anoint individuals as being responsible for most great achievements, but in reality, most individuals who are given credit for accomplishments represent large teams. In this course, we will explore how science and music particularly give rise to narratives of individual achievement that are on further analysis more accurately described as team efforts. The role of race and gender in these dynamics will be explored.

Credit 1 unit.

MUSIC 1110 Brass Lessons: Pre-Registration

All students-both new and returning-must enroll if in this course if you are planning to take lessons on a brass instrument this semester. Once registered for this course, new students must sign up for a placement appointment through the department's website (https://music.wustl.edu/lesson-placement-days) to be considered for lessons. After the audition, you will be transferred to the appropriate course and section number once your lessons begin. Enrollment in this pre-registration course and auditioning, does not guarantee a spot in an instructor's studio as there are a limited number of lesson spots. Half-hour lessons are 1 unit and hour-long lessons are 2 units. You may also enroll in 0 credits. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable. All students not placed in a studio will be dropped from this course after the ArtSci Add/Drop deadline.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1111 Percussion Lessons: Pre-Registration

All students-both new and returning-must enroll if in this course if you are planning to take percussion lessons this semester. Once registered for this course, new students must sign up for a placement appointment through the department's website (https://music.wustl.edu/lesson-placement-days) to be considered for lessons. After the audition, you will be transferred to the appropriate course and section number once your lessons begin. Enrollment in this pre-registration course and auditioning, does not guarantee a spot in an instructor's studio as there are a limited number of lesson spots. Half-hour lessons are 1 unit and hour-long lessons are 2 units. You may also enroll in 0 credits. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable. All students not placed in a studio will be dropped from this course after the ArtSci Add/Drop deadline.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1112 Guitar Lessons: Pre-Registration

All students-both new and returning-must enroll if in this course if you are planning to take guitar lessons this semester. Once registered for this course, new students must sign up for a placement appointment through the department's website (https://music.wustl.edu/lesson-placement-days) to be considered for lessons. After the audition, you will be transferred to the appropriate course and section number once your lessons begin. Enrollment in this pre-registration course and auditioning, does not guarantee a spot in an instructor's studio as there are a limited number of lesson spots. Half-hour lessons are 1 unit and hour-long lessons are 2 units. You may also enroll in 0 credits. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable. All students not placed in a studio will be dropped from this course after the ArtSci Add/Drop deadline.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1113 Piano Lessons: Pre-Registration

All students-both new and returning-must enroll if in this course if you are planning to take piano lessons this semester. Once registered for this course, new students must sign up for a placement appointment through the department's website (https://music.wustl.edu/lesson-placement-days) to be considered for lessons. After the audition, you will be transferred to the appropriate course and section number once your lessons begin. Enrollment in this pre-registration course and auditioning, does not guarantee a spot in an instructor's studio as there are a limited number of lesson spots. Half-hour lessons are 1 unit and hour-long lessons are 2 units. You may also enroll in 0 credits. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable. All students not placed in a studio will be dropped from this course after the ArtSci Add/Drop deadline.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1114 Strings Lessons: Pre-Registration

All students-both new and returning-must enroll if in this course if you are planning to take lessons on a string instrument this semester. Once registered for this course, new students must sign up for a placement appointment through the department's website (https://music.wustl.edu/lesson-placement-days) to be considered for lessons. After the audition, you will be transferred to the appropriate course and section number once your lessons begin. Enrollment in this pre-registration course and auditioning, does not guarantee a spot in an instructor's studio as there are a limited number of lesson spots. Half-hour lessons are 1 unit and hour-long lessons are 2 units. You may also enroll in 0 credits. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable. All students not placed in a studio will be dropped from this course after the ArtSci Add/Drop deadline.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1115 Voice Lessons: Pre-Registration

All students-both new and returning-must enroll if in this course if you are planning to take voice lessons this semester. Once registered for this course, new students must sign up for a placement appointment through the department's website (https://music.wustl.edu/lesson-placement-days) to be considered for lessons. After the audition, you will be transferred to the appropriate course and section number once your lessons begin. Enrollment in this pre-registration course and auditioning, does not guarantee a spot in an instructor's studio as there are a limited number of lesson spots. Half-hour lessons are 1 unit and hour-long lessons are 2 units. You may also enroll in 0 credits. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable. All students not placed in a studio will be dropped from this course after the ArtSci Add/Drop deadline.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1116 Woodwinds Lessons: Pre-Registration

All students-both new and returning-must enroll if in this course if you are planning to take lessons on a woodwind instrument this semester. Once registered for this course, new students must sign up for a placement appointment through the department's website (https://music.wustl.edu/lesson-placement-days) to be considered for lessons. After the audition, you will be transferred to the appropriate course and section number once your lessons begin. Enrollment in this pre-registration course and auditioning, does not guarantee a spot in an instructor's studio as there are a limited number of lesson spots. Half-hour lessons are 1 unit and hour-long lessons are 2 units. You may also enroll in 0 credits. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable. All students not placed in a studio will be dropped from this course after the ArtSci Add/Drop deadline.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1126 First-Year Seminar: You Never Heard Such Sounds in Your Life: American Avant-Garde Music

This first-year seminar introduces students to the fascinating history of avant-garde music making in the United States. A series of case studies will address a number of important avant-garde musicians and schools of thought spanning the early twentieth century to the present. In exploring avant-garde music, students will encounter new ways of thinking about art's place in the world and broaden their notions of music itself. No previous training in music is required. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1127 First-Year Seminar: Sound On

What does 21st-century life sound like? The aim of this course is to interrogate, denaturalize, and critique familiar experiences and technologies of contemporary listening: from earbuds and mobile devices to streaming services and social media to the ambient music of capitalism and the (mediated) persistence of live performance. Readings in musicology, sound studies, and media theory will be examined alongside students' contemporary lived musical experience. Musical and sonic exercises in close, situated listening as well as examinations of distracted, ubiquitous listening will form some of the primary materials of the course. Analyses of both readings and activities will result in the production of a collaborative weekly digital newsletter as well as culminating projects by individual students. This course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1130 History of Jazz

History of jazz to the present, including its African elements.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1165 First-Year Seminar: On Broadway - Musicals, Race, Place

The Broadway theatres are closed, but pressure to make these stages more racially and ethnically diverse when they re-open is strong. This course looks at the history of the Broadway theatres and the ways this coveted theatrical real estate in midtown Manhattan has played host to white and non-white performers in the signature American theatrical genre: the musical. Using digital and archival research tools, including an abundance of maps, our study stretches from the creation of the Theatre District at the turn of the 20th century to the present. We will examine groundbreaking and all-too-typical shows -- from Show Boat to Hamilton -- and look closely for how systemic racism has played out on Broadway stages for Broadway's mostly white audience. We will produce original research and explore digital humanities methods related to questions of racial inequality in commercial popular culture. This course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC BU: BA, HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1180 Fundamentals of Music

This course provides a broad overview of music fundamentals designed to enhance the student's experience of music as well as provide a foundation for further study in music theory. Students become acquainted with the basic vocabulary and building blocks of music: intervals, rhythms, scales, triads, chords and harmony.

Credit 2 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1190 Study in Guitar

Students taking guitar off roster/not for credit.

Credit 0 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1200 Exploring Music

This course will cover music and disability on stage and screen.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1226 Race, Realism, and Representation From Madama Butterfly to Hamilton

In the Euro-American tradition, operas and musicals have long normalized the portrayal of (usually white) performers as characters of other races. Only in recent decades has the work of activists, performers, and scholars, pushed the cultural conversation to critique these practices as racist, exoticist, and culturally appropriative. On the live stage and on screen, music theater in recent years have paid careful attention to racially sensitive casting as a matter of restorative justice. We intuitively understand today that it is disrespectful for performers to portray themselves as characters of color outside their cultural background, but how has this relatively new idea come to be? How have performers of color engaged with this body of work over the past century? How have imagined narratives about the experiences of marginalized peoples affected the lives of the groups of people being depicted? Who has the cultural authority (or authenticity) to tell stories about others, and how has that authority been constructed and construed across different places and times? This course introduces students to the fraught and complex history of music theater in which performers portray racialized roles outside of their own identities. The syllabus pays particular attention to histories of music-theatrical yellowface as a racialized practice that - unlike brownface and blackface which have become taboo - continues to appear on performing arts stages today. Understanding the historical context in which these works arose and became popular, as well as analyzing the musical and dramatic techniques they utilized, can give us insight into their enduring legacy through to the present day. We will also complicate the easy rejection of this tradition by paying close attention to the history of people of color who, for the past hundred years, participated in, contributed to, and even loved, this body of work.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM, VC BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1230 Women and Music: From Bingen to Beyonce

An examination of women in music from the twelfth-century nun Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonce. The course will consider significant women composers and performers, as well as music-making within women's institutions. Ability to read music not required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

MUSIC 1240 Classical Theory I

This course is the first semester of a yearlong sequence about harmony and voice leading in tonal music. We will cover a number of topics, including scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, harmonic function, and phrase structure. Ability to read musical notation is desirable. Students who register for Music 121C are required to register for one of the subsections.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1241 Classical Theory II

This course is the second semester of a yearlong sequence about harmony and voice leading in tonal music. We will cover a number of topics, including sequences, tonicization, modulation, chromaticism, and the relationships between phrases and larger musical forms. Students who register for Music 122C are required to register for one of the subsections. PREREQ: Music 121C.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1260 Jazz Theory I

Introduction to the jazz music language as a preparation for the study of improvisation. The course of study consists of basic music theory including music-reading skills and notation, scales, intervals, and triads. An introduction to extended tertian chords as derived from the twenty-one modes of the major, melodic and harmonic minor scales forms the basis of the jazz harmonic language. The study of chord progression and chord substitution, song form, and the blues prepares the student for a detailed study of the modern jazz language. Students who register for Music 121J are required to register for one of the subsections.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1261 Jazz Theory II

A study of the harmonic, rhythmic, and improvisational practices from the Bebop period of the late 1940s to the jazz music of the present day. Discussions include intermediate to advanced chord substitution, quartal and bitonal harmony, modal improvisation, pentatonic scales, and polyrhythmic drumming, concentrating on the major improvisors of the 1950s-1970s. Students who register for Music 121C are required to register for one of the subsections. Prerequisite: Music 121J.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1270 Musicianship I

Basic ear trainng, sight singing, and dictation skills. Three hours a week. Prerequisite: Music 104E.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1280 Keyboard Skills I

An introduction to basic techniques of keyboard harmony using intervals, scales, and root position chords. Transposition and sight-reading skills developed. Prerequisite: permission of instructor for nonmajors. One and one-half class hours a week.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1281 Keyboard Skills II

An introduction to basic techniques of keyboard harmony using intervals, scales, and root position chords. Transposition and sight-reading skills developed. Prerequisite: permission of instructor for nonmajors. One and one-half class hours a week.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1309 Composition Workshop

An introductory course in contemporary music composition, with a 30-minute private lesson and weekly master class.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1310 Composition Workshop

An introductory course in contemporary music composition, with a 30-minute private lesson and weekly master class.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1320 Digital Audio and Multitracking: An Introduction to Electronic Music

An exploration of the foundational techniques of electronic music through hands-on, project-based learning. Our primary goal will be to learn to be creative in the recording studio. To that end, we will build proficiency in audio manipulations, recording and production techniques, sampling, MIDI sequencing, and signal processing. We'll learn to use a variety of technical tools, chief among them the digital audio workstation (DAW), the microphone, and Wash U's unique collection of analog synthesizers. Along the way, we'll train our ears to recognize subtle qualities of recorded sound, and we'll learn to compose with audio as an expressive medium. All genres and musical backgrounds welcome.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1510 Introductory Guitar

Introductory Individual Applied Music -Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1511 Introductory Piano

Applied Music Individual (Piano)

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1512 Introductory Strings

Introductory Individual Applied Music -Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1513 Introductory Voice

Introductory Individual Applied Music -Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1514 Introductory Winds and Percussion

Introductory Individual Applied Music-Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1701 Jazz Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1702 Jazz Piano

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Piano

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1703 Jazz Strings

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1704 Jazz Voice

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1705 Jazz Winds and Percussion

Individual Applied Music-Jazz Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1721 Guitar Class I

Intended for students with little to no formal musical training. An introduction to guitar fundamentals through the study of note reading, scales/arpeggios, technique, chord playing, and repertoire from diverse music styles, while integrating basic music theory and listening to historical guitar recordings. Students may self-enroll or be placed by audition. Students will have access to rent an acoustic guitar for the semester or bring their own. Note: If a class does not have 3 students enrolled at the end of the drop/add period, it will be cancelled. Pending studio space, enrolled students may then opt to take private lessons for the remainder of the semester, and the fee will be prorated accordingly.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1722 Guitar Class II

A continuation of the topics and techniques introduced in Guitar I: Guitar fundamentals through the study of note reading, scales/arpeggios, technique, chord playing, and repertoire from diverse music styles, while integrating basic music theory and listening to historical guitar recordings. Prerequisite: Guitar I or permission of the instructor. Students will have access to rent an acoustic guitar for the semester or bring their own. Note: If a class does not have 3 students enrolled at the end of the drop/add period, it will be cancelled. Pending studio space, enrolled students may then opt to take private lessons for the remainder of the semester, and the fee will be prorated accordingly.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 1724 Introduction to Tabla: The Exploration of Indian Rhythm, Oral Tradition, and Improvisation

Tabla - Indian drums - are North India's prominent percussion instrument. Students will learn the foundations of playing tabla. Course goals include learning about the oral tradition associated with tabla, gaining knowledge about the historical and performance practices of the Benares Gharana, understanding Indian rhythmic time cycles, building a foundational approach to improvisation, and delving into the vast musical genre of North Indian classical music. There are no prerequisites for taking the course, and all students are welcome regardless of school or major.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1725 Voice Class: Fundamentals of Singing Technique

An introduction to the fundamentals of singing through group exercises, solo repertoire performance, and exploration of the physiology and acoustics of the human voice. Specific vocal techniques are taught in a group format as a healthy foundation for solo performance in both classical and non-classical singing styles. This course requires classroom instruction but also incorporates practice and lab time such that the course only qualifies as 1 unit of credit.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 1742 Piano Class

Intended for students with little to no formal musical training. An introduction to keyboard fundamentals through the study of note reading, intervals, technique, and repertoire. Students may self-enroll or be placed by audition.There is a $150 lab fee for the course. Note: If a class does not have 3 students enrolled at the end of the drop/add period, it will be cancelled. Pending studio space, enrolled students may then opt to take private lessons for the remainder of the semester, and the fee will be prorated accordingly.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1743 Piano Class II

Continuation of L27 159. Note: If a class does not have three students enrolled at the end of the drop/add period, it will be cancelled. Pending studio space, enrolled students may then opt to take private lessons for the remainder of the semester, and the fee will be prorated accordingly. Prerequisite L27-159 or permission of instructor.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1750 Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1751 Organ

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1752 Piano

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1753 Strings

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1754 Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1755 Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 1996 Music Elective: 100-Level

Credit 3 units. EN: H

MUSIC 2060 Singers Performance Workshop: Broadway and Musical Theater

Developing performance skills for young singers in musical theatre that will help students prepare music for rehearsal, performance, and audition. Semester's work includes musical, vocal, and diction coachings, research, and dramatic analysis. The class will culminate in the preparation and performance of both solo and ensemble pieces. Prerequisite: audition and permission of instructor.

Credit 1 unit. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 2070 Classical Theory III

A synthesis of the knowledge gained in Theory I-II as it applies to the detailed analysis of 18th-, 19th-, and selected 20th-century works (Bach through Bartok). Prerequisite: Music 122C or 122J.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 2080 Keyboard Skills III

Intermediate skills in score reading as well as the introduction of inversions, figured bass, and improvising melodies. Prerequisite: permission of instructor for nonmajors. One and one-half class hours a week.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 2081 Keyboard Skills IV

Intermediate skills in score reading as well as the introduction of inversions, figured bass, and improvising melodies. Prerequisite: permission of instructor for nonmajors. Concurrent registration in Mus 2231 and 2241 required of all music majors. One and one-half class hours a week.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 2090 Musicianship II

Continuation of Music 2231. Intermediate-level ear training, sight singing, and dictation skills. Prerequisite: Music 2231. Two and one-half class hours a week.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 2100 Selected Area for Special Study

In-depth study in areas of special interest. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

MUSIC 2110 Composition I

An intermediate course in contemporary music composition, with a 30-minute private lesson and weekly master class. Prerequisite: Music 130 or permission of instructor.

Credit 2 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM

MUSIC 2111 Composition

An intermediate course in contemporary music composition, with a 30-minute private lesson and weekly master class. Prerequisite: Music 229 or permission of instructor.

Credit 2 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM

MUSIC 2701 Jazz Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2702 Jazz Piano

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Piano

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2703 Jazz Strings

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2704 Jazz Voice

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2705 Jazz Winds and Percussion

Individual Applied Music-Jazz Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2706 Piano

Individual Applied Music -Piano

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2750 Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2751 Organ

Individual Applied Music -Organ

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2753 Strings

Individual Applied Music -Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2754 Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2755 Winds and Percussion

Individual Applied Music-Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2801 Symphony Orchestra

Performance and reading of works for orchestra. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: admission by audition. Two and one half class hours a week including sectionals.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2803 Wind Ensemble

Study and performance of works for wind ensemble. May be repeated for credit. 2.5 class hours per week, including sectionals. Admission by audition. To sign up for an audition, visit https://music.wustl.edu/lessons#

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2805 Jazz Band

Study of the literature of big band jazz. Concerts presented each semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: admission by audition. Two and one-half rehearsal hours a week.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2807 Concert Choir

Concert Choir takes an academic and artistic approach to the study and performance of choral literature from a variety of historic and modern sources. May be repeated for credit. Please see the department's website for audition dates.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2809 Chamber Choir

Study and performance of advanced repertoire for small vocal ensemble from Renaissance to the present. May be repeated for credit. Prereq: audition and consent of instructor.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2822 Small Chamber Ensembles

Students interested in performance of chamber music are organized into various ensembles and assigned a coach. A public chamber music concert is given once each semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: audition and permission of the instructor. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2824 Jazz Combo

Students interested in performance of jazz combos are organized into various ensembles and assigned a coach. A public jazz combo concert is given once each semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: audition and permission of the instructor. Students will be charged the Applied Music Fee according to our Lesson Fee and Rebates Policy (https://music.wustl.edu/rebates-fees-refund-policy), if applicable.

Credit 1 unit.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2993 Directed Internship

Students receive credit for a faculty-directed and approved internship, usually with a music professional or musical organization. The primary objective of the internship is to obtain professional experience outside the classroom. Students obtain a Learning Agreement from the Career Center and have it signed by the Career Center, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor, if appropriate. A final written project is to be agreed upon before work begins and will be evaluated by the faculty sponsor at the end of the internship. Credit should correspond to actual time spent in work activities; e.g., 8-10 hours per week for 13 or 14 weeks to receive 3 units of credit; 1 or 2 credits for fewer hours. Refer to ** section/faculty list at start of this departmental entry for faculty selections in this course.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2994 Performance Project

Students may contract with a faculty supervisor for credit for work on musical performance projects or research on musical performance. Contracts must be signed by the student, the faculty supervisor, and the department chair before the student's work on the project commences. Refer to ** section/faculty list at start of this departmental entry for faculty selections in this course.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 2996 Music Elective: 100-Level

Sophomore elective in Music.

Credit 3 units. EN: H

MUSIC 2998 Independent Study

Supervised independent study in areas in which there are no current course offerings. Student must submit to the department chair on outline of the work to be covered, the number of credit hours requested for the work, and the name of the instructor who will be asked to supervise the work. Class hours variable, depending on credit.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 2999 Independent Study

Supervised independent study in areas in which there are no current course offerings. Student must submit to the department chair an outline of the work to be covered, the number of credit hours requested for the work, and the name of the instructor who will be asked to supervise the work. Class hours variable, depending on credit.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3010 Music History I: Music in Europe From the Earliest Notation to 1700

A study of music history and literature from the Middle Ages to 1700. Composers treated include Machaut, Dufay, Josquin, Palestrina, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel, and Bach. Prereq: Music 121 or permission of the instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3014 Ethnomusicology

This course provides an introduction to the field of ethnomusicology, defined broadly as the study of music in-or as-culture or the study of people making music. We will explore the varied ethnographic, anthropological, historical, and music-analytical approaches that ethnomusicologists have employed to explain the vital role of music-making in diverse human societies. We will seek to understand the social significance of a variety of musical practices, drawing on ethnomusicological scholarship to address music's performance, circulation, and reception. Case studies from around the world will demonstrate the multiple ways that sound shapes-and is shaped by-issues of cultural practice and representation, ideologies of authenticity, intersectional identities, cultural memory, ideas and structures of tradition, colonialism and post-colonialism, transnationalism and globalization. Our case studies will introduce students to a number of important musical genres and traditions, including (in the order in which they appear in the class): Mbira (Zimbabwe), Andean Kena music (Peru), Jazz (U.S.), Samba (Brazil), Gamelan (Java), Funk (U.S.), Egyptian musics, Ottoman-Turkish classical music, Karnatic Music (South India), Gisaeng music (Korea), Ngoma (South Africa), Agbekor (Ghana), Hip Hop (U.S.), and Noise (Japan).

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3015 American Popular Music and Media

This course considers the history of American popular music as delivered by successive mass media platforms in the industrial and post-industrial eras: from mass-produced sheet music in the mid nineteenth century to digital music and video on the internet. Historical contextualization and in depth analysis of musical scores and various kinds of audio recordings and audiovisual texts will be at the center of the course. Topics to be considered include: the history of sound recording technologies and formats; the role of electronic mass media structures (radio, film, television, the internet); urbanization, national commercial music centers (New York, Hollywood, Nashville), and the importance of regional sounds in a national context; the formation and transformation of select genres (rock, country, various black musics); legal frameworks relating to music as a commodity (copyright, sampling); the impact of visual media on music dissemination, performance, and meanings; and how recorded media of all kinds have transformed the act of listening. Issues of race, gender, sexuality, personal, and national identity will be considered across the course.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 3016 Topics in Music History and Culture

This course looks at how race has shaped the careers of performers of musical theatre in Europe and the US from the eighteenth-century to today. European and American opera and Broadway musicals will be considered side by side, as will the performance of white, Black, Asian, and Latino identities. Of particular interest are the changing (and stubbornly unchanging) standards and stereotypes that shape individual performing careers in different times and places.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3017 Music History III: Classical Music in Flux, 1850 to the Present

A study of music history and literature from 1850 to the present. Composers treated include Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Copland, Shostakovich, Cage, Reich, and Gubaidulina. Prerequisites: L27 3012 or L27 122C.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3021 Music of the African Diaspora

This course explores musical cross-fertilization between the African continent and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Beginning with traditional musics from selected regions of the African continent, the course examines the cultural and musical implications of transnational musical flows on peoples of the African diaspora and their multicultural audiences.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 3034 Roots of Lofi Hip Hop: Amateur Music Making, Recording Technology, and Globalization

Lofi hip hop is a style of music made by amateur beatmakers that mixes Japanese and African American aesthetics. It relies on anime visuals, scratchy jazz samples, and repetitive drum loops. It serves primarily as background music. This course is about the sounds and popularity of lofi hip hop in the twenty-first century. But to understand this genre, students will also focus on the genre's roots. We learn about French composers' early attempts to create background music at the turn of the twentieth century. We learn about American teenagers who took over their suburban garages to create an energetic style of rock and roll during the 1960s. We learn about how anthropologists during the 1930s thought that low fidelity recordings of blues and country musicians was evidence of their musical authenticity. And we will learn about how jazz harmonies and samples influenced the music of groups like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. Lofi gives us a jumping off point for exploring a wide range of genres and histories. The final assignment will be a collaborative effort. As a class, students will make and publish a podcast about lofi hip hop and its antecedents. This podcast will feature original lofi hip hop made by the class. The original music will also serve as background music to a study-session event organized by the class towards the end of the semester.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3035 Music and Queer Performance

This course examines how music serves as a delightful site for performing, negotiating, and living queerness. Some questions we will ask include: How does queer musical performance inhabit the full gamut between conformity and subversion, irony and sincerity, or camp and authenticity? How do performers use or resist tropes of belonging, passing, and coming out to constitute queer performance? How do singers manipulate the sound of their voice, the gendered associations carried by that sound, and the assumptions about the body which produces it? Are queer musical acts a mode of performance or a way of being, and who decides? We will analyze a range of examples from the past and from contemporary popular culture: soft masculinities, cowboy and country personas, cross-dressing in music theater, lip-syncing drag queens and kings, high-femme divas, and performers of androgynous, cyborg, and post-human aesthetics. The parameters for what counts as queer performance are capacious, and students will have plenty of opportunities to contribute their own examples and case studies to the course.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3036 The Voice, Gender, & Sexuality in Music & Media

Voices are central to our lives, but overflow with oft-unexamined meanings. How do we parse the connection between a voice and a body? How do ideas about what constitutes good singing change over time? What does our interpretation of a voice reveal about us as listeners? This course investigates the deep connections of gender and sexuality to the voice from European music history to contemporary century American culture. Rather than taking a chronological approach, we will investigate similar phenomena from disparate places and times. For instance, we will study castrati and the BeeGees in the same week, considering how men who sing higher than we think they should unlocks a host of historically contingent desires and anxieties. Student from any discipline are welcome in this course; musical knowledge will be built and not assumed. Although we will focus on the voice in music, we will also consider adjacent media that particularly center the voice, specifically film and ASMR. Note: Although we will focus on gender and sexuality, it is impossible to properly handle gender and sexuality without considering how other identity factors (race, class, ability, etc.) influence our perception of voice, gender, and sexuality. I welcome your input on adding these factors to our discussions as much as possible.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM

MUSIC 3041 Music of the Caribbean

Wanna get away? This and other tourism slogans depend on a popular conception of regions such as the Caribbean as distant and desirable, simple places out of sync with the modern world. This course critiques constructions of the Caribbean through engaging ethnomusicological literature representing the diversity of the region. It is a topical appraisal of Caribbean music, emphasizing history and memory, tourism, and cultural influence. The chosen readings are not meant to represent the entire region; rather, they are intended to prompt ideas and questions about regional discourses.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3070 Jazz in American Culture

This course will address the role of jazz within the context of twentieth-century African American and American cultural history, with particular emphasis on the ways in which jazz has shaped, and has been shaped by, ideas about race, gender, economics, and politics. We will make use of recordings and primary sources from the 1910s to the present in order to address the relationship between jazz performances and critical and historical thinking about jazz. This course in not a survey, and students should already be familiar with basic jazz history.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3110 Music of the 1960's

The music of the 1960s played a significant and widely noted role in an era of global political and social upheaval. This course surveys a broad range of music produced during the decade, spanning the world but with emphasis on Anglo-American popular music. While a music course traditionally deals with a single genre such as world music, classical, or jazz, this course will analyze several genres together to show how each influenced the others and how all were informed by broader social and cultural concerns. The course thus will both familiarize students with diverse musical traditions and introduce them to a new way of thinking about music and culture. Topics to be discussed include the transnational music industry; the contested concept of folk and traditional music; music and political protest; music and migration; and music's relation to ethnic and class identity.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 3150 The Science of Singing

Introductory look at the physiology and acoustics of singing. Topics we will study include how the voice works in general and the different ways individual singers use their voices; how understanding this science can improve one's singing; how to maintain vocal health; how the voice changes across the lifespan; and psychological aspects of performing. The ability to read music is not required for this course.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: NSM Art: NSM BU: SCI

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3160 Music, Sound, and the Body

How do musicians use their bodies when creating music? How do audiences, listeners, and dancers feel music in their bodies and contribute to making sound? This course explores embodied perspectives on making, sensing, and moving to music and sound. Examining theories of the body and the senses as they relate to sound practices, the course draws on scholarship from ethnomusicology, anthropology, sound, dance and performance studies, music cognition and other fields. Case studies include EDM, reggae, and salsa dance; Afro-Brazilian and Buddhist religious practices; and music healing and therapy. Because centering the body means considering lived experience along intersecting axes of difference, course readings and discussions will focus on issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Students will develop their own ethnographic project, and they will be asked to participate in music-movement workshops throughout the course. However, neither previous dance experience nor normative bodily ability are required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 3190 Jazz Improvisation I

An introduction to improvising music in the jazz tradition, including diatonic and chromatic harmony, extended chords, modes, and jazz scales. Exercises in basic aspects of the blues and in the styles of be-bop and modern jazz. PREREQ: Music 121J or permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3291 Music Theory IV: Topics in Music Theory

A synthesis of the knowledge gained in Theory I-III as it applies to the detailed analysis of 18th and 19th and selected 20th-century works (Bach through Bartok). PREREQ: Music 221C.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3300 Music Cognition

An introduction to modern research on music perception and cognition. The course covers four main topics: the perception of key, the psychoacoustics of dissonance, the relationship between attention and musical meter, and the process by which melodies establish, fulfill, and deny expectations. Students read and discuss research from both cognitive science and music theory, in addition to completing several projects.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: NSM Art: NSM

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3310 Computational Models of Music Theory and Cognition

We will study computational models that simulate the perception of several aspects of music: phase structure, meter, melody, key, harmony, counterpoint, and texture. In addition to reading about and discussing these models, students will work with them directly by running them on their own. We will also spend some class time on perceptual experiments related to the models we study. Although the course will focus on models of perception, emphasis will be placed on ones that are also pertinent to music theory, and these connections will be discussed.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3320 Advanced Musicianship

Individualized instruction in advanced ear training, sight singing, and dictation skills. Prerequisite: Music 2241

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3340 Compositional Craft in Film Scores and Musical Theatre

This course examines compositional techniques and aesthetics in two forms of popular music: film/television scores and musical theatre. Popular songs and other musical works associated with film, television, and musicals are analyzed from multiple perspectives, giving students insight into the sonic, visual, and dramatic techniques employed by major composers. Students engage with the material in rigorous yet practical ways, from analytical projects to deep-listening exercises. This approach emphasizes sonic experience and situated musicianship as the primary means of accessing complex concepts from music theory.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3350 Music Arranging for the Multi-Genre Artist

This course examines the practice of music arranging for numerous applications including ensembles in jazz, rock, pop, a cappella, classical music, new music, and new media. Students analyze musical scores for small and large groups and compose arrangements in a variety of genres. Also learned are instrumentation, vocal ranges, basic orchestration, idiomatic instrumental techniques, chord voicings, and textures, all in the contexts of specific styles and genres. Overall, the course provides an introduction to industry-standard techniques of music arranging.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

MUSIC 3360 The Art of Popular Song: From Folk and Musical Theatre to Rock and Contemporary A Capella

This course explores the art of songwriting through the lens of American popular music. Students examine landmark songs from multiple eras and create their own original songs in a variety of styles from the precursors of American music to folk, rock, pop, rhythm and blues, Broadway, and a cappella. The course materials include applied popular music theory while examining the musical languages of each genre. Through composing and arranging, listening and analysis, students gain insight into the sonic structure and cultural significance of popular music. The course also responds to students' individual interests and performance backgrounds, offering opportunities to write music for vocal ensembles, singer-songwriter formats, bands and electronic media. Traditional composition and contemporary production practices are examined in detail as students learn to critically listen and find their personal musical styles.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3370 Towards a New Music

Towards a New Music addresses the numerous possibilities for emerging music, including future musics in a reimagined world of the nature of music itself. In our study, music is situated as part of a web of metapatterns that explain the structure and nature of musical materials, the actions in composition and improvisation, and musical phenomena. Students are placed on a listener's journey of discovery to find the nature of music through philosophy, cognitive science, mathematics, biology, architecture and the structure of sound itself. Music theory topics both simple and advanced are discussed in ways appropriate for the novice as well as the advanced student. The course functions as a music theory and music literature study through the lens of the humanities. The course embraces both culture and nature, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help explain the qualities of our musical endeavor. The course begins with the archetypal patterns of space, both structural/formal and relational, and then turns to the concepts that infuse the workings of time: a virtual sonic reality of space and time and the mind of music, revealed in thought-provoking and new contexts.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3400 Instrumentation and Orchestration

A study of the principles of instrumentation and orchestration. In-class assignments will aid in the understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the orchestral instruments. Analysis of orchestral scores will provide insight into efficient and creative use of the orchestra. Prerequisite: Music 121C or permission of the instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM

MUSIC 3430 Advanced Composition Workshop I

A more advanced course in contemporary music composition, with a 50-minute private lesson and weekly master class. Prerequisite: Music 230 or permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 3431 Advanced Composition Workshop

A more advanced course in contemporary music composition, with a 50-minute private lesson and weekly master class.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3550 Interactivity and DSP: Laptop Music

This course is a project-based exploration of interactive laptop music using the Max/MSP programming environment. (Laptop not required; we have class desktops that will work too.) It will cover the composition of interactive computer music as well as the theory and application of MIDI, synthesis, and digital signal processing. We will learn through weekly programming exercises, readings and tutorials, and engagement with scores, recordings, and software. For Midterm and Final Projects, students will design digital instruments and compose interactive pieces for the class to play as an ad hoc laptop ensemble. Both pieces will be planned in advance and workshopped in class throughout the semester. By permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3701 Jazz Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3702 Jazz Piano

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Piano

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3703 Jazz Strings

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3704 Jazz Voice

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3705 Jazz Winds and Percussion

Individual Applied Music-Jazz Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3750 Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3751 Organ

Individual Applied Music -Organ

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3752 Piano

Individual Applied Music -Piano

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3753 Strings

Individual Applied Music -Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3754 Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3755 Winds and Percussion

Individual Applied Music-Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 3950 The American Musical Film

Film musicals were crucial to the success of the American film industry from the dawn of sound film in the late 1920s to the demise of the studio system in the late 1950s. This course examines the American film musical from a variety of aesthetic, critical, and historical perspectives, with particular attention to how the genre interacted with popular music and dance and the major political and social trends of the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties. REQUIRED SCREENING: [day, time].

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 3962 Independent Study

Supervised independent study in areas in which there are no current course offerings. Student must submit to the department chair an outline of the work to be covered, the number of credit hours requested for the work, and the name of the instructor who will be asked to supervise the work. Class hours variable, depending on credit. Refer to ** section/faculty list at start of this departmental entry for faculty selection.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 3996 Music Elective: 300-Level

Junior elective in Music.

Credit 3 units. EN: H

MUSIC 3999 Independent Study

Supervised independent study in areas in which there are no current course offerings. Student must submit to the department chair an outline of the work to be covered, the number of credit hours requested for the work, and the name of the instructor who will be asked to supervise the work. Class hours variable, depending on credit. Refer to ** section/faculty list at start of this departmental entry for faculty selection.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4001 Elementary Technique of Electronic Music: Synth Lab

Individual and small group instruction in classical procedures and relevant electronic technology. Prerequisite: open to music majors; to others by permission of instructor. Credit contingent upon completion of Mus 402.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 4002 Advanced Techniques in Electronic Music: Studio Songwriting

How does the act of recording and manipulating sound change the way we write songs? How can the tones and moods of a recording interact with notes and rhythms and words? We'll look for answers through experiments in composition, collaboration, and critical listening. Topics will include beatmaking, sound collage, vocal manipulations, sampling, and virtual spaces. Formal training is not required, though we will engage (and learn) basic music theory concepts. PREREQ: permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall

MUSIC 4008 Music in the Romantic Era: Aesthetics and Ideologies

This course explores pivotal developments in 19th-century thinking about music's cultural and aesthetic significance -- developments that reverberate well beyond that historical period. Rather than surveying repertoire, we will emphasize in-depth exploration of selected issues and music, reading important contemporary writings and grappling with challenging musical works. Our topics will include discourses about musical interiority, the post-Beethovenian symphony, the Lied tradition, performance aesthetics and the creative agency of the performer, intersections of music and literature, and canon formation and its consequences. Our topics will include, to cite but a few examples, discourses about musical interiority, the post-Beethovenian symphony, the Lied tradition, performance aesthetics and the creative agency of the performer, intersections of music and literature, and canon formation and its consequences.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 4108 Composition

Concentrated independent work in composition and a weekly master class for experienced composers. Prerequisite: Music 330 or permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4109 Composition

Concentrated independent work in composition and a weekly master class for experienced composers. Prerequisite: Music 429 or permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 4141 Analysis II

Continuation of Music 423, concentrating on approaches to larger and more complex works of classically tonal music, including 18th-century symphonies and string quartets, late works by Beethoven, chamber music and symphonies of Brahms and symphonies of Mahler. Prerequisite: Mus 423 or permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 4162 Divas, Monsters, Material Girls: Women in Music Videos

The stark black and white of Madonna's Vogue and the pinks and sparkles of Material Girl. The lavish cinematic spectacle of Lady Gaga's Telephone and the thinkpiece-launching intertextuality of Ariana Grande's thank u next. The explosive surprise releases of Beyoncé's BEYONCÉ and Lemonade visual albums. Since MTV's advent in 1981, hit music videos have made a number of pop songs inextricable from the iconic imagery of their videos; ubiquitous digital devices and the rise of YouTube have only increased pop music's audiovisuality. Looking at and listening to female pop icons raises fraught questions of agency, representation, race, sexuality/sexualization, bodies, commodification, and capital. In this course, students will gain a vocabulary for talking about both the audio and visual parameters of music videos, and they will use this vocabulary to engage with critical frameworks for examining meaning, circulation, and reception in contemporary music videos. Assignments across the course will allow students to experiment with a range of writing and media genres, from critical close readings, micro-reception histories, mock (or real) thinkpieces, podcast episodes, and video essays.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: CPSC, HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 4190 Selected Areas for Special Study I

Over the past several years, many disciplinary calls to examine the imperial legacies of musicological knowledge production have coalesced under the banner of Global Music History: to decenter Euro-American frameworks of nation-bounded historiography, and renew attention upon more-than-Eurocentric music and sound practices that comprise, connect, and constitute the globe. This seminar introduces the many facets of what this "global turn" can mean for scholars of Music Studies working in Euro-American academia. How does thinking globally differ from regional, comparative, networked, transnational, or cross-boundary modes of inquiry? What can we learn from the aspirations and failures of totalizing projects from our discipline's intellectual past, such as eighteenth-century universal histories of music and nineteenth-century comparative musicology? How do we democratize the material wealth, visibility, and perceived prestige of Euro-American channels of knowledge production for the benefit of scholars of the Global South, without becoming gatekeepers of institutional power? What is (or ought to be) the standard for "decolonization" on Global Music History's horizon? Ultimately, the course aims to demonstrate how "the global turn" is not simply an inclusionary call for the study of musics traditionally outside the realm of Musicology, but that thinking at the global register could be a new conceptual lens of relevance to any existing research project in music and sound.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 4191 Music Ethnography and Fieldwork Methodologies

Credit 3 units.

MUSIC 4225 Selected Areas for Special Study

In-depth study in areas of special interest. Prerequisite: senior standing, graduate standing, or permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4311 Black Experimental Music

Founded on the South Side of Chicago in 1965, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) united dozens of African American artists who were interested in experimental approaches to composition and improvisation. Their creative work, often described as black experimental music, would transform black-identified musical styles like jazz as well as white-identified styles of experimental concert music from which African Americans were often excluded-until the AACM intervened. In this course, we will investigate the Association's history by reading and discussing a wide range of texts about the organization, including books and articles written by AACM members themselves. We will also examine a number of important recordings and musical scores created by AACM artists, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Fred Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Joseph Jarman, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

Typical periods offered: Spring

MUSIC 4560 Soundtrack Studies: Music Voices, Noise

This course considers the interaction of film, sound, and music from the silent era to the present by screening representative films from around the world and exploring current directions in scholarship from the disciplines of film studies and musicology. Topics to be discussed include: historical and critical understandings of the sound track, major film sound theorists (such as Michel Chion), technological shifts (such as synchronized sound, Dolby, and digital surround sound), the uses of Richard Wagner (both his music and his ideas), the relationship between a film genre (noir) and sound and music and the relationship between a musical genre (opera) and film, and the juxtaposition of popular and classical, Western and non-Western musical styles in art cinema. Films to be screened include Meek's Cutoff, Blow Out, Days of Heaven, Sous le toits de Paris, Love Me Tonight, Casablanca, Alien, Apocalypse Now, La cérémonie, Le Cercle rouge, The Pillow Book, The Scent of Green Papaya, and The Bourne Ultimatum. The course is in seminar format. Readings from recent scholarly work on film sound and music will inform class discussions of the films to be screened. Close analysis of how music, sound, and image interact in film making and the film experience lies at the heart of the course. The ability to read music is not required. A primary goal of the course will be the development of specific listening skills that are useful when working in this area. Targeted writing assignments will ask students to write about film sound and music from a variety of critical and historical perspectives. Pre-requisites: graduate status or completion of The History of the Film Score (FMS 360 / AMCS 360 / MUS 328) and permission of the instructor. REQUIRED SCREENING:

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

MUSIC 4701 Jazz Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4702 Jazz Piano

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Piano

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4703 Jazz Strings

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4704 Jazz Voice

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Voice

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4705 Jazz Winds and Percussion

Individual Applied Music -Jazz Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4750 Guitar

Individual Applied Music -Guitar

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4751 Organ

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4752 Piano

Individual Applied Music -Piano

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4753 Strings

Individual Applied Music -Strings.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4754 Voice

Voice.

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4755 Winds and Percussion

Winds and Percussion

Credit 2 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4971 Senior Capstone: Musicology or Analysis

Supervised research in music history or analysis culminating in a major paper. Required of Bachelor of Music students whose program focuses on music history or analysis. Prerequisite: senior standing.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4972 Senior Capstone: Performance, Composition, or Theory

Supervised work in performance, composition or theory culminating in some combination of a paper, composition, and/or performance. Required of Bachelor of Music students whose program focuses on performance, composition or theory. Prerequisite: senior standing.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4973 Senior Honors Capstone: Musicology or Analysis

Prerequisite: senior standing, a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and permission of the faculty supervisor, director of undergraduate studies, and the chair of the department.

Credit 3 units. EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4974 Honors Capstone: Performance, Composition, or Theory

Prerequisite: senior standing, a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and permission of the faculty supervisor, the director of undergraduate studies, and the chair of the department.

Credit 3 units. EN: H

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring

MUSIC 4996 Music Elective: 400-Level

Senior elective in Music.

Credit 3 units. EN: H

MUSIC 4999 Independent Study

This course is for independent study in Music.

Credit 3 units.

Typical periods offered: Fall, Spring