music theory, music analysis, rhythmic theory, music and text, song analysis, German Lied, Jewish music, klezmer music, schema theory, analytical approaches to world music
JWST 4122 - Music in Jewish Culture
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Introduces students to a wide range of musical styles, traditions, genres, performers, composers, events and works that are part of Jewish culture, focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Provides tools for understanding music on its own and in connection with issues of identity, diaspora, memory and liturgy. Includes opportunities for creative and critical engagement with Jewish music. Same as MUSC 4122.
MUEL 1081 - Basic Music Theory
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Summer 2023
Introduction to music notation, meter and rhythm, scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, fundamentals of harmonic progression, voice leading, aural skills and composition. For nonmusic majors who have little or no previous background in the subject.
MUSC 1101 - Semester 1 Theory
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Fall 2022
Introduces the fundamentals of diatonic harmony and voice leading, focusing on model composition (including one-, two- and four-voice writing) and analysis of excerpts from music literature. Offered fall only.
MUSC 1111 - Semester 2 Theory
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Continuation of MUSC 1101. Explores principles of harmony, voice leading and form. Continues emphasis on both model composition and analysis. Introduces chromatic elements (such as applied dominants and modulation), harmonic syntax and structural analysis of excerpts from music literature. Offered spring only.
MUSC 4122 - Music in Jewish Culture
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Introduces students to a wide range of musical styles, traditions, genres, performers, composers, events and works that are part of Jewish culture, focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Provides tools for understanding music on its own and in connection with issues of identity, diaspora, memory and liturgy. Includes opportunities for creative and critical engagement with Jewish music. Same as JWST 4122.
MUSC 4151 - Topics in Music Analysis
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Fall 2021
Examines critically a specific topic or repertory, such as Song Analysis or Music of Brahms. Uses readings and analyses, with grades to be determined from reading responses, analytical assignments and writing. Offered fall of even-numbered years.
MUSC 5061 - Advanced Tonal Analysis
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2020
Surveys tonal repertory and analytical techniques. Student must have passed general written theory and aural skills preliminary exam or completed remediation before enrolling in course.
MUSC 6801 - Advanced Topics in Music Theory
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Spring 2019 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Intensive study of a specialized topics in theory and analysis through critical reading and analysis, class presentations and independent research. Student must have passed graduate preliminary exams and completed 6 credits hours of graduate-level theory before enrolling in course. Instructor determined prerequisite will be enforced as appropriate to the topic.
