Presentations in this course will prepare students for demonstrating oral competency. Every third semester. Presentations in this course will prepare students for demonstrating oral competency. Every third semester. An explorative study and analysis of the symphonic and chamber music literature of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Course includes listening, concert attendance, readings and lectures.
An introduction to opera, the lyric theatre and oratorio through listening, readings, lectures and appropriate concert attendance. A study of the development of jazz from its roots in ragtime and blues forms through contemporary acoustic and electroacoustic jazz styles. Every other Fall. The continued study of linear improvisation, with additional emphasis on motivic development, superimposition and displacement of rhythmic elements, solo transcription analysis, and sophisticated compositional structures. Every other Spring.