Scales, chords, harmonic progressions, transposition, and simple pieces. Warren Lecture Hall 2005. A one-quarter course designed to discover musical potential and expand musical experience. No knowledge of music, notation, or instrumental skill is necessary. Small lab sessions present music through composing, improvising, and performing.
Results take the form of works for tape, theatre, voices, or instruments.
Mandeville B-202 Lectures and listening sessions devoted to the most significant works of music realized through the use of computers and other electronic devices from the middle of this century through the present. A focus on music of Africa and on African ways of music-making in the Diaspora to the Caribbean, and North and South America. This course examines the role and significance of music in feature films, along with an overview the history, techniques, and theories of film music. The purpose of the course will be to learn film-listening and analytic skills and to devlop an increased awareness of the critical yet often overlooked significance of music in the cinema. Mandeville 127 Study of the materials and structures of music through hearing, analysis, writing, and performance.