Composition may be pursued by students at various levels of expertise and training. Open to first-year students. Computers, Music, and the Arts. Topics include digital synthesis, sampling, MIDI communications, simple programming, and the aesthetics of art made with computers. No computing experience is presumed, and the course is especially designed for students in the arts who wish to learn about new tools.
Work produced in the course is performed in concert.
Enrollment is limited to 18. Music Literature of the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. A survey of music up to ca. 1600, beginning with an examination of sacred and secular monophony, and continuing with the emergence of polyphony in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and its development in such forms as chanson, madrigal, mass, and motet to the end of the sixteenth century. Emphasis on works by such composers as Dunstable, Dufay, Josquin, and Palestrina.