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2016-2017 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 32-1628 The Chicago Blues Scene: From the Past to Preservation

    Course surveys the past, present, and future of the blues and the impact Chicago, as the Blues Capital, has had on the world culturally, sociologically, and economically. This course will give students the opportunity to study the living tradition of the blues through readings, videos, live performances, and the music itself. The class will feature workshop sessions where students perform some of the compositions they’ve encountered.

    3 Credits
  

  • 32-1629J The Blues: Chicago to the Mississippi Delta

    Course requires that students travel to Memphis, Tennessee, and Clarksdale, Mississippi for 5 days to examine the sociological, musicological, and historical relationship between the Chicago (urban) and Mississippi (rural) blues experience. Through lectures, performances, site visits, and keeping an ethnographic journal, students will gather knowledge about rural blues and gain a comprehension of its creation and performance from an ethnographic perspective. Some students may perform on the trip, if the composition of enrolled students allows. Students will write a paper based upon their journals and experiences of the trip.

    1 Credits
  

  • 32-1631 Jazz Scenes: Chicago and Beyond

    For nearly a century, Chicago has been at the center of the international jazz landscape. This course traces the spread of jazz practice around the world while highlighting the special contributions of Chicago musicians. Through focused listening and discussion, students will learn how to listen to jazz and describe what they hear. Through reading, writing, and research, they will explore the past and present of this vibrant tradition that is intensely local in its practice yet global in its reach.

    3 Credits
  

  • 32-1651 Introduction to Musics of the World

    Course examines musical traditions from around the world. Many kinds of music are considered, including folk genres, contemporary popular styles, and court and classical traditions. It examines music as a vital component in culture and lived experience. It considers the roles music plays in national society and public culture, and it develops students’ musical vocabularies, teaching them to listen analytically. Classroom instruction will include discussions, lectures, films, and recordings.

    3 Credits
    GA
  

  • 32-1700 Introductory Private Voice

    This course is to be taken concurrently with Techniques in Singing I or Fundamentals of Musical Theatre Singing.  It provides a small group studio experience for each session.  Application of vocal exercises and selection of songs in appropriate styles and keys supplement the classroom experience while preparing singers for primary voice lessons.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    COREQUISITES: 32-1511 Techniques in Singing I  or 32-1540 Fundamentals of Musical Theatre Singing  
  

  • 32-1771 Primary Lessons, Level 1

    This course offers private instruction in voice or primary instrument for students registered in at least one other music course concurrently. The course is repeatable, but requires authorization by an area coordinator for first-time enrollment.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1771 Primary Lessons, Level 1
  

  • 32-1772 Secondary Lessons

    This course offers small group instruction in voice or instrument and is repeatable. Authorization by an area coordinator is required for first-time enrollment.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1772 Secondary Lessons
  

  • 32-1791 Beginning Primary Composition Lessons

    This course offers beginning private iinstruction in composition for music students. Instructors are available for 14 hour-long sessions per semester or the equivalent.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1791 Beginning Primary Composition Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance  
  

  • 32-1792 Beginning Secondary Composition Lessons

    This course offers beginning private instruction in composition for students enrolled inprimary lessons concurrently. Instructors are available for 14 30-minute sessions per semester or the equivalent.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1792 Beginning Secondary Composition Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance  
  

  • 32-1890 Ensemble: Style & Technique

    Ensemble course is an introductory-level performance class for instrumentalists and/or vocalists. Repertoire is drawn from foundation-level material appropriate to the style. Ensembles are an integral component of the music program, focusing on musicianship as it applies to technical ability, music literacy, theory, history, and aural skills. Students regularly apply ensemble awareness and effective rehearsal and performance techniques, building confidence in their own abilities and in their ability to function as an effective team.

    1 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 32-1911 Digital Music Production I

    This course introduces students to writing, producing and performing music in the digital workspace, with a focus on club-based genres such as Techno, House and Hip-Hop. The course will trace the historical roots of dance music and club culture from its earliest incarnations in radio, through Northern Soul, Disco, Garage, Hip-Hop, House, Techno, etc. Students will apply various software and hardware combinations to create basic arrangements through regular project work. The course includes a final-project finished track.

    3 Credits
  

  • 32-1915 Technology for Musicians I

    This course introduces the student to the various technology tools that will be used in courses throughout the music program. Topics will include softwares for score and lead sheet preparation, and an introduction to music creation in digital environments using virtual instruments, soft-synths, and the digital/audio workstation.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1120 Theory I  and 32-1110 Aural Skills I  
  

  • 32-2111 Aural Skills II

    This course applies knowledge obtained in Aural Skills I with extensive sightsinging and dictation of rhythmic exercises and diatonic melodies in one and two parts. Major, minor, and modal scales are explored as are more sophisticated rhythmic values and time signatures. Students perform a diatonic melody in major or minor without the aid of an instrument, sightsing a diatonic melody in major or minor, and sing a melody while playing a simple accompaniment on the piano.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I  COREQUISITES: 32-1131 Keyboard I  
  

  • 32-2112 Aural Skills III

    This course continues development of skills acquired in Aural Skills II with extensive dictation and sightsinging of melody and rhythm in one, two, three, and four parts. Non-diatonic melodies as well as compound meters and polymeters are explored. Students perform seventh chord inversions, chromatic melody in major, minor, or any mode without aid of an instrument; sightsing a chromatic melody in major, minor, or any mode; and sing a melody while playing a two-hand accompaniment on the piano.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II  COREQUISITES: 32-1132 Keyboard II  
  

  • 32-2113 Aural Skills IV

    This course continues development of skills acquired in Aural Skills III with extensive dictation and sightsinging of melodies and rhythms that include current musical procedures. Students perform one, two, three, and four part music containing chromatics, seventh chords, and mixed meters; sightsing a melody employing mixed meters; and sing a melody while playing an accompaniment that includes chromatics, seventh chords, and mixed meters.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2112 Aural Skills III 
  

  • 32-2121 Theory II

    Theory II continues development of material taught in Theory I (32-1120). New topics include modulation, binary and ternary forms, modal mixture, the Neapolitan sixth, augmented sixth chords, chromatic harmony and voice leading. Students demonstrate mastery of the topics through written chord progressions in four-parts, harmonizing melodies, extensive in-class and written analysis.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1120 Theory I  or Music Theory Exam score >= 39 COREQUISITES:  32-1131 Keyboard I  
  

  • 32-2122 Theory III

    Theory III builds upon the previous two levels of analysis with a focus on form. Students expand their understanding of binary and ternary forms. New concepts include analysis of inventions, fugues, sonata, variations, and rondo forms. Popular music and various vocal forms are also explored. Extensive analysis focuses on art music or popular and jazz traditions depending upon the section. Students write in four-parts, explore phrase structure within the context of form and present extensive analysis including written papers and in-class presentations.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: Music Theory Exam score >= 39 or 32-2121 Theory II  COREQUISITES:  32-1132 Keyboard II  
  

  • 32-2133 Keyboard Harmony I

    This course teaches students to apply harmony and general theory to the piano keyboard. Students learn to play standard progressions of classical and jazz/pop styles in all major and minor keys using appropriate voicing. It extends its material to harmonization at sight, simple improvisation, and beat-chart and lead-sheet interpretation.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1132 Keyboard II  
  

  • 32-2134 Keyboard Harmony II

    This course, a continuation of Keyboard Harmony I, teaches students to perform complex chord progressions and chromatic modulation in a tonal and non-tonal setting. It emphasizes 20th century and contemporary harmony, in particular altered (extended), modal, and non-tonal harmony. Students complete several projects, including an advanced lead-sheet interpretation in contemporary style using extended and altered chords.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2133 Keyboard Harmony I 
  

  • 32-2211 Composition I: The Composer in the Modern World

    This introductory course in composition consists of three five-week modules. Each module introduces the students to the practical applications of composition skills in one of three media: film, video games and theatre. Students compose short assignments in electronic medium for each module. Course introduces students to the basic materials of music composition: pitch, rhythm and timbre; and the uses of music as atmospheric and dramatic elements in these and other media.

    3 Credits
    CONCURRENT: 32-2910 Notation and Recording Lab  COREQUISITES: 32-1120 Theory I  
  

  • 32-2212 Composition II

    This course introduces composing for acoustic instruments; continues the application of the materials of music and introduces modern techniques and practices in  composition; teaches how to build melodic phrases and how to compose two and three-part forms. The final project sets text to music for voice and piano.  Works are recorded; the best pieces are performed in a public concert  at the end of the semester.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2211 Composition I: The Composer in the Modern World 
  

  • 32-2221 Songwriting I

    Workshop course examines the craft of popular songwriting from a historical perspective with a practical viewpoint. Course is designed for composers and lyricists who are already writing and wish to broaden their understanding of the craft. Collaborations between composers and lyricists within this workshop are encouraged.

    3 Credits
    COREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II  and 32-2121 Theory II 
  

  • 32-2250 Fundamentals of Arranging

    This course examines basic fundamentals of arranging and orchestration, including acoustic and electronic instruments, their ranges and characteristics. Students will learn to construct basic lead-sheet arrangements and create arrangements for large and small ensembles in various genres. Final projects will be performed by an ensemble of live instrumentalists with optional vocals.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II  and 32-2121 Theory II  
  

  • 32-2251 Orchestration I

    This course examines all instruments of the orchestra with respect to range, capability, and characteristics of timbre. Students arrange piano scores for smaller ensembles during four in-class workshops where players sight read students’ arrangements. Coursework includes preparation of scores and parts critiqued by instructor and participants.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2121 Theory II  and 32-2111 Aural Skills II 
  

  • 32-2255 Jazz Arranging I

    Students will apply their theoretical skills to arrange music for contemporary small ensembles.  This course is a study in writing and analyzing chord progressions, melodic inventions, form, use of the chief wind instruments (trumpet, trombone, and saxophone) and rhythm instruments (piano, guitar, bass, drums) score layout, transposition, preparation of parts, span, weight, and density.  This course is a part of a sequence for music majors.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2381 Techniques for Improvisation I  and 32-2121 Theory II 
  

  • 32-2261 Digital Music Composition and Performance I

    This course develops the foundational skills and knowledge necessary for the creative use of technology in music composition and performance. Students will learn the basics of electroacoustic music, object-oriented computer programming, psychoacoustics, and live and automated manipulation of audio as it relates to sound production and music composition. This course will give students an understanding of the technology essential to today’s composer/performer in a hands-on environment that emphasizes the immediate creative application of new knowledge.

    3 Credits
  

  • 32-2310 Pop/Jazz Keyboard: Styles and Harmony

    This course applies topics covered in Theory, Harmony, and Analysis classes to the keyboard, while concentrating on styles and voicings common to popular and jazz idioms. Course further develops the student’s facility for the keyboard as both a creative and interpretive tool.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1132 Keyboard II 
  

  • 32-2323 Guitar Techniques III

    Advanced level course is for the contemporary guitarist. It is designed to expand the student’s knowledge of linear, harmonic, and sightreading techniques and to prepare the student for advanced work in jazz and contemporary idioms.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1322 Guitar Techniques II 
  

  • 32-2381 Techniques for Improvisation I

    This is an introductory study in improvisation.  Students in this course will explore standard jazz and contemporary repertoire through application of theoretical and technical concepts. This course is a part of a sequence for music majors.   Students will apply the methods taught in this class in their private study.

    3 Credits
    COREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I  and 32-1120 Theory I  
  

  • 32-2382 Techniques for Improvisation II

    This is an intermediate study in improvisation. Students in this course will explore standard jazz and contemporary repertoire through application of theoretical and technical concepts. This course is a part of a sequence for music majors. Students must pass a scale proficiency test and improvisation final to enroll in the next level. Students will apply the methods taught in this class in their private study.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2381 Techniques for Improvisation I 
  

  • 32-2411 Fundamentals of Conducting

    This course focuses on physical technique of conductor: beat patterns, preparatory beats, cutoffs, and gestures for dynamics, tempo, and character. Students conduct one another in a varied repertoire of vocal, choral, and instrumental music. Through ear training exercises, students also drill the ability to accurately hear several musical lines simultaneously. Students learn rehearsal techniques, how to study and memorize a score, and how to organize and plan performances for a music ensemble.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES:32-2122 Theory III 
  
  

  • 32-2522 Styles & Methods for Contemporary Singers

    This course, for the intermediate contemporary singer, focuses on how to identify, analyze, and communicate a variety of musical singing styles and demonstrate this knowledge through oral and written reports. Topics include lyric analysis and interpretation, stage presence, microphone technique, beginning improvisation techniques, and communicating with an audience. Emphasis is on communication skills, effective rehearsal procedures, common music terminology, and the independent and collective roles of each member of a performance ensemble. It includes a combination of elements expected to increase the singer’s aptitude for participation in instrumental ensembles and as a solo performer.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES:  32-2512 Techniques in Singing II  
  

  • 32-2611 Music, Time, and Place I

    This course addresses ways in which music shapes and is shaped by its social, cultural, and historical contexts. Through reading, writing, and focused listening, students explore the range of philosophies undergirding diverse musical practices and the processes through which those philosophies change over time. Students examine the technical features of specific musical examples as they engage with the aesthetic and ideological issues animating musical practice. Section 01: Western classical tradition; Section 02: World music traditions; Section 03: cross-cultural themes.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II  and 32-2121 Theory II  
  

  • 32-2612 Music, Time, and Place II

    This course addresses the extraordinary social and cultural upheavals associated with music since 1900. Through reading, writing, and focused listening, students explore the range of challenges to the traditional high art canon asserted through new technologies, new philosophies, and the ascendency of African-American musical practices. While all sections examine a range of modern musical practices, specific sections focus on particular traditions. Section 01: European-derived composition (for composition and performance students); section 02: Jazz (for jazz and performance students); section 03: American popular music (for CUP and performance students).

    3 Credits
    WI
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II  and 32-2121 Theory II  
  

  • 32-2660 Special Topics in Musicology

    This repeatable course presents an in-depth series of special topics responding to student interests and current areas of emphasis in the field of musicology. The course will explore specific musical practices with focused attention paid to their aesthetic, ideological, social, methodological, and/or technological contexts. Topics may include: gender and sexuality in 21st century composition, rock mainstreams and undergrounds, the avant-garde, producers and mixers, music and postcolonialism, sacred music in the marketplace, among many others.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 32-2771 Primary Lessons, Level 2

    This course offers intermediate private instruction in voice or primary instrument for students registered in at least one other music course concurrently. The course is repeatable, but requires authorization by an area coordinator for first-time enrollment.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2771 Primary Lessons, Level 2
  

  • 32-2772 Intermediate Secondary Lessons

    This course offers intermediate private instruction in a secondary instrument or voice type for music students enrolled in primary lessons concurrently. Instructors are available for 14 30-minute sessions per semester or the equivalent.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2772 Intermediate Secondary Lessons CONCURRENT:  32-1000 Recital Attendance  
  

  • 32-2791 Composition Lessons, Level 1

    This course offers private instruction in composition for music students. Instructors are available for 14 fifty-minute sessions per semester or the equivalent. The course is repeatable, but requires authorization by an area coordinator for first-time enrollment.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2791 Composition Lessons, Level 1
    Requirements Department Permission OR
  

  • 32-2792 Secondary Composition Lessons

    This course offers intermediate private instruction in composition for students enrolled in primary lessons concurrently. Instructors are available for 14 30-minute sessions per semester or the equivalent.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2792 Secondary Composition Lessons
    Requirements Department Permission OR
  

  • 32-2890 Ensemble: Performance

    Ensemble course is an intermediate-level performance class for instrumentalists and/or vocalists. Repertoire is drawn from intermediate-to-moderately advanced-level material appropriate to the style. Ensembles are an integral component of the music program, focusing on musicianship as it applies to technical ability, music literacy, theory, history, and aural skills. Students regularly apply ensemble awareness and effective rehearsal and performance techniques, building confidence in their own abilities and in their ability to function as an effective team.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Audition Required
  

  • 32-2910 Notation and Recording Lab

    This course is a computer lab component, taken in conjunction with Composition I. The Lab class (1 hour per week) introduces students to the rules and protocols of score preparation, basic audio recording and video synchronization techniques.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    COREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I  and 32-1120 Theory I  
  

  • 32-2912 Digital Music Production II

    This course focuses on intermediate to advanced concepts of writing, producing and performing music in the digital workspace for club-based genres such as Techno, House and Hip-Hop. Students apply various software and hardware combinations to create successful club and radio productions in expanding their understanding of creative processes. Techniques include mixing and mastering process, digital signal processing, reverb, delay, equalization, and compression. Students will create and develop a three-track EP suitable for submission to prospective record labels and mix series.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1911 Digital Music Production I 
  

  • 32-2925 Technology for Musicians II

    This course for instrumentalists, singers, and songwriters introduces students to music creation in the Digital/Audio Workstation (DAW) environment. Using these all-in-one Audio/MIDI softwares, students will learn the essentials of using the multi-track environment as a creative tool, while learning to record basic audio in combination with loops, effects, and virtual instrument plug-ins.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-1915 Technology for Musicians I  and 32-1132 Keyboard II  COREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II  and 32-2121 Theory II  
  

  • 32-2995 Writing for Musical Theatre

    Students from the Music and Theatre departments will collaborate on writing a scene for the musical theatre stage. This scene can be an original story or adaptation. The participants will practice the art of collaboration; learn how to develop a story-line for musicals; how music functions in drama; setting lyrics to music, writing for voice with accompaniment; as well as producing the performance. The classes consist of individual and grop meetings with faculty, rehearsals and a final performance.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2212 Composition II  
    Requirements Department Permission OR
  

  • 32-3121 Theory IV

    Theory IV continues development of material taught in Theory III with an emphasis on late romantic and twentieth-century compositional developments. Topics include advanced chromatic harmony, set theory, serialism, tone rows, matrices, new musical forms, and contemporary popular music. Students work with contemporary part-writing practice, explore contemporary form and present extensive analysis including written papers and in-class presentations.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2122 Theory III 
  

  • 32-3122 Analytical Studies

    This course, designed as an advanced seminar, focuses on the identification and study of form in music through the analysis of various pieces and excerpts of 19th and 20th century works. Course takes a historical-analytical approach to the various styles of music from the last two centuries to teach students how to write analytical music papers.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2212 Composition II  and 32-3121 Theory IV 
  

  • 32-3161 Pop/Jazz Theory and Musicianship

    This course extends and applies the student’s core music theory and ear-training knowledge to practices and conventions specific to popular music and jazz idioms. Students will further explore the creation and interpretation of advanced chord symbols; the identification, application, and more complex variations of commonly used chord progressions, rhythm patterns, and additional scales and modes; the analysis of song forms, scores, and arrangements; and application of harmonic analysis to concepts such as modal interchange, chord substitutions, alterations, and modulations.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2122 Theory III  
  

  • 32-3211 Composition III

    This course examines larger forms, extended tonality, and atonal and serial techniques. Students compose for small chamber ensemble. Additional assignments include composing pieces for various media that make use of compositional techniques studied in class. During their coursework, the students are encouraged to explore a wide variety of musical styles. Works are recorded; the best pieces are performed in a public concert  at the end of the semester.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2212 Composition II 
  

  • 32-3212 Composition IV

    This advanced course, the fourth level in the composition sequence, helps the composer to find his/her individual voice.  It teaches a wide variety of compositional techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students apply knowledge by composing several miniatures for various chamber ensembles performed in class. Final assignment is a concerto movement for soloist and chamber ensemble to be recorded.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3211 Composition III  and 32-2251 Orchestration I  
  

  • 32-3215 Renaissance Counterpoint

    This course explores modal counterpoint from the 16th century and examines the history, the ecclesiastical modes, the species in two to four parts, and the motet and the ordinary of the mass through the study of Palestrina’s music. Students apply knowledge in the writing of two choral works in the style of late Renaissance.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2121 Theory II  and 32-2111 Aural Skills II  
  

  • 32-3216 Baroque Counterpoint

    This course explores tonal counterpoint from the 18th century and deals with the style and forms of baroque instrumental music through the study of the works of J. S. Bach and his contemporaries. Students apply their knowledge in the writing of suite movements, canon, invention, and fugue for piano.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2122 Theory III  
  

  • 32-3222 Songwriting II

    This course extends and expands topics discussed in Songwriting I, and addresses additional topics for the professional songwriter. Course includes lyric, harmonic, melodic, and formal analysis, and looks at the resulting symbiosis of these elements in forming a well-crafted and coherent whole. Songwriting II addresses application of these elements to create more artful narrative approaches and their application in larger and more complex musical forms. Course also includes a more intensive workshop for discussion and development of student works in progress, as well as instruction in creating recorded song demos in the project studio environment. Aspects of publishing, royalty structures, and professional alternatives for the working songwriter are also addressed.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2221 Songwriting I 
  

  • 32-3241 Composing for Films

    This course introduces students to the aesthetics and technology of basic film and video scoring. Topics covered include timings, playing the drama, underscoring, orchestration, and enhancing the story through music. Assignments include the scoring of short clips and of a complete sequence as final assignment.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3211 Composition III  
  

  • 32-3248L Semester in LA: Film Scoring

    This course is an intensive immersion experience for undergraduate composers consisting of three areas of study: Composing for Film; the History and Aesthetics of Film Music; and the Business and Politics of Film Music. Students spend four weeks in Los Angeles where they will meet 8 hours each day with additional access to film scoring labs in the evenings and on weekends. Students receive an historical review and analysis of major film scores, with an emphasis on the symphonic film score, especially those of Steiner, Korngold, Herrman, Bernstein, Goldsmith, Morricone, Newman, and others. Students also hear lectures from prominent professionals in the industry (composers, orchestrators, copyists, music editors, music supervisors, chief executives, agents, contractors), who cover the major aspects of the professional world of scoring for films. Finally, students compose original music (underscores) for three short scenes from contemporary films. Two of the scenes are scored using Musical Instrument Digital Interface, and the third is recorded by a professional orchestra. Students use Apple’s Logic Pro as a composing tool (the industry standard) as well as the Garritan Personal Orchestra. Scores and parts for the final recording are prepared using Finale. Student work is critiqued and assessed by the faculty of the program and industry professionals, with opportunities for students to critique each other’s work.

    9 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3212 Composition IV 
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 32-3248LJ Semester in LA: Film Scoring

    This course is an intensive immersion experience for undergraduate composers consisting of three areas of study: Composing for Film; the History and Aesthetics of Film Music; and the Business and Politics of Film Music. Students spend four weeks in Los Angeles where they will meet 8 hours each day with additional access to film scoring labs in the evenings and on weekends. Students receive an historical review and analysis of major film scores, with an emphasis on the symphonic film score, especially those of Steiner, Korngold, Herrman, Bernstein, Goldsmith, Morricone, Newman, and others. Students also hear lectures from prominent professionals in the industry (composers, orchestrators, copyists, music editors, music supervisors, chief executives, agents, contractors), who cover the major aspects of the professional world of scoring for films. Finally, students compose original music (underscores) for three short scenes from contemporary films. Two of the scenes are scored using Musical Instrument Digital Interface, and the third is recorded by a professional orchestra. Students use Apple’s Logic Pro as a composing tool (the industry standard) as well as the Garritan Personal Orchestra. Scores and parts for the final recording are prepared using Finale. Student work is critiqued and assessed by the faculty of the program and industry professionals, with opportunities for students to critique each other’s work.

    3 Credits 2
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3212 Composition IV  
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog and Not New Freshman
  

  • 32-3250 Pop Arranging and Orchestration

    Course examines the approaches used in arranging and orchestrating for small to large ensembles, and includes writing for rhythm section, horns, string instruments, woodwinds, and electronic instruments, as well as the professional application of the notation and technology tools available to the contemporary arranger. Course addresses the stylistic elements that are idiomatic to various popular genres, while focusing on the creative and compositional aspects of writing and arranging for popular music ensembles and orchestras. The course is required for students in the Contemporary, Urban and Popular Music program, and is a junior level course.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3161 Pop/Jazz Theory and Musicianship  COREQUISITES: 32-2925 Technology for Musicians II 
  

  • 32-3252 Orchestration II

    This course examines the use of the orchestra as a means to amplify and enhance musical ideas. Through the study of symphonic scores, students learn how to use the orchestra as an instrument that can provide color, depth, and volume to basic musical material. Final assignment consists of orchestrating a piano score for chamber orchestra that will receive a public performance at semester’s end.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2251 Orchestration I 
  

  • 32-3256 Jazz Arranging II

    Students will apply their theoretical skills to arrange music for contemporary,large ensembles. This course is a study in writing and analyzing chord progressions, melodic inventions, form, use of wind and rhthym instruments, score layout, transposition, preparation of parts, span, weight, and density. This course is a part of a sequence for Music Majors.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2255 Jazz Arranging I  
  

  • 32-3262 Digital Music Composition and Performance II

    This course explores advanced concepts and techniques in electroacoustic composition and performance. With a strong focus on sonic and musical materials, this course will also examine ways in which other digital and non-digital media can inform and be included in the creative process and presentation. Students will approach the course materials in a collaborative, hands-on environment where they will be creating original works for live performances, installations, and new forms of media distribution.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2261 Digital Music Composition and Performance I 
  

  • 32-3383 Techniques for Improvisation III

    This is an advanced study in improvisation. Students in this course will explore standard jazz and contemporary repertoire through application of theoretical and technical concepts. This course is a part of a sequence for Music Majors. Students will apply the methods taught in this class in their private study.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2382 Techniques for Improvisation II 
  

  • 32-3384 Techniques for Improvisation IV

    This is an advanced study in improvisation. Students in this course will explore standard jazz and contemporary repertoire while developing their own voice as an improviser. This course is a part of a sequence for Music Majors. Students will apply the methods taught in this class in their private study.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3383 Techniques for Improvisation III 
  

  • 32-3513 Techniques in Singing III

    This course further develops skills learned in 32-2512 Techniques in Singing II. Student continues to identify vocal strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and implement effective performance techniques.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2512 Techniques in Singing II  COREQUISITES:  32-2122 Theory III 
  

  • 32-3520 Concert and Video Performance Technique

    Through textual and musical analyses, students prepare for concert and video performance while exploring presentation techniques, including movement, and stylistic elements, such as improvisation, as means to discover distinctive qualities of sound and expressive character. Class culminates in a final staged performance and/or video shoot.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2522 Styles & Methods for Contemporary Singers 
  

  • 32-3531 Vocal Improvisation I

    This course assists the advanced pop and jazz voice student with the application of improvisational techniques. The student will learn to imitate and apply vocal stylizations of established popular singers while also recognizing and singing all modes and blues and pentatonic scales. Through the process of singing transcriptions of improvisations from masters of popular styles, students will garner vocal agility and confidence for singing with instrumental ensembles.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2512 Techniques in Singing II  and 32-2121 Theory II  and 32-2111 Aural Skills II 
  

  • 32-3532 Vocal Improvisation II

    This course is designed specifically for the continuing development of the Jazz Studies Vocal Major. It is a comprehensive study of jazz vocal styles and skills based on jazz progressions and lyric phrasing. The topics will include an overview of advanced chords, progressions, and scales along with scatting syllables and improvisational melodic embellishments commonly used in jazz.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3531 Vocal Improvisation I 
  

  • 32-3621 Music History, Ethnography, and Analysis

    Advanced course explores the construction of dominant historical narratives and the potential of ethnographic study as an historiographical intervention. In a culminating research project, students will work with a Chicago musician, tradition, or repertoire; conduct interviews; engage in musical transcription and/or analysis; and come to an understanding of how musical practice engages and responds to its social context. Section 01 is intended for CUP students; section 02 for Jazz students.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2612 Music, Time, and Place II 
  

  • 32-3626J CBMR: The Voice of Bob Marley

    Bob Marley is one of the most recognizable musical figures in the world. He resonates as a remarkably charismatic and vibrant musician, but also as a potent symbol of spirituality and protest. Key to all of this is voice (literal and metaphorical). In this course, then, students will explore Marley’s life and times through the development of his voice. Certainly, we will listen to music of all types, and we will also pay attention to various other artistic expressions: photography, film, visual art, poetry, and fiction. We will ask what it means for an individual and culture to create and possess a voice. And students will be encouraged to write insightfully about music and culture, with an emphasis on developing a voice of their own. We will investigate the biography of one of the most significant musicians of the second half of the last century and use his story as a gateway to better understanding our own times.

    3 Credits
    Requirements 60 Enrolled Hours and Not New Freshman and Not New Transfer Stu. and Or Instructor Permission
  

  • 32-3630 Jazz Styles and Analysis

    This course covers theoretical skill and analytical techniques related to jazz styles from traditional jazz to the present. Instruction examines each period and movement, with emphasis on major composers and artists.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2255 Jazz Arranging I  and 32-2382 Techniques for Improvisation II 
  
  

  • 32-3671 Music Pedagogy

    This course provides an overview of modern pedagogical theories, an exploration of educational resources, and a series of hands-on experiences in planning and implementing music instruction. Through reading, in-class discussion, individual research, and practical teaching exercises, students will be exposed to the foundations of music education. Students will develop the tools to successfully construct lesson plans, deliver individual and group-based music instruction, evaluate method books and repertoire, use technology in the classroom, and assess student progress.

    3 Credits
    Requirements 90 Enrolled Hours and Major 320 Only
  

  • 32-3674 Repertoire and Performance Traditions

    In this course, students will study the evolution of music literature and performance practices. The course will also examine the technological advances, culture, traditions and mores that have contributed to stylistic development. Materials include musical scores, lyrics, historical treatises, and historical recordings and videos. Students will analyze and compare selections from each of the historical periods studied and may perform representative examples. Specific sections will be offered for vocal and instrumental students, with sections for different disciplines as numbers warrant.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2122 Theory III  and 32-2381 Techniques for Improvisation I  or 32-2122 Theory III  and 32-3531 Vocal Improvisation I 
  

  • 32-3771 Primary Lessons, Level 3

    This course offers advanced private instruction in voice or primary instrument for students registered in at least one other music course concurrently. The course is repeatable, but requires authorization by an area coordinator for first-time enrollment.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 32-3771 Primary Lessons, Level 3
  

  • 32-3791 Composition Lessons, Level 2

    This course offers private instruction in composition for music students. Instructors are available for 14 fifty-minute sessions per semester or the equivalent. The course is repeatable, but requires authorization by an area coordinator for first-time enrollment.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance 
    Requirements Faculty Advisor Approval
  

  • 32-3797 Private Lessons: Senior Recital

    Required course for all graduating BMusic students that provides private instruction during the semester of the student’s senior recital. Students will prepare the music for their recital under the close supervision of the instructor. The instructor will act as a performance coach, as a guide for choosing repertoire, and as a consultant on non-musical aspects of the senior recital, such as printed program preparation and staging. You must be currently enrolled as a student in a BMus program.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 90 Enrolled Hours and Faculty Advisor Approval
  

  • 32-3889 Recording and Performance Ensemble

    Performance-intensive course draws upon all of the skills the student has gained throughout the ensemble experience as applied at the professional level. The ensemble includes work in the multi-track recording studio as well as performing for live audiences in venues throughout the city, supplying experiences that take the student outside of the comfort zone of the academic environment and place them in an arena that represents the challenges of the professional music industry. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
  

  • 32-3890 Ensemble: Showcase

    Ensemble course is an advanced-level performance class for instrumentalists and/or vocalists. Repertoire is drawn from advanced-level material appropriate to the style. Ensembles are an integral component of the music program, focusing on musicianship as it applies to technical ability, music literacy, theory, history, and aural skills. Students regularly apply ensemble awareness and effective rehearsal and performance techniques, building confidence in their own abilities and in their ability to function as an effective team.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Audition Required
  

  • 32-3891 Collaborative Performance

    In this advanced ensemble course students form several small groups in which they develop and rehearse multiple examples of selected repertoire. Students meet once per week for group instruction and perform for and critique one another. Individual groups spend a minimum of 4 hours per week in unsupervised rehearsal. Students are expected to collaboratively arrange, rehearse and perform assigned material. Besides the in-class performances, there will be at least two public performances of finished work per semester.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2381 Techniques for Improvisation I  or 32-3531 Vocal Improvisation I  and 32-2250 Fundamentals of Arranging  or 32-2522 Styles & Methods for Contemporary Singers 
  

  • 32-3926 Demo Production

    Capstone music technology course is for the Contemporary, Urban and Popular music degree. Course is project-based for the purpose of learning to create professional quality demo recordings of the student’s own bands, compositions and performances. The Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) environment is presented as a primary tool in song composition and arrangement, using virtual instruments and loops as audio recording and processing. Students will apply knowledge from the previous technology course sequence to produce professional quality recordings of their advanced creative work, such as senior band projects and recitals, and/or collaborations among members of the CUP Ensembles and Songwriting classes.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2925 Technology for Musicians II 
  

  • 32-3943 Music Industry Immersion: Music Workshop

    This course is a unique experiential learning opportunity for students interested in music, music business, and audio arts to engage these disciplines in an accelerated, hands-on environment. Students will be coached on the development of their musical, technical, and management skills through collaborative projects encompassing song development and arranging, live performance, live sound, recording, artist management, and music company operations. The course will include students, faculty and facilities from the Departments of Music, Audio Arts and Acoustics, and Business and Entrepreneurship.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Audition Required and Approval CUP Coordinator
  

  • 32-3943J Music Industry Immersion: Music Workshop

    This course is a unique experiential learning opportunity for students interested in music, music business, and audio arts to engage these disciplines in an accelerated, hands-on environment. Students will be coached on the development of their musical, technical, and management skills through collaborative projects encompassing song development and arranging, live performance, live sound, recording, artist management, and music company operations. The course will include students, faculty and facilities from the Departments of Music, Audio Arts and Acoustics, and Business and Entrepreneurship.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Audition Required and Approval CUP Coordinator
  

  • 32-3988 Internship: Music

    Course provides advanced students with an internship opportunity to gain work experience in an area of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward their degrees.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 60 Enrolled Hours and Permission of Instructor
  

  • 32-3995 Directed Study: Music

    This course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    1-4 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 60 Enrolled Hours and Permission Instr & Chair
  

  • 32-3998 Independent Project: Music

    Course is an independent project designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and department director, to study an area not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal outlining the project.

    1-4 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 32-3999 Senior Music Seminar

    Required course for all graduating Music students provides supervision for preparation of the student’s senior recital and portfolio. Students will create a proposal for their senior recital under the supervision of the instructor and with the input of their private lesson instructor and concentration coordinator. Students will have the opportunity to present their work to their peers, receive career counseling, attend special presentations, and participate in senior assessment procedures.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-2122 Theory III 
    Requirements 90 Enrolled Hours
  

  • 32-6221 Scoring I: Composing Dramatic Music

    The first in a four-semester composition and orchestration sequence which is the core of the MFA program, this course is designed to introduce students to the craft of composing dramatic music and marrying music to story. Composition for the screen is an applied art, and requires that the composer be guided in his or her choice of musical vocabulary by the emotional and thematic values embodied in script, performance, and directorial intent. This course will explore the application of a variety of musical devices, including harmonic language, melodic development, rhythmic propulsive elements and styles of voicings, to musically express various emotional states such as joy, sorrow, fear, tension, awe, and wonder. Lessons in technique will drive writing assignments geared to specific dramatic scenes wherein music must support the emotional context. As a final project, students will compose the score to a short film excerpt using a live woodwind and string ensemble in a recording studio environment. Taking the course in tandem with Lab (Tutorial), students will utilize Logic Studio MIDI software to realize digital mock-ups.

    4 Credits
  

  • 32-6222 Scoring II: Color and Complexity

    The second installment of the core four-semester composition sequence, this course will add color and nuance to the ‘black and white’musical-dramatic palette explored in semester one through an intensive focus on orchestration. Included are further studies of the harmonic vocabulary of film music as well as an in-depth exploration of synchronization techniques used to ‘lock’music to the action on screen. The effective use of brass and percussion sections of the film orchestra will be added to the aspiring screen composer’s tool kit, as will special categories such as scores driven by a rhythm section and by electronic elements. Multiple recording sessions using a variety of ensembles will allow students the opportunity to explore the effective use of instrumentation in achieving dramatic results. Taken in tandem with Lab (Tutorial), semester 2, and with further studies in the use of Logic Studio as a mixing tool.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6221 Scoring I: Composing Dramatic Music  CONCURRENT: 32-6901 Lab (Tutorial)  
  

  • 32-6223 Scoring III: Genre and Style

    This third installment in the four-semester composition/orchestration sequence will allow students the opportunity to hone their skills through a practicum in film and musical genre scoring. Genres will include jazz and rock/contemporary music, while film styles will encompass comedy, horror, period, action, and animation. The assignments will be a combination of electronic, acoustic, and combination scores, where students will demonstrate their mastery of different dramatic scoring-to-picture styles. This class is the practical application of techniques covered in Scoring I and II, allowing students to create a portfolio of professional-level work. Taught in tandem with Lab (Tutorial), semester 3.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6222 Scoring II: Color and Complexity  CONCURRENT: 32-6901 Lab (Tutorial)  
  

  • 32-6224 Scoring IV: Directed Study in Composition

    In the final installment of the four-semester composition sequence, students will meet one-on-one with their primary composition instructors to fine tune their craft, making use of various independent projects on which they have already collaborated with the Film & Video, Television, and Interactive Arts & Media Departments. Individualized instruction allows each student to identify techniques and concepts they feel they have not yet fully mastered or integrated into their work, and to concentrate on those areas. This will assist students in identifying personal strengths and styles, and will help them select an appropriate thesis project. Once projects are chosen, students work with instructors to begin their final theses. Taught in tandem with Lab (Tutorial), semester 4.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6223 Scoring III: Genre and Style  
  

  • 32-6229 Topics in Scoring

    This course will introduce the role of dramatic music in a variety of media and applications other than film. Students will study elements unique to composing dramatic music for media that include, for example, live theater and advertising, avenues where a composer will encounter different sets of limitations and constraints. Students will produce a number of short scoring projects designed for these particular applications.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6221 Scoring I: Composing Dramatic Music   CONCURRENT: 32-6222 Scoring II: Color and Complexity  
  

  • 32-6251 Orchestration I

    This course will explore the process of creating the mood and tone of a film through the use of the production techniques available to today’s film composers.   This will include the integration of electronic samples with traditional orchestral instruments, as well as how dynamics, rhythm, register, harmony, melody, and the distribution of elements throughout the instrument range contribute to the effectiveness of the score.  Film scores will be deconstructed to arrive at an understanding of how the composer achieved the desired musical effect.  Students will be required to compose cues with the techniques learned through the analysis of existing scores.

    3 Credits
    CONCURRENT: 32-6221 Scoring I: Composing Dramatic Music  
  

  • 32-6252 Orchestration II

    This course continues to explore the process of creating the mood and tone of a film through the use of advanced production techniques including integration of electronic samples and traditional orchestral instruments, as well as effective use of dynamics, rhythm, register, harmony, melody, and the distribution of elements through the instrument range. Students will analyze scores and will be required to compose cures with the techniques learned through analysis.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6251 Orchestration I  
  

  • 32-6261 Music for Games I

    This course explores the application of non-linear composition techniques in the production of dramatic music for use in interactive games. Students will learn techniques of composing music that will ultimately be controlled through game play and game audio engines. The class will explore building scores that involve multilevel dramatic elements and instantaneous transitions, as is common in most interactive games.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6221 Scoring I: Composing Dramatic Music  and 32-6901 Lab (Tutorial)  
  

  • 32-6262 Music for Games II

    This course continues to explore the application of non-linear composition techniques in the production of dramatic music for use in interactive games. Students will learn techniques for composing music that will ultimately be controlled through game play and game audio engines. The class will explore building scores that involve multilevel dramatic elements and instantaneous transitions. In addition to composing music appropriate to game composition, students will develop the skills to program their music into the game engines.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES:32-6261 Music for Games I  
  

  • 32-6441 Conducting to Picture

    This course is a tutorial in the art and science of conducting live orchestra to picture in film, television, and new media recording sessions. Instruction will focus not only on the traditional role of the conductor in interpreting score and bringing out the strongest performance, but on the preparation, discipline and equanimity required to balance the dizzying array of events occuring simultaneously in a scoring session. Students will conduct their own thesis scores as well as prepared pieces to picture in virtual sessions set up in the Los Angeles lab, and learn how to work with streamers, punches, cue mixes, and talkback under the real pressures of a live date.

    3 Credits
    COREQUISITES: 32-6223 Scoring III: Genre and Style  
  

  • 32-6441L Conducting to Picture

    This course is a tutorial in the art and science of conducting live orchestra to picture in film, television, and new media recording sessions. Instruction will focus not only on the traditional role of the conductor in interpreting score and bringing out the strongest performance, but on the preparation, discipline and equanimity required to balance the dizzying array of events occuring simultaneously in a scoring session. Students will conduct their own thesis scores as well as prepared pieces to picture in virtual sessions set up in the Los Angeles lab, and learn how to work with streamers, punches, cue mixes, and talkback under the real pressures of a live date.

    2 Credits Repeatable 2x
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6223 Scoring III: Genre and Style  CONCURRENT: 32-6224 Scoring IV: Directed Study in Composition  
  

  • 32-6630 History of Cinema

    This course presents a chronological investigation of film from the pre-history of cinema up to the digital age. Emphasis is on understanding film both as an engine for an and artifact of society, culture, and geography. Students are introduced to major directors, films, and movements that contributed to the development of cinema.

    3 Credits
    CONCURRENT: 32-6221 Scoring I: Composing Dramatic Music  
  

  • 32-6631 The Film Score: A Survey of the Craft

    This course is an exhaustive review of the development of film scoring art and craft, from the generic cues written to accompany silent film and the defining work of Max Steiner and Erich Korngold to Golden Age auteurs such as Herrmann and Bernstein and contemporary composers/producers like Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman and Thomas Newman. The emphasis is on the unique musical vocabulary of the film score and on learning to recognize the signatures of benchmark composers. Students will conduct detailed analyses of both written and recorded examples, with a concentration on contemporary harmony and voicing and the study of dramatic construction.

    3 Credits
    CONCURRENT: 32-6222 Scoring II: Color and Complexity  
  

  • 32-6632 Aesthetics of Cinema

    Aesthetics of Cinema builds on the knowledge acquired in History of Cinema. Students investigate key historical moments through close critical analysis, with particular emphasis on the role of sound and music in cinema. They are expected to develop a sophisticated analytical approach to the aesthetics of cinema as a basis for acquiring their own vocabulary and methodologies to utilize as music composers for the screen.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 32-6630 History of Cinema  
  

  • 32-6651 Film Analysis

    This course focuses on exploring the techniques used by current composers in creating their scores.  Spotting (the practice of cues entering and exiting) will be noted, as well as the dramatic event that triggered the entrance of each cue.  Each week one student will analyze the film score of the week and give a brief lecture about the composer, the style of music and approach used in creating the score, and its effectiveness in achieving the enhancement of the film.

    1 Credits
    Requirements Faculty Advisor Approval
 

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