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2013-2014 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Music
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Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Music
Master of Fine Arts
32-1000 Recital Attendance
Zero-credit, pass/fail course requires that music majors attend three Music Department convocations and a minimum of five department recitals per semester. Registered students who are not music majors may forgo the convocations. Because an important element of music training is learning to listen actively, the course provides opportunities for students to hear a wide variety of music played by different kinds of instruments and ensembles and performed by professionals and fellow students. Pass/fail is determined by attendance.
0 Credits
Repeatable
32-1020 Fundamentals of Music Literacy
This introductory course addresses foundational skills for developing musical literacy. Course focuses in equal parts on critical listening, basic musical notation, and skills required for clear and idiomatic verbal and written communication about the details of musical performances. It is intended as an introduction to musical language for non-music majors.
3 Credits
32-1100 Music Prep
Introductory course prepares students for the core sequences in theory, keyboard, and aural skills. Course employs intense drill in note recognition; work with basic rhythms, scales, intervals and preliminary musicianship skills, with special attention to note replication. Sstudents will develop a sense of self-discipline required for the study of music, a sense of relative pitch, a verbal musical literacy, and an ability to listen actively. This course fulfills prerequisites for 32-1120 Theory I, 32-1110 Aural Skills I, and 32-2131 Keyboard I.
3 Credits
32-1110 Aural Skills I
This course provides intensive ear training drills designed to develop listening skills, particularly pitch, interval, chord, and rhythm recognition.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1100 Music Prep or Score of 39+ on Music theory Assessment
32-1120 Theory I
This beginning course in music literacy covers basic concepts of notation, rhythm, tonality, and harmony, emphasizing in-depth understanding of the phrase (including cadences and tonic and dominant explansion), issues in four-part writing including voice leading, embellishing tones,motivic analysis, sequences, and secondary dominants. Students learn written musical theory for these topics and have the ability to replicate them through performance.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1100 Music Prep OR Score of 39+ on Music Theory Assessment
32-1170 Music Theory for Musical Theatre
Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a fundamental course tailored to Musical Theatre BA and Musical Theatre Performance BFA students. The course concentrates on the core theoretical concepts utilized in music and provides basic aural skills training incorporating music of the musical theatre genre. The course combines study of the concepts of notation, rhythm, tonality, and harmony in the context of reading and aural perception of music through performance and dictation of melodies, intervals, triads, major and minor scales, chord progressions, and basic chord structures. Students learn the written musical theory for concepts addressed in the course and have the ability to demonstrate and apply them through dictation and performance.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITE: 32-1100 Music Prep OR Score of 39+ on Music Theory Assessment Placement
32-1321 Guitar Techniques I
Course provides class instruction for jazz guitar. Students will learn linear techniques, sightread on their instruments, and begin study of jazz harmony.
3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I and 32-1120 Theory I
32-1322 Guitar Techniques II
This course, a continuation of 32-1321 Guitar Techniques I, extends study of harmonic and sightreading skills on the fretboard and completes training in mechanical skills necessary for professional-level performance.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1321 Guitar Techniques I
32-1511 Techniques in Singing I
This course teaches beginning vocal students correct breathing technique, projection, and the necessary skills for articulation of song. Instruction acquaints students with both physical and mental aspects of singing. Students apply their new technique to appropriate vocal repertoire.
3 Credits
Requisites CONCURRENT: 32-1700 Introductory Private Voice and 32-1000 Recital Attendance COREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I and 32-1120 Theory I
32-1540 Fundamentals of Musical Theatre Singing
This course is a beginning level class in singing for the musical theatre performer. It is designed to familiarize students with fundamental vocal techniques and musical theatre repertoire and to help students become comfortable with solo and ensemble singing onstage.
3 Credits
32-1610 Music Through the Ages, from Chant to R&B
Course examines music from early times to the present day, giving special attention to the body of works typically identified as Western art music. It covers a wide variety of music–including genres that range from Gregorian chant to R&B–and situates this music meaningfully with the help of historical information, cultural context, musical vocabulary, and critical concepts. At the conclusion of this course, successful students will listen to a wide variety of musical genres knowledgeably and perceptively, and write about them confidently. They will furthermore be able to discuss music, not simply as humanly organized sound, but as a set of practices that reflect, shape, and organize their social and cultural contexts.
3 Credits
HU
32-1620 Popular Contemporary Music
Course examines the history of contemporary music since 1950, particularly rock and roll, and the social values that have contributed to its stylistic development. The exploration of the trends in popular music focuses on movements that reflect important political and cultural currents in the United States and across the globe.
3 Credits
HU
32-1621 Introduction to Black Music
Course offers a general survey of black music with major emphasis on significant music forms, styles, and historical and sociological environments in the United States. Required student participation is integrated with lectures that are supplemented by films, demonstrations, live concerts, visiting artists, and listening assignments.
3 Credits
PL HU
32-1624 Afro-Latin and Caribbean: US Musical Crosscurrents
Course offers a general survey of black music of the African Diaspora with major emphasis on significant forms and styles and their historical and sociological environments in the Americas. Lectures are supplemented by films, demonstrations, live concerts, visiting artists, and listening assignments. Student participation is required.
3 Credits
GA
32-1626 Hip-Hop: A Sonic History
This course focuses on hip-hop as a musical culture, exploring the social conditions of the music’s emergence and the factors that have facilitated its broad dissemination. We will investigate the social and technological factors that have affected hip-hop’s development, as well as considering the ways in which the work of hip-hop musicians has affected both American music and social dynamics. With its ubiquitous presence at the top of the pop music charts, in mainstream advertising, and as a component of personal style, hip-hop has established itself as one of the most significant cultural movements of the last half-century. Course will strive to explore hip-hop’s musical language in considerable depth. Through close listening and intensive analysis of a broad selection of musical examples, and through careful study of the musical techniques and aesthetics of hip-hop artists, course will offer students a detailed exploration of the dense and multi-layered hip-hop soundscape.
3 Credits
PL
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 The Jazz Tradition
Course utilizes lectures and demonstrations to explore jazz in all its forms, including its musical and social antecedents. Covered are ragtime, New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz, with special emphasis on Bird, Gillespie, Coltrane, Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton.
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, taken concurrently with Techniques in Singing I or Fundamentals of Musical Theatre Singing, provides a one-on-one studio experience. 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
Requisites COREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I or 32-1170 Music Theory for Musical Theatre or 32-1540 Fundamentals of Musical Theatre Singing
32-1771 Beginning Primary Lessons
This course offers beginning private instruction in student’s primary instrument or voice type for music students or others enrolled in at least one other music course concurrently. Instructors are available for 14 hour-long sessions per semester or the equivalent.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1771 Beginning Primary Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance
32-1772 Beginning Secondary Lessons
This course offers beginning private instruction in a secondary instrument or voice type for music sstudents enrolled in primary lessons concurrently. Instructors are available for 14 30-minute sessions per semester or the equivalent.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1772 Beginning Secondary Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance
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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1792 Beginning Secondary Composition Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance
32-1800 Columbia College Chorus
Course requires that students rehearse, discuss, and perform choral repertoire of various genres including classical masterworks, indigenous world music, and popular styles. They must perform a cappella as well as with piano, percussion, and assorted instrumental accompaniment. Students receive instruction in healthy vocal technique and desirable ensemble attributes: intonation, blend, balance, appropriate tone quality, and critical listening.
1 Credits
Repeatable
32-1801 Gospel Choir
Course requires that entry-level music students learn and perform solo and ensemble gospel literature, including traditional spirituals and anthems. Students will initially learn by ear and then learn to read and notate as well as analyze and describe gospel music. Additional emphasis is placed on understanding the relationship among gospel music, the other arts, and the cultural context in which contemporary gospel music functions.
1 Credits
Repeatable
32-1802 Jazz Pop Choir
Course advances the understanding and mastery of jazz and pop through rehearsal and performance of group repertoire in a variety of styles. Traditional choral skills of blend, balance, unison, and harmonic intonation, and articulation in swing, pop, and latin genres will be studied through rehearsal and performance using microphones and sound reinforcement. Students will learn to sing with a rhythm section, a capella, as soloists, and in men’s, women’s, and mixed small groups. An end-of-semester performance has been scheduled, and additional performances will be added on and/or off campus, subject to member availability. Occasional master classes and workshops may be substituted for rehearsals. Independent practice and memorization is required, as are weekly sectional rehearsals.
1 Credits
Repeatable
32-1880 Groove Band
Performance course centers on popular music, particularly the various grooves of rock and roll, and culminates in a concert performance. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Ensemble Dir
32-1881 Blues Ensemble: Styles
This course teaches entry-level music students to play the blues as an ensemble in a professional setting. Course will examine sociological and historical aspects of the blues and its current and future role in society. Chicago’s unique position as a world blues capital will be featured through visits to local blues clubs and jam sessions. Enrollement in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Ensemble Dir
32-1884 Pop/Rock Ensemble: Styles
Ensemble course is a second-tier introductory level course for the smaller pop/rock combo. The song-based repertoire for the course is drawn from straightforward arrangements of traditional popular music material, including rock, pop and R&B. Course addresses the application of musicianship skills as they apply to ensemble awareness and effective rehearsal and performance techniques.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Ensemble Dir
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
Requisites 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 (32-1110) 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 acccompaniment on the piano.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I COREQUISITES: 32-2131 Keyboard I
32-2112 Aural Skills III
This course continues development of skills acquired in Aural Skills II (32-2111)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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II COREQUISITES: 32-2132 Keyboard II
32-2113 Aural Skills IV
This course continues development of skills acquired in Aural Skills III (32-2112) with extensive dictation and sightsinging of melody and rhythm that includes 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1120 Theory I or Music Theory Exam score >= 39 COREQUISITES: 32-2131 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2121 Theory II or Music Theory Exam score >= 39 COREQUISITES: 32-2132 Keyboard II
32-2131 Keyboard I
This course instructs students how to play the keyboard and how to read its notation on the grand staff. Students learn proper playing position and the necessary technique to play pentachords, cadential sequences, and major scales using both hands in all major and minor keys. In addition, students analyze, play, and transpose short melodies in major and minor keys in either hand; harmonize longer melodies in major and minor keys; sight read simple short melodies with both hands; and perform a short piece from a piano score using both hands.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: Music Theory Exam score >= 39 COREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I and 32-1120 Theory I or 32-1170 Music Theory for Musical Theatre
32-2132 Keyboard II
This course continues the work begun in Keyboard I. Emphasis is on strength and positioning; coordination of the hands is more highly developed and stressed. In addition, it expands sightreading of simple two-part pieces for the piano and introduces chord symbol interpretation using 3-note shell voicing. Students harmonize melodies using broken chords and hand position changes; perform piano music using inversions and arpeggiated figures; and perform short ensemble pieces and longer solos from a piano score.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2131 Keyboard I
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2132 Keyboard II
32-2211 Composition I: Basic Principles of Twentieth Century Composition
Course teaches first-year students to write motives, phrases, sentences, and periods to build simple forms. The final assignment is composition of a piece for a wind instrument and a sting instrument that is performed at semester’s end.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I and 32-1120 Theory I
32-2212 Composition II
Course, a continuation of Composition I, emphasizes the study of larger forms, chromatic harmony, and instrumentation. Students compose a piece for violin or violoncello and piano as their final assignment and a series of short pieces for piano as additional class work. Final assignment receives public performance at semester’s end.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2211 Composition I: Basic Principles of Twentieth Century Composition
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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2381 Techniques for Improvisation I and 32-2121 Theory II
32-2261 Digital Music Composition I
This course addresses the creative use of technology in music composition. Students will learn the basics of electroacoustic music, object-oriented computer programming, psychoacoustics, and live and automated manipulation of digital audio as they relate to sound production and music composition. This will require excursions into the disciplines of biology, physics, psychology, and acoustics. Through reading, listening, lectures, demonstrations and projects, composition students will gain computer experience essential to today’s composer.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2212 Composition 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I and 32-1120 Theory I COREQUISITES: 32-2132 Keyboard II
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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES:32-2122 Theory III
32-2512 Techniques in Singing II
This course continues and expands skills learned in Techniques in Singing I. Students identify vocal strengths and weaknesses, set goals, apply proper vocal technique, and increase repertory.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1511 Techniques in Singing I COREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II and 32-2121 Theory II
32-2520 Solo Singing
This course is intended for students who wish to learn the fundamentals of solo style and presentation techniques. Students learn through textual and musical analyses how to prepare a song for performance, reduce stage fright, and use a microphone.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1511 Techniques in Singing I
32-2522 Styles & Methods for Contemporary Singers
This course for the intermediate contemporary singer will focus on how to communicate and conduct rehearsals in a variety of musical styles. Topics will include lyric analysis and interpretation, stage presence, microphone technique, basic arranging, and communicating with the audience. Emphasis is on communication skills, effective rehearsal procedures, and the independent and collective roles of each member of a rhythm section. Intended to increase the singer’s aptitude for participation in CCC instrumental ensemble offerings.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2512 Techniques in Singing II
32-2611 Music History and Analysis I
This course addresses the development of Western art music in its social and cultural contexts. Through reading, writing, and focused listening, students explore music’s many functions within Western society and the range of philosophies undergirding Western musical practices. Students will examine the technical and formal features of music from ancient Greece through the nineteenth century, with special attention paid to the music of the Common Practice Era.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II and 32-2121 Theory II
32-2612 Music History and Analysis 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II and 32-2121 Theory II
32-2771 Intermediate Primary Lessons
This course offers intermediate private instruction in student’s primary instrument or voice type for music students or others enrolled in at least one other music course concurrently. Instructors are available for 14 hour-long sessions per semester or the equivalent.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2771 Intermediate Primary Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2772 Intermediate Secondary Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance
32-2791 Intermediate Primary Composition Lessons
This course offers intermediate private instruction in composition for music students. Instructors are available for 14 hour-long sessions per semester or the equivalent.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2791 Intermediate Primary Composition Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance
Requirements Department Permission OR
32-2792 Intermediate 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2792 Intermediate Secondary Composition Lessons CONCURRENT: 32-1000 Recital Attendance
Requirements Department Permission OR
32-2800 3CVJE, Columbia College Chicago Vocal Jazz Ensemble
This course offers participation in performance-oriented vocal jazz ensemble. Much memorization is required along with study of improvisation through use of jazz scales, blues scales, and modes. Final concert performance. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Ensemble Dir
32-2803 Vocal Lab
This course teaches ensemble technique from the inside out. Advanced vocal students explore concepts of blend, intonation, tone quality, critical listening, arranging, and rehearsing. Repertoire draws upon various genres and may incorporate movement and body percussion. Students augment their vocal technique through daily pedagogy. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 Aural Skills I and 32-1120 Theory I and 32-1511 Techniques in Singing I
32-2804 Spectra
This course allows advanced students to further their study of healthy vocal technique and ensemble singing, in tandem with regular sight reading and performing. Performances incorporate a cappella and amplified singing, vocal and body percussion, movement, and projected images. Spectra is accompanied by keyboard, bass, and percussion. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required
32-2805 Gospel Repertory Ensemble
Ensemble course concentrating in study, rehearsal, and performance of traditional, contemporary, and urban gosel choral and small group singing.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Ensemble Dir
32-2806 Women’s Ensemble
The focus of this ensemble is performing traditional and contemporary repertoire recorded by female groups. Course emphasizes harmonies and stage elements of pop girl groups throughout the decades. Students will suggest popular music to be presented in the semester performances. Enrollment of female instrumentalists is strongly encouraged.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Ensemble Dir
32-2807 Men’s Chorus
This course will provide an opportunity for intermediate and advanced male singers to improve vocal skills in a wide variety of musical settings. Traditional choral skills of blend, balance, intonation, and phrasing will be learned through rehearsal and performance of choral music for male voices. Either acappella or accompanied by piano, organ, or small instrumental groups, the ensemble may also perform solos, trios, quartets, etc., as repertoire suggests. Regular performances will be scheduled on campus and, subject to member availability, occasionally off campus. Periodic master classes, workshops, additional rehearsals or performances may be substituted for scheduled in-class rehearsals. Independent practice and memorization is required, as are weekly sectional rehearsals. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Ensemble Dir
32-2810 Keyboard Assembly
Advanced course that, in combination with private lessons, aims to improve keyboard skills including sight reading, ensemble playing, and solo performance. In addition, students study ensemble literature and historical and contemporary approaches to the keyboard repertoire and technique. Course is a performance/learning opportunity for all students taking private piano lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2132 Keyboard II or 32-2311 Jazz Keyboard CONCURRENT: 32-2711 Private Lessons: Piano or 32-2712 Secondary Private Lessons: Piano or 32-2715 Private Lessons: Jazz Piano or 32-2716 Secondary Private Lessons: Jazz Piano
32-2813 Jazz Keyboard Ensemble
Course, in combination with private jazz piano lessons, aims to improve keyboard skills, including sight reading, ensemble playing, and solo performance. Students study jazz literature and historical and contemporary approaches to keyboard repertoire and technique in a group setting.Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2132 Keyboard II or 32-2311 Jazz Keyboard CONCURRENT: 32-2711 Private Lessons: Piano or 32-2712 Secondary Private Lessons: Piano or 32-2715 Private Lessons: Jazz Piano or 32-2716 Secondary Private Lessons: Jazz Piano
32-2823 Classical Guitar Ensemble
This course provides performing group experience for classical guitar. Groups prepare classical compositions by Bach, Scarlatti, Albeniz, and others. Note reading and classical technique are applied. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons. Class may be taken 10 times for credit.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1321 Guitar Techniques I CONCURRENT: 32-2721 Private Lessons: Finger-style and Classical Guitar or 32-2722 Secondary Private Lessons: Finger-style and Classical Guitar
32-2825 Jazz Guitar Ensemble
This course, for intermediate and advanced guitarists, emphasizes ensemble playing for the electric jazz guitar. Through rehearsal of appropriate multiple-part arrangements and through the practice of comping and improvisation, the group prepares a series of performances. Students increase repertoire and develop musicianship skills. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1321 Guitar Techniques I CONCURRENT: 32-2721 Private Lessons: Finger-style and Classical Guitar or 32-2723 Private Lessons: Fusion Rock Guitar or 32-2725 Private Lessons: Jazz Guitar or 32-2726 Secondary Private Lessons: Jazz Guitar
Requirements Permission of Instructor
32-2830 Percussion Ensemble
This course involves a performance ensemble, which is made up entirely of percussion instruments of both definite and indefinite pitch. Course develops sight reading ability and ensemble skills and may be repeated three times for credit. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2855 Chamber Music
This course provides an opportunity for students to rehearse, refine, and perform challenging music with their peers under the guidance of a faculty member.Chamber music study supplements a student’s private lesson and large ensemble experience. Students are able to delve deeply into their selected music and develop their presentation collectively.Students form smaller ensembles within the large group and present their work in seminars and a group concert at the end of each semester. Individual chamber ensembles may also receive opportunities to perform in the community. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2863 New Music Ensemble
Ensemble course rehearses and performs contemporary concert music, both traditional and non-traditional, written for distinctive instrumental combinations. Students develop musicianship and performance skills and expand their repertoire. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2880 Jazz Combo
This course consists of a performing group experience for instrumentalists and singers in which high professional standards of small group performance are explained and achieved. Performances include music written especially for the group and music from the literature, including works by Louis Armstrong, John Kirby, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Giuffre, Chick Corea, and Gerry Mulligan.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2881 Columbia College Jazz Ensemble
This course consists of a performing group experience for instrumentalists and singers in which high professional standards of small group jazz performance are explained and achieved. Students prepare weekly repertoire assignments with guidance from two members of the jazz faculty. Each combo performs at the Jazz Gallery and Jazz Combo Fest. Students are placed into introductory, intermediate, or advanced jazz combos. Advanced jazz combos are considered for performances around campus.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2884 Pop/Rock Ensemble: Performance
Intermediate level course is an ensemble for the smaller to medium sized combo. The song-based repertoire for the course is drawn from the straight-forward to more challenging arrangements of traditional popular music material, including rock, pop, and R&B. Course addresses the application of musicianship skills as they apply to ensemble awareness and effective rehearsal and performance techniques. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2885 Blues Ensemble: Performance
Intermediate level course is an ensemble for the smaller to medium sized blues band. The repertoire for the course is drawn from the straight-forward to more challenging arrangements of traditional and contemporary blues material. Course addresses the application of musicianship skills as they apply to ensemble awareness and effective rehearsal and performance techniques. Course engages the blues as both an historical and a living entity through the application of historical background of and interaction with artists engaged in the contemporary Chicago blues community.Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2886 Latin Jazz Ensemble
Upper level ensemble course prepares students for the performance of compositions based on the musical traditions of Cuba, Brazil, and other Latin American cultures. Course will consist of a series of master classes and ensemble rehearsals. Students gain hands-on experience of the rhythms and performance techniques of the various latin percussion instruments. Enrollment in this ensemble requires concurrent registration in private lessons.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Audition Required and Permission Program Dir
32-2888 Hip-Hop Ensemble
This is an intermediate level ensemble, designed to address the application of musicianship skills, the creation and live performance of original material. The repertoire for the course is drawn from contemporary hip-hop with musically engaging and challenging elements. Students will analyze, arrange and perform a range of hip-hop styles.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites CO-REQUISITES: 32-1626 Hip-Hop: A Sonic History
Requirements Audition Required
32-2910 Fundamentals of Notation
This course teaches the fundamental rules and procedures of music notation and how to apply them. Course begins with hand calligraphy: proper procedures for printing various symbols of music notation. These skills will then be transferred to the computer via the two most popular scoring programs: Finale and Sibelius, stressing the commonalities of computer music notation. Students will learn to copy complex music for multiple instruments and voices by hand and in both notation programs.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1120 Theory I and 32-1110 Aural Skills 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-1915 Technology for Musicians I and 32-2132 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2212 Composition II
Requirements Department Permission OR
32-3121 Theory IV
Theory IV continues development of material taught in Theory III (32-2122) with an emphasis on 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2212 Composition II and 32-3121 Theory IV
32-3133 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2133 Keyboard Harmony I
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2122 Theory III
32-3211 Composition III
Course examines larger forms, extended tonality, orchestration, and atonal and serial techniques. Students compose a string quartet for performance at the end of the semester. Additional assignments include composing piano pieces that make use of compositional techniques studied in class.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2212 Composition II
32-3212 Composition IV
Advanced course, the fourth level in the composition sequence, teaches students to use in their works, and understand in music literature, the compositional techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students apply their knowledge in the composition of a larger work for chamber orchestra and in shorter pieces for piano. Final assignment is scored for a chamber orchestra with multiple string instruments per part.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-3211 Composition III
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2111 Aural Skills II and 32-2121 Theory 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-3212 Composition IV
Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2255 Jazz Arranging I
32-3262 Digital Music Composition II
This course explores creative use of technology in making music. Introduces students to the basics of electroacoustic music, object-oriented computer programming, psychoacoustics, and live and automated manipulation of digital audio as they relate to sound production and music composition. Addresses such disciplines of biology, physics, psychology, and acoustics. Through reading, listening, demonstrations and projects, students will gain computer experience essential to today”s composer. A final project will combine sound design, computer programming, digital signal processing and music composition.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2261 Digital Music Composition I
32-3310 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2132 Keyboard II
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 32-2382 Techniques for Improvisation II
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