Music (MUSIC)
MUSIC R1B Reading and Writing about Music 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 to 2 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement and 1A or equivalent.
This course aims to help students improve their writing skills, taking a particular type of music as its central material. The goal of the course is to help students prepare for academic writing, develop analytical skills appropriate to the subject matter, and receive an introduction to college-level research papers. Depending on the topic the course may include a section of one to two hours for further listening to musical examples in a group setting.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
MUSIC 20A Basic Musicianship 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20A is a prerequisite to 20B.
Fundamentals of music, including notation, sight singing, ear training, and beginning linear analysis. For general students.
MUSIC 20B Basic Musicianship 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20A.
Fundamentals of music, including notation, sight singing, ear training, and beginning linear analysis. For general students.
MUSIC 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 freshmen.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 25A Introduction to Music Theory 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20A or other basic musicianship course or consent of instructor.
A writing course based on traditional harmony. Beginning linear and vertical analysis. For general students. Emphasis on written exercises.
MUSIC 25B Introduction to Music Theory 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20A or consent of instructor.
A writing course based on traditional harmony. Beginning linear and vertical analysis. For general students. Emphasis on written exercises.
MUSIC 26AC Music in American Culture 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Two perspectives are developed: 1) diverse music of groups in America, and 2) American music as a unique phenomenon. Groups considered are African, Asian, European, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American. Lectures and musical examples are organized by topics such as music of socio-economic subgroups within large groups, survival of culture, pan-ethnicity, religious and concert music, and the folk-popular music continuum.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
MUSIC N26AC Music in American Cultures 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Two perspectives are developed: 1) diverse music of groups in America, and 2) American music as a unique phenomenon. Groups considered are African, Asian, European, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American. Lectures and musical examples are religious and concert music, and the folk-popular music continuum.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
MUSIC 27 Introduction to Western Music 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Devoted to the development of listening skills, and a survey of major forms and types of Western art music.
MUSIC N27 Introduction to Western Music 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Devoted to the development of listening skills, and a survey of major forms and types of Western art music.
Students will receive no credit for Music N27 after taking Music 27.
MUSIC 28Y The Inner Workings of the Orchestra 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
A seminar for lower division students. Instruments, the role of the conductor, major repertory, and a survey of the great orchestras and conductors of the world. Recordings, videos, and field trips to rehearsals or performances.
Instructor: Pak
MUSIC 29 Music Now 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
This course explores the basic materials and models that set the boundaries for various present-day musical experiences. Students are exposed to terminology and modes of engagement with the aim of inspiring new paradigms of listening (e.g., listening to silence, noise, space, and timbre). Composers and musicians of today continue to explore new ways of defining and organizing sounds into music. The course focuses on the most adventurous music of our time, but the concepts learned can be applied to any style of music. The course is designed to enrich and deepen the students' musical abilities through direct involvement with musical materials. Direct engagement through listening and participatory learning is accomplished in part with software created at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. The course does not require students to be able to read music nor to own a personal computer.
Instructors: Campion, Ueno
MUSIC 39M Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 39N Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 40 Group Carillon Lessons for Beginning Students 1 Unit
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A course designed for students who wish to attain a beginner's level of proficiency on the carillon. Prospective students must have a working knowledge of the keyboard, read treble and bass clefs fluently, be secure in key signatures through three sharps and flats, and be comfortable with common duple and triple meters.
May be repeated once for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Davis
MUSIC 41A Private Carillon Lessons for Beginning Students 1 Unit
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 half-hour lesson every week, plus participation in the student recital.
Prerequisites: 40 or consent of instructor.
Private carillon lessons to develop a personal repertory. In this course, students will begin to learn different practice techniques.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of six units as long as B average is maintained.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units. Instructor: Davis
MUSIC 41B Private Carillon Lessons for Intermediate Students 1 Unit
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1-half hour lesson per week, 1 10-minute concert each week, plus participation in the student recital.
Prerequisites: 41A or consent of instructor.
Private carillon lessons stressing musical questions and de-emphasizing technical and repertory issues. Composition and arranging may be included. Personal musicianship is examined and musical horizons are extended.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units as long as a B average is maintained.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units. Instructor: Davis
MUSIC 41C Private Carillon Lessons for Advanced Students 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of private lesson per week, 1 10-minute concert each week, a minimum of 3 Sunday recitals per semester, and participation in the student recital.
Prerequisites: 41A, 41B, and/or consent of instructor.
This course is designed for students to reach an advanced level of proficiency. Students are required to play one ten-minute concert per week plus participate in the student recital.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units as long as a B average is maintained.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units. Formerly known as 42. Instructor: Davis
MUSIC 42 Carillon Lessons for Advanced Students 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of private lesson per week, 1 10-minute concert each week, a minimum of 3 Sunday recitals per semester, and participation in the student recital.
Prerequisites: 41A, 41B, or consent of instructor.
This course is a requirement for those students who are studying for examination by the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units as long as a B average is maintained.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units. Instructor: Davis
MUSIC 43 Introduction to Improvisation 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20A or equivalent and audition.
This course will serve as an introduction to performance practices in contemporary improvisation. Several approaches to improvising will be presented including African American jazz and blues traditions, North Indian Raga, gaming strategies, graphic notation, and conducted improvisation or "sound painting." Class activities will include improvisation exercises and games and repertoire development. Assignments will include listening to and analysis of recorded and live performances and the creation of student works.
Instructor: Melford
MUSIC 44 Voice Class 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Students must undergo an initial vocal assessment in the first class session before being admitted into the class.
Students will learn the fundaments of healthy singing. The classical style will be learned and applied to other styles of singing. Students will receive group instruction and individual feedback throughout the semester. Singers will perform two solos: one in English and one in a foreign language. The course is open to all undergraduates. Students involved in campus vocal ensembles are encouraged to enroll. No prior music experience required.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Johnson
MUSIC 45 Beginning Piano Class 1 for Non-Music Majors 1 Unit
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of studio per week for 10 weeks. 2 hours of studio per week for 8 weeks.
Piano instruction includes music theory (musical notation, triads, scales and primary chords) at the keyboard. Repertoire draws from simple classical pieces and melodies accompanied with chords. Mastery of the material will be demonstrated at the keyboard and through three written assignments.
Weekly class attendance and daily practice (5 hours weekly) are expected.
Instructor: Chew
MUSIC 49A Thinking about Music 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Department placement exam; 49B-49C (to be taken concurrently).
As a complement to Music 49B and 49C, this course introduces current and intending majors to perspectives that are central to the music major curriculum. It is organized around themes such as music and meaning, the relationship between written and aural transmission of music, and the interpretation of musical traditions, repertoires, and practices in relation to particular socio-historical contexts. Topics and musics to be studied vary by instuctor.
MUSIC 49B Musicianship 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music Placement Examination.
Diatonic sight singing, ear training, and keyboard harmony.
Formerly known as 50A.
MUSIC 49C Harmony 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music Placement Examination.
Diatonic harmony, chorale harmonization, and analytical studies. Emphasis on written exercises.
Formerly known as 60A.
MUSIC 50 Musicianship 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Advanced placement in Music Placement Exam, 49B, or 50A.
Continuation of diatonic sight singing and ear training, introduction to chromatic sight singing, ear training, keyboard harmony, and score reading.
Formerly known as 50B.
MUSIC 51 Musicianship 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Advanced placement in Music Placement Examination or 50.
Sight singing, ear training, keyboard harmony, and score reading involving increasing chromaticism.
Formerly known as 51A.
MUSIC 60 Harmony 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Advanced placement in Harmony Placement Exam, 49C, or 60A.
Advanced diatonic harmony, modulation, introduction to altered chords, chorale harmonization, and analytic studies. Emphasis on written exercises.
Formerly known as 60B.
MUSIC 61 Harmony 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Advanced placement in Harmony Placement Examination or 60.
Advanced diatonic harmony, advanced modulation, altered chords, chromatic harmony, and analytic studies. Emphasis on written exercises.
Formerly known as 61A.
MUSIC 73 African American Music 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Focus on a variety of musical practices both historical and contemporary, including popular and religious forms. Content will vary and may include genres such as blues, jazz, gospel, and hip-hop, explored with attention to race, gender, and the working of the music industry.
Instructor: Roberts
MUSIC 74 Introduction to Selected Musics of the World 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of performance laboratory per week.
Focus on performance practice, forms, styles, instruments, and meanings of particular musics from an ethnomusicological perspective. The musics to be studied vary; see offerings in the 130 series for specific course descriptions. Alternate lower division course numbering for lower division majors enrolling in the 130 series. This course will meet lower division major requirement.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Brinner, Guilbault, Wade
MUSIC 75 History of Western Music: Music to 1700 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Department placement examination, 49C (may be taken concurrently).
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance music. An introduction to music history and criticism, and practice in analytical methods for music of all periods, with emphasis on listening, exercises, and papers.
Formerly known as 171A.
MUSIC 76 History of Western Music: The 18th and 19th Centuries 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60 (may be taken concurrently).
Music of the 18th and 19th centuries. An introduction to music history and criticism, and practice in analytical methods for music of all periods, with emphasis on listening, exercises, and papers.
Formerly known as 70. Instructor: Taruskin
MUSIC 77 History of Western Music: The 20th Century 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60.
Music of the 20th century.
Formerly known as 170. Instructor: Taruskin
MUSIC 97 Field Studies 1 - 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 4.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 10 weeks. 1.5 to 5.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 7.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music major.
Department organized and supervised field programs involving experiences in tutoring and related activities. Students taking the course for the first time will be provided with training suitable to the subject matter being tutored.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 98 Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores 1 - 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 2 contact hours per unit per week.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing and consent of instructor.
Group study in a field that may not coincide with that of any regular course. See the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of the General Catalog for enrollment restrictions.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
MUSIC 98BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of lecture per week.
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
MUSIC 99 Independent Study for Freshmen and Sophomores 1 - 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 2 contact hours per unit per week.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing and consent of instructor.
Directed individual study in a field that may not coincide with that of any regular course. See the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of the General Catalog for enrollment restrictions.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 101 New Music and the Arts 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A study of recent musical works from the 20th century to the present, emphasizing collaborations and influences from other art forms including poetry, dance, visual art, theater, and film.
Open to all nonmajors.
MUSIC 101M New Music and the Arts 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Restricted to music majors.
A study of recent musical works from the 20th century to the present, emphasizing collaborations and influences from other art forms including poetry, dance, visual art, theater, and film.
MUSIC 108 Music Perception and Cognition 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A review of the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive foundations of listening, composing, and performing. Topics include relations among various acoustical and perceptual characterizations of sound; perception of pitch, temporal relations, timbre, stability conditions, and auditory space; auditory scene analysis and perceptual grouping mechanisms; perceptual principles for melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic organization; orchestration as spectral composition. A course research project is required.
Formerly known as 115. Instructor: Wessel
MUSIC 108M Music Perception and Cognition 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
A review of the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive foundations of listening, performing, and composing. Topics include relations among various acoustical and perceptual characterizations of sound; perceptions of pitch, time, temporal relations, timbre, stability conditions, and auditory space; auditory scene analysis and perceptual grouping mechanisms; perceptual principles for melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic organization; orchestration as spectral composition. The course research project should involve the analysis of musical examples or perceptual and cognitive issues in music theory or both.
Formerly known as 115. Instructor: Wessel
MUSIC 109 Music Cognition: The Mind Behind the Musical Ear 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The goal of this class is to interrogate and make explicit the powerful musical intuitions that are at work as you make sense of the music all around you. What is the nature of the knowledge that is guiding these intuitions? How does this knowledge develop in ordinary and extraordinary ways? To approach these questions, small composition-like projects aided by a specially designed computer music environment will function as a workplace. You will explore, experiment, question, and reflect on how and what you know how to do as you generate the musical coherence that you seem simply to find.
Instructor: Bamberger
MUSIC 109M Music Cognition: The Mind Behind the Musical Ear 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music majors only.
The goal of this class is to interrogate and make explicit the powerful musical intuitions that are at work as you make sense of the music all around you. What is the nature of the knowledge that is guiding these intuitions? How does this knowledge develop in ordinary and extraordinary ways? To approach these questions, small composition-like projects aided by a specially designed computer music environment will function as a workplace.
Instructor: Bamberger
MUSIC 116A Jazz Theory and Performance 1 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Audition.
A systematic study of jazz theory including scales, chords, keyboard voicings, solo transcription, and tune study approached through playing, singing, listening, writing, improvization, analysis, and small ensemble playing.
Students will receive no credit for 116A after taking 116 or 116M. Formerly known as 116. Instructor: Dana
MUSIC 116AM Jazz Theory and Performance 1 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Audition.
A systematic study of jazz theory including scales, chords, keyboard voicings, solo transcription, and tune study approached through playing, singing, listening, writing, improvization, analysis, and small ensemble playing.
Students will receive no credit for 116AM after taking 116 or 116M. Formerly known as 116M. Instructor: Dana
MUSIC 116B Jazz Theory and Performance 2 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 116, 116M, 116A, or 116AM, or consent of instructor; Audition.
Advanced concepts in theory and performance in the jazz vernacular tradition, including melodic minor and diminished chords and scales, reharmonization, changes, Coltrane changes, use of pentatonics and 4ths, playing outside, solo analysis, piano voicings, and an introduction to jazz arranging and composition. Activities will include short writing and playing exercises, transcription and analysis, historical and analytical readings, arranging and composition projects for small ensemble, and three hours of small ensemble rehearsal each week.
Instructor: Dana
MUSIC 116BM Jazz Theory and Performance 2 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 116, 116M, 116A, or 116AM, or consent of instructor; Audition.
Advanced concepts in theory and performance in the jazz vernacular tradition, including melodic minor and diminished chords and scales, reharmonization, changes, Coltrane changes, use of pentatonics and 4ths, playing outside, solo analysis, piano voicings, and an introduction to jazz arranging and composition. Activities will include short writing and playing exercises, transcription and analysis, historical and analytical readings, arranging and composition projects for small ensemble, and three hours of small ensemble rehearsal each week.
Instructor: Dana
MUSIC N116 Jazz Theory and Performance 1 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of studio per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Audition.
A systematic study of jazz theory including scales, chords, keyboard voicings, solo transcription, and tune study approached through playing, singing, listening, writing, improvization, analysis, and small ensemble playing.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Richman
MUSIC 128 Topics in the History of European and American Music 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 27 or consent of instructor.
For non-majors. A comparative study of different genres and composers in western music. Topic will vary each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 128A Opera 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 27 or consent of instructor.
A study of musical and dramatic aspects of opera. Lectures on selected operas will be supplemented by assigned recordings and films or videotapes of notable performances.
MUSIC 128AM Opera 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 61B, and 75 or 76. Restricted to music majors.
A study of musical and dramatic aspects of opera. Lectures on selected operas will be supplemented by assigned recordings and films or videotapes of notable performances. Analytical studies and a term paper required.
Students will not receive credit for 128AM after taking 128A.
MUSIC 128B Beethoven 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 27 or consent of instructor.
This course is an introduction to Beethoven's music and its historical contexts. While closely analyzing individual works, this course also examines how Beethoven and his music have been represented and interpreted until our own day, exploring the values--musical and cultural--that have ensured Beethoven's towering position in Western music.
MUSIC 128BM Beethoven 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Restricted to music majors.
This course is an introduction to Beethoven's music and its historical contexts. While closely analyzing individual works, this course also examines how Beethoven and his music have been represented and interpreted until our own day, exploring the values--musical and cultural--that have ensured Beethoven's towering position in Western music.
Instructor: Mathew
MUSIC C128P/PHILOS C112 Music and Meaning 3 Units
Department: Music; Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week. This course may include 1 field trip to a local concert.
This course will explore the question of whether music has meaning, and if so, what kind. Can music represent, say, birdsong, or the sea, or merely imitate? If music expresses emotions, then whose--those of the listener? The composer? The performer? We will consider parallels and contrasts between linguistic and musical meaning, theories of how music can be expressive, and the question of whether music can convey political meaning.
Students will receive no credit for Music C128P/Philosophy C112 after taking Philosophy 112. <BR/> Instructors: Smart, Ginsborg
MUSIC 128D J. S. Bach 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 27 or consent of instructor.
An introduction to the music of J. S. Bach (1685-1750), a central figure in the history of Western Art Music. The course includes discussion of his organ music, harpsichord works, cantatas, Passion settings, and instrumental chamber music, discusses the relationship between Bach's biography and his compositions, and places study of the man and his music in its cultural and historical context. Required work will include one short paper and one longer paper. There will also be weekly reading and listening assignments.
MUSIC 128DM J. S. Bach 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Restricted to music majors.
An introduction to the music of J. S. Bach (1685-1750), a central figure in the history of Western Art Music. The course includes discussion of his organ music, harpsichord works, cantatas, Passion settings, and instrumental chamber music, discusses the relationship between Bach's biography and his compositions, and places study of the man and his music in its cultural and historical context. Required work will include one medium-length paper, one longer research paper, and one analytical study. There will also be weekly reading and listening assignments.
MUSIC 128E Mozart and Haydn 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 27 or consent of instructor.
MUSIC 128GY Symphonic Literature 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 27 or equivalent introductory music course, or consent of instructor.
A survey of the major symphonic repertory from the Baroque period through modern times, with emphasis on the Classical and Romantic periods.
Instructor: Pak
MUSIC 128P Music and Meaning 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
This course will explore the question of whether music has meaning, and if so, what kind. Can music represent, say, birdsong, or the sea, or merely imitate? If music expresses emotions, then whose--those of the listener? The composer? The performer? We will consider parallels and contrasts between linguistic and musical meaning, theories of how music can be expressive, and the question of whether music can convey political meaning.
Instructors: Ginsborg, Smart
MUSIC 128Q The European/American Art Song 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 27 or consent of instructor.
A study of song and the interaction of poetry and music, from late 18th through the 20th century, with texts in English, German, French, and Russian in translation. Music by composers ranging from Mozart and Schubert to Gershwin and Bernstein will be included, with occasional live performances by local artists.
MUSIC 128S Topics in Contemporary Improvised Music 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Jazz history recommended, though not required.
Topic(s) in contemporary improvised music will be selected from among the following: innovations in jazz in the 1960s; further innovations in jazz in the 1970s; women in improvised music; improvisation, intermedia, and new technologies; the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM); the phenomenon of the composer/performer/improviser in today's music; a global look at improvisation: fusion and hybrid forms. Please contact instructor for information on current topic(s).
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Melford
MUSIC 128SM Topics in Contemporary Improvised Music 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Jazz history recommended, though not required.
Topic(s) in contemporary improvised music will be selected from among the following: innovations in jazz in the 1960s; further innovations in jazz in the 1970s; women in improvised music; improvisation, intermedia, and new technologies; the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM); the phenomenon of the composer/performer/improviser in today's music; a global look at improvisation: fusion and hybrid forms. Please contact instructor for information on current topic(s).
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Melford
MUSIC 128T The American Musical 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 to 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A study of the American musical in the 20th century, beginning with its roots in operetta, vaudeville, and Gilbert and Sullivan, and focusing on its connections to politics, technology, film, opera, and a variety of musical styles, including Tin Pan Alley, jazz, and rock. We will consider a selection of shows through a series of theme units, including American mythologies (and counter-mythologies), race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, issues of fandom and performance of personal identity. For non-majors.
Instructor: Replogle-Wong
MUSIC 128TM The American Musical 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 to 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A study of the American musical in the 20th century, beginning with its roots in operetta, vaudeville, and Gilbert and Sullivan, and focusing on its connections to politics, technology, film, opera, and a variety of musical styles, including Tin Pan Alley, jazz, and rock. We will consider a selection of shows through a series of theme units, including American mythologies (and countermythologies), race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, issues of fandom, and performance of personal identity. For music majors.
Instructor: Replogle-Wong
MUSIC 130B African American Music 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Historical and analytical study of African-American music in the 20th-century. Emphasis on the evolution of jazz and various forms of popular and religious music.
Instructor: Roberts
MUSIC N130B African American Music 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Historical and analytical study of African-American music in the 20th-century. Emphasis on the evolution of jazz and various forms of popular and religious music.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 132 Music of the Middle East 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory (devoted to playing Arabic music) per week.
Music of the Middle East, including folk, art, popular, and religious music of the Pan-Islamic and Israeli traditions.
Instructor: Brinner
MUSIC 133AX Music of Southeast Asia 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 12 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Surveys the music of Indonesia (Java and Bali), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and the Philippines--cultures which share instrumental types but have developed distinctive musical types. Recommended that students also enroll in Javanese Gamelon.
Instructor: Brinner
MUSIC 133C Music and Theater in Southeast Asia 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory (devoted to playing Balinese and Javanese Gamelan) per week.
Surveys musical traditions of Indonesia and mainland Southeast Asia with special emphasis on Java and Bali and the central role of music in theater and dance in these countries.
Formerly known as 133A. Instructor: Gold
MUSIC 133D Music of Central Java 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory (devoted to playing the Javanese Gamelan) per week.
In-depth study of the Central Javanese gamelan tradition including performance contexts, repertoire, vocal and instrumental idioms, modal practice and improvisation in current practice and in historical perspective.
MUSIC 134A Music of the East Asia Tradition 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Surveys the musics of China, Tibet, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan--cultures which share instrument types but have developed distinctive musical styles.
Instructor: Wade
MUSIC 134B Music of Japan 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Traditional classical music of Japan: Shinto ritual music, the imperial court orchestral music and dance, biwa and shakuhachi forms, chamber music for shamisen and koto, theatrical genres of kabuki and noh. Reading in music and pertinent Japanese literature in translation.
Instructor: Wade
MUSIC C134C/CHINESE C184 Sonic Culture in China 4 Units
Department: Music; Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 7A or 7B, and/or previous course work in either Chinese literature and culture, or music.
This course explores the aesthetics and politics of sound - both musical and otherwise - in Chinese cultures. Through musical discourse and literary discourses on music, we trace the ways in which sound has been produced, heard, understood, and debated in both pre-modern and modern China. Topics include Confucian musical theory, Daoist hermeneutics, music, and poetry; the impact of recording technology and Western music; urban popular musics, sound and cinema, and contemporary soundscapes.
Instructor: Jones
MUSIC 135A Musics of the Caribbean 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory per week.
Focus on the history, musical structure, and socio-political, economic, and cultural roles of selected traditional and popular music genres of the Caribbean.
Instructor: Guilbault
MUSIC 136 World Music: Power, Aesthetics, and Connections 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course focuses on selected "world musics" to examine how, through their soundings, they make audible their entanglements with particular locales, times, and spaces. In focusing on their soundings, we will examine not only the music technologies they use, but also the diasporic connections they establish. Issues of power relations will be central to our exploration of how these musics circulate and what values (social, economic, and aesthetic) they have acquired on specific markets. In so doing, we will situate these musics in relation to colonial legacies, the politics of labeling, globalization, and music industries.
Instructor: Guilbault
MUSIC 137AC Music of the Civil Rights Era 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Historical and political analysis of a variety of genres related to the New Social Movements of the mid-20th century. Includes African American, European American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American styles.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Instructor: Roberts
MUSIC 139 Topics in Musics of the World 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
Surveys the music of different world cultures. The particular culture to be studied will vary.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 140 Javanese Gamelan 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 and 1 half hours of large ensemble per week for 6 weeks. 3 hours of large ensemble per week.
A performing course for the study and practice of Indonesian music and instruments.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC N140 Javanese Gamelan 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 and 1 half hours of large ensemble per week for 6 weeks.
A performing course for the study and practice of Indonesian music and instruments.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Midiyanto
MUSIC 141 University Symphony Orchestra 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of rehearsal per week.
Prerequisites: Audition.
May be taken for credit or audited.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Milnes
MUSIC 142 University Wind Ensemble 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of rehearsal per week.
Prerequisites: Audition.
A performing course for the study and practice of traditional and contemporary wind band repertoire.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Calonico
MUSIC 143 Gospel Chorus 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of large ensemble and 1 hour of sectional per week.
A course that will focus on the performance of choral music of the African American gospel music tradition with a particular emphasis on contemporary performance techniques. The Gospel Chorus, as is the case with other formal University music performance ensembles, will prepare music to be presented to the public in at least two concerts each semester. Students will be selected for the chorus on the basis of individual auditions.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Wilson
MUSIC 144 University Chorus 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of rehearsal and 1 hour of sectional rehearsal per week.
Prerequisites: Audition.
The University Chorus performs music primarily from the 17th to the 20th centuries including works for chorus and orchestra.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Kuzma
MUSIC 145 University Chamber Chorus 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of rehearsal per week.
Prerequisites: Audition.
A smaller mixed chorus that aims at a professional standard of ensemble singing and explores the lesser-known choral repertory.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Kuzma
MUSIC 146B Balinese Gamelan 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: by audition.
Learn to perform music suited to Balinese gamelan Semar Pagulingan, Pelegongan, Baleganjur, or Gender Wayang (emphasis may change from one semester to the next). Classes will consist of instruction on playing technique and memorization of pieces taught by ear, in the traditional Balinese manner. The course will culminate with a public performance.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Brinner
MUSIC 147 Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of rehearsal and 1 hour of preparation per week.
Prerequisites: 43, 116A, and 116AM, or equivalent, and audition.
This is an intermediate-advanced repertoire ensemble performing music that incorporates experimental practices in contemporary improvised music, encompassing several styles of music and a variety of approaches. We will work on traditionally notated scores as well as graphic notation and other structures. We will also look at game pieces such as John Zorn's Cobra, pieces by the graduate composers, and music using various conducting techniques for focusing ensembles of improvisers. All instruments welcome, including electronic and non-western.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Melford
MUSIC 148 African Music Ensemble 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of rehearsal per week.
Performance of West African music with particular emphasis on the music of Ghana. Practical instruction in traditional instrumental and vocal techniques.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Ladzekpo
MUSIC N148 African Music Ensemble 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of rehearsal per week.
Prerequisites: An audition may be required.
Performance of West African music with particular emphasis on the music of Ghana. Practical instruction in traditional instrumental and vocal techniques.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Ladzekpo
MUSIC 149 University Baroque Ensemble 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of rehearsal per week.
Performance of Renaissance and Baroque music for voices and instruments.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Moroney
MUSIC 150A Instrumental Performance 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music majors only.
By audition, for experienced performers of orchestral instruments. A directed program of study including participation in the University Symphony or other department-sponsored ensembles, in workshops, and in special projects. Will include instruction and/or coaching, individually or in groups. The student's program will be worked out in consultation with the faculty in charge of the course. Each student's studies will lead to some kind of public performance.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Must be taken for a letter grade. Instructor: Milnes
MUSIC 150B Vocal Performance 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music majors only.
By audition for experienced vocalists. A comprehensive program of vocal studies including participation in University Choruses, vocal technique training, and ensemble work with other instrumentalists or vocalists. The student's program will be worked out in consultation with the faculty in charge of the course. Each student's studies will lead to some kind of public performance.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Must be taken for a letter grade. Instructor: Kuzma
MUSIC 150C Keyboard Performance 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music majors only. By audition, for experienced performers of keyboard or related instruments.
The program will focus on the study of solo repertoire. The student's program will be worked out in consultation with the faculty in charge of the course. Each student's studies will lead to some kind of public performance.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Mathew
MUSIC 150D Various Musical Practices Performance 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music major only.
By audition. Intermediate or advanced instruction in musical practices not encompassed in 150A-150B-150C, within the context of a directed academic program of studies. Students must have experience on the instrument or have studied it in the 130 series. The student's program will be worked out in consultation with the faculty in charge of the course. Each student's studies will lead to some kind of public performance.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Must be taken for a letter grade. Instructor: Brinner
MUSIC 150E Jazz Performance 1 - 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 to 9 hours of practice/lessons/ensemble per week.
Prerequisites: Open to music majors by audition only.
Intermediate or advanced instruction in the performance of jazz and improvisation. A directed program of study including participation in department-sponsored or UC Jazz ensembles, workshops, and special projects where applicable. Will include instruction and/or coaching, individually or in groups. Each student's studies will lead to some kind of public performance. The student's program will be worked out in consultation with the faculty in charge of the course. Units range from 1 to 3, depending on number of lessons and ensemble participation.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Melford
MUSIC 150G Guitar Performance 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Minimum of 2 hours of studio per week.
Prerequisites: Music majors only. By audition, for experienced guitar performers.
The program will include ensemble work in addition to the study of solo repertoire. The student's program will be worked out in consultation with the faculty in charge of the course. Each student's studies will lead to some kind of public performance.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Bedrossian
MUSIC 150H Early Music Performance 1 - 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Minimum of 1 to 3 hours of studio per week.
Prerequisites: Music majors only. By audition, for performers on early music instruments.
The program will include ensemble work in addition to the study of solo repertoire. The student's program will be worked out in consultation with the faculty in charge of the course. Each student's studies will lead to some kind of public performance.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Moroney
MUSIC 151 Twentieth-Century Harmony 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Advanced placement in Harmony Placement Examination or 61.
Advanced chromatic harmony, early 20th-century harmony, and analytic studies. Emphasis on written exercises.
Formerly known as 61B.
MUSIC 152 Advanced Musicianship 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of class per week.
Prerequisites: 51, 61, and 405D.
Continuation of the skills acquired in prerequisite courses, with an emphasis on score reading skills (including use of the voice) and the realization of Baroque figured bass lines. Increased emphasis on 20th-century and contemporary practice.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Rosenak
MUSIC 154A Counterpoint 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 50 and 60.
A study of species counterpoint. Regular exercises in two and three voices required. Group discussion and analysis.
MUSIC 154B Counterpoint 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 50 and 60.
A study of 18th-century counterpoint. Regular exercises required. Analysis of chorale preludes, two- and three-part inventions, canons, and fugue expositions.
MUSIC 155 Music Composition 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 50 and 60.
A study of formal problems using contemporary composition techniques.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 156 Studies in Musical Analysis 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 50 and 60.
The study of various analytical techniques and their application to important works of music.
MUSIC 157A Orchestration 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture plus considerable out of class work including some special workshop sections.
Prerequisites: 50 and 60. 61; 151 recommended.
A study of instrumentation--the construction capabilities and idiomatic qualities of all of the individual instruments which comprise the contemporary symphony orchestra followed by a study of the 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century orchestrational technique. Analysis of scores and assignments in scoring of selected instrumental combinations.
Formerly known as 157.
MUSIC 157B Orchestration 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture plus considerable out of class work including some special workshop sections.
Prerequisites: 50 and 60.
A study of instrumentation--the construction capabilities and idiomatic qualities of all of the individual instruments which comprise the contemporary symphony orchestra followed by a study of the 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century orchestrational technique. Analysis of scores and assignments in scoring of selected instrumental combinations.
MUSIC 158 Musical Applications of Computers and Related Technologies 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week. 7.5 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Basic concepts and techniques of computer-based music research, composition, and performance. Essentials of digital audio signal processing, musical acoustics and psychoacoustics, sound analysis and synthesis, musical databases, use of MIDI, computer programming for music, and computer-aided music analysis. Works from the computer music repertoire will be examined.
MUSIC 159 Computer Programming for Music Applications 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Prerequisites: Music 158 or permission of instructor.
Software engineering for musical applications covering programming concepts for live-performance real-time systems as well as cloud-based music information retrieval applications. Topics include the software representation of sound and music, real-time scheduling, analysis of gestures from systems of sensors, common design patterns, analysis and controlled synthesis, and machine learning applications for music understanding and creation. Behavior driven design and test driven development are core ideas that permeate the course.
Instructor: WESSEL
MUSIC 161A Instrumental Conducting 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 10 hours of class per week for 6 weeks. 4 hours of class per week.
Prerequisites: 51 and 61; 152 and 156 recommended.
A study of the basic elements of conducting: physical gesture, score reading, and score analysis. Development of skills with emphasis on conducting and rehearsal techniques applicable to orchestral literature in various languages and musical styles. Preparation of selected works for rehearsal and performance in class. Should be taken in a two-semester sequence.
Course may be repeated once for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 160. Instructor: Milnes
MUSIC 161B Instrumental Conducting 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of class per week.
Prerequisites: 51 and 61; 152 and 156 recommended.
A study of the basic elements of conducting: physical gesture, score reading, and score analysis. Development of skills with emphasis on conducting and rehearsal techniques applicable to orchestral literature in various languages and musical styles. Preparation of selected works for rehearsal and performance in class. Should be taken in a two-semester sequence.
Course may be repeated once for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 161. Instructor: Milnes
MUSIC 162 Choral Conducting 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of class per week.
Prerequisites: 160 or consent of instructor; 152 and 156 recommended.
Continued development of skills introduced in 160 with emphasis on conducting and rehearsal techniques applicable to choral literature in various languages and musical styles. Preparation of selected works for rehearsal and performance in class.
Instructor: Kuzma
MUSIC 163 Workshop in Choral Conducting 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Thirty hours of session for 1 week. 4 hours of class per week.
Prerequisites: Sight-singing proficiency and ability to read music scores.
Daily classies in conducting technique and rehearsal technique, supplemented by sessions on various topics in conducting presented by guest speakers from the Bay Area music community. Technique classes will be offered at beginning and advanced levels. Advance consultation on placement recommended: contact Professor Kuzma in the Music Department.
Instructor: Kuzma
MUSIC 164 Current Trends in Jazz and Improvisation-Based Musics--A Performance Workshop 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Session per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 43, 116A, and 116B, or equivalent, and audition.
This is an intermediate-advanced level performance workshop in jazz-based improvisational music. Class participants will perform pieces from innovative jazz artists of the 60s and 70s up through and including music by contemporary composer/performer/improvisers who have come out of the jazz tradition. Course will also cover related theory and musicianship skills that enable the performer to improvise in this idiom.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Melford
MUSIC 165 Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective 2 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of rehearsal per week.
Prerequisites: Music 116A, 116B, or 164 suggested, though admission is by invitation or audition.
This advanced small ensemble of improvisers (The Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective) will explore a range of repertoire including music by innovative jazz composers of the 1960s and 70s, as well as contemporary works and original student compositions and arrangements. Students will be expected to practice, compose, and arrange music for the bi-weekly rehearsals outside of class time, and will be given individual guidance on composing and arranging by appointment.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Melford
MUSIC 171D The Performance of Baroque Music 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60 and 76 (may be taken concurrently); experience playing an instrument or singing.
A study of music from ca. 1600-1750 with emphasis upon performance practices and styles.
MUSIC 172A Mozart 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60 and 76 or consent of instructor.
MUSIC 174C Stravinsky 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60 and 76 or consent of instructor; 61 recommended.
MUSIC 179 Topics in History, Culture, and Analysis 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60 and 76 or consent of instructor.
A seminar for upper division music majors. Topics will change each semester but will always represent a fairly narrow focus on a single issue in the history, interpretation, or social meaning of music. The course provides students with an opportunity to go deeply into one subject, to discuss their ideas in a seminar setting, and to carry out a substantial independent research project.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 189 Topics in Research and Performance 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60 and 76 or consent of instructor.
A seminar for upper division music majors. The primary purpose of this course is to create an environment in which students can combine the research and analysis of music with live performance. The specific topic covered will change each semester. Class time will be divided equally among (1) historical and analytical readings; (2) discussion and analysis of recorded and live performances; (3) in-class performance. The final project will combine scholarly work and performance in the form of a lecture-recital or collaborative creative project.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC H195 Special Study for Honors Candidates in Music 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Independent study.
Prerequisites: Restricted to seniors with a grade-point average of 3.3 overall and 3.5 in the major. Consent of instructor and Department Honors Committee.
Individual tutorials leading to the completion of a special honors project.
Course may be repeated once for credit.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.
MUSIC 197 Field Studies 1 - 3 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 4.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 10 weeks. 1.5 to 5.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 7.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Music major.
Department organized and supervised field programs involving experiences in tutoring and related activities. Students taking the course for the first time will be provided with training suitable to the subject matter being tutored.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
MUSIC 198 Group Special Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Directed group study per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Directed group study per week for 6 weeks.
Not to serve in lieu of regular courses of instruction.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
MUSIC 198BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit
Department: Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of lecture per week.
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
MUSIC 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units