MUSI 1040: Exploring the Orchestra

Kate Tamarkin
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 11:00am-11:50pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 19909

Discussion Sections:

Section 101 (Eric DeLuca): F / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 19910

Section 102 (Eric DeLuca): F / 1:00-1:50 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 19911

Section 103 (Eric DeLuca): F / 2:00-2:50 pm / OCH S008 
Class Number: 19912

MUSI 1310: Basic Musical Skills

Sara O'Halloran / Courtney Kleftis / Jeff Decker 
3.0 credits

Lecture / Section 1 (Sara O'Halloran): MWF / 9:00-9:50 am / OCH 107
Class Number: 11325

Lecture / Section 2 (Courtney Kleftis): MWF / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH 107
Class Number: 11326

Lecture / Section 3 (Jeff Decker): MWF / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH 107 
Class Number: 11324

Not open to students already qualified to elect MUSI 3310 or 3320. Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music.

MUSI 1620: History of the Wind Band

William Pease 
2.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 11:00-11:50 am / Hunter Smith Band Building 
Class Number: 15800

MUSI 2080: American Music: History of Rock

Michael Bishop
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 12:30-1:20 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 12595

Discussion Sections:

Section 101 (Stephanie Doktor): R / 9:30-10:20 am / OCH 113
Class Number: 12596

Section 102 (Stephanie Doktor): R / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH 113 
Class Number: 12597

Section 103 (Stephanie Doktor): F / 1:00-1:50 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 12598

MUSI 2120: History of Jazz Music

Scott DeVeaux 
4.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 11:00-12:15 pm / Wilson 402
Class Number: 11327

Discussion Sections:

Section 101 (Matt Jones): W / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH S008
Class Number: 11328

Section 102 (Jason Kirby): F / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH S008
Class Number: 11329

Section 103 (Jason Kirby): F / 11:00-11:50 pm / OCH S008 
Class Number: 11330

Section 104 (Matt Jones): W / 9:00-9:50 am / OCH S008
Class Number: 11331

Section 105 (Matt Jones): W / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH S008
Class Number: 11332

Section 106 (Maria Guarino): T / 12:30-1:20 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 11333

Section 107 (Maria Guarino): T / 9:30-10:20 am / OCH 113 
Class Number: 11334

Section 108 (Jason Kirby): F / 9:00-9:50 am / OCH 113
Class Number: 11335

Section 109 (Maria Guarino): R / 9:30-10:20 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 11336

Section 110 (Jean Maroun): F / 11:00-11:50 am /
OCH 113 
Class Number: 15813

Section 111 (Jean Maroun): F / 9:00-9:50 am /
OCH 113
Class Number: 15814

Section 112 (Jean Maroun): F / 10:00-10:50 am /
OCH 113
Class Number: 15815

Survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists.

MUSI 2302: Keyboard Skills (Beginning)

Kevin Davis
2.0 credits, Instructor Permission

Lecture / Section 1: MW / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH 113
Class Number: 12591

Lecture / Section 2: MW / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH 113
Class Number: 19914

Introductory keyboard skills; includes sight-reading, improvisation, and accompaniment at the keyboard in a variety of styles. No previous knowledge of music required. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors.

MUSI 2304: Keyboard Skills (Intermediate)

John Mayhood
2.0 credits, Instructor Permission
Lecture: MW / 1:00-1:50 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 12592

Intermediate keyboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUSI 2306: Fretboard Harmony

Mike Rosensky
2.0 credits, Instructor Permission
Lecture: MWF / 1:00-1:50 / OCH B012
Class Number: 12593

The level of this course will vary, anywhere from beginning to advanced, each semester depending on the guitar experience of students who enroll. Students should contact Mike Rosensky (createEmail('mlr5q');) during pre-registration letting him know of their interest in the course and of their intent to show up for the first class of the semester when the level and the make-up of the class will be ultimately determined.

In Fretboard Harmony a theory-based approach will be taken to understanding how musical materials (scales, arpeggios, chord voicings) "fit" on the guitar. The majority of class meeting time is spent with guitars in hand "drilling" new material. Practice methods will be explored, with an emphasis on learning how to practice effectively and efficiently.

MUSI 2340: Learn to Groove

Robert Jospe
2.0 credits

Lecture / Section 1: MW / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH B018
Class Number: 15819

Lecture / Section 2: MW / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH B018
Class Number: 12594

"Learn to Groove" hand drumming and rhythmic fluency with Robert Jospe. This is a hands on drumming/percussion class using congas, djembes, claves, shakers, etc. This class is designed to enhance ones knowledge of syncopated patterns associated with jazz, rock, African and Latin American music and to improve ones facility in playing these patterns. This course will follow my book "Learn To Groove" and can include music students, non music students and is open to students of all skill levels. The course requires that students have or purchase a hand drum of their own. Congas, bongos, djembes, doumbeks or any other hand drums are appropriate.

MUSI 2600: Jazz Improvisation

John D'earth
3.0 credits 
Lecture: TR / 3:30-5:00 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 14017

The Jazz Improvisation Workshop explores the basic techniques and procedures for improvising in jazz and other musical contexts. No previous jazz or improvising experience is required but students must demonstrate a degree of fluency on their main instrument, an ability to read music and some familiarity with the basics of music theory. An individual interview/audition with the instructor is required before registering for this class.

MUSI 3030: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Music

Michael Puri
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 9:30-10:45 am / OCH B012
Class Number: 19916

A survey of predominantly European music in the nineteenth century. We will cover a breadth of composers (for example, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Berlioz, Wagner, and Verdi), genres (solo instrumental, art song, choral, instrumental chamber music, concerto, symphony, opera), nations and regions (France, Germany and Austria, Italy, Russia, England, North America), and topics (salon culture, virtuosity, folk music, exoticism, musical meaning, memorialization, etc.). Ability to read scores is required; Theory 1 strongly recommended as a prerequisite. Fulfills first historical requirement or elective requirement for the music major.

MUSI 3050: Music and Discourse Since 1900

Fred Maus 
3.0 credits
Lecture: MWF / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 11337

Studies the range of music that has flourished in the twentieth century, including modernist and post-modern art music, popular music, and world music, through historical, critical, and ethnographic approaches.

Required of all majors; fulfills the "Introductory course" requirement for majors.

Prerequisite: The ability to read music, or any three-credit course in music, or instructor permission.

MUSI 3090: Performance in Africa

Michelle Kisliuk
4.0 credits
Lecturer: TR / 4:00-4:50 pm /OCH 107
Class Number: 19917

This course explores performance in Africa through reading, discussion, audio and video examples, hands-on practice, and – new this semester – teaching and performing with local school children. The course meets together with MUSI 3690 (African Drumming and Dance Ensemble), but is a full academic course. Students in Music 3090 are automatically part of the UVA African Music and Dance Ensemble. Your role in the Ensemble as learner and performer is crucial to your overall work in the course. This semester, the Community Engagement initiative will involve students participating once a week in an after-school club, teaching and mentoring children from two area schools.

We will explore African music/dance styles – focusing on Ewe music from Ghana and Togo and BaAka music from the Central African Republic, but branching to other forms and genres – their sociomusical circumstances and processes, as well as performed resistances and responses to the colonial and post/neo-colonial encounter. In addition, we will address the politics and processes involved in translating performance practices from one cultural context to another. Each students’ personal relationship to the material/experience will be integrated into study. Readings, discussions, and written work will focus heavily on topics and issues related to the main music/dance traditions that we are learning to perform this semester, though we may venture beyond those areas from time to time. The course will explore both "traditional" and "popular" styles, leading us to question those categories.

There is an informal audition for this course. No experience is expected, just come to the first evening class meeting (5:15) ready to sing and dance (in groups).

Co-Prerequisite: MUEN 3690

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

MUSI 3320: Theory II

Peter D'Elia / Victor Szabo
3.0 credits

Lecture / Section 1: Peter D'Elia / MWF / 9:00-9:50 am / OCH B012
Class Number: 11339

Lecture / Section 2: Victor Szabo / MWF / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH B012
Class Number: 11338

Studies pitch and formal organization in European concert music of the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes four-part vocal writing, 18th-century style keyboard accompaniment, key relations, and form. Students compose numerous short passages of music and study significant compositions by period composers.

Co-requisite: MUSI 3332, 3334, and 3336.

MUSI 3332, 3334 and 3336: Musicianship I, II and III

1.0 credit

These lab courses give practical experience with many aspects of
musical perception, performance, and creation. These will include
sight-reading and sight-singing; dictation of melody, rhythm, and
harmony; aural identification of intervals, chords, and rhythmic
patterns; and exercises in musical memory and improvisation. Students
entering the sequence take a test to determine the appropriate level of
their first course. At the end of each course, students take a placement
test to determine whether they may enter a higher level course. Courses
may be repeated for credit, but each course may be counted toward the
major only once. MUSI 3332, 3334, and 3336 are co-requisites for MUSI
3310, 3320, and 4331. This means that students pre-registering in the
latter courses must also pre-register in MUSI 3332, 3334, and 3336
unless they have already taken the highest level course and have been
passed out of further co-requisite requirements. Students interested in
taking Musicianship but not Theory are encouraged to register for MUSI
3332, 3334, or 3336 as space permits. Such students may not
pre-register. They should plan to register by adding in Fall after
taking a placement exam.

MUSI 3332: Musicianship I

Steve Kemper
Lecture: MW / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 11340

MUSI 3334: Musicianship II

Amy Coddington
Lecture: WF / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 11341

MUSI 3336: Musicianship III

Adam Carter
Lecture: M / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH B012 and F / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 11342

MUSI 3370 Songwriting

Ted Coffey
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 3:30-4:45 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 16091

The goal of this course is to delve into songwriting; to develop aural, analytic and creative abilities and to join them together in understanding and composing songs. Students will learn about rhythm, melodic design, harmonic progression, lyrics and song forms. We will consider examples from a broad musical spectrum: blues, folk, art song, musicals, R & B, rock & roll, hip hop. Students will also perform songs they have composed during the semester.

MUSI 3390: Introduction to Music & Computers

Judith Shatin 
3.0 credits
Lecture: MW / 2:00-3:15 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 19919

Lab Sections:

Section 100 (Braxton Sherouse): M / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH B011
Class Number: 21193

Section 101 (Braxton Sherouse): M / 12:00-12:50 am / OCH B011
Class Number: 21194

Section 102 (Braxton Sherouse): W / 10:00-10:50 pm / OCH B011 
Class Number: 21195

MUSI 3390 will introduce you to the dynamic field of computer music, focusing in particular on soundscape composition, involving composition with recordings made in the field,using these to increase our awareness of place and context.Soundscape compositions can develop our awareness of the environment in which the original sounds are situated, as well as stimulate curiosity about the culture(s) or place(s) they reflect. You will also gain theoretical, practical and historical knowledge of electronic and digital music. Topics include acoustics, recording, multitrack audio, digital signal processing (DSP), and MIDI. The readings will cover aspects of the history of electronic and computer music, as well as an introduction to the traditions of soundscape composition. We will also consider issues including sonic appropriation, and elementsof form in digital composition. Listening and analysis assignments will provide a framework forunderstanding a variety of compositional approaches as well, including acousmatic and electroacoustic. Thisknowledge will be brought to bear on the practice of composition, incorporating recordings you will makeas well as process. You will complete weekly assignments, including several smaller composition projects, before turning to a more extended final project. MUSI339 counts for the composition component of the Music Major. Programs to be used include Logic Pro and Sound Hack. We will be working onthe Mac platform, though the concepts you learn will be broadly applicable. Note that you MUST REGISTER for the Lab (0 credits) as well as registering for the course.

MUSI 3559: EcoAcoustics

Matthew Burtner
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 2:00-3:15 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 19920

Ecoacoustics explores the intersection between environmentalism and music. In the seminar we examine the acoustic characteristics of our environment, and analyze human-environmental interaction using scientific measurement and observations of the sounding world. We will experiment with specialized audio recording techniques and equipment. We will employ analysis software to explore complex human-nature dialectics, and editing/tracking software to compose our own ecoacoustic compositions. Ecoacoustics as a musical genre engages with environmental energy as composition. Students in this seminar will create their own ecoacoustic sound works as we study seminal works from the musical and artistic fields of acoustic ecology, sonology, soundscape composition, sonification, earthwork art, and deep listening. We will analyze music by composers who responded to natural phenomena, as well as those practicing ecoacoustic composition. This class may meet the composition requirement for the Major.

MUSI 4535:
Interactive Media: Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE)

Matthew Burtner
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 5:00-6:15 pm / OCH B011
Class Number: TBA

Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE) is an advanced seminar in music composition, interactive software programming, and performance. The class explores the theoretical and practical aspects of composing and performing real-time interactive music with computers. In this class we engage with the computer as a musical collaborator. Emphasis is placed on gaining a deeper and more personal understanding of the possibilities of real time music technology. The class creates the Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE), and will perform with and compose for the MICE while gaining skills in human-computer interaction. We will emphasize performance and so instrumental/vocal musicians, even those without significant composition or computer programming experience, are also encouraged to join the class. MUSI 4350 will meet the composition requirement for the Major.

MUSI 4509: Cultural and Historical Studies: Music in Jefferson's America

Bonnie Gordon
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 1100 am-12:15 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 19922

It is no secret at the University of Virginia that Thomas Jefferson played the violin well, claimed to practice three hours a day, and owned some very impressive harpsichords. Music was, in his own words, “the favorite passion of my soul.” This interdisciplinary seminar aims to explore new and interdisciplinary directions for the study of music making and soundscapes in 1late 18th and early 19th century America. The seminar takes the materials in UVa’s special collection as a point of departure for an interdisciplinary and collaborative investigation of music in Jefferson’s America. Primary source materials include scrapbooks, sheet music, bound volumes, broadsides, and slave narratives. Secondary source readings will center on issues of music as a historically constructed activity, blackface, theater in the American South. Theoretical readings will draw on critical race theory, feminist theory, and cultural studies approaches to music making. Because the primary sources are virtually unexplored students will have the opportunity to do innovative and original source work and present it publically. Students will write weekly response papers and a term paper based on primary sources. They will also participate in a symposium on Jefferson’s Soundscapes in early April.

MUSI 4510: Cultural and Historical Studies: Analysis & Interpretation of Popular Music

Fred Maus 
3.0 credits
Lecture: MW / 2:00-3:15 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 12590

Analysis and Interpretation of Popular Music. This course teaches skills in the musical analysis of popular music. At many points, we will compare analytical tools for popular music and classical music. In conjunction with analysis, we will consider experiential issues of perception, time, and repetition. In addition, we will consider issues of popular music history and diversity.

Specific topics will include song forms in popular music; differences between form in classical and popular music; harmony and melody in pop songs; time and repetition, with specific analysis of funk and techno; expression and meaning. Students in the course should have completed Theory 1.

MUSI 4520: Critical Studies of Music:
Music and War

Scott DeVeaux
3.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 2:00-3:15 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 15821

MUSI 4760: Choral Conducting II

Michael Slon
3.0 credits
Lecture: MW / 2:00-3:15 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 19923

Continued studies in the art of conducting, with weekly experience conducting a small choral ensemble. Areas of study include further mastery of rehearsal technique, baton/hand technique, elements of expression (including facial expression and gestural variation), left hand facility, and aural awareness – and in conjunction, emphasis on a more advanced understanding of score study and analysis, score reading, and aspects of performance practice related to choral genre and historical context. Instructor permission required. This class satisfies elective and/or performance credits for the music major.

MUSI 7502: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music: Mozart and Media

Richard Will
3.0 credits
Lecture: R / 2:00-4:30 pm / OCH S008 
Class Number: 19925

MUSI 7520: Current Studies in Research and Criticism: Music and Gender

Bonnie Gordon
3.0 credits
Lecture: T / 2:00-4:30 pm / OCH S008 
Class Number: 19926

MUSI 7526: Performing Antiquities and Modernities

Michelle Kisliuk 
3.0 credits
Lecture: W / 2:00-4:30 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 19927

MUSI 7547: Materials of Contemporary Music

Ted Coffey
3.0 credits
Lecture: M / 3:30-6:00 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 19928

In this seminar we will examine works of composers and performance artists by parsing their transmissive networks into domains of space, performance technologies, protocols, rituals of pre- and post-performance, apparent sponsorship, &c. We will consider how transmissive networks locate cultural products in social space, and how we might creatively reassemble this situation to our own ends. Readings will be drawn from critical theory, cybernetics, semiotics, media, theory, postmodern theory, sociology of arts and culture, and more. Participants will write a short paper, make in-class presentations, and realize "in public" compositions, installations and performance pieces informed by issues raised in the seminar.

MUSI 7581: Composition

Judith Shatin
3.0 credits
Lecture: W / 3:30-5:45 pm / OCH B011
Class Number: 19930

In this seminar we will consider the concept of counterpoint and its evolution and application in Renaissance polyphony, Baroque and Contemporary music. We will examine changing concepts of dissonance and its relation to temporal design, the changes in theoretical presentations, and the continued role of counterpoint in non-tonal frameworks. Coursework will include compositional exercises, analysis, and performance.

MUSI 8820: Advanced Composition

3.0 credits

MUSI 8840: Advanced Computer Music Composition

3.0 credits

MUSI 8910: Supervised Research

3.0 credits

Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by first-year graduate students.

MUSI 8920: Supervised Research

3.0 credits

Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by first-year graduate students.

MUSI 8960: Thesis

3.0 credits

MUSI 8993: Independent Study

1.0-3.0 credits

MUSI 8998: Non-topical Research

3.0-12.0 credits

MUSI 8999: Non-topical Research

3.0-12.0 credits

MUSI 9010: Directed Readings

3.0 credits

MUSI 9020: Directed Readings

3.0 credits

MUSI 9910: Supervised Research

3.0 credits

MUSI 9920: Supervised Research

3.0 credits

MUSI 9940: Independent Research

3.0 credits

MUSI 9998: Non-topical Research

3.0-12.0 credits

For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.

MUSI 9999: Non-topical Research

3.0-12.0 credits

For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.

MUBD 2601: Basketball Band

Bill Pease
1.0 credits
Lecture: TW / 6:00-8:00 pm / Hunter Smith Band Building
Class Number: 14651

MUEN 2600: Concert Band

Andrew Koch 
1.0 credits
Lecture: M / 6:00-7:45 pm, Hunter Smith Band Building
Class Number: 11226

MUEN 3690 and 4690: African Music and Dance Ensemble

(registration number depends on student seniority in the ensemble)

Michelle Kisliuk
2.0 credits
Lecture: TR / 5:00-7:15 pm / OCH 107

MUEN 3690 / Level II
Class Number: TBA

MUEN 4690 / Level III
Class Number: 15838

The African Music and Dance Ensemble is a practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from Western and Central Africa with performances during and at the end of the semester. Though no previous experience with music or dance is required, we will give special attention to developing tight ensemble dynamics, aural musicianship, and a polymetric sensibility. Concentration, practice, and faithful attendance are required of each class member, the goal being to develop an ongoing U.Va. African Music and Dance Ensemble.

MUEN 3600: Jazz Ensemble

John D'earth
2.0 credits
Lecture: MR / 7:30-9:30 pm / OCH B018
Class Number: 11227

Led by internationally recognized jazz trumpeter/composer John D'earth, the Jazz Ensemble is a full-sized jazz big band performing the entire range of the jazz tradition (swing, bop, fusion) There is also a focus on “head arrangements,” group improvisation, world music and original compositions from within the band. You'll gain valuable experience in ensemble playing and in the art of solo improvisation. Private instruction in jazz improvisation and the opportunity to perform in small combos are offered in conjunction with this class. The Jazz Ensemble has presented guest artist concerts/residencies with such major figures as Michael Brecker, Joe Henderson, John Abercrombie, David Leibman, Bob Moses, Clark Terry, and Terrence Blanchard, among many others.

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 3610: Orchestra

Kate Tamarkin, Conductor 
2.0 credits

Strings

Lecture / Section 100: W / 7:30-10:00 pm / OCH 101
Class Number: 13231

Sectionals: M / 5:30-7:00 pm

Section 101: Pete Spaar (Double Bass) / OCH B012
Class Number: 11230

Section 103: Ayn Balija (Viola) / OCH 113
Class Number: 11231

Section 104: Daniel Sender (Violin) / OCH 107
Class Number: 11232

Section 105: David Sariti (Violin) / OCH B018
Class Number:11233

Section 106: Adam Carter (Cello) / OCH S004
Class Number: 15091

Brass / Woodwinds / Percussion

Lecture / Section 200: W / 7:30-10:00 pm / OCH 101
Class Number: 11229

Sectionals: W / 5:15-6:15 pm

Section 201: Elizabeth Roberts (Bassoon) / OCH B020
Class Number: 11234

Section 202: Rob Patterson (Clarinet) / TBA 
Class Number: 11235

Section 203: Kelly Sulick (Flute) / TBA
Class Number: 11236

Section 204: Susan Fritts (Horn) / OCH 113
Class Number: 11237

Section 205: Aaron Hill (Oboe) / TBA
Class Number: 11238

Section 206: I-Jen Fang (Percussion) / B018
Class Number: 11239

Section 207: Nathan Dishman (Trombone) / S004
Class Number: 11240

Section 208: Paul Neebe (Trumpet) / OCH 107
Class Number: 11241

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 3620: Wind Ensemble

Bill Pease
2.0 credits
Lecture: M / 8:00-10:00 pm / Hunter Smith Band Building
Class Number: 12582

The Wind Ensemble is a 45-member ensemble that features the most outstanding brass, woodwind, and percussion players at the University. The focus of this ensemble is to explore new literature as well as perform the masterworks of the wind band era. The wind ensemble also works with outstanding guest performers and conductors. This group is predominately made up of non-music majors who enjoy the genre of the wind band. Open to all University of Virginia students, auditions are held prior to the start of each semester. For more information on the Wind Ensemble, please visit our webpage at: https://music.virginia.edu/wind-ensemble.

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 3630, Section 1: Percussion Ensemble

I-Jen Fang
1.0 credit
Lecture: T / 7:30-10:00 pm / OCH B018
Class Number: 11242

Restricted to Instructor permission by audition on first day of class.

Re-established in spring 2005 by I-Jen Fang, principal timpanist and percussionist with CUSO, the Percussion Ensemble is a chamber group that performs literature ranging from classical transcriptions to contemporary music. The ensemble draws upon a large family of pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, and the number of players and amount of equipment varies greatly from piece to piece. Music reading skills and basic percussion technique on all percussion instruments is required. Previous percussion ensemble experience is highly recommended. If you are interested in joining please contact I-Jen Fang.

MUEN 3630, Section 2: Woodwind Ensemble

Elizabeth Roberts
1.0 credit
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11243

Explore, rehearse and perform woodwind chamber music, including both standard and more obscure works. Focus on developing chamber music playing skills, learning the tendencies of the woodwind instruments, developing musicianship, and enjoying making and sharing music! Instructor permission and audition required.

MUEN 3630, Section 3: Trombone Ensemble

Nathan Dishman
1.0 credit
Lecture: F / 4:00-5:30 / OCH B012
Class Number: 11244

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition. Contact Nathan Dishman (createEmail('nathandishman', 'yahoo.com');) to schedule an audition.

MUEN 3630, Section 5: Flute Ensemble

Kelly Sulick
1.0 credit
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11246

MUEN 3630: Section 6: Double Reed Ensemble

Aaron Hill
1.0 credit
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11247

MUEN 3630: Section 7: Clarinet Ensemble

Rob Patterson
1.0 credit
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11248

MUEN 3630, Section 8: Brass Quintet

Paul Neebe 
1.0 credit
Lecture: W / 3:30-5:00 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 11249

MUEN 3630: Jazz Chamber Ensemble

1.0 credit

Lecture / Section 10: Pete Spaar / R / 5:30-7:00 pm / OCH B018
Class Number: 11250

Lecture / Section 11: Mike Rosensky / T / 5:30-7:00 pm / OCH B018
Class Number: 11251

Lecture / Section 12: Jeff Decker / F / 2:00-3:30 pm / OCH B018
Class Number: 11252

Lecture / Section 13: Peter Spaar / F / 12:30-2:00 pm / OCH B018
Class Number: 11253

MUEN 3630, Section 14: Chamber Music Ensemble

Mimi Tung 
1.0 credits, Instructor permission by audition 
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11254

MUEN 3630, Section 15: Chamber Music Ensemble

Daniel Sender
1.0 credit, Instructor permission by audition 
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11255

MUEN 3630, Section 16: Palladian Chamber Orchestra

David Sariti 
1.0 credit, Instructor permission by audition 
Lecture: R / 5:00-6:30 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 11256

MUEN 3630, Section 17: Chamber Music Ensemble

Ayn Balija
1.0 credit, Instructor permission by audition 
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11257

MUEN 3630, Section 18: Chamber Music Ensemble

Adam Carter 
1.0 credit, Instructor permission by audition 
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 11258

MUEN 3630, Section 19: Horn Ensemble

Susan Fritts 
1.0 credit
Lecture: TBA
Class Number: 15839

MUEN 3650: University Singers

Michael Slon
2.0 credits
Lecture: MW / 3:30-5:30 pm / OCH 101
Class Number: 11260

The University Singers is the University's premier SATB ensemble, performing a cappella and accompanied choral literature ranging from chant to the works of contemporary composers. Past repertoire has included Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, the Brahms Requiem, Handel's Messiah, and Mozart's Mass in C minor, as well as shorter a cappella and accompanied works, including a recent co-commission from Eric Whitacre. Recent trips have taken the group to Atlanta, Charlotte, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., as well as the campuses of other American universities for collaborative concerts. The group has also been heard on European tours in England, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. Recent highlights have included performances with the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra, a workshop with Bobby McFerrin, performances of the Bach Mass in B minor, and a concert tour of the Midwest.

Students in the University Singers come from all six of UVA's undergraduate schools, including Arts and Sciences, Education, and Engineering, as well as several of the University's graduate and professional schools. Together, they enjoy an esprit de corps that arises from the pursuit of musical excellence and the camaraderie the singers develop offstage.

All singers at the University - undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to audition. University Singers is offered for two hours academic credit. Michael Slon, who has conducted choruses at the Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music, is the conductor. For more information on the University Singers, please visit our webpage at: www.virginia.edu/music/usingers/. Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 3651: Chamber Singers

Michael Slon
2.0 credits
Lecture: F / 1:00-3:15 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 11259

Chamber Singers is a select ensemble drawn from the University Singers. The ensemble meets once a week and focuses on music for chamber choir ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary pieces. Recent performances have included the Palestrina Missa Brevis, Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia, and Bach's Cantata 150, as well as contemporary works by Meredith Monk and Eric Whitacre, and arrangements of classic jazz standards by Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, and the King's Singers. Interested singers will be considered for the chamber ensemble as part of their University Singers audition.

Restricted to: Instructor permission

MUEN 3670: Early Music Ensemble: Baroque Orchestra

David Sariti 
1.0 credit
Lecture: R / 7:30-9:00 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 12583

The Baroque Orchestra, directed by David Sariti, offers students the rare opportunity to perform music of the 17th and 18th centuries on the instruments for which it was written, at low pitch. Students use period instruments from the University's extensive collection, receiving personal instruction on the special techniques necessary, and must be accomplished on their modern counterparts.

MUEN 3680: New Music Ensemble

I-Jen Fang
1.0 credit
Lecture: R / 3:30-5:30 pm / OCH B018
Class Number: 11261

Restricted to Instructor permission by audition on first day of class.

Performance of vocal and instrumental music of the twentieth century.

A one-credit course at the University of Virginia, the New Music Ensemble explores and performs exciting music of our time. The ensemble consists of dedicated instrumentalists, singers and UVa performance faculty. We perform a wide variety of contemporary music suitable to our instrumentation, including new works created by UVa composers.

The New Music Ensemble seeks dedicated instrumentalists and singers to explore and perform a wide variety of contemporary music. To audition, come to the first class with your instrument. If you are interested in joining please contact I-Jen Fang.

Open to UVA students, community musicians and advanced high school students.

Lesson Levels

There are three levels of private performance instruction.

200-level

For students playing at a beginner to intermediate level or with limited time to practice. One hour or one-half hour lessons, CR/NC (pass-fail), ½ or 1 credit. No jury, but optional performance opportunities will be available. Individual instructors may, as they wish, set definite performance requirements for their students. A limited number of scholarships may be possible, as funding permits, but normally students at this level should expect to pay for their lessons.

300-level

Advanced performance, for students working at the level of a music major, though not necessarily majoring in music. Prerequisite: at least one semester of 200-level study and a successful audition. Normally auditions take place during fall or spring juries; if this is not possible, students audition at the beginning of the semester. One hour lessons, graded, 2 credits. Students at this level should make a time-commitment to practicing appropriate for major-level study. We suggest a norm of at least 6 hours/week, though individual performance instructors may set a different (lower or higher) expectation of practice time as appropriate. Students play a jury at the end of the semester. Students at this level are often on scholarship, but scholarship support is always contingent on availability of funds.

400-level

Honors performance, to be taken for two semesters, by fourth year students preparing a senior recital or, in cases of unusual ability, by students preparing a full recital to be given before their fourth year. Prerequisite: 300-level study, successful written application in the semester before enrolling, and a successful audition (to be included in juries) at the end of the semester before applying. One hour lessons, graded, 2 credits. Jury at the end of the first semester, recital near the end of the second semester. Normally on scholarship, but scholarship support is always contingent on availability of funds.

Offerings

Lessons are offered in the following areas (See the Course Catalog for complete listings):

* Voice
* Piano, Organ, and Harpsichord
* Violin, Viola, Cello, Doublebass
* Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Contra-Bassoon
* Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, French Horn, Saxophone, Jazz Improv
* Percussion, Jazz Drumming, Tabla, Afro-Cuban percussion
* Guitar, Chapman Stick, Banjo, Harp, Mandolin
* Supervised Performance (For students involved in types of solo or ensemble performance not offered through the department.