MUSI 1310 Basic Musical Skills (3 credits)

Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music. No previous knowledge of music required.

Ben Rous - MWF / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH 107
Section 1 / Class Number: 12400

Andrea Gutierrez - MWF / 9:00-9:50 am / OCH 107
Section 2 / Class Number: 12409

MUSI 1620 History of the Wind Band (2 credits)

The class is designed to give an introductory look at wind band music development from the early 20th century to present. The class does not require any previous musical experience. The course provides students with historical facts surrounding the wind band movement while allowing students to experience the music aurally.

Drew Koch - T / 9:30-10:50 am / 101 Hunter Smith Band Building
Class Number: 12475

MUSI 2021 Creative Discovery (3 credits)

Discover your creative potential! We often wonder about an artist’s immense creativity, seemingly harnessed with ease. Each of us has tremendous resources of creativity, often under-explored. In this course, students learn to unlock their own potential.

No previous artistic experience is required. Class activities include readings and discussions; weekly responses collected via a Google Form; two reflective papers; a presentation on a “found” resource; and one creative project in a medium of the student’s choice.

Elliott Tackitt - MW / 3:00-4:15 pm / 101 Hunter Smith Band Building
Class Number: 12828

MUSI 2070 Popular Musics (3 credits)

Scholarly and critical study of music circulated through mass media. Specific topic for the semester (e.g. world popular music, bluegrass, country music, hip-hop, Elvis Presley) announced in advance. No previous knowledge of music required.

Karl Hagstrom Miller - MW / 1:00-1:50 pm / WNR 209
Class Number: 19733

Discussion Sections:

Section 101 (Ali Davilan): T / 9:30-10:20 am / OCH 107
Class Number: 19734

Section 102 (Ali Davilan): T / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH 107
Class Number: 19735

Section 103 (Ali Davilan): T / 12:30-1:20 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 19736

Section 104 (Sia Mohebbi): R / 9:30-10:20 am / OCH 107
Class Number: 19737

Section 105 (Sia Mohebbi): R / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH 107
Class Number: 19738

Section 106 (Sia Mohebbi): R / 12:30-1:20 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 19739

Section 107 (Ella Jackson): T / 9:30-10:20 am / OCH B012
Class Number: 20932

Section 108 (Ella Jackson): T / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH B012
Class Number: 20933

Section 109 (Ella Jackson): T / 12:30-1:20 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 20934

Section 110 (Corey Harris): R / 9:30-10:20 am / OCH B012
Class Number: 20941

Section 111 (Corey Harris): R / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH B012
Class Number: 20942

Section 112 (Corey Harris): R / 12:30-1:20 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 20943

MUSI 2072 Meet the Beatles (3 credits)

Centrally, close study of the Beatles' music, along with biographies, relation to the history of American rock 'n' roll, the breathtaking early years, the devastating new sonic landscapes of their later studio work, and the context of the 1960s--that turbulent decade that shaped, and was shaped by, these four English lads.

Scott DeVeaux & Adai Song - MWF / 1:00-1:50 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 20828

MUSI 2110 Listening to Everyday Life: Community, Improvisation, Play(ing) (3 credits)

This course starts with the idea that engaging interactively -- honing our ability to listen (as most broadly defined) sets us up to be involved fully in the life around us. Listening and reflecting on daily experience, then applying that refined sensibility, leads us into interactive communities that can create things together. We will explore listening in daily life from many angles that include everyday field research, reading, writing, and discussion. We will experiment with group performance exploring ideas about improvisation and uniting the aesthetic sphere with the broader sphere of social life and collective engagement.

Michelle Kisliuk - TR / 11:00-12:15 / Monroe 111
Class Number: 19742

MUSI 2150 Women in Jazz (3 credits)

Jazz has historically been a male-dominated field. Who are the women artists whose work emerged in jazz, what is their music, and what are their stories of inspiration, creativity, struggles and triumphs? Through our exploration of recordings, scholarship, music journalism, video, film and live music performance we will ponder these questions and gain a better understanding of how the politics of gender have challenged jazz music.

Nicole Mitchell Gantt - MW / 2:00-3:15 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 20831

MUSI 2304 Keyboard Skills (Intermediate)  (2 credits)

Intermediate keyboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Requirement: Instructor Permission

Shelby Sender - TR / 11:00 am - 12:15 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 10806

MUSI 2307 Play Guitar! 1 (2 credits)

Fundamentals of playing guitar, with an emphasis on rhythmic training along with some music theory.  This class will start from scratch and is meant for beginners.  Experienced guitarists are encouraged to enroll in MUSI 3307 Play Guitar! 2.

Mike Rosensky - MW / 1:00-1:50 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 12408

MUSI 2311 Vocal Performance Class (2 credits)

Vocal Performance requires a broad skillset. This course offers students a toolbox of practical techniques & methodologies including study of diction and language, physical expression, textual analysis, dramatic storytelling/acting, collaboration with a pianist, physical/vocal health, and many other components of stagecraft that can be addressed well in group lessons. A baseline level of music-learning and -preparation ability, as well as some prior experience in any genre of vocal solo performance, is ideal.

Pam Beasley and Bridgid Eversole - T / 3:30-5:00 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 13858

MUSI 2340 Learn to Groove (2 credits)

"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 one's 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.

Robert Jospe - MW / 10:00-10:50 am / 101 Hunter Smith Band Building
Section 1 / Class Number: 11172

Robert Jospe - MW / 11:00-11:50 am / 101 Hunter Smith Band Building
Section 2 / Class Number: 13244

MUSI 2342 Learn to Groove Intermediate (2 credits)

"Learn to Groove" hand drumming and rhythmic fluency with Robert Jospe. This is the intermediate level of the class. It 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.

Robert Jospe - MW / 1:00-1:50 pm / 101 Hunter Smith Band Building
Class Number: 13243

MUSI 2509 Intro Topics in Music Studies
Topic: Hungarian Music and History (3 credits)

Daniel Sender - T / 6:00-7:30 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 19460

MUSI 2600 Jazz Improvisation (3 credits)

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.

Sharel Cassity - TR / 3:30-5:00 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 11021

MUSI 2993: Independent Study (1-3 credits)

Requirement: Instructor Permission

MUSI 3050 Music and Discourse (3 credits)

Studies the range of music that has flourished since the end of the 19th century including modernist and post-modern art music, popular music, and world music, through historical, critical, and ethnographic approaches.

Scott DeVeaux - MWF / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH B012
Section 1 / Class Number: 13104

Katie King - MWF / 9:00-9:50 am / OCH 113
Section 2 / Class Number: 13851

MUSI 3065 Africanfuturism (3 credits)

Africanfuturism is an international multi-media arts movement that places people of the African diaspora at the center of future imaginings. Africanfuturist artists design alternative mythological worlds to creatively address social and environmental justice and to offer new technological possibilities, while transmitting vital experiences and dreamings of Black people throughout the African diaspora. Through our investigation of Black speculative music, film, science fiction and visual art, we will plunge into the nuances of folklore, cosmology, philosophy and ancestral wisdom embedded with themes of liberation in these works. The course will be a process intended to deepen our understanding of the diversity of Black thought and creativity, and to transform our own ideas of time, space, place and self. Artists will include Janelle Monae, Lee Scratch Perry, Octavia Butler, Wanuri Kahiu, Sun Ra, King Britt, Nnedi Okorafor, Wole Talabi, Sheree Renee Thomas, Melanie Goodreaux, Ras G’s Afrikan Space Program, W.E.B. DuBois, Moor Mother, Alisha Wormsley, Tim Fielder, N.K. Jemison, and more!

Nicole Mitchell Gantt - MW / 4:00-5:15 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 20830

MUSI 3307 Play Guitar! 2 (2 credits)

The course will have flexibility from semester to semester depending on the makeup of the class.  Topics may include: Bar Chord/Power Chord Refresher, (Advanced) Syncopated Strumming, Blues Form, Three-Note Major and Minor Triads up and down the fretboard, Pentatonic Scale Positions, Major Scale Positions, Scale Patterns, Song Analysis, Composition, Improvisation, Seventh Chords, Chords of Higher Tension, Funk Grooves, Introduction to Jazz Guitar.

Mike Rosensky - MW / 2:00-2:50 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 12484

MUSI 3310 Theory I (3 credits)

Studies the pitch and rhythmic aspects of several musical styles, including European art music, blues, African drumming, and popular music. Focuses on concepts and notation related to scales and modes, harmony, meter, form, counterpoint, and style.

Michael Puri - MWF / 9:00-9:50 pm / OCH B012
Section 1 / Class Number: 11433

Fred Maus - MWF / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH 113
Section 2 / Class Number: 13211

MUSI 3320 Theory II (3 credits)

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.

Fred Maus - MWF / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH 113
Class Number: 11617

MUSI 3332 and 3334 Musicianship I and II (2 credits)

These lab courses give practical experience with many aspects of musical perception, performance, and creation; this includes sight-reading/singing; dictation of melody, rhythm, and harmony; and aural identification of intervals, chords, and rhythmic patterns. Students are welcome to take Musicianship more than once, whether by moving to a higher level or repeating the same level. Musicianship I and II may be taken for a grade or CR/NC. To satisfy the Musicianship requirement in the Music Major though, students must take Musicianship once as a graded course.

MUSI 3332 Musicianship I (2 credits)

John Walker - MWF / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH B012
Class Number: 10596

MUSI 3334 Musicianship II (2 credits)

Adam Carter - MWF / 12:00-12:50 pm / OCH 107
Class Number: 10597

MUSI 3374 Composing Mixtapes (3 credits)

This course focuses on the craft of writing rap songs as well as the collection, selection, and integration of other media to collaborate toward the composition of a class mixtape. Experience writing raps or producing beats will be helpful, but it is not necessary that students have previous experience to take this course. Students will listen to, attempt to deconstruct, create, and evaluate a broad range of music and literature while collaborating on the mixtape. Along with composing the mixtape, students will learn songwriting techniques and some alternate theoretical approaches to composing other hip-hop works.

A.D. Carson - TR / 9:30-10:45 am / NCH 398
Class Number: 13859

Labs:

Rah Hite - M / 9:00-9:50 am / NCH 398
Lab 101 / Class Number: 13860

Rah Hite - M / 10:00-10:50 am / NCH 398
Lab 102 / Class Number: 13861

Rah Hite - M / 11:00-11:50 am / NCH 398
Lab 103 / Class Number: 13862

MUSI 3380 Introduction to Composition

MUSI 3380 explores compositional techniques in Western concert music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will learn to compose in a variety of styles, and will explore innovative approaches to harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, and compositional form. We will improvise, listen to, analyze, and discuss new music and compositional techniques. The goal of this course is to expose you to multiple compositional techniques and let you experiment! Coursework will primarily focus on creative and composition exercises, as well as readings, listening, analyses, and short writing assignments. Students will apply their knowledge towards a final composition project. 

Prerequisite: Permission from the instructor. It is recommended that students will have taken MUSI 3310, a prior theory class, or be proficient with scales, intervals, and basic harmony.

Leah Reid - W / 3:00-5:30 / OCH B012
Class Number: 19268

Discussion Sections:

Naw Wang - M / 9:00-9:50 am / OCH B011
Section 101 / Class Number: 19269

Naw Wang - M / 10:00-10:50 am / OCH B011
Section 102 / Class Number: 19270

Naw Wang - M / 11:00-11:50 am / OCH B011
Section 103 / Class Number: 19271

MUSI 3400 Ecoacoustics (3 credits)

Ecoacoustics explores the intersection between ecology and music. It engages with natural systems of change and the unique sonic energy of places. Students learn recording and analysis techniques, and 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.

Matthew Burtner and Kristin Hauge - TR / 2:00-3:15 / OCH 107
Class Number: 13105

MUSI 3559 / Topic: Musics of Hawai`i and Puerto Rico (2 credits)

Hawaii and Puerto Rico both became US colonies in 1898, and despite their distance from each other, share a history as small island nations within US empire—a history Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny recently described in his song “LO QUE PASÓ A HAWAii.” In this class, we will study the popular, folk, and Indigenous musics of Hawai’i and Puerto Rico, including hula, slack key guitar music, Hawaiian reggae, bomba, Latin jazz, salsa, and reggaeton. We will focus on music’s involvement in US colonization, tourism, diasporic identity formation, and decolonial movements in both Hawai’i and Puerto Rico. This course is open to students across the university and no pre-requisites in music are needed.

Jade Conlee - TR / 12:30-1:45 pm / WNR 113
Class Number: 19803

MUSI 3559 / Topic: Keyboard Skills 4 (2 credits)

John Mayhood - TR / 9:30-10:45 am / OCH 113
Class Number: 19956

MUSI 3993 Independent Study (1-3 credits)

Requirement: Instructor Permission

MUSI 4090 Performance in Africa (4 credits)

This course explores the ethnographic, stylistic, political, and personal issues associated with the hands-on material we learn in the dependent lab. Through discussion, reading, writing, viewing/listening, we explore the area of African performance theory associated especially with Ewe (Ghana) and BaAka (Central African rainforest) music/dance we are learning to perform, experimenting with abstracting concepts and remaking them in the immediate context of the course. No experience is required, but dedication to interactive, interdependent intellectual and creative community expected.

Michelle Kisliuk and Mary Beth Bauerman - TR / 5:15-6:15 / OCH 107
Class Number: 19798

Lab: TR / 6:15-7:00
Class Number: 19799

4410 Orchestration 2 (3 credits)

This course will examine the symphony orchestra in detail, equipping students with all necessary skills to arrange or compose for any ensemble. We will learn the capabilities of every orchestral instrument, and study how they are combined by master composers. Students will create arrangements for string quartet, woodwind quintet, and full orchestra. The majority of these projects will receive readings by ensembles.

Projects may be completed with notation software or may be handwritten. No previous composition or arranging experience is necessary, but fluency in musical notation and familiarity with the basics of music theory are required.

Ben Rous - MWF / 11:00-11:5o am / OCH 107
Class Number: 19267

MUSI 4559 / Topic: EDM Production and Performance (3 credits)

Luke Dahl and Jennifer Ryu - TR / 11:00 am - 12:15 pm / OCH B011
Class Number: 19272

MUSI 4582 Composition II (3 credits)

Composition II is an advanced undergraduate music composition course. Students will receive a combination of weekly individual lessons intermixed with monthly group sessions. The course will provide a forum for students to listen, discuss, workshop, develop, and explore inspirations, compositions, and ideas. Over the course of the semester, students are expected to compose a large-scale work or a series of smaller works for the instrumentation and in the style of their choosing (including electronics).

Note: individual lesson times may be scheduled outside the listed course times. Lesson times will be scheduled the first day of class. 

Prerequisite: MUSI 3380, 3390, or permission from the instructor. Students are expected to have some prior composition experience and must be proficient with standard music notation. The course can be repeated for credit.

Leah Reid and Neda Nadim - W / 2:00-4:30 pm / OCH B011
Class Number: 13853

MUSI 4610 Sound Synthesis and Control: Designing New Musical Instruments

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is a field that explores new ways of performing music with technology. NIME is interdisciplinary, incorporating perspectives from music, sculpture, engineering, human-computer interaction (HCI), and design. In this class we will learn the basic skills needed to design and build new musical instruments. We will implement real-time digital sound synthesis algorithms using the PureData visual programming language, which will run on the Bela embedded audio system. And we will use electronics sensors to measure user’s gestures as input data. The class is primarily project based, and we will prototype a number of new musical instruments and interactions. Students are expected to have experience using computers for music-making, such as MUSI 3390 or MUSI 2350, and experience with PureData or Max is highly desirable.

Combined section with MUSI 7540.

Luke Dahl and Gabrielle Cerberville - T / 2:00-4:30 pm / Wilson Makers Space
Class Number: 19808

MUSI 4760 Choral Conducting II (3 credits)

This class will explore the art of writing for chorus and small vocal ensemble, and will aim at developing practical skills in creating and transcribing arrangements. Students will study a variety of examples from the repertoire, and attention will be paid to fundamentals of writing for the voice, setting text, etc. In addition, the class will serve as workshop chorus, such that student arrangements can be performed and studied in the classroom.

Prerequisites: MUSI 3310 or Instructor permission. A basic knowledge of music theory, and a basic ability to sing from written sources will prove essential.

Michael Slon - MW / 2:00-3:15 / OCH 107
Class Number: 19229

4950 Performance Concentration Seminar (3 credits)

Provides intensive instruction in voice or on an instrument, broadens and deepens repertory knowledge, and provides experience in public performance as well as the evaluation of performance. Students perform at least one solo recital per semester. Students write self-evaluations of their performance and receive feedback from instructor.

Prerequisite: 1 semester of MUPF and audition. Must simultaneously register for MUPF 3950, 3960, 4950 or 4960.

Requirement: Instructor Permission

Daniel Sender - TBA
Class Number: 11776

MUSI 4993 Independent Study (1-3 credits)

Requirement: Instructor Permission