printer friendly pageMUSIC 130C: Elementary Choral Conducting
Techniques specific to the conducting of choral ensembles: warm-ups, breathing, balance, blend, choral tone, isolation principles, recitative conducting, preparation, and conducting of choral/orchestral works. Prerequisite: 130A.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
MUSIC 144: Studies in Romantic Music (MUSIC 244)
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Berger, K. (PI)
MUSIC 145: Studies in Modern Music (MUSIC 245)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Barth, G. (PI)
;
Mendoza, K. (TA)
MUSIC 146: Music and Urban Film (MUSIC 246)
How music and sound work in urban cinema. What happens when music's capacity to transform everyday reality combines with the realism of urban films? Provides an introduction to traditional theories of film music and film sound; considers how new technologies and practices have changed the roles of music in film. Readings discuss film music, realistic cinema, urban musical practices and urban culture. Viewing includes action/adventure, Hindi film, documentary, film noir, hip hop film, the musical, and borderline cases by Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-Wai and Tsai Ming-Liang. Pre- or corequisite (for music majors):
MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 unit level only.)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
MUSIC 147: The Soul Tradition in African American Music (MUSIC 247)
The African American tradition of soul music from its origins in blues, gospel, and jazz to its influence on today's r&b, hip hop, and dance music. Style such as rhythm and blues, Motown, Southern soul, funk, Philadelphia soul, disco, Chicago house, Detroit techno, trip hop, and neo-soul. Soul's cultural influence and global reach; its interaction with politics, gender, place, technology, and the economy. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors):
MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Kronengold, C. (PI)
;
Coleman, K. (TA)
MUSIC 148: Musical Shakespeare: Theater, Song, Opera, and Film (HUMNTIES 192G, MUSIC 248)
The role of music in productions, adaptations, and interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as theater, opera, and film from the Elizabethan era through the present. Emphasis is on the role of songs, stage music, and music in operatic and film adaptations. Incidental music, orchestral tone poems, and art-song settings of lyrics from the plays. Plays include
Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream, and
Twelfth Night. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors):
MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4- or 5-unit level only.)
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable
for credit
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