MUSIC 122A: Renaissance and Baroque Counterpoint
Analysis and composition of contrapuntal styles from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Use of keyboard, ear training, and sight singing underlies all written work. Prerequisites: 23 and successful completion of the ear-training and piano-proficiency examinations.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Rodin, J. (PI)
;
Cannata, A. (TA)
MUSIC 122B: Harmonic Materials of 19th Century
Analysis of 19th-century music, with compositional exercises based on 19th-century models. Prerequisites: 23 or consent of instructor; and pass the ear-training and piano-proficiency examinations.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Ulman, E. (PI)
;
Sartain, B. (TA)
MUSIC 122C: Introduction to 20th-Century Composition
Contemporary works, with emphasis on music since 1945. Projects in free composition based on 20th-century models. Prerequisites: 23 or consent of instructor; and pass the ear-training and piano-proficiency examinations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Ferneyhough, B. (PI)
;
Martinez, P. (TA)
MUSIC 123: Undergraduate Seminar in Composition
Current trends in composition. May be repeated for credit a total of 7 times. Prerequisites: Music major; 23 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
8 times
(up to 24 units total)
Instructors:
Kapuscinski, J. (PI)
;
Ulman, E. (PI)
MUSIC 125: Individual Undergraduate Projects in Composition
May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Prerequisites: music major, and one quarter of 123.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 45 units total)
Instructors:
Applebaum, M. (PI)
;
Aquilanti, G. (PI)
;
Berger, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Applebaum, M. (PI)
;
Aquilanti, G. (PI)
;
Berger, J. (PI)
;
Chafe, C. (PI)
;
Ferneyhough, B. (PI)
;
Kapuscinski, J. (PI)
;
Ulman, E. (PI)
;
Wang, G. (PI)
MUSIC 126: Introduction to Thoroughbass
The development of continuo techniques and skills for figured-bass realization. Performance and analysis of selected repertoire, using thoroughbass principles and exercises based on historical theoretical treatises. Prerequisite: 21.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Berger, T. (PI)
MUSIC 127: Instrumentation and Orchestration
Individual instruments, instrumental groups within the orchestra, and combinations of groups. Arrangements from piano to orchestral music. Score analysis with respect to orchestration. Practical exercises using chamber ensembles and school orchestra. Prerequisite: 23.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Aquilanti, G. (PI)
MUSIC 128: Composition, Coding, and Performance with SLOrc (CS 170)
Classroom instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) which includes public performances. An ensemble of more than 20 humans, laptops, controllers, and special speaker arrays designed to provide each computer-mediated instrument with its sonic identity and presence. Topics and activities include issues of composing for laptop orchestras, instrument design, sound synthesis, programming, and live performance. May be repeated four times for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
MUSIC 12SC: Musical Collisions and Radical Creativity
The margins of musical culture; nonconformist, maverick, and eccentric creative impulses that expand the definition of art. Laboratory atmosphere and daily rehearsals in which students create collaborative works with a final public concert involving collaborations with local musicians and presentations of student-composed works created during the course.
MUSIC 130A: Introduction to Conducting
Baton techniques and rehearsal procedures. The development of coordination of the members of the body involved in conducting; fluency in beat patterns and meters; dynamics, tempi, cueing, and use of the left hand in conducting. Prerequisites: 121 and diagnostic musicianship exam given first day of class; preference to students who have completed 122B.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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