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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: Music23, or permission of the instructor.

Through analysis and writing exercises, students develop proficiency in advanced orchestration practices. The course covers techniques currently used in film scoring as well as form basis for new experimental orchestral composition.

Develop skills and techniques related to arranging for marching and concert bands; emphasizes instrumentation, transposition, and voicing.

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. Space is limited; see https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/128 for information about the application and enrollment process. May be repeat for credit

This practicum allows students to support research in how physical, neural, and social differences affect performance and power dynamics within educational and professional music environments. Research includes studying the impact of keyboard size, integrating AI into musical instruction, exploring the neural mechanisms underlying motor skills, studying neural synchrony across neural, biomechanical, and sensory networks, and exploring vibrotactile coordinated reset stimulation to improve motor performance in musicians and focal dystonia patients. Students will collect and/or analyze data and collaborate with each other and researchers in weekly meetings, lab hours, and tasks.

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. Space is limited; see https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/128 for information about the application and enrollment process. May be repeat for credit. This is the zero-unit version of Music 128.

Score-reading at the keyboard, for pianists. Students will learn to read and reduce as necessary, score examples from a variety of ensembles, including music for strings, choir, winds, and orchestra. Practice reading associated clefs and transpositions will enable students to demonstrate short passages from ensemble repertoire effectively at the keyboard.

What do conductors do and how do they do it? In this course, students are introduced to the theory, technique, and practice of instrumental conducting. Students will develop the art of physical gesture by conducting an ensemble made up of class members. Topics include baton technique, rehearsal procedure, and structural analysis. Studies in clef reading and transposition will foster the skills needed to read orchestral scores. Students will study and conduct instrumental music for strings, winds, and full orchestra primarily from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. Following preliminary work with the class ensemble, each student will conduct Stanford Philharmonia and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal as their final project. Prerequisite: Instructor's permission.

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.