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MUSIC 123B: Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Pitch Design

Students compose weekly exercises to develop creative fluency and personal style. The course focuses on listening to examples, analysis and emulation of diverse compositional techniques involving pitch.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-2 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors: Rose, F. (PI)

MUSIC 123C: Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: World Music

The course introduces composition techniques used in traditional music from Bali, Central African Republic, India, and Japan, that the students use as inspiration to explore and develop their own composition techniques. Prerequisite: Music 19A or Instructor's permission.
Last offered: Spring 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

MUSIC 123D: Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Extended Performance Techniques

Extended performance techniques have become standard extension of composers' orchestration technique. The course introduces extended techniques for keyboard, string, woodwinds, brass and percussion instruments, and illustrate their potential with excerpts from the literature. Students get to explore these techniques with a quarter long research project. Prerequisite: Music 127A or Instructor's permission
Last offered: Spring 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

MUSIC 123I: Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Music, Art, and Intermedia (ARTSTUDI 123I)

How do music and art relate? How does one speak for, with, the other? In the past century, Western visual art turned towards abstraction and time-based works. Techniques and processes for interaction between image and sound expanded dramatically. What better place to learn about them than the Anderson Collection? Through students' own visual and aural creations, we will explore and share individual approaches to time, symbol, memory, and meaning. Previous experience in music composition is welcome but not required. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways-AII credit.
Last offered: Winter 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE

MUSIC 124A: Songwriters Workshop

Laboratory for composers of any kind of vernacular music: singer-songwriters; folk singers; laptop dance music composers; rock and pop bands; rappers; writers of instrumentals or music with lyrics; solo artists and collaborators; etc. Compositional strategies for songwriting, overview of exemplars, discussion of aesthetic issues, and development of artistic personae. Weekly critique session for students and faculty to share work and offer feedback. Music theory and literacy not required. Aimed, however, at those with at least some experience as writers, whether casual or extensive. For bands at least half of members must be enrolled.
Terms: Win | Units: 1-2 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 2 times (up to 4 units total)

MUSIC 127A: 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: Music23, or permission of the instructor.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE

MUSIC 127B: Advanced Orchestration

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.
Last offered: Spring 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

MUSIC 128: Stanford Laptop Orchestra: Composition, Coding, and Performance (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. Space is limited; see https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/128 for information about the application and enrollment process. May be repeat for credit
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 4 times (up to 20 units total)

MUSIC 130B: Elementary Instrumental Conducting

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-3 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors: Phillips, P. (PI)

MUSIC 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.
Last offered: Winter 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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