printer friendly pageMUSIC 122M: Main Stage Theater Project (TAPS 122M)
The Main Stage Theater Project provides students the opportunity to receive units for participating in a TAPS Main Stage Show. About the Autumn 2023-24 show: Performance maker, director, and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch will return to TAPS to engage a group of student collaborators to develop a new performance work that will premiere through TAPS in Fall 2023. Leaning into Jenny Odell's book How To Do Nothing as a springboard, the cast will devise playful, performative structures that invite audiences into a contemplation of time, memory, and stillness.
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
MUSIC 123A: Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Rhythmic 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 rhythm.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Rose, F. (PI)
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 123G: Liberatory Practice Lab: Engaging Sounds in Community (FEMGEN 123G)
This course is an incubator for new musical practices grounded in the cultivation of community. Learning from live performances, workshops, and archival texts by Black and queer feminist, Indigenous, and disability-culture activists, participants will deepen their understandings of their personal musical practices and backgrounds and imagine new ways of relating through sound. The course will center on a series of gatherings shaped in partnership with guest artists and local community organizations. Each participant will develop original sound-based experiences (compositions, guided meditations, or other participatory happenings) for these gatherings, supporting their classmates' initiatives as collaborative listeners and soundmakers. Participants with backgrounds in any sound-based practices are welcome. No prior experience in composition is necessary. Students who wish to enroll are asked to fill out a brief questionnaire [[
https://forms.gle/hw8NVG6ksMdMGuak7].
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
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)
Instructors:
Applebaum, M. (PI)
;
Wurm, S. (TA)
MUSIC 125: First Individual Undergraduate Projects in Composition I
May be repeated for credit a total of 13 times. Prerequisites: Music123A and Music123B or Instructor's permission. Composition concentrators must earn required private lesson credits through enrollment in individual lesson sections taught by Stanford Department of Music faculty members. Taking multiple quarters of composition lessons with more than one faculty member is strongly encouraged.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
13 times
(up to 39 units total)
MUSIC 126A: Thoroughbass Accompaniment
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: Aut
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 7 units total)
Instructors:
Berger, T. (PI)
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