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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: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Repeatable for credit

Instructors: Kojs, J. (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.

Last offered: Autumn 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE

MUSIC 140J: Studies in Music of the Middle Ages: Music and Memory (MUSIC 240J)

Prerequisites: MUSIC 21, MUSIC 40. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

Last offered: Winter 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit

MUSIC 141J: Studies in Music of the Renaissance (MUSIC 241J)

Prerequisites: MUSIC 21, MUSIC 40. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit

MUSIC 142J: Studies in Music of the Baroque: Monteverdi's Theater Music (MUSIC 242J)

Prerequisites: MUSIC 22, MUSIC 41. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

Last offered: Winter 2016 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum | Repeatable for credit

MUSIC 143J: Studies in Music of the Classical Period: Franz Joseph Haydn (MUSIC 243J)

Music and Musicians in the Age of EnlightenmentnPrerequisites: MUSIC 22, MUSIC 41. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

Last offered: Autumn 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit

MUSIC 144J: Studies in Music of the Romantic Period: Faust in 19th-century Music (MUSIC 244J)

Prerequisites: MUSIC 23, MUSIC 42 (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

Last offered: Spring 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit

MUSIC 145J: Studies in Western Art Music Since 1900: The Music & Ideas of Charles Ives (MUSIC 245J)

Prerequisites: MUSIC 23, MUSIC 42. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

Last offered: Spring 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit

MUSIC 146J: Studies in Ethnomusicology: Listening to the Local: Music Ethnography of the Bay Area (CSRE 146J, MUSIC 246J)

An introduction to music ethnography through student research on musical life in the Bay Area. Focus is on the intersections of music, social life, and cultural practice by engaging with people as they perform music and culture in situ. Techniques taught include participant-observation, interviewing and oral history, writing fieldnotes, recording, transcription, analysis, and ethnographic writing. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.)

Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED

MUSIC 147J: Studies in Music, Media, and Popular Culture: The Soul Tradition in African American Music (AFRICAAM 19, AMSTUD 147J, CSRE 147J, MUSIC 247J)

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.)

Last offered: Winter 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED

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