AAS305: The History of Black Gospel Music (Fall 2018)
This course will trace the history of black gospel music from its origins in the American South to its modern origins in 1930s Chicago and into the 1990s mainstream.
An introduction to the art of writing words for music, an art at the core of almost every literary tradition from Homer through Beowulf to W.B Yeats and beyond.
DAN304: Special Topics in Contemporary Practice: Creating Collaboratively, Collaborating Creatively (Spring 2017)
Choreographer/director Pavel Zustiak, composer/musician Shawn Jaeger, and visiting guest scenographers lead this workshop on the interdisciplinary creative process, with the aim to collaboratively research, create, and perform.
DAN304: Special Topics in Contemporary Practice: Music and Dance: Choreographing Collaboration (Fall 2016)
Jason Treuting
Join choreographer Susan Marshall and composer/percussionist Jason Treuting in creating and performing music and dance works with your classmates. Explore approaches to playful cross-disciplinary collaboration. How can one medium enhance another?
EAS237: Imagining Sounds of China: Encounters and Fantasies (Spring 2019)
Chinese culture and history contain an abundance of sounds with distinctive timbres. They have been experienced, imagined and theorized locally and in cross-cultural dialogues.
ENG221: Words vs. Music: The Song in Modern Times (Spring 2017)
Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Literature Prize, finally affirming that song lyrics matter. This course interrogates the collaboration between words and music, but entertains the notion that each is potentially a threat to the other.
GER523: Topics in German Media Theory & History: Sonic Politics (Fall 2022)
Gavin Steingo
In the wake of a series of recent events "Havana syndrome," acoustic devices for suppressing protests, etc.--the weaponization of the acoustic has gained widespread public attention.
HUM470: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: Abandoned Women (Fall 2021)
Wendy Heller
This team-taught interdisciplinary seminar will trace the fates of a series of abandoned women in ancient literature, interweaving their story with responses in operatic and musical formats from the modern world.
HUM470: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: Voice (Spring 2019)
This seminar examines the theory and practice of the human voice across media including literature and music, as well as film, podcasting, social media, and other digital technologies.
This seminar explores the history, culture, and politics of Moscow, a metropolis of 12 million that is at once the capital of the Russian Federation and a state of its own, distinct from the rest of the country and the world.
This seminar explores the history, culture, and politics of Moscow, a metropolis of 12 million that is at once the capital of the Russian Federation and a state of its own, distinct from the rest of the country and the world.
MPP213: Projects in Instrumental Performance: Chamber Music (Spring 2021)
Eric Cha-Beach
Susannah Chapman
Margaret Kampmeier
Josh Quillen
Adam Sliwinski
Jason Treuting
Instrumental chamber music class of the standard repertory of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Preparation for virtual, online study, with resulting recording.
MPP214: Projects in Vocal Performance: Study of Spanish and Latin American Song (Spring 2021)
Ronald Cappon
Barbara Rearick
Vocal Instructors Barbara Rearick and Ronald Cappon invite you to an energizing, invigorating exploration of a smattering of vocal literature in Spanish from Spain and Latin America.
This is a jazz studies course that uses jazz performance as a vehicle for creating themed compositions in various jazz idiom styles. Students will develop a `jazz vocabulary' to enable effective works between musicians (e.g.
This is a jazz studies course that uses jazz performance as a vehicle for creating themed compositions in various jazz idiom styles. Students will develop a `jazz vocabulary' to enable effective works between musicians (e.g.
Class will focus on four areas: (1) the development of competency in choral conducting technique; (2) verbal and non-verbal communication in rehearsal; (3) the study of choral repertoire of various styles and genres, emphasizing analysis and inter
Vocal and instrumental students will rehearse and perform Francesco Cavalli's opera La Calisto in Richardson Auditorium with full orchestra. Director is Christopher Mattaliano, Conductor is Michael Pratt.
