Receive an introduction to guitar techniques, accompanying, and arranging for guitar; coverage of note reading and tablature.
May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Receive an introduction to guitar techniques, accompanying, and arranging for guitar; coverage of note reading and tablature.
May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
Course ID: MUSC 80F
Students learn simple keyboard skills together with basic aspects of music theory and its practical application to keyboard: sight-reading, tonality, chords, scales, cadences, simple compositions, and improvisations.
May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading. Offered in summer only.
Course ID: MUSC 80A
This course will introduce you to the development of rap music and hip-hop culture, with an emphasis on musical and verbal qualities, philosophical and political ideologies, gender representation, and influences on cinema and popular culture. Same as African American Studies M107.
Fulfills the Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice requirement. GE-approved course.
Course ID: ETHNMUS M119
Engineering and Production Fundamentals
This course will provide an introduction to basic acoustic principles, practical techniques, and working procedures for equipment used in contemporary music production, including microphones, mixers, recorders, synthesizers, and sequencers. Basic sound processing operations (equalization, compression, distortion, reverberation). Operating principles of most popular systems of music production software and hardware (Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Avid ProTools, etc.). No prior musical training is required to enroll. Letter grading.
Course ID: MSC IND 107A
History of music and cinema, particularly ways music is used to produce meanings in conjunction with visual image.Formerly numbered Music History 7. Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. P/NP or letter grading.
Credit for both courses 7 and 177 not allowed.
GE-approved Course.
Course ID: MUSCLG 7
Introduction to current music industry. Overview of career paths, monetization strategies, organizational behavior, and entrepreneurial thinking. Designed to serve as gateway for music industry degree programs. Students familiarize themselves with basic functions of industry that are covered in greater detail in upper-division coursework.
Letter grading.
Course ID: MSC IND 112A
In this course, you will explore the development of world music or world beat, including its meaning and importance to contemporary culture as well as its history and impact.
Fulfills the Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice requirement. GE-approved course.
Course ID: ETHNMUS M25
In this course you will survey groove-based electrified dance music from its origins in 1960s pop and soul to present, covering disco, house, techno, ambient, rave and jungle. This course will emphasize the interaction of technology, musical structures, psychoactive drugs, and club cultures to induce altered states of musical consciousness; promise (versus the reality of) political and spiritual transformation; electronic dance music as new art music.
Formerly numbered Music History 8. P/NP or letter grading.
GE-approved course.
Course ID: MUSCLG 8
In this course, you will analyze the forms, practices, and meanings of rock and roll music, broadly conceived, from its origin to the present. This course will include an emphasis on how this music has reflected and influenced changes in sexual, racial, and class identities and attitudes.
Course ID: MUSCLG 5
Exploration of major aspects of society, history, and culture in India through music. Highlights lines of power in particular, notably, those of caste, class, gender, colonialism, and nationalism. Satisfies Writing II Requirement.
Course ID: ETHNOMUS 46W
Learn and employ the craft of songwriting in this course. Students will examine, analyze, and implement song structure, lyric and melody writing, arranging, orchestrating and recording techniques. Students will also learn about the evolution of songwriting in modern society, as well as how songs and society both affect and reflect one another. No prior musical training is necessary to take this class, but you will be required to make music and perform at your level of ability.
Formerly MSC IND 112. Letter grading.
Course ID: MSC IND 112A
In this course, we will cover songwriting, arrangement and record production, music publishing, and the recording business in the 20th and 21st centuries. The class experience features in-depth interviews with music industry songwriting professionals who will demonstrate individual creative processes, discuss their paths to songwriting and their place in the world of music. Note: this course is not a workshop or tutorial on how to write songs. If that’s your goal, please check out Music Industry 112A.
Course ID: 25 - MSC IND 55