GOALS and OBJECTIVES: This course is an attempt to develop your ability to focus on and listen closely to music, specifically Western concert music. Together, we will develop some of the tools necessary for intelligent ...

Developing insight into the art of music through guided listening experiences that aim to develop aural perception, historical perspective, an awareness of the formal processes of music, and some critical bases for esthetic ...

Laboratory course designed to help students master the skills covered in Diatonic Harmony and Counterpoint. Emphasis on the development of relative pitch memory and recognition of interval, chord, and chord inversion. ...

The goal of this course is to improve your sight singing skills and listening perception. To this end, we will work on understanding the melodic and harmonic implications of the melodies we will sing and the ways the ...

The goal of this course is to introduce you to the basic elements of western musical notation, to clarify your understanding of their place in the larger musical structure and to cement your ability to analyze them in ...

This is a first course in guitar. The approach is two-pronged, using a folk-based style to teach basic accompanying skills and a classical approach to teach note reading and the ability to play more complex textures. As ...

GOALS and OBJECTIVES: This course continues the process, begun in Sense of Music, of exploring the ways in which the materials of musical composition combine to create a complete and coherent art work in the ears and mind ...