An introductory course intended for students with NO previous experience in music. The main concepts and terminology of music from the Medieval period...
A course designed for arts and social science students with an interest or background in music. The fundamentals of vibrations and waves will be...
Fundamentals of ear training, sight-singing, keyboard, and written skills (rudiments such as scales, intervals and basic chord identification) are...
Ear training through dictation and sight-singing exercises; C clefs; elementary improvisation and harmonization.
This course offers an introduction to the linear aspects of music through the study of melody, species counterpoint, and figured bass.
Individual instruction in the technical and stylistic aspects of artistic solo instrumental or vocal performance. In order to register for this...
A continuation of MUSC*1500.
This course offers an introduction to the avant-garde musical life of the 20th century including the works of Debussy, Stravinsky, Satie, Schoenberg,...
The background and development of musical life in Canada. Cultivation of understanding of Canadian music using recorded examples with emphasis on...
An introduction to computer technologies as they apply to the creation and manipulation of music. Topics will be drawn from the areas of sound...
This course offers an ethnomusicological examination of the musical life of West and Central Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. (Offered in...
A survey of the major styles, personalities, and performances of the jazz tradition in terms of its social and cultural contexts through the...
A survey of the major genres, styles, personalities and performance of popular music primarily in the 20th-century through lectures, listening,...
A continuation of MUSC*1180.
An ethnomusicological examination of the musical life of the Islamic world, South Asia, Indonesia, and the Far East. (Offered in even-numbered years.)...
This course will provide an introduction to digital music, from the initial 'cybernetic' experiments of the 1950s to the evolution of software tools...
Selected musical works from 1600 to the present will be studied with reference to the historical, literary, and artistic milieu in which they were...
This course is a study of diatonic harmony: triads, progression, secondary dominants, harmonization of melodies and basses; dissonance treatment;...
A continuation of MUSC*2360 which introduces chromatic harmonies (augmented and Neapolitan sixth chords), suspension chords, linear structures, and...
This course offers individual instruction in the technical and aesthetic aspects of music composition. In order to register for this course, students...