Fall Courses 2008

MUSI 101: Introduction to Music

Instructor TBA
3.0 credits
MW 9-9:50 am, Wilson 301, and discussion section (see Course Offering Directory)

Surveys the musical literatures that make up the common listening experience of contemporary Americans, emphasizing such “classical” repertories as symphony, opera, “early music” “new music,” blues, and jazz. Teaches effective ways of listening to and thinking critically about each repertoire. Considers how musical choices reflect or create cultural identities, including attitudes toward gender, ethnicity, social relationships, and ideas of the sacred.

MUSI 104: Exploring the Orchestra

Kate Tamarkin
3.0 credits
TR 11-11:50 am, OCH B012, and discussion section (see Course Offering Directory)

The symphony orchestra has been the vehicle for many composers' greatest inspiration. This course will familiarize the student with several orchestral masterpieces, and develop aural discrimination skills. It will include study of the development and make up of the modern symphony orchestra, as well as an exploration of the different genres and musical forms found in symphonic music. The course will include comparisons of interpretations of selected works.

MUSI 131: Introduction to Musical Skills

Joseph Adkins, Scott Barton, Maria Guarino
3.0 credits
Section 1 (Adkins): MWF 9-9:50 am, OCH 107
Section 2 (Barton): MWF 10 -10:50 am, OCH 107
Section 3 (Guarino): MWF 9-9:50 am, OCH B012

Not open to students already qualified to elect MUSI 231 or 331. Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music.

MUSI 193: Independent Study

1.0 - 3.0 credits
Instructor permission and instructor number required to enroll.

MUSI 211: Music in Everyday Life

Michelle Kisliuk
3.0 credits
TR 2 pm-2:50 pm, OCH 107, and discussion section (see Course Offering Directory)

What is the soundscape of our quotidian (everyday) experience?  How does it condition our consciousness, and what implicit cultural messages circulate within our ever-changing daily soundtracks?  This course focuses our attention not on music highlighted in performance, but on that which we usually take for granted.  A close look at how music works in our everyday lives can offer a new awareness of our ongoing experience, open us to choices we never thought we had, and get us wondering about the depths of aesthetic experience.

MUSI 212: History of Jazz Music

Scott DeVeaux
4.0 credits
MWF 11-11:50 am, Maury 209, and discussion section (see Course Offering Directory)

Survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists.

MUSI 230A: Keyboard Skills

Na-Young Choi
2.0 credits, instructor permission
MWF 11-11:50 am, OCH 113

Introductory keyboard skills; includes sight-reading, improvisation, and accompaniment at the keyboard in a variety of styles. No previous knowledge of music required. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors.

MUSI 230C: Fretboard Harmony

Mike Rosensky
2.0 credits, instructor permission
MWF 3:00-3:50, OCH B012

Fretboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors.

MUSI 234: Learn to Grove

Robert Jospe
2.0 credits, instructor permission
MW 11:00-12:15, OCH B018

This is a hands on drumming/percussion class using congas, djembes, claves, shakers, etc. This class is designed to enhance ones knowledge of syncopated patterns associated with jazz, rock, African and Latin American music and to improve ones facility in playing these patterns. This course will follow my book "Learn To Groove" and can include music students, non music students and is open to students of all skill levels. The course requires that students have a hand drum of their own. Congas, bongos, djembes, doumbeks or any other hand drums are appropriate. Auxiliary Latin and African percussion instruments will be provided.

MUSI 301: Renaissance Music

Paul Walker
3.0 credits
MW 2:00-3:15 pm, OCH 113

Introduction to crucial shifts in musical culture that signaled the emergence of a self-consciously “modern,” self-consciously “European” musicality over the period 1500-1700; and to the ways such early modern genres as the polyphonic Mass, the madrigal, opera, oratorio, cantata, sonata, suite, and congregational hymnody have been assimilated into 20th-century American ideas about “musicality.” Specific topics announced in advance.

MUSI 302: Eighteenth Century Music

Richard Will
3.0 credits
TR 9:30-10:45 pm, OCH 107

Music and Identity in 18th-Century Europe and North America. We shall study works by J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Rameau, and others, with an emphasis on how their music helped to construct individual and social identities during the Enlightenment. Critical and stylistic study of operas, sacred works, and instrumental music; readings from 18th-and 20th/21st-century texts on music; comparison of modern and historical performance practices.

MUSI 305: 20th Century Music

Michael Bishop
3.0 credits
TR 12:30-1:45 pm, OCH 107

Studies the range of music that has flourished in the twentieth century, including modernist and post-modern art music, popular music, and world music, through historical, critical, and ethnographic approaches.

MUSI 307: Worlds of Music

Heather Maxwell
3.0 credits
TR 5:30-6:45 pm, OCH S008

MUSI 312: Studies in Jazz

Scott DeVeaux
3.0 credits
MWF 1:00-1:50 pm, OCH 113

Introduction to jazz as an advanced field of study, with equal attention given to historical and theoretical approaches.

MUSI 331: Theory I

Fred Maus
3.0 credits
Section 1 (Fred Maus): MWF 11-11:50 am, OCH 107
Section 2 (Elizabeth Lindau): MWF 9-9:50 pm, OCH 113
Section 3 (Peter Tschirhart): MWF 10:00-10:50 pm, OCH 113

Studies the pitch and rhythmic aspects of several musical styles, including European art music, blues, African drumming, and popular music. Focuses on concepts and notation related to scales and modes, harmony, meter, form, counterpoint, and style.

MUSI 333 A, B, and C

Jeff Decker, Vilde Aaslid, Yuri Spitsyn, Jonathan Zorn
1.0 credit
All sections meet 12-12:50pm

These lab courses give practical experience with many aspects of musical perception, performance, and creation. These will include sight-reading and sight-singing; dictation of melody, rhythm, and harmony; aural identification of intervals, chords, and rhythmic patterns; and exercises in musical memory and improvisation. Students entering the sequence take a test to determine the appropriate level of their first course. At the end of each course, students take a placement test to determine whether they may enter a higher level course. Courses may be repeated for credit, but each course may be counted toward the major only once. MUSI 333A, B, and C are co-requisites for MUSI 331, 332, and 431. This means that students pre-registering in the latter courses must also pre-register in MUSI 333A, B, or C unless they have already taken the highest level course and have been passed out of further co-requisite requirements. Students interested in taking Musicianship but not Theory are encouraged to register for MUSI 333A, B, or C as space permits. Such students may not pre-register. They should plan to register by adding in Fall after taking a placement exam.

MUSI 338: Introduction to Post-Tonal Composition

Nathan Currier
3.0 credits
MW 3:15-4:30 pm, OCH 113

MUSI 339: Introduction to Music and Computers

Judith Shatin
3.0 credits
MW  2-2:50 pm, OCH B012, and discussion section (see Course Offering Directory)

MUSI 339 will introduce you to the dynamic field of computer music. You will learn about topics including acoustics; digital sound, editing, and processing; recording and multi-track mixing; and MIDI. You will also learn about the historical evolution of electronic and computer music, and will study selected examples of both. We will cover elements of compositional design and hear them applied in a range of styles. You will have ample hands-on experience, and the opportunity to create original music. This course counts for the composition component of the Music Major. Programs to be used include Bias Peak, Frequency, Digital performer and Sound Hack. We will be working on the Mac platform, though the concepts you learn will be broadly applicable. Note that you MUST register for the Lab (0 credits) as well as registering for the course.

MUSI 393: Independent Study

1.0-3.0 credits
Instructor permission and instructor number required to enroll.

MUSI 406: Composers in Production

Nathan Currier
3.0 credits
M 5:30-8:00, OCH S008

MUSI 409: American Jewish Popular Music

Joel Rubin
3.0 credits
TR 11 am-12:15 pm, OCH S008

Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks.

MUSI 409: Topics in Ren Mus

Bonnie Gordon
3.0 credits
TR 2-4:30 pm, WIL 216

Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks.

MUSI 409: Wagner

Michael Puri
3.0 credits
MW 1-2:15 pm, OCH 107

Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks.

MUSI 431: Theory III

Michael Puri
3.0 credits
MW 4:00-5:15, OCH B012

Studies in 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century techniques and styles through analysis and composition.

MUSI 435: Multimedia

Matthew Burtner
3.0 credits
M 5:00-7:00, OCH L001

The class is designed for composers, performers and all students interested in interactive technology for music, programming real-time computer music systems, and in music for multimedia. Emphasis is placed on gaining both technical and artistic understanding of the possibilities of real time music technology and multimedia.

MUSI 436: Orchestration

Nathan Currier
3.0 credits
MW 10:00-11:15, OCH B012

MUSI 472: Instrument Conducting

Kate Tamarkin
3.0 credits
TR 2-3:15 pm, OCH B012

MUSI 493: Independent Study

1.0-3.0 credits
Instructor permission and instructor number required to enroll.

MUSI 581: Composition

3.0 credits
Prerequisite: MUSI 431. Instructor permission and instructor number required to enroll.

MUSI 581: Composition

3.0 credits
Instructor permission and instructor number required to enroll.

MUSI 702: Mozart Live

Richard Will
3.0 credits
T 2:00-4:30 pm, OCH S008

Nothing provokes Mozart-lovers like an opera production deemed too radical: The Magic Flute set in outer space, or Don Giovanni with lingerie models. Yet such “modernized” stagings provide only the most obvious examples of the continual reinvention of Mozart’s music, by players, singers, conductors, and film and stage directors. This seminar examines the last hundred years, when media technology has preserved thousands of Mozart performances for study while also creating entirely new frameworks for performance (e.g., feature film,s excerpt compilations). Cutting across media and musical genres, and across the divide between classical and popular culture, these performances engage broad debates about the artistic and social value of classical music. Topics will include humanism, formalism, embodiment, and the claims of the "Mozart Effect" and other educational products.

MUSI 704: Retrospective Modernism

Heather Wiebe
3.0 credits
R 2-4:30 pm, OCH S008

Modernism has drawn extensively and often covertly on the distant past, rendering the old as new. This seminar will examine mid-20th-century turns to medieval and early-modern European culture as a source of aesthetic ideals, feeding diverse visions of an art for modern life. But it will also address the modes of modernist engagement with the past—as an object of nostalgia and restoration, a site of anachronism, and a way of thinking through issues of ephemerality and historical presence—and the role of music and sound in that engagement. We will look at early-music performance, works by Benjamin Britten and Virgil Thomson, and medievalist elements in experimental music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage. We will also address a set of writers—T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Iris Murdoch among others—who figured performance and the acoustic as central to their engagements with the past.

MUSI 719: Current Studies in Research and Criticism: Shame, Trauma, Mourning

Fred Maus
3.0 credits
M 2-4:30 pm, OCH S008
Note: this course is cross-listed as ENMD 928 and ENRN 928.

Current Studies in Research and Criticism

MUSI 747: Materials of Contemporary Music: Aesthetics, Analysis and Perception of Digitally-Mediated Music

Judith Shatin
3.0 credits
W 3:30-6:00 pm, OCH S008

The focus of this graduate seminar will be on the Aesthetics, Analysis and Perception of electroacoustic music, and the ways in which they interact with one another. Our readings will come from sources by analysts and composers such as Hoopen, Lerdahl, Smalley, Windsor and Wishart and psychologists including Gaver, Gibson, Krumhansl and Kubovy. We will also consider a broad spectrum of electroacoustic examples. Assignments will include readings, short analytic papers, compositions that respond to our discussions, and a seminar presentation and paper (15-20 pages).

MUSI 811: Introduction to Critical and Comparative Studies

Bonnie Gordon
3.0 credits
W 2:30-5:00 pm, OCH 107

MUSI 881: Advanced Composition

Judith Shatin, Ted Coffey, Matthew Burtner
3.0 credits
Section 1: Judith Shatin
Section 2: TBA
Section 3: Matthew Burtner
Instructor permission and instructor number required to enroll

MUSI 891: Supervised Research

3.0 credits

Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by first-year graduate students.

MUSI 893: Independent Study

1.0-3.0 credits
Section 1: TBA
Section 2: TBA

Independent study dealing with a specific topic. Requirements will place primary emphasis on independent research.

MUSI 896: Non-topical Research

1.0-6.0 credits

MUSI 897: Non-topical Research

3.0-12.0 credits

MUSI 991: Supervised Research

3.0 credits

Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by second year graduate students.

MUSI 993: Independent Research

3.0 credits

Research carried out by graduate student in consultation with an instructor.

MUSI 997: Non-topical Research

3.0-12.0 credits

Preliminary research directed towards a dissertation in consultation with an instructor.

MUSI 999: Non-topical Research

3.0-12.0 credits

For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.

MUBD 261: Marching Band I

Bill Pease
2.0 credits
TRF 6-8:25, Wilson Hall 301

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. This course counts as performance, and thus subject to the limit of eight credits of the 120 required for the B.A.

MUBD 262: Marching Band II

Bill Pease           
2.0 credits
TRF 6-8:25, location TBA

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students assist in mentoring new band members enrolled in MUBD 261.

MUBD 263: Marching Band III

Bill Pease           
2.0 credits
TRF 6-8:25, location TBA

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students run sectional rehearsals and tutor students enrolled in MUBD 261 and 262.

MUBD 264: Marching Band IV

Bill Pease           
2.0 credits
TRF 6-8:25, Maury Hall 104

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students assume leadership roles in the Marching Band, and contribute to the design and teaching of shows.

MUEN 360: Jazz Ensemble

John D'earth
2.0 credits
TR 7:30-9:30 pm, OCH B018

Led by internationally recognized jazz trumpeter/composer John D'earth, the Jazz Ensemble is a full-sized jazz big band, whose focus includes “head arrangements” group improvisation, world music and original compositions from within the band, along with music ranging from swing to bop to fusion. You'll gain valuable experience in ensemble playing and in the art of solo improvisation, and may take private instruction in jazz improvisation, perform in small combos and participate in jazz workshops held by such major figures as Michael Brecker, John Abercrombi, Dave Leibman, Bob Moses, Clark Terry, and Joe Henderson.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 361: Orchestra

Kate Tamarkin
2.0 credits
W 7:30-10:00 pm, OCH 101
Sectional meeting times vary; see Course Offering Directory.

The Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kate Tamarkin, performs twelve outstanding concerts each year.  The 2007-08 Season will include five subscription series concerts featuring works of Berlioz, Brahms, Stravinsky and more.  Solo performances by orchestra principals as well as collaborations with pianist Andrew Armstrong, cellist Uri Vardi, and the University Singers will be true highlights of the season.  The orchestra will also present its popular Family Holiday Concerts in collaboration with the University Singers.  Symphony performances regularly attract a full house of music lovers who come from all over Central Virginia to hear these concerts.

The orchestra’s membership is a blend of professional music faculty, student and community musicians.  Each section of the orchestra works under a faculty principal who is both section leader and coach.  Membership is open by audition to interested players from all schools and departments of the University.  For further information please contact the orchestra office at 434-924-6505, or at orchestra@virginia.edu.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 362: Wind Ensemble

Bill Pease
2.0 credits
M 7:00-9:00 pm, Auditorium

The Wind Ensemble is a 45-member ensemble that features the most outstanding brass, woodwind, and percussion players at the University.  The focus of this ensemble is to explore new literature as well as perform the masterworks of the wind band era.  The wind ensemble also works with outstanding guest performers and conductors.  This group is predominately made up of non-music majors who enjoy the genre of the wind band.  Open to all University of Virginia students, auditions are held prior to the start of each semester.  For more information on the Wind Ensemble, please visit our webpage at: www.virginia.edu/music/ensembles/windensemble/.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Flute Ensemble

Alan Cox
1.0 credit
T 3:30-5 pm, OCH 113

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Chamber Music

Aaron Hill
1.0 credit
T 3:30-5:00, OCH 107

 

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Clarinet Ensemble

Nancy Garlick
1.0 credit
T 3:30-5:00, OCH B012

A select group of advanced clarinetists, including Eb, Bb, and bass clarinets, who meet once a week to play a variety of repertoire from the past four centuries ensemble skills, such as intonation, rhythm, sound, and blend, are explored and serve as an excellent opportunity for improved solo, band, and orchestral playing.  The group performs on and off campus every semester.  Auditions are the same as for orchestra.  For more information, contact Nancy Garlick (garlick@virginia.edu)

MUEN 363: Woodwind Ensemble

Ibby Roberts
1.0 credit
R 3:30-5:00, OCH 107

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Horn Ensemble

Ian Zook
1.0 credit
R 2:00-3:30 pm, OCH 113

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Jazz Improvisation Workshop

John D’earth
2.0 credits
TR 5:30-7:00 pm, OCH B012

The Jazz Improvisation Workshop explores the basic techniques and procedures for improvising music in jazz and other musical contexts. No previous jazz or improvising experience is required. Students must demonstrate a degree of fluency on their main instrument, an ability to read music and some familiarity with the basics of music theory. The class focuses on practicing, listening, and performing. Classical musicians and first-time improvisors are enthusiastically encouraged to enroll. An individual interview/audition with the instructor is required before registering for this class.

MUEN 363: Brass Quintet

Paul Neebe
1.0 credit
W 2-3:30 pm, OCH S001

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Trombone Quartet

Nathan Dishman
1.0 credit
W 3:30-5:00, OCH S001

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Klezmer Ensemble

Joel Rubin
2.0 credits
MR 7:30-9:30 pm, OCH 107

Klezmer, originally the ritual and celebratory music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe, was  brought to North America by immigrants around the turn of the last century.  Since the 1970s, a dynamic revival of this tradition has been taking place in America and beyond.  Klezmer’s recent popularity has brought it far from its roots in medieval minstrelsy and Jewish ritual and into the sphere of mainstream culture.  The traditional klezmer style presents the experienced instrumentalist with a range of technical challenges with its characteristic note bends, rubati, Baroque-style embellishments and other micro-improvisational techniques, opening up a world of expressive possibilities not available to them from either classical music or jazz.  This music was passed on orally from generation to generation, and many of the ornaments which are so integral to the klezmer sound can only be approximated by Western staff notation – not to mention the patterns of improvised variation which are the cornerstone of the style.  There will therefore be an emphasis on learning by ear as much as possible.

In this ensemble, we will begin by focusing on the klezmer traditions of New York and Philadelphia between the two world wars, as well as 19th century Eastern Europe.  Depending on the makeup of the group, we may explore various genres of Yiddish song (folk song, Yiddish theater, vaudeville), as well as Hasidic nigunim (songs of spiritual elevation).

The following instruments are sought: violin, viola, cello, bass, clarinet, flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, piano, accordion.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.  Please contact Dr. Rubin with any questions: jer2y@virginia.edu

MUEN 363: Percussion Chamber Ensemble

I-Jen Fang
1.0 credit
R 11:00am - 12:30pm, OCH B018

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Jazz Chamber Ensembles

1.0 credit

Section 1A (Pete Spaar): R 5:30-7 pm, OCH B018
Section 1B (Mike Rosensky): T 5:30-7 pm, OCH B018
Section 1C (Jeff Decker): F 12:30-2 pm, OCH B018
Section 1D (Pete Spaar): F 2-3:30 pm, OCH B018

 

The jazz chamber ensembles focus primarily on acquiring the skills necessary to be a competent performer in a small jazz group setting.  Groups can range in size from quartets to octets and in skill level from beginner to advanced.  Each group meets weekly with an instructor and concentrates on building a repertoire from three primary sources: standards from the “Great American Songbook,” blues, and jazz originals (this can include originals not only from such jazz greats as Monk. Miles, Coltrane, etc., but also from the students themselves).  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: Chamber Music

David Sariti, Mimi Tung
1.0 credit
Meeting time and location TBA

Students are coached by McIntire Dept. faculty on standard chamber music literature, culimating in an end-of-semester performance. Pre-formed groups can usually be accommodated; individual students will be placed in groups with others of like ability. By audition only. For more information, contact David Sariti. Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 363: String Ensemble

David Colwell, Ayn Balija, David Sariti, Adam Carter
1.0 credit
Meeting time and location TBA

Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 364: Chamber Singers

Michael Slon
1.0 credit
F 1-3:15 pm, OCH 107

Chamber Singers is a select subset of the University Singers, and is offered for an additional hour of credit. The ensemble meets once a week and focuses on music ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary pieces. Interested singers will be considered for the chamber ensemble as part of their University Singers audition.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 365: University Singers

Michael Slon
2.0 credits
MW 3:30-5:30 pm, OCH 101

The University Singers is the University's premier SATB ensemble, performing a cappella and accompanied choral literature ranging from Medieval chant to the works of contemporary composers. Past repertoire has included Handel's Messiah, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, the Brahms Requiem, and Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vespers(K. 339). Recent trips have taken the group to New York City, Philadelphia, New Haven, and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., as well as the campuses of other American universities for collaborative concerts. The group has also been heard on European tours in England, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. Recent highlights have included performances with the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra, a concert and workshop with Bobby McFerrin, and a concert tour of the Northeast.

Students in the University Singers come from all six of UVA's undergraduate schools, including Arts and Sciences, Education, and Engineering, as well as several of the University's graduate and professional schools. Together, they enjoy an esprit de corps that arises from the pursuit of musical excellence and the camaraderie the singers develop offstage.

All singers at the University - undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to audition.  University Singers is offered for two hours academic credit. Michael Slon, who has conducted choruses at the Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music, is the conductor.  For more information on the University Singers, please visit our webpage at: www.virginia.edu/music/usingers/.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 367A: Baroque Orchestra

Paul Walker
1.0 credit
R 7-9 pm, OCH 113

The Early Music Ensemble, conducted by Paul Walker, offers the rare opportunity to learn to play a Renaissance or Baroque instrument and to perform such works as the Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Orchestra by J.S. Bach. The Early Music Ensemble's extensive collection includes early strings (gambas and Baroque strings) woodwinds (recorders, crumhorns, sackbuts and cornettos) and keyboard (harpsichord and chamber organ). No prior experience is necessary, although ability to play a modern counterpart is desirable. Players are particularly encouraged to explore the pre-modern versions of their instruments.  Open to undergraduates and graduates.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 367B: Early Music Vocal Ensemble

Paul Walker
1.0 credit
R 3:30-5:20 pm, OCH 113

If you'd like to sing madrigals, motets, Gregorian Chant, and other music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras, the Early Music Ensemble is also for you. Learn the music of Hildegard von Bingen, Josquin des Prez, William Byrd, Monteverdi, Purcell and others. Open to undergraduates and graduates. Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 367C: Renaissance Consorts

Paul Walker
1.0 credit
R 5:30-6:50 pm, OCH 113

The Early Music Ensemble, conducted by Paul Walker, offers the rare opportunity to learn to play a Renaissance or Baroque instrument and to perform such works as the Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Orchestra by J.S. Bach. The Early Music Ensemble's extensive collection includes early strings (gambas and Baroque strings) woodwinds (recorders, crumhorns, sackbuts and cornettos) and keyboard (harpsichord and chamber organ). No prior experience is necessary, although ability to play a modern counterpart is desirable. Players are particularly encouraged to explore the pre-modern versions of their instruments.  Open to undergraduates and graduates.  Restricted to: Instructor permission by audition.

MUEN 368: New Music Ensemble

I-Jen Fang
1.0 credit
R 4-5:30 pm, OCH B018

Performance of vocal and instrumental music of the twentieth century. (S)

MUEN 369: African Music and Dance Ensemble

Michelle Kisliuk
2.0 credits
TR 5:15-7:15 pm, OCH 107

A practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies), with the intention of performing during and at the end of the semester. Though no previous experience with music or dance is required, we give special attention to developing tight ensemble dynamics, aural musicianship, and a polymetric sensibility. Concentration, practice, and faithful attendance are required of each class member.  The course is repeatable for credit, providing experienced students the opportunity to develop within an ongoing U.Va. African Music and Dance Ensemble. Admission is by informal audition during the first class meeting.