Course Schedule

Fall 2013 Course Schedule

Courses for Undergraduates

Music 1-01: Introduction to Western Music
Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-4:15 pm (J+)
Introduction to selected forms and genres of Western music. Emphasis on analytical listening and cultural critique through guided examinations of both the formal organization and the social/cultural background of a wide range of musical styles. Previous musical training not required. One course credit.
Auner

Music 5-01: Music as Culture
Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00–1:15 pm (F+)
Exploration of diverse musical traditions around the world. Musical systems, musical instruments, lives of musicians, social settings of performance, music, and culture. Previous musical training not required. One course credit.
Jankowsky

Music 10: Introduction to Music Theory and Musicianship
01: Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15 pm (I+)
02: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45 am (D+)
03: Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45 pm (H+)
Exploration of the basics of music theory, including notation, scales and modes, intervals, triads, seventh chords, chord progressions, rhythm, melody, form and composition. An introduction to ear training, sight singing, and keyboard skills, intended for non-majors. One course credit.
McCann (01), McLaughlin (02), Page (03)

Music 15-01: Introduction to Piano
Tuesday 9:00–10:15am (ARR)
Class piano for beginners and other musicians who want to develop basic piano skills. Taught in the computer lab; maximum twelve students per class. Pass/Fail only; 0 credits. May only be taken once. Extra tuition of $200 is charged for this course. Please see Edith Auner for details.
Michelin

Music 28-01: Opera
Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-4:15 pm (J+)
A critical look at the marvels and excesses of opera. Representative works explored from the cross-disciplinary perspective of staging and acting practices, film adaptation, dramaturgical conventions, voice, performance, and spectatorship. Field trip to live opera performance. No prerequisite. One course credit.
Staff

Music 39-01: African American Music
Monday & Wednesday, 10:30 -11:45 am (E+)
A historical and cultural overview of a wide variety of African American musics produced in the United States from Minstrelsy to Hip-Hop. No prerequisite. One course credit.
Pennington

Music 41-01: History of Blues
Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45 pm (G+)
Blues as a people's music. Origins, development, and regional styles; down-home blues, classic blues and urban blues; vocal and instrumental traditions and innovations. Emphasis on such major figures as Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King. No prerequisite. One course credit.
Ullman

Music 48-01: Music of Africa
Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday 10:30-11:45 am (ARR)
Musical systems, musical instruments, music in its historical, social, and cultural context. Topics from the musical traditions of the Shona, Biaka/Mbuti, Ewe, and Dagomba. All students attend the Tuesday class and then either the Thurs or Friday hands-on labs.
Locke

Music 54-01: Music and Prayer in the Jewish Tradition
Tuesday & Thursday 1:30-2:45 pm (H+)
The role and function of music in Jewish worship and cultural identity. Focus on the Kabbalat Shabbat. Topics to include participation vs. performance in worship, music and historical authenticity in prayer, music and religious experience, and the invention and presentation of tradition. Liturgical music and dual culturalism in the American Jewish community. Cross listed as Religion 98. One course credit.
Summit

Music 64-01: Computer Tools for Musicians
Monday & Wednesday, 4:30-5:45 pm (K+)
Using computer technology to compose, arrange, synthesize, transcribe, orchestrate, mix, and publish music. Tools to be covered include ProTools, Sibelius, Reason, and Digital Performer. Students will complete several creative projects using music hardware and software. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. One course credit.
Lehrman

Music 65-02: Music Recording and Production
Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-4:15 (J+)
Theory and techniques for recording, editing, and producing acoustic music. Topics include acoustics, audio perception, physics and electronics of transducers, analog and digital audio principles, stereo and multitrack recording, mixing, virtual instruments, and synchronization. Students will develop the technical and listening skills to understand and evaluate the aesthetics of recorded sound.
Prerequisites: Ability to play an instrument, musical literacy, Math 5 or 11 or equivalent, Physics 1 and 2 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. One course credit.
Lehrman

Music 67-01: Composing Music for Multimedia
Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45 (G+)
This course an offers introductory level study of composing music for a variety of visual media. Students will be introduced to the varied tools required to compose music for film, video games, advertising and other media. Students will have access to the music lab where they will produce their work. This course will take a hands-on approach and students will be composing a good deal of music throughout the semester. Students who are interested in this course should be capable composers and should have a working knowledge of notation and sequencing software (such as Finale or Sibelius and DigitalPerformer or Pro Tools). Prerequisite: Music 10 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. One course credit.
Roustom

Performance Courses

All performance courses may be repeated for credit. All ensembles are open to the Tufts community by audition.

Music 68 Sections 01-02: Private Lessons
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Music 68-N: Private Lessons (No credit)
Individualized instruction by the performance faculty or with private teachers approved by the department in an instrument or voice. Broad range of private lessons including Classical, Jazz, Rock, Klezmer, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, Arabic, North African, Mediterranean, Indian and Japanese vocal and instrumental music: voice, winds, brass, strings, percussion, harp, guitar, banjo, piano, ukulele, harpsichord, shakuhachi, viola da gamba, koto, and oud. (Admission into the credit section is by audition.) For details, and to schedule lessons, consult Edith Auner, the Coordinator of Applied Music. Extra tuition per semester is charged for this course. Scholarship applications, including those for music majors and minors, are due by the 10th day of class each semester. (for music majors or minors, ninety percent of this fee will be waived for two semesters semesters if you apply for this scholarship on time at the beginning of each of the two semesters). Prerequisite for credit: fourth-year level of competence. Note: voice students must study for non-credit in the first semester and audition by trial jury to be accepted for credit. Seniors in their last semester are not permitted to study for credit unless they have taken Music 68 in a prior semester. (Prerequisites: Fourth-year level of competence). 01 and 02 sections are one-half course credit.
E. Auner

Music 69-01: Tufts Concert Choir
Monday & Wednesday, 4:30-5:45 pm (K+)
Music 69-N: Tufts Concert Choir (No credit)
A large, mixed choir of approximately 75 singers devoted to the performance of diverse choral music of the highest level, including major choral-orchestral works, recent compositions, and arrangements of non-Western choral music. Membership is drawn from the entire student body and is made up of undergraduate and graduate students from many different departments. One-half course credit.
Kirsch

Music 70-01: Chamber Singers
Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15 pm (I+)

Music 70-N: Chamber Singers (No credit)
A mixed choir of approximately 25 voices, devoted to the performance of diverse choral music of the highest level, including vocal chamber music of all periods and styles, recent compositions, and arrangements of non-Western choral music. Membership is drawn from the entire student body and is made up of undergraduate and graduate students from many different departments. One-half course credit.
Kirsch

Music 72-01: Gospel Choir
Friday 3:30-5:30 pm (ARR)
Music 72-02: Gospel Choir Sectional
Monday 4:30-5:45 pm (K+)
Music 72-03: Gospel Choir Sectional
Tuesday 4:30-5:45 pm (L+)
Music 72-04: Gospel Choir Sectional
Wednesday 1:30-2:45 pm (G+)
Music 72-N: Gospel Choir (No credit)
Selected repertory of choral works from the African American tradition of religious music. No prerequisite or previous musical experience necessary. One-half course credit requires registration in 72-01 lecture and one of the three sectionals 72-02, 72-03, or 72-04. If taking for no credit, 72-N, sectionals are not required.
Coleman

Music 74-01: Opera Ensemble
Tuesday & Thursday, 4:30-6:30 pm (ARR)
Music 74-N: Opera Scenes (No credit)
Music for beginning opera singers with emphasis on development of musical skills, staging techniques, acting and singing skills, and role interpretation. Public performance of opera scenes program, including solo arias. Co-requisite: concurrent private vocal study for credit (MUS 68-01). One-half course credit.
Mastrodomenico.

Music 77-01: Tufts Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday & Thursday, 4:30-6:30 pm (ARR)
Music 77-N: Tufts Jazz Orchestra (No credit)
Jazz instrumental and ensemble improvisation skills developed through performance of classical jazz compositions and recent works for big band. Elements of jazz, including rhythms, blues, and other traditional song forms; jazz melody and harmony. One-half course credit.
Smith

Music 78-01: Jazz Improvisation Ensemble
Monday, 6:45-9:45 pm (ARR)
Music 78-N: Jazz Improvisation Ensemble (No credit)
Focus on a practical knowledge of jazz improvisation in small combo settings; includes blues and AABA structures, turnarounds, construction of chords, phrasing, scale and chord relationships, and rhythmic pulse. One-half course credit.
Ahlstrand

Music 78-02: Jazz Improvisation Ensemble
Tuesday, 6:45-9:45 pm (ARR)
Music 78-N2: Jazz Improvisation Ensemble (No credit)
See Music 78-01.
Smith.

Music 80-01: Tufts Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday & Thursday, 4:30-6:45 pm (ARR)
Music 80-N: Tufts Symphony Orchestra (No credit)
Music ranging from the Baroque to the twenty-first century. Major works for chorus and orchestra regularly undertaken with the Tufts Concert Chorale. One-half course credit.
Page

Music 83-01: Wind Ensemble
Monday & Wednesday, 4:30-6:30 pm (ARR)
Music 83-N: Wind Ensemble (No credit)
Symphonic band and wind ensemble literature as well as contemporary works. One-half course credit.
McCann.

Music 84-01: Pep Band
Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30-8:30 pm (ARR)
Music 84-N: Pep Band (No credit)
The Pep Band is open to all who wish to perform at football games and rallies. Fall only. One-half course credit.
Moses

Music 85-01: Electronic Music Ensemble
Tuesday 6:45-9:45 pm (ARR)
Music 85-N: Electronic Music Ensemble (No credit)
Ensemble members will perform existing and original repertoire using electronic instruments such as wind, hand, and game controllers; percussion pads, MIDI guitars, and keyboards; as well as new instruments designed by ensemble members and students in Music 66 (Electronic Musical Instrument Design). Extensive use of computer-based synthesis and performance. Semester will culminate in a public concert. Required: ability to read and write music, proficiency on a musical instrument. Preferred: experience in musical improvisation, knowledge of MIDI and synthesizer programming. Limited to 8. Permission of instructor required.
Lehrman

Music 86-01: New Music Ensemble
Thursday, 4:15-6:15 pm (ARR)
Music 86-N: New Music Ensemble (No credit)
Recently written compositions by both established and student composers; free improvisation. Frequent performances. One-half course credit.
Berman

Music 87-01: Early Music Ensemble
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30 pm (ARR)
Music 87-N: Early Music Ensemble (No credit)
Music from the medieval period to the eighteenth century. Ensembles include recorder consorts, lute ensemble, Renaissance wind band, small vocal ensembles, viols, and mixed ensemble. One-half course credit.
Hershey

Music 88-01: Flute Ensemble
Monday, 7:15-8:45 pm (ARR)
Music 88-N: Flute Ensemble (No credit)
Composed of members of the flute family (piccolos, C-flutes, alto flute, bass flute). Performs music from several centuries and a wide variety of styles (Renaissance, Bach, Debussy, Joplin, avant-garde). One-half course credit.
Barwell

Music 89-01: Chamber Music Ensembles
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Music 89-1N: Chamber Music (No credit)
Study and coaching of selected works for small chamber ensembles. Audition required. For details, consult the Coordinator of Applied Music. One-half course credit.
J. Page, J. Smith

Music 91-01: African Music Ensemble (Kiniwe)
Monday & Wednesday 3:00-4:15 pm (I+)
Music 91-N: African Music Ensemble (Kiniwe) (No Credit)
These courses teach a repertory of traditional music and dance from Ghana. This section is for first time students or students who are still learning the basic principles and skills of drumming and dance. The instrumental music is for an ensemble of bells, rattles, and drums. The vocal music is call-and-response choral singing. The dances emphasize group formations with some opportunity for solos. The material focuses on the heritage of the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. In performance the group takes the name Kiniwe (KIH-nee-way), a rallying cry that means, "Are you ready? Yes!" One-half course credit.
Agbeli

Music 91-02: African Music Ensemble: Kiniwe
Courses in Music and Dance
Monday & Wednesday, 6:30-7:45 pm (ARR)
Music 91-N: African Music Ensemble (No Credit)
This section is for continuing students or students with advanced skills or experience. See above course description. One-half course credit.
Agbeli

Music 92-01: Arabic Music Ensemble (Tufts Takht)
Monday, 6:00-8:30 pm ARR
Music 92-N: Arabic Music Ensemble (Tufts Takht) (No credit)
Performance of both classical and folk Arabic music. The maqām microtonal scale system as applied to both Western and Arabic instruments. Improvisation, form, style, rhythmic cycles, as well as Arabic vocal diction. Some Arabic ouds (lutes) to be made available. One half-course credit.
Roustom

Music 93-01: Javanese Gamelan Ensemble (Rinengaa Sih Tentrem)
Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30-8:00 pm (ARR)
Music 93-N: Javanese Gamelan Ensemble (Rinengaa Sih Tentrem) (No credit)
Central Javanese music performed on a gamelan orchestra, a traditional ensemble consisting of mostly percussion instruments – gongs and metallophones. Repertory drawn from the centuries-old court tradition as well as more modern works of post-independence Indonesia. One-half course credit.
Drummond.

Music 95-01: Klezmer Ensemble (Jumbo Knish Factory)
Wednesday, 6:30-9:00 pm (ARR)
Music 95-N: Klezmer Ensemble (Jumbo Knish Factory) (No credit)
Old style and current Klezmer music, the celebratory art originating with the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. Improvisation of lead melodies. Arrangements and instrumental roles. One-half course credit.
McLaughlin.

Music 99-01: Internship and Community Service
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Opportunity for students to apply their musical training in a practical setting, including community-based, profit or nonprofit, governmental, or other sites. Individual faculty sponsor internships in their areas of expertise. Students will work for 100+ hours, must have an on-site supervisor, and complete a piece of meaningful scholarly work related to the internship area. May be repeated for credit. One course credit.
McDonald.

Courses for Undergraduate Majors and Graduate Students

Music 101-01: Principles of Tonal Theory I
01: Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am (E+)
02: Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45 pm (G+)
An integrated approach to the study of harmony, counterpoint, and analysis. Attention given to the development of aural skills such as sight singing and dictation. Written exercises, introduction to composition in small forms.
Prerequisite: Music 10 or placement through the Music Theory Placement Test. One course credit.
Kirsch (01). Staff (02).

Music 101-LA: Ear Training Laboratory
Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-3:50 pm (ARR)
McLaughlin.

Music 101-LB: Ear Training Laboratory
Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-12:50 pm (F)
McLaughlin.

Music 103-01: Principles of Tonal Theory III
Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am (E+)
The interaction of tonal harmony, counterpoint, and form in music from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, with focus on nineteenth-century styles. Analysis and composition of small forms and complete movements, with emphasis on dances, sonata form, and songs.
Prerequisite: Music 102, or placement through the Music Theory Placement Test. One course credit.
Staff.

Music 118-01: Seminar - Composition Monday, 4:30-6:30 pm (ARR)
An advanced, individualized, project-based seminar intended for graduate students and qualified undergraduates. Lectures on significant composers; guest presentations by living composers and cutting-edge ensembles; attendance at concerts of contemporary music. Performances and critiques of student work through workshare sessions and individual lessons at a minimum of four times per semester. Prerequisite: Music 103 or permission of the instructor. One course credit. May be repeated in ensuing semesters once begun—each version is different.
McDonald

Music 128-01: Elements of Jazz Improvisation
Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15 pm (F+)
Emphasis on the written and practical application of jazz harmony. Playing and writing modes from the harmonic and melodic minor scale, bebop scales, blues, and digital patterns. An examination of many jazz forms, such as blues, modal, bebop, and contemporary. Selected composers include Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Horace Silver, Mulgrew Miller, Duke Ellington, and Wayne Shorter. Techniques for memorizing melodies and chord changes. Study of the theory and meaning of improvisation through practice-based learning.
Prerequisite: Music 101 or permission of instructor. One course credit.
Smith.

Music 142-01: History of Western Music (AD 900-1750)
Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45 pm (H+)
An historical and cultural overview of European art music from plainchant through the music of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel, with close readings of representative works.
Prerequisite: Music 10 or equivalent with permission of instructor. One course credit.
Bernstein.

Music 151-01: Sound Studies and Sound Art
Thursday, 9:00-11:30 am (3)
An exploration of the origins and manifestations of the emerging field of sound studies and its resonances for musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and composers. Topics may include archeoacoustics, phonautography, synaesthesia, soundscape, "the Nashville sound," psychacoustics, mobile music, feeling machines, "the ethnographic ear," voices (recorded, artificial, uncanny, and otherwise), and new media, intermedia, multimedia, and installations. Guest lectures, creative projects, field trips, and lots of reading and writing. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Required text (available in the bookstore): Jonathan Sterne, ed. The Sound Studies Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2012).
Prerequisite: Music 102, graduate standing, or permission of instructor. One course credit.
Auner.

Music 156-02: Topics in Opera Studies: Musical Lives
Tuesday 4:30-7:00 pm (ARR)
Selected topics concerning opera from its beginnings to the present. Intended for advanced music majors and graduate students. Prerequisites: MUS 101 or permission of instructor.
Staff

Music 186-01: Ethno in Theory and Practice
Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00 – 4:15 pm (J+)
Introduction to ethnomusicological inquiry into music-cultures of the worlds peoples. Systematic study of humankinds heritage of classical, folk, ethnic, and traditional music from around the world. One course credit.
Locke

Music 192-01: Study in Jazz: Music of the International Jazz Age
Wednesday 3:00-5:30 pm (ARR)
The Jazz Age, the period between the two world wars, saw the circulation of a variety of popular musics emerging from African diasporic communities and picked up by performers all over the world under the catchall term "jazz." From the trumpet solos of Louis Armstrong and the flapper songs of Helen Kane, to Cuban Rhumbas of Lecuona's Cuban Boys, and Brazilian Sambas of the Oito Batutas, these sounds caught the imagination of a cosmopolitan youth culture across the globe from the Elites in New York or the cabaret audiences in Paris. Jazz became a way to articulate ideas about modernity and racial, national, transnational, and political identities. This course examines the diverse music cultures of the Jazz Age in several major transatlantic cities including New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin, and Havana. Issues the course concerns itself with include what these musics meant within different national contexts and how meanings and musical sounds of the Jazz Age changed as they circulated across international borders, classes, races, and genders. One course credit.
Pennington

Music 195-01: Senior Recital
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Recital-level competence; emphasis on solo literature and major repertory; solo recital required. Prerequisite: permission of Coordinator of Applied Music. One course credit.
E. Auner

Music 198-01: Special Topics
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Guided independent study of an approved topic. Credit as arranged. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites: Advanced undergraduate standing & permission of instructor.
McDonald

Music 199-01: Senior Honors Thesis
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Guided research on a topic that has been approved as a suitable subject for an Honors Thesis.
McDonald

Music 200-01: Combined Degree-NEC
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Jeanne Dillon

Music 201-01: Seminar – Intro to Music Research
Tuesday, 9:00-11:30 am (1)
Intended for graduate students, this course will introduce the tools of music scholarship including reference and research materials in both book and electronic forms particularly in the fields of ethnomusicology, musicology, and music theory. A critical approach to writing about music will be emphasized, with specific reference to style and form. Methodologies concerning the various sub-fields of music research will also be explored. Original research projects utilizing the Friedrich Louis Ritter Rare Music Collection in our Special Collections and Archives at Tisch Library. One course credit.
Bernstein

Music 202-01: Seminar – Ethnomusicology
Thursday 4:30 – 7:00 pm (ARR)
History, method, and theory of ethnomusicology including transcription, analysis, fieldwork, and current trends in the field. Prerequisite: graduate standing, or any course from the Music 120 series and consent. One course credit.
Jankowsky

Music 299: Master's Thesis
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Guided research on a topic that has been approved as a suitable subject for a master's thesis.
Bernstein (01), Locke (02), McDonald (03), J. Auner (04), Summit (05), Schmalfeldt (06), Jankowsky (07), Pennington (9)

Music 401-PT: Masters Degree Continuation, Part Time

Music 402-FT: Masters Degree Continuation, Full Time

Music 405TA: Graduate Teaching Assistant