HSSA: Music (H) (MUSI)

Applies music skills in performance groups for music minors. May be repeated up to 4 hours.

Introduces basic techniques of music literacy, including reading music notation, analyzing harmonies, composing melodies, and performing rhythms. Required for the Minor in Music.

Investigates classical and popular musical forms through composition, applying notational and analytical techniques using music notation software. Required for the Minor in Music.

Surveys the early music of Europe in the Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods and explores problems of accessing musical practices distant and distinct from our own.

Surveys composers, events, and genres of western art music in the "common practice period" and their contexts in world history.

Surveys composers, events, and genres in the Modern and Postmodern periods and their contexts in world history.

Surveys the impact of audio recording revolutions of the 20th century on American popular music and explores relationships between technology and its competing and complementary human interests, such as aesthetics, politics, tradition, commerce, law, ethics, among many others.

Surveys historical and cultural contexts for video game music, as well as methods and theories in the emerging field of ludomusicology, with special emphasis on the relationship between technology and the arts.

Surveys the role of music in human cultures around the world and explores problems of accessing musical practices distant and distinct from our own, as well as thinking critically about those most familiar to us.

Explores the connections between the disciplines of music and mathematics, using each as a conceptual lens for understanding the other, and focusing especially on the use of mathematics and physics in the creation, notation, and analysis of music throughout history.

Examines a selected topic in one of the HSSA disciplines in depth. A particular offering may require a prerequisite.

Allows for individual study of an HSSA topic selected by the instructor and the student(s). A plan of study, regular meetings with the instructor, and a major term project are required.