Spring 2023: Music Programs | Concerning the Division | Division of Music

MUS 3B | World Soundscapes: Performing Musical Custom Throughout Time and Place

Professor Bradford Garvey

T/F 9:35 -10:55 a.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

What are we listening to? Applies engaged listening abilities and demanding evaluation for a deeper appreciation of (non-Western) music as a cultural expression. Focuses on specific traditions in addition to social context, affect of globalization, cultural manufacturing, cultural rights, and many others. Often provided yearly.

AMST/MUS 55A | Music in Movie: Listening to American Cinema

Professor Taylor Ackley

T/Th 2:20-3:40 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

Examines the historic context, stylistic improvement, and cultural significance of rock and roll and different intently associated genres, spanning the Fifties by way of the current. Shut consideration is paid to how political and social adjustments have interacted with technological improvements by way of industrial music to problem, affirm and form concepts of race, gender, class and sexuality in america. Often provided each third yr.

ENG/MUS 55B | If Music and Candy Poetry Agree

Professor Sarah Mead & Professor Ramie Targoff

T, F 3:55-5:15 p.m. | Slosberg Room 211

Explores the intersection of poetry and music in late Sixteenth-c England and Italy. The course will present an introduction to the Renaissance sonnet and different standard poetic genres that had been routinely reworked into music, in addition to to the musical ideas of type, rhythm and melodic mode. The course will embrace each female and male authors, and contemplate what function gender performs in each poetic and musical creation within the interval. Particular one-time providing, spring 2023.

MUS 101B | Western Classical and Common Music I: How It is Made, Half 2

Professor Yu-Hui Chang

M,W 4:05 PM–5:25 p.m. | Slosberg Room 211

The second semester introduces broad ideas of principle and begins the method of studying to jot down and analyze music. By the top of the yr, college students will achieve expertise in counterpoint, concord, and formal evaluation, and can compose in a easy type. All year long, the connection of repertoire and principle is harassed. The required ear-training and keyboard lab meets individually. Often provided yearly.

MUS 103A | Western Classical and Common Music II: How It is Made, Half 2

Professor Mark Berger

T/Th 2:20-3:40 p.m. | Slosberg Room 215

A continuation of MUS 103a. Twentieth century types and strategies are lined, together with prolonged tonality and atonality. A number of compositional tasks are assigned and carried out at school. Often provided yearly.

MUS 111A/112A: Personal Instrumental and Vocal Examine

Instrumentalists: Professor Bob Nieske  | Vocalists: Professor Robert Duff

Particular person classes to be scheduled

Classes are taught both by members of the Brandeis school or by members of Boston’s giant and gifted neighborhood {of professional} musicians. Course price: $700 for non-Music program college students; $250 for non-performance observe undergraduate Music majors and Music graduate college students; no price for undergraduate Music efficiency observe majors and Leonard Bernstein Fellows. Click here for detailed information about registration and lesson requirements. 

MUS 116A | Chamber Music: From Web page to Stage

Professor Joshua Gordon

Group coachings to be scheduled

Musicians carry their very own expertise, intuition, and theoretical data to music-making by way of research and efficiency of chamber music in a supportive grasp class setting. By way of teaching by knowledgeable performer, readings, and listening to recordings, this course examines how efficiency follow, primary structural evaluation, and historic context have an effect on interpretation. Particular person and ensemble preparation required. Class conferences embrace teaching, dialogue/listening salon, masterclass and rehearsals, to be scheduled. Closing public efficiency.

MUS 121 | Math and Music

Professor Erin Gee and Professor Jonathan Touboul

M,W 2:30-3:50 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

Mathematical patterns, symmetries, sequences, modular relationships, and order are ubiquitous in music. In reality, arithmetic and music have impressed one another for hundreds of years, with music offering inspiration for some mathematical discoveries and mathematical ideas offering a conceptual framework for eager about musical expression, tuning, composition, and musical evaluation. With the appearance of computer systems and mathematical strategies lately, new ideas have been carried out into algorithmic music composition. The aim of this class is to offer college students with an introduction to the deep relationship between arithmetic and music, to current in depth a group of chosen subjects that spotlight the affect of symmetries, patterns, stochastic buildings and geometrical evaluation, and to encourage the scholars to discover these hyperlinks in a inventive ultimate undertaking. Particular one-time providing, spring 2023.

MUS 133B | Music in Western Tradition: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Professor Sarah Koval

T/F 12:45 -2:05 p.m. | Slosberg Room 212

A survey of music from Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel by way of Beethoven and Schubert. Main types, genres, and strategies of musical composition are mentioned from historic and analytic perspective, primarily based on a research of consultant works.

MUS 161B| Superior Seminar

Professor Emily Frey

M 9:05-11:55 a.m. | Slosberg Room 234

Subject for Spring 2023: Race and the American Musical

Higher-level educational seminar taken by all juniors that focuses on a single subject of the trainer’s selection (equivalent to notation, musical type, aesthetics, improvisation, and many others.). Ideally college students will take this of their junior yr, though if college students are away on Examine Overseas, they might take this course at one other level of their diploma program. Often provided each fall.

MUS 162B | Seminar in MAX/MSP

Professor Davide Ianni

T, F 9:35 AM–10:55 a.m | Slosberg Room 233 (BEAMS)

Matters associated to the usage of the MAX/MSP graphical programming language for composition, sound design, set up, and stay efficiency. Individuals interact in particular person tasks and research MAX patches by established practitioners. Particular person and group analysis and displays are required. Often provided each third yr.

MUS 174A| Instrumentation and Orchestration

Professor David Rakowski

M,W,Th 10:10 AM–11:00 AM | Slosberg Room 212

Technical tasks within the artwork of writing for devices and for teams of devices, from chamber teams of assorted sizes to full orchestra. Rating research of examples from 1770 to the current. Extra deal with notation and on guidelines for instrumental components. Often provided each second yr.

MUS 183B| Introduction to Ethnomusicology

Professor Bradford Garvey

W 9:05 AM–11:55 AM | Slosberg Room 234

Ethnomusicology is the research of music in motion—within the second, amongst musicians, and focalizing the context of efficiency and the shared floor of that means through which that music is enacted. This course introduces disciplinary ethnomusicology by means of a broad overview of the historical past and improvement of the sector, its interactions (each profitable and unsuccessful) with its sister disciplines, and the function of ethnomusicology inside and past the academy. We’ll learn, take heed to, and talk about among the main students and thinkers of the sector, analyzing the social context of their interventions within the self-discipline and their fieldwork. We’ll pursue a number of particular tasks by way of the semester, starting from transcription workshops to computer-assisted musical evaluation. Lastly, the course will put together college students for a quick participant-observation fieldwork undertaking that can operate as a capstone task for the course. Often provided each third yr.

MUS 191B| Evaluation of Prolonged Tonal Music

Professor Yu-Hui Chang

M 12:00 PM–3:00 PM | Slosberg Room 211

Works on this course are chosen from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composers equivalent to Wagner, Wolf, Debussy, early Schoenberg, Bartok, and Stravinsky. Music from the Renaissance and early baroque might also be examined. Often provided each second yr.

MUS 196B| Sound and House: Sound Set up and Motion Staging within the Discipline of Music Composition

Professor Erin Gee

F 2:20 PM–5:10 PM | Slosberg Room 212

College students will design their very own sound set up and learn to construct that means by way of house and sound In relation to a cross-disciplinary analysis subject. This analysis might be modeled on strategies cross-disciplinary project-building In numerous disciplines. College students might be knowledgeable by historic precedent On this subject, design (and fulfill) a analysis objective across the manufacturing of the set up, and perceive how you can create (and to truly create by the top of the category) an intellectually rigorous and fascinating interplay between the aural and visible. Often provided each third yr.

MUS 205A | Musicology Lab

Professor Emily Frey

M 1:00 PM–2:20 PM | Slosberg Room 234

This two-credit lab assembly seminar is centered on skilled improvement. We meet as soon as every week to run by way of any upcoming convention papers, edit and proofread job, internship, and grant utility supplies, work on abstracts for conferences, talk about finest methods for fulfillment within the job market, analysis and writing methods, and another subjects that the scholars want to work on with the group. Second-year musicology college students (PhD and Grasp’s) should take this course for credit score in each the Fall and Spring semesters. PhD musicology college students are anticipated to attend lab for not less than six semesters in whole. Often provided each semester.

MUS 206B | Music, Id, and Activism

Professor Taylor Ackley

T 9:35 AM–12:25 PM | Slosberg Room 234

With a deal with American tradition within the Twentieth and twenty first centuries, this course will look at how identities are formed, defied and reimagined by way of music and sound. Explicit consideration might be paid to music which actively participates in political and social activism. We can even discover the philosophical and aesthetic ramifications of shifts in society’s expectations of the function artwork performs in our tradition; in the end asking, what are the duties of artists and cultural establishments within the ongoing fights in opposition to injustice, discrimination and marginalization? Often provided each third yr.

T/Th 5:30-6:50 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

Discover the music and efficiency practices of Western Europe within the Renaissance and early Baroque eras utilizing the music division’s giant assortment of historic devices. Singers and instrumentalists of all types are welcome. All will need to have primary music-reading abilities and a few type of ensemble background.

T/F 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

This 24-36 voice choir is chosen from all the scholar physique on the idea of expertise and musicianship abilities. It’s for singers who want to discover uncommon repertory, Bach cantatas, Sixteenth-century motets and madrigals, Seventeenth-century oratorios, Nineteenth-century lieder and Twentieth-century works.

Robert Duff, conductor

T/F 12:45-2:05 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

The Brandeis College Refrain attracts its members from all the Brandeis neighborhood. Yearly the refrain performs a significant work drawn from the huge choral repertory. There are sometimes alternatives for scholar soloists.

Bob Nieske, director

W 7:15-10:15 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

The Brandeis Jazz Ensemble, open to all the Brandeis neighborhood by audition, consists of 15-20 musicians led by considered one of Boston’s best-known jazz musicians. Along with basic jazz repertory, the ensemble performs authentic compositions written particularly for the group.

Neal Hampton, conductor

Th 7:05-9:55 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor/Wellesley School

Directed by Neal Hampton, entrance to the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra is gained by way of audition originally of the Fall and Spring semesters. The orchestra includes college students, school, and employees at Brandeis College, Wellesley School, and Babson and Olin Faculties, and is devoted to bringing inspiring performances of the nice orchestral literature, each previous and current, to a brand new technology of musicians and audiences. 

Tom Souza, director

M 7:30-10:30 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor

The Wind Ensemble is a 35-50 member group that performs all kinds of music. The ensemble performs two or three concert events annually and is carried out by Tom Souza. Membership is open to the Brandeis and surrounding communities.

Tom Hall, director

T 6:30-9:30 p.m. | Slosberg Room 212

Improvisation is all the time a vital a part of our each day life, however throughout unsure and difficult instances, our skill to improvise turns into extra vital than ever! Be a part of the Brandeis Improv Collective (BIC) and learn to grow to be a extra fluid, inventive, and joyful improviser by exploring improvisation, each individually and in a gaggle. The BIC is open to all Brandeis college students, no matter ability or expertise in improvising.

Ben Paulding, director

M/W 5:40-7 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor 

Fafali research and performs the music, track and dance of Ghana, and has carried out at Night time for Africa, Tradition X and even for the President of Ghana! Traditionally a extremely worldwide ensemble, Fafali’s members have come from Ghana, Togo, Jamaica, Tanzania, Cape Verde, China, america and lots of different nations from all over the world.

Taylor Ackley, director

M 2:30-5:20 p.m. | Slosberg Recital Corridor 

Examine and carry out repertoire from Roots music traditions together with blues, nation, swing, bluegrass and Appalachian folks. College students will be taught to play these types by ear whereas creating abilities in arranging, harmonizing and improvising. Participation is open to instrumentalists and vocalists from any musical background (together with those that play devices not normally related to these types).