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Chamber Music Improvisation
Component
This is an experimental performing ensemble that explores a variety of musical styles and techniques including, free improvisation, improvisational conducting and various other chance based methods. The ensemble is open to all instruments (acoustic and electric), voice, electronic synthesizers, and laptop computers. Students must be able to demonstrate level of proficiency on their chosen instrument. Composer-performers, dancers, and actors are also welcome. Performance opportunities will include; concerts, collaboration with other programs such as dance, theater, film and performance art as well as community outreach. Open to a limited number of students; audition required.
Music courses
- Advanced Theory: Advanced Tonal Theory and Analysis
- Advanced Theory: Continuo Playing
- Advanced Theory: Jazz Theory and Harmony
- Advanced Theory: Twentieth-Century Theoretical Approaches: Post-Tonal and Rock Music
- African Classics of the Post-Colonial Era
- Bluegrass Performance Ensemble
- Chamber Choir
- Chamber Music
- Chamber Music Improvisation
- Concert Attendance/Music Tuesdays Requirement
- Conducting
- Debussy and the French School
- First-Year Studies: Landmarks of Western Music
- Guitar Class
- Guitar Ensemble
- Intermediate and Advanced Aural Skills
- Introduction to Electronic Music and Music Technology
- Jazz Colloquium
- Jazz History
- Jazz Performance and Improvisation Workshop
- Jazz Vocal Ensemble
- Jazz Vocal Seminar
- Keyboard Lab
- Master Class
- MIDI: Sequencing, Recording, and Mastering Electronic Music
- Mozart and Beethoven: Music from 1720-1810
- Music and/as Language: Ethnomusicology of North America
- Music and/as Language: Ethnomusicology of North America
- Music and/as Social Identity: Ethnomusicology of the Atlantic Coasts
- Music and/as Social Identity: Ethnomusicology of the Atlantic Coasts
- Music of the Baroque
- Music Workshop
- Orchestra Projects
- Self-Discovery Through Singing
- Seminar in Vocal Performance
- Senior Recital
- Sight Reading for Instrumentalists
- So This Is Opera?
- Studio Class
- Studio Composition and Music Technology
- Survey of Western Music
- The Blues Ensemble
- Theory II: Basic Tonal Theory and Composition
- *Theory I: Materials of Music
- Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques
- Violin Master Class
- West African Percussion Ensemble Faso Foli
- Women’s Vocal Ensemble