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Download Page (PDF) Music 1 University Professor of Music MUSIC Jay Clinton Hoggard The Music Department is based on the belief that all of the world's musics BA, Wesleyan University; MA, Wesleyan University warrant close study and that all musicians should cultivate the ability to engage Professor of Music; Chair, Music; Professor, African American Studies with unfamiliar musical traditions. The department provides performance Ronald J. Kuivila opportunities for the entire Wesleyan community through orchestra, Chinese BA, Wesleyan University; MFA, Mills College orchestra, concert choir, the Collegium Musicum, organ, South Indian voice and Professor of Music; Director, Electronic Music and Recording Studios percussion instruction, wind ensemble, jazz orchestra, Korean drumming and creative music ensemble, laptop ensemble, Javanese gamelan, West African Paula Matthusen drumming, South Indian music, steel band, and taiko. These offerings are BM, University of Wisconsin at Madison; MA, New York University; PHD, New supplemented by an extensive private lessons program. Courses in music history, York University music as a cultural practice, music theory, and composition are offered at both Associate Professor of Music undergraduate and graduate levels. Music majors design their own programs of study in consultation with an advisor. Program proposals must demonstrate a David Paul Nelson balance between performance, historical/cultural study, and music theoretic/ BA, Kalamazoo College; MFA, California Institute of Arts; PHD, Wesleyan compositional investigation. Each proposal is reviewed by the director of University undergraduate study and ratified by the entire department. Adjunct Associate Professor of Music Nadya Potemkina DMA, The University of Memphis; MM, University Nthrn Iowa; MM, Ball State University FACULTY Adjunct Associate Professor of Music; Adjunct Associate Professor, Russian, East Jane Alden European, and Eurasian Studies BMU, Manchester University; MMU, King's College; PHD, University of North Prof. Sumarsam Carolina at Chapel Hill BA, Akademi Seni Karavitan; MA, Wesleyan University; PHD, Cornell University Associate Professor of Music; Associate Professor, Medieval Studies Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music; Professor of Music B. Balasubrahmaniyan Su Zheng BA, University of Madras; MA, University of Madras; MPHIL, University of BA, Central Conservatory of Music; MA, New York University; PHD, Wesleyan Madras; PHD, University of Madras University Adjunct Associate Professor of Music Associate Professor of Music; Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Neely Bruce Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor, East Asian Studies BMU, University of Alabama; DMU, University of Illinois Urbana; MAA, Wesleyan University; MMU, University of Illinois Urbana John Spencer Camp Professor of Music; Professor of Music VISITING FACULTY Eric Charry Noah Baerman BMU, New England Conservatory of Mu; MFA, Princeton University; MMU, New BM, Rutgers U School Arts; MM, Rutgers U School Arts England Conservatory of Mu; PHD, Princeton University Director, Jazz Ensemble; Vis Adj Prof in Lib Studies; Faculty teaching in Liberal Professor of Music Studies Alcee Chriss John E Biatowas BM, Oberlin College; MM, Oberlin College BA, Colgate University; MA, University of Connecticut Artist-in-Residence, Music; University Organist Director, Chamber Music Ensemble John Wesley Dankwa Andrew Greenwald BA, University of Cape Coast; MA, University of Cape Coast; PHD, Wesleyan BM, New York University; DMA, Stanford University; MA, Stanford University University Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Assistant Professor of Music Jin Hi Kim Saida Daukeyeva BA, Seoul National University; MFA, Mills College BMU, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory; PHD, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Conservatory; PHD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Assistant Professor of Music; Assistant Professor, Russian, East European, and Chia-Yu Joy Lu Eurasian Studies BFA, National Taiwan Normal University; MA, University of Sheffield - NRS Graduate Student, ETHN-PHD; Director, Chinese Music Ensemble Roger Mathew Grant BM, Ithaca College; PHD, University of Pennsylvania Marichal B Monts Dean of the Arts and Humanities; Associate Professor of Music BA, Wesleyan University Conductor, Ebony Singers I. Harjito MA, Akademi Seni Karavitan Briele Scott 2 Music MM, University of Delaware Libby Van Cleve - Oboe Graduate Student, MUSC-MA; Visiting Instructor in Music Eugene Bozzi - Percussion and Drums Peter Selinsky BA, Skidmore College; MA, SUNY at Buffalo; PHD, Yale University Carolyn Halsted - Piano Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Yvonne Troxler - Piano Fumi Tanakadate Fred Simmons - Piano, Jazz BA, Wesleyan University; MA, Manhattan School Music Visiting Instructor in Music John Bergeron - Recording Studio Production Matt Wellins Garrett Bennett - Saxophone BA, Bard College; MA, Wesleyan University Visiting Instructor of Music Matthew Russo - Trombone Nancy Brown - Trumpet, Classical EMERITI Allison Lazur - Tuba Abraham C. Adzenyah Marvin Warshaw - Viola BA, Goddard College; MA, Wesleyan University Adjunct Professor of Music, Emeritus Perry Elliot - Violin Performance Anthony Delano Braxton Priscilla Gale - Voice John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus Chai-lun Yueh - Voice Ronald Ebrecht Giacomo Gates - Voice, Jazz BM, Southern Methodist University; MM, Yale University University Organist, Emeritus Alvin A. Lucier BA, Yale University; MAA, Wesleyan University; MFA, Brandeis University UNDERGRADUATE DEPARTMENTAL John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus ADVISING EXPERTS Mark Slobin Jay Hoggard BA, University of Michigan; MA, University of Michigan; PHD, University of Michigan • Undergraduate Music Major (https://catalog.wesleyan.edu/departments/ Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Emeritus musc/ugrd-musc/) • Doctor of Philosophy in Music (https://catalog.wesleyan.edu/departments/ PRIVATE MUSIC LESSON INSTRUCTORS musc/grad-musc/) • Master of Arts in Music (https://catalog.wesleyan.edu/departments/musc/ Stan Scott - Banjo grad-ma/) Roy Wiseman - Bass MUSC102 World Music This course will map the world musically by introducing a range of sonic Garrett Bennett - Bassoon expressions from diverse geographic areas spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Students will learn about regionally specific concepts of music and Julie Ribchinsky - Cello sound, types of performance, instruments, and vocal styles, the meanings music Pheeroan Aklaff - Drums carries for its performers and listeners, and the ways in which it is produced and experienced. They will consider the significance of music in forming a sense of Peter Craig Edwards - Traditional Fiddle Styles place and identity, and trace the journeys and transformations of local musical sounds in contemporary globalized societies. The course will broaden students' Meera Gudipati - Flute understanding of music as a worldwide phenomenon, raise their awareness of cultural processes constructed through music, and provide them with aural and Robert Hoyle - French Horn analytical means to recognize and appreciate a wide variety of sonic repertoires Cem Duruoz - Guitar and practices among the world's peoples. Offering: Host Tony Lombardozzi - Guitar, Jazz and Blues Grading: A-F Credits: 1.00 Megan Sesma - Harp, Classical and Folk Gen Ed Area: HA-MUSC Prereq: None Garrett Groesbeck - Koto Stan Scott - Mandolin/Guitar/North Indian Vocal Music 3 MUSC103 Materials and Design MUSC108 History of Rock and R&B Music consists of sounds and silences. Diverse composers, songwriters, This course will survey the history of rock and r&b (broadly defined as a performers, and improvisers use these basic materials in accordance with their conglomeration of loosely connected popular musical genres) from their origins particular musical idioms and traditions. Sometimes music is passed down in the 1940s and '50s through the early 1990s. Three parallel goals will be aurally; sometimes it is written down as a set of instructions for performers pursued: to become literate in the full range of their constituent traditions; to or as a record of an ephemeral sonic event. This course is an introduction to experience the workings of the music industry by producing group projects; contemporary Western musical design and notation. Throughout the semester, and to become familiar with a variety of theoretical approaches to the music, we will improve our musicianship through singing, playing, listening, analyzing, confronting issues such as economics of the industry, race relations and reading, and composing. We will learn common terminology for sounds and identities, youth culture and its relationship to American popular culture, and their properties of frequency, duration, volume, and timbre. We will analyze and popular music as a creative, cultural, and social force. For the midterm and final employ methods of organizing musical materials into songs and compositions. projects, the class will form a music industry in microcosm (musicians, journalists, We will learn the notational system widely used for European art music, producers, video and sound engineers, visual artists), resulting in audio and video discussing its strengths, weaknesses, and relevance to popular and non-Western releases and a magazine. musics. Students can achieve success in this course without previous musical Offering: Host knowledge. Grading: OPT Offering: Host Credits: 1.00 Grading: A-F Gen Ed Area: HA-MUSC Credits: 1.00 Prereq: None Gen Ed Area:
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