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Music (MUSIC) 1 Music (MUSIC) 1 MUSIC 52 — WOMEN'S CHORUS MUSIC (MUSIC) 1 credit. Choral vocal training, study and performance of concert literature. Enroll MUSIC 34 — STUDY ABROAD: MUSIC PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the 1 credit. semester Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, A music performing ensemble course taken in a UW-Madison resident Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) study abroad program. Enroll Info: Enrollment in a UW-Madison resident Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions study abroad program Last Taught: Fall 2020 Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions MUSIC 53 — CHORAL UNION 1 credit. MUSIC 40 — WIND ENSEMBLE 1 credit. Choral vocal training, study and performance. Enroll Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester Rehearsal and performance of music from wind ensemble and band Requisites: None literature. Enroll Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions beginning of the semester Last Taught: Spring 2020 Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) MUSIC 55 — MASTERS' SINGERS Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions 1 credit. Last Taught: Spring 2021 Choral vocal training, study and performance of concert literature. Enroll MUSIC 41 — CONCERT BAND Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the 1 credit. semester Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, Rehearsal and performance of music from wind ensemble and band Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) literature. Enroll Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions beginning of the semester Last Taught: Spring 2020 Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) MUSIC 56 — CHORALE Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions 1 credit. Last Taught: Spring 2021 Choral vocal training, study and performance of concert literature. Enroll MUSIC 42 — VARSITY BAND Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the 1 credit. semester Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, Rehearsal and performance of music for athletic events. Enroll Info: Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions semester Last Taught: Fall 2020 Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions MUSIC 58 — MADRIGAL SINGERS Last Taught: Spring 2021 1 credit. MUSIC 43 — UNIVERSITY BAND Ensemble specializing in 16th- and 17th-century secular music. Enroll 1 credit. Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester Exploration and performance of standard band literature. Enroll Info: Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, None Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2020 Last Taught: Spring 2021 MUSIC 59 — UNIVERSITY CHORUS MUSIC 50 — CONCERT CHOIR 1 credit. 1 credit. Exploration and performance of standard choral literature. Enroll Info: Choral vocal training, study and performance of concert literature. Enroll None Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the Requisites: None semester Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, Last Taught: Spring 2020 Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2020 2 Music (MUSIC) MUSIC 60 — ALL-UNIVERSITY STRING ORCHESTRA MUSIC 104 — STUDY ABROAD: ELEMENTARY MUSIC APPRECIATION/ 1 credit. THEORY/HISTORY 1-3 credits. Rehearsal and study of string orchestra literature at the introductory level. Enroll Info: None An elementary-level academic course in music taken in a UW-Madison Requisites: None resident study abroad program. Course does not require any previous Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions background in music. Enroll Info: Enrollment in a UW-Madison resident Last Taught: Spring 2021 study abroad program Requisites: None MUSIC 61 — CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities 1 credit. Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Rehearsal, study and performance of early classical symphonies, opera, Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions and concerto literature. Enroll Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of the semester MUSIC 105 — STORYTELLING ON STAGE: INTRODUCTION TO MUSICAL Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, THEATER AND OPERA Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) 3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Spring 2016 Introduction to musical theater and opera in Europe and America, with emphasis on the ways creators tell their stories through the interaction MUSIC 62 — UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA of music and drama. Topics include the histories and formations of 1 credit. the genres and their relationships to culture and society; principal creators and performers; distinctive features of representative works; Playing and public performance of music from symphonic repertoire. relationships to film and other media; and treatments of race, class, Enroll Info: Students will audition for placement prior to the beginning of gender, and other issues in selected examples of each genre. Enroll Info: the semester None Requisites: Undergraduate students only (excludes Grad, Pharm, Law, Requisites: None Med, Vet Med, Guest, Special students) Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Level - Elementary Last Taught: Spring 2021 L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S MUSIC 101 — THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE Repeatable for Credit: No 3 credits. Last Taught: Fall 2020 Musical genres -- songs, opera and musical theater, chamber and MUSIC 106 — THE SYMPHONY orchestral music, and jazz -- in the context of social and cultural history. 3 credits. Enroll Info: None Orchestral music from Haydn to present, relation to other arts. Enroll Info: Requisites: None None Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Requisites: None Level - Elementary Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Level - Elementary Repeatable for Credit: No L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Last Taught: Fall 2020 Repeatable for Credit: No MUSIC/FOLKLORE 103 — INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC CULTURES OF THE Last Taught: Spring 2021 WORLD MUSIC 107 — MUSIC & FILM 3 credits. 3 credits. An introductory ethnomusicology course providing a variety of ways to A survey of film music by the major film composers. Will include study approach musics typically not covered in music history courses. Active of film scores by, among others, Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Bernard engagement with these musics within their larger world contexts. Enroll Herrmann, and Ennio Morricone, as well as a discussion of current Info: None trends and film composers. In addition, there will be discussion of the Requisites: None contributions of composers such as Aaron Copland, Serge Prokofiev Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities and Leonard Bernstein. The techniques and styles of film music will be Level - Elementary explored through lectures, required listening, readings and viewing of L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S relevant films. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: None Last Taught: Spring 2021 Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2019 Music (MUSIC) 3 MUSIC 110 — INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC TECHNOLOGY MUSIC 152 — BASIC CONCEPTS OF MUSIC 2 2 credits. 3 credits. Introduction to notation, sequencing, and digital audio softwares. Enroll The "building blocks" of music for non-majors. Deepens one's Info: None understanding of music through hands-on experience with its component Requisites: Declared in Music, Music: Performance or Music Education or materials: melody and harmony, rhythm and meter. It has the additional classified as an intended major for one of these programs aim of increasing one's fluency in read music, broadening one's Course Designation: Level - Elementary acquaintance with scores and various other musical media old and L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S new, and improving one's skills as a listener. Students will explore Repeatable for Credit: No basic musical concepts in a lab-like environment and solve various Last Taught: Summer 2013 compositional problems and analytical puzzles. Enroll Info: None Requisites: MUSIC 151 MUSIC 113 — MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities 1 credit. Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Descriptive lectures on chamber music with performances by instructor Repeatable for Credit: No and
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