MUSIC THEORY (MTY) Fall 2021 Bulletin

Music Theory (MTY) Minor in Music Theory Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Chair: Perry Goldstein Director of Undergraduate Studies: Deborah Heckert Undergraduate Secretary: Germaine Berry Office: 3304 Staller Center for the Arts Phone: (631) 632-7330 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.stonybrook.edu/music/

Music Theory (MTY) The minor in Music Theory is designed to provide undergraduate students with a specialized knowledge in musicianship and the theory of music in addition to its history. It is particularly well-suited to students interested in honing their skills as musicians and offers more rigorous training in music analysis than the general track. Coursework includes an introduction to the study of music, courses in musicianship, music theory, only two semesters in a performance ensemble, and a choice of courses on specialized topics, including the study of popular musics, non-western musical traditions, music and gender, music technology, and the works of individual composers. Minor in Music Theory (MTY) The general Music minor (MUS) is designed for students who are interested in music but who do not seek training in more sophisticated aspects of music theory and musicianship. The Music Theory minor (MTY), for which students take Music major courses in theory and musicianship, is for students who want to acquire more specialized knowledge and skills in the areas of music theory and musicianship.

Requirements for the Minor in Music Theory (MTX) All courses offered for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher. The minor requires a minimum of 20 credits. A Note on the Performance Requirement: With the permission of the director of undergraduate studies, students who do not pass the audition for one of the ensembles may fulfill the performance requirement through private lessons (MUS 161-MUS 187). For students in the minor who fulfill the performance requirement through lessons, the ensemble corequisite for private lessons (MUS 161-MUS 187) will be waived. 1. Theory:

• MUS 120 Elementary Musicianship, MUS 121 Musicianship I • MUS 220 Musicianship II, MUS 221 Musicianship III • MUS 321 Tonal Harmony I, MUS 322 Tonal Harmony II

2. History:

• MUS 101 and one course chosen from the following: MUS 105 , 301-314, 319-320

3. Performance: Two semesters of one or more of the following:

• MUS 261 Stony Brook Chorale • MUS 262 University Orchestra • MUS 263 University Wind Ensemble • MUS 264 Jazz Ensemble • MUS 266 Guitar Workshop • MUS 267 Jazz Combo • MUS 268 Marching Band • MUS 235 Intro to African Drumming • MUS 335 Advanced African Drumming • MUS 271 Stony Brook Camerata • MUS 391 Chamber Music

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through to the present, and 3) social meanings, Topics include timbre and sonority, meter and MUS uses, and ramifications. rhythm, melodic design, form, organization of pitch and harmony, and interactions between DEC: D Music music and language. Repertory is drawn from SBC: ARTS a wide range of historical periods and cultural MUS 101: Introduction to Western 3 credits contexts. Considerable emphasis on writing Classical Music and on acquiring concepts and vocabulary An introduction to music of the Western MUS 119: The Elements of Music appropriate to diverse types of music. classical tradition. This course covers basic Beginning with the rudiments of music, such Prerequisite: MUS 119 or equivalent. concepts and vocabulary such as melody, as meter, tempo, rhythm, and how to read Primarily intended for prospective music harmony, rhythm, counterpoint, and form, as notes in several clefs, this "hands on" course majors and others with sufficient musical well as particular pieces of Western classical goes on to examine how music is organized, background as demonstrated by the Theory music. Various compositions and genres covering scales, keys, intervals, chords, form, Placement Exam or by permission of instructor are considered in relation to the cultural and and style in classical music. Students also ideological values they embody, and the compose throughout the semester and sharpen DEC: D historical contexts in which they emerge. No their listening skills through attendance at SBC: ARTS previous musical training is assumed. Not for concerts. Serves as prerequisite to many music 3 credits credit after MUS 130. department courses. MUS 141: Keyboard Harmony A DEC: D DEC: D Practical studies in music theory SBC: ARTS SBC: ARTS through basic keyboard exercises. This 3 credits 3 credits course has an associated fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more MUS 103: Introduction to Music and the MUS 120: Elementary Musicianship information. Cinema Beginning ear-training, including harmonic, Prerequisite: MUS 122 This course studies the history of music in rhythmic and melodic dictation, interval Corequisites: MUS 220 and 321 cinematic productions, the basic concepts and and chord recognition, and sight-singing of terminology used to describe music and sound diatonic melodies. Intended for students who 1 credit are not prepared to enter MUS 121 but who in cinema, techniques of audio-visual design, MUS 142: Keyboard Harmony B and the roles that music and sound play in the aspire to be music majors. May be repeated, overall aesthetic effects in the cinema. The but credit counts toward graduation only once. Practical studies in music theory course studies music and sound in cinema from Not for music major credit. through basic keyboard exercises. This course has an associated fee. Please see the earliest instances in the beginning of the Prerequisite: Audition required www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more 20th century to the most recent instances in the Corequisite: MUS 391 or MUS 388 or MUS information. 21st century. No previous musical training is 267 assumed. Prerequisite: MUS 141 2 credits Corequisites: MUS 221 and 323 SBC: ARTS MUS 121: Musicianship I 1 credit 3 credits Sight-singing, dictation, and transcription of MUS 161: Piano MUS 105: Music Cultures of the World melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material. A forty-five-minute individual lesson each Prerequisite: Placement by undergraduate An introduction to music traditions from week, with five hours of practice required. musicianship examination (consult department around the world with an emphasis on Students are required to play for a jury concerning dates) political, social, and cultural aspects of music. at the end of each term. Open to music Corequisites: MUS 122 and 321 Geographic areas are studied with attention to majors and, enrollment permitting, to other issues such as migration, gender, nationalism, 2 credits qualified students. May be repeated. This belief, philosophy, and cosmology, as well as course has an associated fee. Please see relationships with dance, drama, and poetry in MUS 122: Beginning Keyboard www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more particular music genres. Basic keyboard skills, including reading in information. DEC: G clefs and rudimentary technical competence. Prerequisite: Audition required SBC: ARTS This course has an associated fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more 2 credits 3 credits information. MUS 163: Harpsichord Prerequisite: Placement by undergraduate MUS 109: Rock, Popular Music, and A forty-five-minute individual lesson each keyboard examination Society week, with five hours of practice required. Corerequisites for Music majors: MUS 121 A study of rock and related popular musical Students are required to play for a jury and MUS 321 traditions in the United States. The music at the end of each term. Open to music is investigated through consideration of its: 1 credit majors and, enrollment permitting, to other 1) musical constituents (rhythm, form, pitch qualified students. May be repeated. This structure, instrumental texture, and vocal MUS 130: Sound Structures course has an associated fee. Please see style), 2) historical development, beginning Development of strategies for informed www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more with its roots in earlier folk and popular styles listening, analysis, and writing about music. information.

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Prerequisite: Audition required MUS 169: Classical Guitar Students are required to play for a jury Corequisite: MUS 391 A forty-five-minute individual lesson each at the end of each term. Open to music 2 credits week, with five hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This MUS 165: Violin at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see A forty-five-minute individual lesson each majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more week, with five hours of practice required. qualified students. May be repeated. This information. Students are required to play for a jury course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisites: Audition required at the end of each term. Open to music www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 majors and, enrollment permitting, to other information. 2 credits qualified students. May be repeated. This Prerequisite: Audition required course has an associated fee. Please see Corequisite: MUS 391 or MUS 266 MUS 175: Horn www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more 2 credits A forty-five-minute individual lesson each information. week, with five hours of practice required. Prerequisite: Audition required MUS 170: Flute Students are required to play for a jury Corequisite: MUS 262 A forty-five-minute individual lesson each at the end of each term. Open to music 2 credits week, with five hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This MUS 166: Viola at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see A forty-five-minute individual lesson each majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more week, with five hours of practice required. qualified students. May be repeated. This information. Students are required to play for a jury course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisite: Audition required at the end of each term. Open to music www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS majors and, enrollment permitting, to other information. 264 qualified students. May be repeated. This Prerequisite: Audition required 2 credits course has an associated fee. Please see Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more 264 or MUS 267 MUS 176: Trumpet information. 2 credits A forty-five-minute individual lesson each Prerequisite: Audition required week, with five hours of practice required. Corequisite: MUS 262 MUS 171: Oboe Students are required to play for a jury 2 credits A forty-five-minute individual lesson each at the end of each term. Open to music week, with five hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other MUS 167: Cello Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This A forty-five-minute individual lesson each at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see week, with five hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This information. at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisite: Audition required majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS qualified students. May be repeated. This information. 264 or MUS 267 course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisites: Audition required 2 credits www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 information. MUS 177: Trombone 2 credits Prerequisite: Audition required A forty-five-minute individual lesson each Corequisite: MUS 262 MUS 172: Clarinet week, with five hours of practice required. 2 credits A forty-five-minute individual lesson each Students are required to play for a jury week, with five hours of practice required. at the end of each term. Open to music MUS 168: String Bass Students are required to play for a jury majors and, enrollment permitting, to other A forty-five-minute individual lesson each at the end of each term. Open to music qualified students. May be repeated. This week, with five hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other course has an associated fee. Please see Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see information. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Prerequisite: Audition required qualified students. May be repeated. This information. Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisites: Audition required 264 or MUS 267 www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 2 credits information. 2 credits Prerequisite: Audition required MUS 180: Percussion Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 264 or MUS MUS 173: Bassoon A forty-five-minute individual lesson each 267 A forty-five-minute individual lesson each week, with five hours of practice required. 2 credits week, with five hours of practice required. Students are required to play for a jury

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 3 MUSIC THEORY (MTY) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin at the end of each term. Open to music Serves as an introduction to and exploration is required; advanced sight-reading is not. May majors and, enrollment permitting, to other of production using computers to create sound be repeated. qualified students. May be repeated. This and music. Lectures will cover concepts and 1 credit course has an associated fee. Please see presentations of musicians working in various www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more capacities with computers, as well as tutorials MUS 262: University Orchestra information. on specific music software packages. Formerly Study and performance of works from the offered as CDT 208 and ARS/THR 208. Prerequisite: Audition required repertory of the concert orchestra. Grading This course has an associated fee. Please see Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS is based upon attendance. May be repeated. www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more 264 or MUS 267 This course has an associated fee. Please see information. 2 credits www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Pre- or Corequisite: One ARS, CCS, CSE, ISE, information. MUS 182: Voice MUS, or THR course Prerequisite: Audition required A forty-five-minute individual lesson each SBC: ARTS, TECH 1 credit week, with five hours of practice required. 3 credits Students are required to play for a jury MUS 263: University Wind Ensemble at the end of each term. Open to music MUS 220: Musicianship II Study and performance of works for ensembles majors and, enrollment permitting, to other Sight-singing, dictation, and transcription of woodwinds, brass, and percussion in qualified students. May be repeated. This of more complex melodic, harmonic, and various combinations. Grading is based course has an associated fee. Please see rhythmic material, including diatonic chord upon attendance. May be repeated. This www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more progressions. course has an associated fee. Please see information. Prerequisite: MUS 121 and MUS 321 www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Prerequisites: Audition required Corequisite for Music majors: MUS 141 and information. Corequisite: MUS 261 MUS 322 Prerequisite: Audition required 2 credits 2 credits 1 credit MUS 187: Other Instruments MUS 221: Musicianship III MUS 264: Big Band Jazz Ensemble A forty-five-minute individual lesson each Advanced sight-singing and dictation, Study and performance of works for jazz week, with five hours of practice required. including modal, modulating, and chromatic ensemble. Grading is based on attendance. Students are required to play for a jury melodies; chord progressions and diatonic and May be repeated. This course has an associated at the end of each term. Open to music modulating chorales; and complex rhythms. fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/ majors and, enrollment permitting, to other Prerequisite: MUS 141 and 220 coursefees for more information. Repeatable to qualified students. May be repeated. This Corequisite: MUS 142 and 323 a maximum of 6 credits. course has an associated fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more 2 credits Prerequisite: Audition required information. 1 credit MUS 235: Introduction to African Prerequisite: Audition required Drumming Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS MUS 265: Workshop in Performance Students will learn to perform selections of 264 or MUS 267 Practice in performance skills in a small group dance-drumming repertoire from southern 2 credits workshop setting under the guidance of a Ghana, Togo and Benin. Students will performance instructor. May be repeated. play on authentic instruments (bells, rattles MUS 189: Introduction to Jazz This course has an associated fee. Please see and drums), sing, and dance. No musical Improvisation www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more experience or ability to read musical notation information. For beginning Jazz students. Introduction is required; students will learn pieces by ear Prerequisite: Audition required to Jazz techniques and performance with through vugbe, 'drum language', which refers an examination of Jazz melodies, chords, to the naming of specific sounds made on the 1 credit charts, and an introduction to Jazz history and drum in a kind of indigenous solfege. Song listening. Experience playing Jazz is not a lyrics with translations will be made available. MUS 266: Guitar Workshop requirement. Basic instrumental technique and Readings, video screenings, and class visits An overview of guitar technique and some experience listening to Jazz are required. by African artists will inform discussion of fingerboard harmony, featuring in-class One must audition for MUS 189; auditions are the sociocultural context of the music and its performance, transcription of tablature held in the first week of classes. Sign up sheets performance. The course will culminate in systems, and arranging for solo guitar. May will be posted outside the music office (3304 a mandatory performance, featuring African be repeated. This course has an associated fee. Staller Music Office) the week before classes guest performers. Repeatable to a maximum of Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for start. This course has an associated fee. Please 4 credits. more information. see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Prerequisite: Audition required information. 1 credit 1 credit Prerequisite: Audition required MUS 261: Stony Brook Chorale 1 credit Study and performance of a repertory from MUS 267: Small Jazz Ensemble Level 1 the Middle Ages to the present. Grading is For students with some experience playing MUS 208: Introduction to Music based upon attendance. Ability to read music Jazz. A further examination into the Jazz Technology

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 4 MUSIC THEORY (MTY) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin technique and performance. Students must information. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 how philosophical beliefs shape musical have the basic abilities to read music and credits. composition, and how the development of new charts, play scales and spell chords. Some Prerequisite: Audition required technologies have affected the production and experience listening to Jazz is required. reception of music in the United States. Not for 1 credit Includes a performance requirement and music major credit. regular rehearsals. One must audition for MUS 290: Vocal Repertory Prerequisite: MUS 101 or MUS 119 or MUS MUS 267; auditions are held in the first week Performance and analysis of works from 130 of classes. Sign up sheets will be posted the vocal repertory. May be repeated. This DEC: K outside the music office (3304 Staller Music course has an associated fee. Please see SBC: HFA+, USA Office) the week before classes start. This www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more course has an associated fee. Please see 3 credits information. www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more information. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 Corequisite: MUS 182 or 382 MUS 306: The Music and Culture of Hip- Hop credits. 1 credit Prerequisite: Audition required Offers an introductory exploration of the MUS 300: Music, Technology, and music, culture, and interventions of hip- 1 credit Digital Culture hop. This course draws from multiple fields of study, including history, musicology, MUS 268: Spirit of Stony Brook Athletic Study of the interactions between music, gender/sexuality/queer studies, anthropology, Band technology, and culture in popular and concert music since World War I. Issues of production, performance studies, multicultural and ethnic The study and playing/marching performance distribution, and reception, involving such studies, and literary criticism. The purpose of music from the marching and pep band topics as the impact of radio on composition in of this course is not simply to enjoy hip-hop, repertoire. The course requires attendance at the 1920s and 1930s, early synthesizers, and but rather to sharpen our listening skills, to a preseason marching band camp prior to the the rise of electronic music, digital sampling critically engage performance, sound and beginning of the Fall term (typically one week and DJs, the MP3 phenomenon, cross-cultural visual symbols, and to thoughtfully interpret prior). Attendance at select athletic games and borrowings, gender and technology, the analyses of hip-hop. some away games is also required (including internet, interactivity, and new models of Prerequisite: MUS 101 or MUS 109 or MUS some Saturdays and some evenings, outside consumption. Not for major credit. 119 or MUS 130 of course meeting times). Grading is based on attendance. Instrumentation consists of Prerequisite: One of the following: MUS 101, SBC: HFA+, USA marching winds, marching percussion (snare, 105, 106, 119, or 130 3 credits tenor, bass, cymbals), and color guard. May be DEC: H repeated for credit. SBC: STAS MUS 307: Imaginative Worlds of Opera Prerequisite: must be able to read music 3 credits Considering opera's blend of drama, music, 1 credit spectacle and stage action, the course examines MUS 303: Music in the Age of diverse European operatic traditions from a MUS 271: Camerata Singers Beethoven variety of angles, ranging from expressive roles for music to social and cultural values Camerata Singers performs accompanied and Study of the historical period, up to and embodied in individual works. Study focuses a cappella works from many eras and cultures. including the present, in which the music on outstanding repertory pieces such as Music reading proficiency is required for this of Ludwig van Beethoven became the Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Verdi's Otello, course. Course may be repeated to a maximum dominant model for European classical music. and Berg's Wozzeck. Not for music major of 10 credits. Consideration of Beethoven's music and its influence in relation to Enlightenment credit. 1 credit values, Romantic and idealist philosophies, Prerequisite: MUS 101 or 119 or 130 nationalism, gender, and disability. Not for MUS 289: Small Jazz Ensemble Level 2 DEC: I music major credit. SBC: GLO, HFA+ For students with experience playing and Prerequisite: MUS 101 or 119 or 130 listening to Jazz. A refined study in Jazz 3 credits technique and performance. Students should DEC: I be able to read written melodies and charts, SBC: GLO, HFA+ MUS 308: History of Jazz play scales, and play over basic chord 3 credits Historical study of the origins, evolution, changes. They should be conversant with and influence of jazz, a musical art form Jazz history, particularly pertaining to the MUS 304: American Music originating in and evolving with the principal players of their own instrument. Study of the development of diverse 20th and experiences of black Americans. Examination Includes a performance requirement and 21st century musical traditions in the U.S. of styles, figures, and places connected to regular rehearsals. One must audition for from the perspectives of the musical structures jazz, from Louis Armstrong in New Orleans MUS 289; auditions are held in the first week and social contexts that may be understood to to Billie Holiday in New York to Kendrick of classes. Sign up sheets will be posted define American music. The musical traditions Lamar in Los Angeles. Consideration of outside the music office (3304 Staller Music of Jazz, Blues, Classical, Musical Theatre, central issues including improvisation, Office) the week before classes start. This Folk, and Popular music are considered, commercialization, race, and gender. Not for course has an associated fee. Please see for instance, with respect to such issues music major credit. www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more as how historical events, race, and gender Prerequisite: MUS 101 or MUS 109 or MUS affect the production and reception of music, 119 or MUS 130

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DEC: K listening--to speeches, debates, music, and regions including Uyghur, Tibetan, and SBC: HFA+, USA sound, and how (for example) issues of noise, Mongolian music. 3 credits headphone use, musical taste, and racialized Prerequisite: MUS 101 or MUS 105 or MUS sound have an intrinsic political dimension. 109 MUS 309: Music Since 1900 The course will focus on musics from diverse DEC: J global contexts, as well as non-musical sounds. An introduction to the variegated and rapidly SBC: GLO, SBS+ changing trends of contemporary classical Prerequisite: MUS 101 or MUS 105 or MUS 3 credits music of the last and current centuries, 109 including impressionism, expressionism, SBC: DIV, HUM, SBS+ MUS 320: U.S. Popular Music neoclassicism, twelve-tone and other serialism, 3 credits The study of popular music in the United chance and texture music, electronic and States. Topics may include popular music computer music, as well as styles derived from MUS 314: Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the U.S. since 1945; American popular folk music, jazz, and other forms of popular A study of music from the perspectives of music of colonial times; and American musical music. Not for music major credit. gender and sexuality in a global context. theatre. The course explores such aspects as Prerequisite: MUS 101 or 119 or 130 Topics may include women as composers, musical structure and form, the nature of the DEC: G performers, and listeners; genres understood commercial music industry, and how issues SBC: GLO, HFA+ as gay or queer; music as an expression of of gender, race, geography, economics, and 3 credits identity within various gender or sexuality technology affect the creation, performance, social groups, and depictions of gender and and reception of popular music. Not for music MUS 310: Music and Culture in the sexuality in musical drama. All types of music major credit. 1960's may be considered, including classical, rock, Prerequisite: One of the following: MUS 101, The music of Bob Dylan, John Cage, the pop, hip-hop, electronic styles, folk, and jazz. 105, 106, 119, or 130 This course is offered as both MUS 314 and Beatles, Pauline Oliveros, Ornette Coleman, DEC: G WST 314. Elliot Carter, John Coltrane, Laura Nyro, SBC: HFA+, USA and others is studied in conjunction with Prerequisite: MUS 101 or 119 or 130 3 credits texts from or criticism of the 1960s. Music SBC: SBS+ and texts are correlated through the topics of 3 credits MUS 321: Tonal Harmony I chaos, protest, Black culture, technology, the Tonal harmony taught through practice women's movement, youth culture, and others. MUS 315: The Structural Principles of in homophonic writing, including the Not for music major credit. Music I harmonization of chorales. Students study Prerequisite: MUS 101 or 119 or 130 An introduction to the language and basic excerpts from the musical repertoire as it DEC: K structural concepts of the art of tonal music pertains to questions of musical construction. SBC: HFA+, USA through the study of such elements as melody, Corequisites: MUS 121 and 122 rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form; 3 credits 3 credits analysis, written exercises, and discussion of MUS 311: Topics in Ethnomusicology theoretical principles. Not for music major MUS 322: Tonal Harmony II credit. An ethnomusicological study of a particular Practice in homophonic writing, including the area of the world, or a topic related to Prerequisite: MUS 119 harmonization of chorales, including diatonic contemporary musical practice, with an 3 credits harmonies, altered chords, and modulation. emphasis on political, social, and cultural This course has an associated fee. Please see aspects of music and sound. May include a MUS 316: The Structural Principles of www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more particular focus on issues such as migration, Music II information. race, gender, belief, sound recording, live An introduction to the language and basic Prerequisites: MUS 121, 122, and 321 performance, or globalization. May be structural concepts of the art of 20th-century Corequisites: MUS 141 and 220 repeated for credit as the topic changes. music through the study of such elements 3 credits Prerequisite: One of the following: MUS 101, as melody, rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, 105, 106, 119, or 130 and form; analysis, written exercises, and MUS 323: Techniques of Music, 1880 to DEC: J discussion of theoretical principles. Not for the Present music major credit. SBC: GLO, SBS+ Study and practice in the techniques used in 3 credits Prerequisite: MUS 315 the late 19th and 20th centuries to organize 3 credits pitch, rhythm, tone color, and dynamics. MUS 313: Hearing Politics Prerequisites: MUS141, 220, and 322 MUS 317: Music in China Examines the intersection of music, sound, and Corequisites: MUS 142 and 221 political life. 'Politics' is considered broadly, Explores the musical landscape of China, 3 credits in domains ranging from electoral campaigns including silk and bamboo ensembles, kunqu to the often fragile relationships between opera, and the philosophy of the Chinese zither MUS 331: Musicianship IV neighbors or lovers. The course considers how (qin). Considers music practices with regard Sight-singing and dictation of complex tonal, sound, hearing, and listening are implicated to Taoism, Confucianism, and communist modal, and atonal material. Special emphasis in the political dimensions of social life. We cultural policy. Explores China's border consider how our political lives are full of

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 6 MUSIC THEORY (MTY) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin on melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic idioms acoustics. Students will work on Apple their transformations by various cultural and characteristic of 20th-century music. computers in the SINC site and LTA. Formerly technological forces. Focus on music stylistic Prerequisite: MUS 221, 142, and 322 offered as CDT 341; not for credit in addition change and proliferation, and on academic to CDT 341. This course has an associated fee. writing about music. 2 credits Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for Prerequisite: MUS 322 and 351 more information. MUS 335: Advanced African Drumming DEC: G Students will learn to perform selections of Prerequisite: One ARS, CCS, CSE, ISE, MUS, SBC: ESI, GLO, HFA+ or THR course dance-drumming repertoire from southern 4 credits Ghana, Togo and Benin. Students will Advisory Prerequisite: CDT 208 or ARS 225 play on authentic instruments (bells, rattles SBC: ARTS, TECH MUS 361: Piano and drums), sing, and dance. No musical 3 credits A sixty minute individual lesson each week, experience or ability to read musical notation with fifteen hours of practice required. is required; students will learn pieces by ear MUS 344: Audio Engineering Students are required to play for a jury through vugbe, 'drum language,', which refers A theoretical examination of the principals at the end of each term. Open to music to the naming of specific sounds made on the of operation of the essential components of majors and, enrollment permitting, to other drum in a kind of indigenous solfege. Song the sound recording and reinforcement chain qualified students. May be repeated. This lyrics with translations will be made available. from acoustic venue, through transduction, course has an associated fee. Please see Readings, video screenings, and class visits electronic manipulation and storage, and the www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more by African artists will inform discussion of reproduction of the acoustic field in various information. the sociocultural context of the music and its listening environments. Prerequisite: Audition required performance. The course will culminate in Prerequisite: One ARS, CSE, ISE, MUS, or a mandatory performance, featuring African 4 credits THR course guest performers. Repeatable to a maximum of Advisory Prerequisite: ARS/MUS/THR 208 4 credits. MUS 362: Piano Pedagogy SBC: TECH Prerequisite: MUS 235 A study of pedagogical methods for teachers 3 credits of elementary and intermediate level piano 1 credit students. This course will provide students MUS 350: Western Music Before 1600 with the skills, tools, and resources necessary MUS 339: Beginning Composition The vibrant traditions of Western music to develop into an effective private music Individual projects in composition discussed from Gregorian chant and the beginnings of teacher. Students of this course will explore and criticized in class. Enrollment limited to polyphony to the suave motets of Palestrina the fundamentals of piano teaching and review eight. May be repeated once. and the expressive madrigals of Monteverdi. common teaching materials, method books, Pre- or Corequisite: MUS 323 Emphasis is on learning to think historically, repertoire, and techniques. Students will also 3 credits on development of writing skills, and on explore the various elements involved in cultivation of listening skills. establishing and managing a private teaching MUS 340: Timbre and Technology studio. May be repeated once, for a total of 2 Prerequisite: MUS 130, 141, 220, and 321 An introduction to the computer-based credits. DEC: G technologies that are changing the art of Prerequisite: MUS 161 SBC: ESI, GLO, HFA+ music. Hands-on experience with hard-disk Advisory Prerequisite: MUS 361 4 credits recording and sound manipulation, MIDI, 1 credit sequencing, notation programs, sound module MUS 351: Western Music 1600-1830 programming, and using the Web. Exploration MUS 363: Harpsichord Musical traditions in early modern Europe of the impact of these technologies on aesthetic A sixty minute individual lesson each week, from Monteverdi through Beethoven. choices. Significant time in the computer lab with fifteen hours of practice required. Study of diverse genres such as opera, required. This course has an associated fee. Students are required to play for a jury at cantata, symphony, and string quartet within Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for the end of each term. Open to music majors their cultural contexts. Focus is on the more information. and, enrollment permitting, to other qualified understanding of historical processes, on Prerequisites: MUS 130 and 322 students. May be repeated. academic prose writing, and on comprehension 3 credits of complex musical structures. Prerequisite: Audition required Corequisite: MUS 391 MUS 341: Sound Design Prerequisites: MUS 321 and 350 4 credits An investigation into the scientific, formal DEC: I and artistic qualities of sound developed SBC: ESI, GLO, HFA+ MUS 365: Violin for students who may or may not have had 4 credits A sixty minute individual lesson each week, formal musical training. Students will write with fifteen hours of practice required. reviews of sound pieces, create film or game MUS 352: Western Music from 1830 to Students are required to play for a jury soundtracks, and create sound-based art- the Present at the end of each term. Open to music works in response to course content, and Western musical traditions from Schubert majors and, enrollment permitting, to other write a paper on acoustic or psycho-acoustic through David Lang, John Zorn, and Laurie qualified students. May be repeated. This phenomena. Emphasis is on studio production Anderson. Consideration of the central genres course has an associated fee. Please see techniques, history of sound art and basic of orchestral, vocal, and chamber music and

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 7 MUSIC THEORY (MTY) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 391 or MUS 266 MUS 375: Horn information. 4 credits A sixty minute individual lesson each week, Prerequisite: Audition required with fifteen hours of practice required. Corequisite: MUS 262 MUS 370: Flute Students are required to play for a jury 4 credits A sixty minute individual lesson each week, at the end of each term. Open to music with fifteen hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other MUS 366: Viola Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This A sixty minute individual lesson each week, at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see with fifteen hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This information. at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisite: Audition required majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS qualified students. May be repeated. This information. 264 course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisite: Audition required 4 credits www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS information. 264 or MUS 267 MUS 376: Trumpet Prerequisite: Audition required 4 credits A sixty minute individual lesson each week, Corequisite: MUS 262 with fifteen hours of practice required. MUS 371: Oboe 4 credits Students are required to play for a jury A sixty minute individual lesson each week, at the end of each term. Open to music MUS 367: Cello with fifteen hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other A sixty minute individual lesson each week, Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This with fifteen hours of practice required. at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see Students are required to play for a jury majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more at the end of each term. Open to music qualified students. May be repeated. This information. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisite: Audition required qualified students. May be repeated. This www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS course has an associated fee. Please see information. 264 or MUS 267 www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Prerequisites: Audition required 4 credits information. Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 Prerequisite: Audition required 4 credits MUS 377: Trombone Corequisite: MUS 262 A sixty minute individual lesson each week, MUS 372: Clarinet 4 credits with fifteen hours of practice required. A sixty minute individual lesson each week, Students are required to play for a jury MUS 368: String Bass with fifteen hours of practice required. at the end of each term. Open to music A sixty minute individual lesson each week, Students are required to play for a jury majors and, enrollment permitting, to other with fifteen hours of practice required. at the end of each term. Open to music qualified students. May be repeated. This Students are required to play for a jury majors and, enrollment permitting, to other course has an associated fee. Please see at the end of each term. Open to music qualified students. May be repeated. This www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more majors and, enrollment permitting, to other course has an associated fee. Please see information. qualified students. May be repeated. This www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Prerequisite: Audition required course has an associated fee. Please see information. Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Prerequisites: Audition required 264 or MUS 267 information. Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 4 credits Prerequisite: Audition required 4 credits Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 264 or MUS MUS 380: Percussion 267 MUS 373: Bassoon A sixty minute individual lesson each week, 4 credits A sixty minute individual lesson each week, with fifteen hours of practice required. with fifteen hours of practice required. Students are required to play for a jury MUS 369: Classical Guitar Students are required to play for a jury at the end of each term. Open to music A sixty minute individual lesson each week, at the end of each term. Open to music majors and, enrollment permitting, to other with fifteen hours of practice required. majors and, enrollment permitting, to other qualified students. May be repeated. This Students are required to play for a jury qualified students. May be repeated. This course has an associated fee. Please see at the end of each term. Open to music course has an associated fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more majors and, enrollment permitting, to other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more information. qualified students. May be repeated. This information. Prerequisite: Audition required course has an associated fee. Please see Prerequisites: Audition required Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 264 or MUS 267 information. 4 credits 4 credits Prerequisite: Audition required

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MUS 382: Voice member or graduate assistant. May be learning activity in conjunction with another A sixty minute individual lesson each week, repeated. This course has an associated fee. class. Experiential learning occurs when with fifteen hours of practice required. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for knowledge acquired through formal learning Students are required to play for a jury more information. and past experience are applied to a "real- at the end of each term. Open to music Corequisite: Enrollment in private lessons, world" setting or problem to create new majors and, enrollment permitting, to other MUS 161 through 187, as appropriate knowledge through a process of reflection, critical analysis, feedback and synthesis. qualified students. May be repeated. This 1 credit course has an associated fee. Please see Beyond-the-classroom experiences that www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more MUS 421: Analysis of Tonal Music support experiential learning may include: service learning, mentored research, field information. An examination, through the study of selected work, or an internship. Prerequisites: Audition required works, of the action and interaction of Corequisite: MUS 261 harmonic progression, rhythm, meter, motive, Prerequisite: WRT 102 or equivalent; permission of the instructor and 4 credits texture, and line in defining and articulating tonal structures. approval of the EXP+ contract (http:// sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/bulletin/current/ MUS 387: Other Instruments Prerequisite: MUS 322 policiesandregulations/degree_requirements/ A sixty minute individual lesson each week, Corequisite: MUS 331 EXPplus.php) with fifteen hours of practice required. 3 credits Students are required to play for a jury SBC: EXP+ at the end of each term. Open to music MUS 422: Analysis of Post-Tonal Music 0 credit, S/U grading majors and, enrollment permitting, to other Music to be studied is selected from MUS 450: Seminar in the History of qualified students. May be repeated. This representative works by Debussy, Bartok, Music course has an associated fee. Please see Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Webern, and other www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Advanced study of a topic in music history information. for music majors. Topics may include study Prerequisite: MUS 421 of major composers, major genres, dramatic Prerequisite: Audition required Advisory Prerequisite: MUS 352 Corequisite: MUS 262 or MUS 263 or MUS music, the relation of music and poetry in 3 credits 264 or MUS 267 song, or an historically or geographically defined musical style. May be repeated as the 4 credits MUS 437: Electronic Music topic changes. Historical background, musical works, MUS 388: Fundamentals of Prerequisite: one of the following courses: aesthetic concepts and creative approaches Accompanying MUS 322, 323, 350, 351, 352 to electronic music. Basic acoustics and Development of skills required of an sound engineering skills; electronic/live SBC: ESI, HFA+ accompanist, including sight-reading and sound production, recording, modification, 3 credits instrumental and vocal accompaniment. and editing; critical listening, improvisation, Specific accompanying assignments are made timbral design; musique concrete and live MUS 451: Senior Seminar in throughout the semester. May be repeated performance will be included. Studio work Ethnography of Music once. This course has an associated fee. Please includes technical practice and creative Ethnography has grown increasingly central to see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more assignments. Technical background is not the scholarly study of music. The engagement information. required. This course has an associated fee. of living subjects can illuminate music Prerequisite: MUS 161 or 361 Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for and musical practice from all times and 2 credits more information. places. And yet, ethnographic methods are Prerequisite: MUS 321; permission of not easily defined, no less learned. The MUS 390: Advanced Accompanying instructor challenges of writing human lives compels us to think ethically, legally, interpersonally, A study of advanced collaborative repertoire SBC: TECH for the collaborative pianist. This course philosophically, often all at once. This course 3 credits is designed for students who have a strong asks students to read extensively in the history of ethnography, reflecting on its key arguments interest in furthering and deepen the study MUS 439: Composition in collaborative piano and who have and genealogies. previously taken MUS 388 Fundamentals Open only to students demonstrating sufficient Prerequisite: MUS 105 or MUS 109; U3 or U4 of Accompanying. May be repeated to a aptitude and capacity for original work. May status be repeated. maximum of 4 credits. DEC: J Prerequisite: MUS 161 and MUS 388 Prerequisite: Permission of instructor SBC: DIV, ESI, HFA+ Advisory Prerequisite: MUS 361 and submission of portfolio to Director of Undergraduate Studies 3 credits 2 credits Advisory Prerequisite: MUS 339 MUS 458: Speak Effectively Before an MUS 391: Chamber Music 3 credits Audience Ensembles formed by students enrolled MUS 444: Experiential Learning A zero credit course that may be taken in in MUS 161 to 187 or MUS 361 to 387 conjunction with any MUS course that Performance Study. Two hours of rehearsal This course is designed for students who provides opportunity to achieve the learning per week under the supervision of a faculty engage in a substantial, structured experiential

Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 9 MUSIC THEORY (MTY) - COURSES Fall 2021 Bulletin outcomes of the Stony Brook Curriculum's researched program notes, or participation SPK learning objective. in a graduate music ensemble. Independent Pre- or corequisite: WRT 102 or equivalent; Projects used to fulfill the upper division permission of the instructor elective requirement should be approved by the Undergraduate Studies Committee in the SBC: SPK semester prior to the semester in which MUS 0 credit, S/U grading 487 is undertaken. MUS 459: Write Effectively in Music Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; approval of department's undergraduate The WRTD requirement for music majors will studies committee be fulfilled by submission of two approved papers: one from an advanced music history 0-6 credits course, either MUS 351, MUS 352, or MUS MUS 488: Internship 450, and one from an advanced music analysis course, either MUS 421 or MUS 422. Students Internship projects arranged in consultation will submit papers with an approval form, with a faculty member and an outside agency. signed by the instructor of the course for Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing; 15 credits which the paper was written, to the Director in music department courses; permission of of Undergraduate Studies in Music, who will department assign the grade. SBC: EXP+ Pre- or co-requisites: one of the following: 0-6 credits, S/U grading MUS 351 or 352 or 450; one of the following: MUS 421 or 422 MUS 491: Conducting SBC: WRTD Manual technique and the analysis and 0 credit, S/U grading preparation of scores for performance. May be repeated. MUS 475: Undergraduate Teaching Prerequisite: MUS 322; permission of Practicum I instructor Each student receives regularly scheduled Corequisite: MUS 261 or 262 or 263 supervision from the instructor of the course 3 credits specified as the forum for the practicum. Responsibilities may include conducting MUS 495: Senior Honors Project in recitation sections of lower-division courses, Music preparing material for practice or discussion, A one-semester project for music who are and helping students with course problems. candidates for the degree with departmental Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing; music major; honors. Projects must have a public speaking permission of instructor and department component, for example a lecture-recital, a SBC: EXP+ pre-concert talk about a composition, or a colloquium presentation of musicological 3 credits, S/U grading research. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 MUS 476: Undergraduate Teaching credits. Practicum II Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and Each student receives regularly scheduled department supervision from the instructor of the course 3 credits specified as the forum for the practicum. Students assume greater responsibility in such areas as leading discussions and analyzing results of tests that have already been graded. Students may not serve as teaching assistants in the same course twice. Prerequisites: MUS 475; permission of instructor and department SBC: EXP+ 3 credits, S/U grading

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