MUSIC
By the time of moderation, music majors will be expected to have successfully completed two semesters of music theory courses and two semesters of music history courses. Please consult your advisor about this. Additionally, those concentrating in composition or performance should register for composition workshop and performance class.
College and Community Ensembles
Each ensemble is for one credit except where indicated. It is possible to participate in more than one ensemble and receive additional credit accordingly.
Scholarships for private music lessons will be available.
Auditions will take place on Wednesday, September 11th at 6:30 pm in Blum Hall. Sign-ups for audition times will be in the Music office. *
CRN |
92349 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 104 |
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Title |
Bard College Community Orchestra |
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Professor |
James Bagwell |
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Schedule |
Mon 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm OLIN Audit. |
CRN |
92350 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 105 |
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Title |
Bard College Community Chorus |
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Professor |
James Bagwell |
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Schedule |
Tu 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm OLIN |
Music: Mozart Requiem
CRN |
92351 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 106 |
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Title |
Bard Community Chamber Music |
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Professor |
Luis Garcia-Renart |
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Schedule |
TBA . |
CRN |
92352 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108B |
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Title |
Ensemble: Contemporary |
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Professor |
Joan Tower |
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Schedule |
Mon 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Blum Hall |
CRN |
92353 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108D |
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Title |
Ensemble: Chamber Singers |
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Professor |
James Bagwell |
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Schedule |
Mon 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm BDH Tu 5:00 pm - 7:15 pm BDH |
2 credits. Auditions will be held on Monday Sept 9th, 2002 from 5pm to 7pm in Bard Hall. A sign-up sheet will be posted at the beginning of the semester.
CRN |
92354 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108F |
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Title |
Ensemble: Jazz |
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Professor |
Thurman Barker |
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Schedule |
Tu 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Blum Hall |
CRN |
92355 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108G |
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Title |
Ensemble: Chamber |
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Professor |
Luis Garcia-Renart |
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Schedule |
TBA . |
CRN |
92356 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108H |
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Title |
Ensemble: Balinese Gamelan |
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Professor |
TBA |
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Schedule |
Tu 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm OLIN 305 |
CRN |
92473 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108 I |
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Title |
Electro-acoustic Ensemble |
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Professor |
David Behrman |
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Schedule |
Tu 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BARD HALL |
CRN |
92357 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108J |
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Title |
Ensemble: Percussion |
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Professor |
Thurman Barker |
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Schedule |
Tu 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm Blum Hall |
CRN |
92679 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 108K |
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Title |
Jazz Vocal Ensemble |
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Professor |
Terri Roiger |
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Schedule |
TBA |
CRN |
92358 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 133 |
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Title |
Fundamentals I / Ear Training I |
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Professor |
Luis Garcia-Renart / James Bagwell |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed Fr 9:00 am - 10:00 am Blum Hall Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am Blum Hall |
CRN |
92360 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 171 |
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Title |
Jazz Harmony I |
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Professor |
John Esposito |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm BLM 117 Fr 10:00 am - 11:20 am Blum Hall |
This course will include acquisitions of the basic skills that make up the foundation of all Jazz styles. We will also study the Jazz language from ragtime to the swing era.
No prerequisites.
CRN |
92361 |
Distribution |
B |
Course No. |
MUS 211 |
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Title |
Jazz in Literature I |
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Professor |
Thurman Barker |
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Schedule |
Mon 10:00 am - 11:20 am BLM 117 Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am Blum Hall |
Cross-listed: AADS, American Studies
This course presents some of the short stories and poems by Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, and Julio Cortazar. The text used in this section is "Hot and Cool" by Marcela Briton and the "Harlem Renaissance Reader", edited by David Lewis.
CRN |
92362 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
MUS 215 |
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Title |
Topics in the History of Music: The Operas and Ideas of Richard Wagner |
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Professor |
Kyle Gann |
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Schedule |
Wed Fr 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 104 |
More has been written about Richard Wagner than about any musician in history. By the end of the 19th century he had achieved a ubiquity that Madonna can only lust after today: dozens of newspapers with names like "Revue Wagnerienne" debated his ideas, and every composer faced a choice whether to defy or succumb to the roaring wind of his influence. Though Wagner was virtually self-taught, his 13 operas - or rather, music dramas, Gesamtkunstwerks - turned the operatic stage from a place of entertainment into the shrine of a new religion. Meanwhile, he lived as though the responsibility for fueling the gossip mills of Europe rested on his shoulders alone. He handed ammunition to the anarchist Bakunin in the 1849 Dresden uprising, made love to the wife of his Swiss patron Wesendonck, stole the wife of his conducting protégé Hans von Bulow, became the untouchable artist-in-residence of mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and ground out enough anti-Semitic tracts to make him a future hero of Adolf Hitler. This course will plunge us into Wagner's world of make-believe: Tannhauser, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, Parsifal, and that glorious, four-evening-long predecessor to Tolkien, Der Ring des Nibelungen. Can a deeper psychological understanding of these works make Wagner, with his notoriously sustained musical idiom, seem still relevant to the 21st Century? No prerequisites: non-majors more than welcome. Be prepared to write copiously about social, philosophical, and psychological aspects of a composer who was much more than a musician.
CRN |
92363 |
Distribution |
A |
Course No. |
MUS 219 |
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Title |
Romantic Harmony |
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Professor |
Kyle Gann |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm BLM 117 |
CRN |
92367 |
Distribution |
A |
Course No. |
MUS 230 |
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Title |
Music of Conflict in the 20th Century |
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Professor |
Colorado String Quartet |
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Schedule |
Tu 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm OLIN 104 |
This course will explore the origins of eclecticism in 20th Century musical expression. Through live performances by the Colorado Quartet and guest artists, the discussion will focus on cause and effect of the disintegration of tonal harmony and traditional formal relationships for composers and their audiences. Significant works by such composers as Shostakovich, Bartok, Schulhoff, Messiaen, and Crumb will serve to illuminate the relationship of music to the artistic, literary and social/political climate of their day. Readings may include Solzhenitzyn, Grass, Remarque, Denisovich, Orwell, Camus, Sartre.
CRN |
92431 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 240 |
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Title |
Introduction to Experimental Music |
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Professor |
David Behrman |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm EMS (verify schedule in addendum) |
CRN |
92364 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 248 |
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Title |
Ear Training III |
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Professor |
James Bagwell |
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Schedule |
Tu Wed Th Fr 10:30 am - 11:30 am BLM 117 |
Prerequisite: Fundamentals II or consent of instructor.
CRN |
92436 |
Distribution |
A |
Course No. |
MUS 263 |
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Title |
Early Romantic Music |
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Professor |
Christopher H. Gibbs |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 104 |
CRN |
92365 |
Distribution |
A |
Course No. |
MUS 302 |
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Title |
Advanced Analysis Seminar |
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Professor |
Kyle Gann |
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Schedule |
Fr 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm BLM 117 |
Prerequisite: Analysis of the Classics of Modernism or Romantic Harmony, and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited.
CRN |
92605 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 335 |
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Title |
Freedom Principle III |
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Professor |
Thurman Barker |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm BLUM HALL |
Cross-listed: AADS, American Studies, MES
This course, which employs a cultural approach, is also designed to look at the social climate surrounding Jazz to examine its effects on music from 1958 to the mid-60's. Emphasis will be on artists and composers such as Cecil Taylor, Omette Coleman, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and Horace Silver. Illustrated with recordings, films, and videos.
CRN |
92366 |
Distribution |
A |
Course No. |
MUS 343 |
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Title |
Seminar: Benjamin Britten |
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Professor |
Frederick Hammond |
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Schedule |
Tu 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 104 |
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) is widely recognized as a major figure in twentieth-century music. He composed in every important genre-opera, ballet, song and choral music, the symphony, the concerto, solo and chamber instrumental music, as well as a special series of works for schoolchildren. Britten was a rebellious product of the English Establishment like his friend, W.H. Auden ( who for a while presided over a rooming-house in Brooklyn whose denizens included Britten and his companion the tenor Peter Pears, the writers Christopher Isherwood and Carson McCullers, the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, and a trained chimpanzee). Although Britten and Pears were homosexuals in a period when homosexuality was a crime, and pacifists and conscientious objectors in World War II, Pears was knighted and Britten ended his life as a member of the House of Lords. This survey of his work will focus particularly on his operas, especially Peter Grimes (1945), Billy Budd (1951), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960), and Death in Venice (1973).
CRN |
92755 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS 344 |
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Title |
Music of the African Diaspora I |
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Professor |
Richard Harper |
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Schedule |
Th 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 104 |
CRN |
92368 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH A |
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Title |
Workshop: Composition |
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Professor |
Joan Tower |
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Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm Blum Hall |
Primarily for music majors interested in composing music but also for performers who want to get "on the other side of the page". This class will compose music that will be written down and passed to players to be rehearsed and taped. Every step of the process is assisted (particularly at the notational level) and discussed. Players in the class, as well as students and professional players from outside, will later join in to help bring each piece to life in sound. In addition, other twentieth-century works are played and discussed and occasional visits to performances of new music are made. Individual meetings are arranged on a regular basis. Being able to read music is a prerequisite. See instructor before registration.
CRN |
92369 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH B |
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Title |
Workshop: Performance Class |
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Professor |
Luis Garcia-Renart |
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Schedule |
Th 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm Blum Hall |
CRN |
92370 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH E |
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Title |
Workshop: Songwriting |
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Professor |
Greg Armbruster |
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Schedule |
Th 4:00 pm - 6:20 pm OLIN 104 |
CRN |
92371 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH G |
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Title |
Workshop: Vocal & Voice |
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Professor |
Arthur Burrows |
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Schedule |
Mon 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Blum Hall |
CRN |
92372 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH H |
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Title |
Workshop: Classical Guitar |
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Professor |
Luis Garcia-Renart |
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Schedule |
Wed 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Blum Hall |
CRN |
92373 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH L |
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Title |
Workshop: Opera |
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Professor |
Arthur Burrows / Frederick Hammond |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm BDH |
CRN |
92374 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH M |
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Title |
Workshop: Voice-art Song Performance |
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Professor |
Joan Fuerstman |
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Schedule |
Mon 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm BDH |
This class will be focusing primarily on the study of classical English, Italian, French and German diction using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Primarily for students taking voice lessons and for pianists interested in accompanying singers.
CRN |
92757 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS WKSH N |
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Title |
Workshop in Contemporary Electronics:From the Turntable to the GameBoy |
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Professor |
Marina Rosenfeld |
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Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm EMS |
The turntable, the sampler, the drum machine, the minidisc and other consumer-derived devices are at the crux of a contemporary branch of experimental electronic music that encompasses the work of artists as diverse as Philip Jeck, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Yasunao Tone, Aphex Twin, John Oswald, Thomas Brinkmann and Otomo Yoshihide. The class will explore this music as an instrument-based practice, with a special emphasis on the turntable as an instrument whose material properties, as well as cultural significance, define its uses as an improvisatory and compositional tool. Conceptualism and visual art, free improvisation, electronic composition, DJ culture, multi-media, as well as the history and legacy of inventor-artists who pioneered the creative use or "misuse" of audio technology (John Cage, King Tubby, Lee Perry, Laurie Anderson, Grandmaster Flash) will all be considered as antecedents of contemporary practice. Students will be required to create and perform several short pieces and one larger-scale composition project exploiting the innate properties of one or more electronic instruments.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Special Projects are designed for music majors only to pursue individual or group projects with a particular Professor.
CRN |
92375 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS PROJ B |
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Title |
Special Projects |
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Professor |
James Bagwell |
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Schedule |
TBA |
CRN |
92376 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS PROJ P |
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Title |
Special Projects |
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Professor |
TBA |
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Schedule |
TBA |
CRN |
92377 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS PROJ R |
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Title |
Special Projects |
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Professor |
Luis Garcia-Renart |
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Schedule |
TBA |
CRN |
92378 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS PROJ U |
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Title |
Special Projects |
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Professor |
Kyle Gann |
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Schedule |
TBA |
CRN |
92379 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS PROJ V |
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Title |
Special Projects |
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Professor |
Joan Tower |
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Schedule |
TBA |
CRN |
92380 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
MUS PROJ Z |
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Title |
Special Projects |
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Professor |
Thurman Barker |
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Schedule |
TBA |
Private Music Lessons
All matriculated Bard students may be eligible to receive academic credit and scholarships for private instrumental or voice lessons. The choice of teachers is to be worked out on a case by case basis by the student and the Music Department. The teacher and student arrange payments and schedule.
Requirements for academic credit:
Credits awarded for the courses:
Lessons: 2 credits
Performance class 2 credits
Ensembles 1 or 2 credits (check description)
Chorus 1 credit
Requirements for scholarship: