Course

CNSV 101   Studio Instruction

CRN

17521

 

4 credits

 

Course

CNSV 111   Chamber Music

CRN

17522

 

0 credits

 

Course

CNSV IND A Independent Study: Chamber Music

CRN

17527

 

2 credits

 

Course

CNSV IND B Independent Study: Orchestra

CRN

17528

 

2 credits

 

Course

CNSV 113   Orchestra

CRN

17523

 

0 credits

 

Course

CNSV 116   Conservatory Seminar II

CRN

17524

 

4 credits  The Conservatory Seminar is a unique four-semester course that integrates music theory, aural skills, and music history.  The Seminar is based on works that the students are studying, and each week students perform from among these works in class to illustrate the topics under discussion.   The course material is taught on a “need to know” basis, emphasizing its relevance to the students’ work as performers.   In the third semester of the Conservatory Seminar students compose in a variety of styles; the fourth semester is devoted to free composition. 

 

Course

CNSV 211   Alexander Technique for Musicians

CRN

17526

 

1 credit  The Alexander Technique provides a way of teaching us how to re-connect with our own innate energies.  For musicians this means discovering a way of performing with greater muscular ease, less accumulated fatigue and a less restrictive approach to technique.  This course introduces both F. M. Alexander's principles and a new set of physical experiences suited to the musician's specific needs.  The aim of the class will be learning how to apply the Technique to practice and performance situations.  Students will have the opportunity to work with their instruments in class.

Course

CNSV 216   Conservatory Seminar IV

CRN

17525

 

4 credits  The Conservatory Seminar is a unique four-semester course that integrates music theory, aural skills, and music history.  The Seminar is based on works that the students are studying, and each week students perform from among these works in class to illustrate the topics under discussion.   The course material is taught on a “need to know” basis, emphasizing its relevance to the students’ work as performers.   In the third semester of the Conservatory Seminar students compose in a variety of styles; the fourth semester is devoted to free composition. 

 

Course

CNSV 315   Music, Language and Mind

Professor

John Halle

CRN

17552

 

Schedule

Th               1:30 - 4:30 pm Robbins Seminar

4 credits  A survey of recent work focusing on the intersections and   interactions between the mental representation of musical and  linguistic structure. Topics to be addressed by the class and guest lecturers include metrical structure in music, speech and verse, textsetting, evolution of language and music and the "musilanguage” hypothesis, syntactic structure in music and language. Open to qualified non-Conservatory students.