19572 |
CNSV 101 Studio
Instruction |
4 credits
19573 |
CNSV 105
Secondary Piano |
2 credits
19574 |
CNSV 108 Aural
Skills I |
2 credits
19575 |
CNSV 109
Aural Skills II |
2 credits
19576 |
CNSV 111
Chamber Music |
0 credits
19577 |
CNSV 113
Orchestral Training & Repertoire |
0 credits
19578 |
CNSV 116
Conservatory Seminar II |
4 credits
19579 |
CNSV 121
Wind Class |
2 credits
19580 |
CNSV 211
Alexander Technique for Musicians |
1 credit
19581 |
CNSV 310
Keyboard Skills |
2 credits
19582 |
CNSV 220
Music, Language & Mind |
4 credits A survey of recent work in musical cognition
focussing on the connections between language and music. Aniruddh Patel's
recent "Language, Music and the Brain” will serve as the main text
augmented with additional readings by Lerdahl, Baker, Jackendoff,
Meyer, Hayes and others. Among the broad questions we will attempt to address
are the following. Does the shared terminology we employ to refer to the basic
elements of music and language-e.g. accent, rhythm, phrase, stress, etc.-
point to underlying similarities in the two mental systems or does
it obscure fundamental differences? What aspects of music are elucidated
by the cognitive approach which forms the foundation of contemporary
linguistics and what important characteristics of musical experience are, in
principle, unanswerable by viewing music as a Chomskyan "natural
object"? Does the evidence offered by contemporary
neuropsychological research indicate that linguistic and musical syntax make
use of similar or distinct neural circuitry? What kinds of empirical
results would a definitive answer to this question require? What evidence
is there for a musi-language in our evolutionary history which would later
bifurcate into language and music as distinct expressive and cognitive systems?
What are the connections between poetic meter as a formal pattern (as defined
in traditional prosody), rhythmicized speech (as in rap, chant and nursery
rhymes), settings of metrical poetry by composers and song form? Some
fluency with musical notation will be helpful but is not required.
New course:
19708 |
CNSV 280 Mann
and Schoenberg: |
Eugene Drucker |
. T . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 303 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed: Literature (1 credit)
Students will be expected to read Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus, with
some additional background reading in music theory (especially twelve-tone
theory). The class meetings will consist largely of
discussion. A 10 to 15 page paper will be required, with a draft due
after the second class meeting and the final version due at the final class
meeting. The grade will be based on that paper and class
participation. No pre-requisites. This mini-course will meet three times,
as follows: Wednesday, February 4, 1 – 4 p.m.; Wednesday,
February 18, 1 - 4 p.m.; Wednesday, February 25, 1 - 4 p.m.
19583 |
CNSV
IND A Independent
Study: Chamber Music |
2 credits
19584 |
CNSV
IND B Independent
Study: Orchestral Studies |
2 credits