CONSERVATORY COURSES:

11532

CNSV / MUS 220 Music, Language, & Mind

John Halle

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1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 106

AART

Cross-listed: Mind, Brain, & Behavior (4 credits) A survey of recent work in musical cognition focusing 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. Open to college and conservatory students. Class size: 20

11818

CNSV 100 Studio Instruction

Frank Corliss

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11819

CNSV 102 Composition Tutorial

Joan Tower

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11820

CNSV 104 Secondary Piano

Frank Corliss

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11821

CNSV 108 Aural Skills I

John Halle

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11822

CNSV 109 Aural Skills II

John Halle

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11823

CNSV 110 Chamber Music

John Halle

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11824

CNSV 112 Orchestral Training & Rep.

Erica Kiesewetter

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7:00 pm -9:30 pm

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11826

CNSV 116 Conservatory Seminar II

John Halle

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AART

11827

CNSV 120 Wind Class

Frank Corliss

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AART

11828

CNSV 204 Perfromance Practice Workshop

Steve Hammer

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AART

11829

CNSV 210 Klezmer Ensemble

David Krakauer

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11830

CNSV 211 Alexander Technique/Musicians

Alexander Farkas

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11831

CNSV 216 Conservatory Seminar IV

Joan Tower

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10:00 am- 12:00 pm

BLM

AART

11832

CNSV 309 Aural Skills IV

Michael Bukhman

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This is the fourth of four levels of Aural Skills courses offered at Bard. The course aims to continue developing skills that were acquired from Aural Skills I-III. Advanced topics including aural identification of medieval modes, sight-singing of atonal melodies in various clefs, complex rhythm control, modulation, and extended harmonic progressions will be covered, in addition to general reinforcement of previously learned skills.

11833

CNSV 310 Keyboard Skills

Frank Corliss

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PART

Class size: 20

11834

CNSV 401 Conservatory Senior Project

Frank Corliss / Peter Laki

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