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MUS 1. Classical Music Live
(1)
FELBER J
Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. Tickets and transportation are provided free of charge. Primarily for non-Music majors. For full course information, please go to: www.music.ucsb.edu/academics/music-1
Students meet for a one-hour pre-concert lecture given by Music Department faculty, and then attend world-class symphony concerts sponsored by Santa Barbara's Community Arts Music Association.
MUS 3A. Introduction to Music Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: No prerequisites.
Enrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Fall. Designed for Music Majors and Minors. Open to Music Majors, or by permission of instructor. Music minors and non-majors should contact instructor by email for permission to enroll.
Introduces students to ways of studying music as a cultural practice situated in society. Methods are drawn from musicology, ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, and sociology. Students will be taught to think critically about music as a universal human expression.
MUS 3B. Writing about Music
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Music 3A with a minimum grade of C-, or consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Winter. Designed for Music Majors and Minors. Open to students who have taken Music 3A, or by permission of instructor. Contact instructor by email for permission to enroll.
Repeat Comments: Mus 3B is a legal repeat of Mus 12.
Acquaints students with different approaches to writing and speaking about music of many traditions. The works of performers, critics, music theorists, ethnographers, musicologists, and historians will all be represented in the selection of assigned readings.
MUS 3C. Structures of Music
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Music 3B with a minimum grade of C-, or consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Spring. Designed for Music Majors and Minors. Open to students who have taken Music 3B, or by permission of instructor. Contact instructor by email for permission to enroll.
Looking at a variety of music traditions from different parts of the world, the class will survey varying approaches to issues of compositional structure, rhythm, intonation, scales, etc. The class will have listening and practical components.
MUS 4A. Musicianship
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 4 series. Must be taken consecutively, and concurrently with the Music 5 series.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Quarters usually offered: Fall.
A practical course in sight singing, aural analysis, and rhythmic studies.
MUS 4B. Musicianship
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement Exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 4 series. Must be taken consecutively, and concurrently with the Music 5 series.
Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. Designed for majors. Quarters usually offered: Winter.
A practical course in sight singing, aural analysis, and rhythmic studies.
MUS 4C. Musicianship
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement Exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 4 series. Must be taken consecutively, and concurrently with the Music 5 series.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Quarters usually offered: Spring.
A practical course in sight singing, aural analysis, and rhythmic studies.
MUS 4D. Musicianship
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement Exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 4 series. Must be taken consecutively, and concurrently with the Music 5 series.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Quarters usually offered: Spring.
A practical course in sight singing, aural analysis, and rhythmic studies.
MUS 4E. Musicianship
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement Exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 4 series. Must be taken consecutively, and concurrently with the Music 5 series.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Quarters usually offered: Winter.
A practical course in sight singing, aural analysis, and rhythmic studies.
MUS 4F. Musicianship
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement Exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 4 series. Must be taken consecutively, and concurrently with the Music 5 series.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Quarters usually offered: Spring.
A practical course in sight singing, aural analysis, and rhythmic studies.
MUS 5A. Theory of Western Art Music: Fundamentals
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement Exam or Music 11.
Theory basics, including rhythm and meter, pitch, intervals, scales, keys, triads, seventh chords, and essentials of harmonic progression.
MUS 5B. Theory of Western Art Music: Harmonic Practices and Analysis I
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 5 series. Must be taken concurrently with the Music 4 series.
Textural deployments of harmony, tonic and dominant on the small and large scale, contrapuntal influences, cadential progressions, non-chord tones.
MUS 5C. Theory of Western Art Music: Harmonic Practices and Analysis II
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Placement exam. A grade of at least C- is required in each course of the Music 5 series. Must be taken consecutively, and concurrently with the Music 4 series.
Secondary dominants, diatonic modulation, chromatic chords, sequences.
MUS 6. Jazz Fundamentals
(2)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Music 5C.
Enrollment Comments: Letter grade required for majors. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units, but only 2 units may be applied towards the major.
Introduction to jazz harmony, scales, and improvization. drill in ear training and beginning keyboard.
MUS 8. Class Composition
(2)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Recommended Preparation: Basic ability to read and notate music.Enrollment Comments: Primarily for the music major. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 18 units.
Assignments in basics of music writing.
MUS 10A. History of Western Music from Early Modern Culture through Modernism
(4)
STAFF
A survey of Western music and its social contexts from late humanism through the Age of Enlightenment (1545-1745). Topics include Renaissance legacies, music and religious reformations, ancient vs. modern, the rise of opera, patronage, instrumental composer-performers, taste in the Enlightenment.
MUS 10B. History of Western Music from Early Modern Culture through Modernism
(4)
STAFF
A survey of Western music and its social contexts from 1745 to 1848. Topics include the rise of public concerts and of the virtuoso soloist, the evolution of the orchestra, music in salons and parlors, and national operatic institutions.
MUS 10C. History of Western Music from Early Modern Culture through Modernism
(4)
STAFF
A survey of Western music and its social contexts from 1848 to 1945. Topics include music and nationalism, late romanticism and the limits of tonality, modernism, the impact of popular music on art music, and neoclassicism.
MUS 11. Fundamentals of Music
(4)
Enrollment Comments: For the non-major.
The study of notes, scales, triads, inversions, rhythm, harmony, and musical terminology. Laboratory activities include keyboard orientation, sight singing, and ear training.
MUS 15. Music Appreciation
(4)
Enrollment Comments: Not open to Music majors.
A selective survey of music of western civilization; evolution of forms, styles, media. Designed to enable the student to listen with understanding.
MUS 16. Listening to Jazz: Demystifying America?s Musical Art Form
(4)
NATHAN
Recommended Preparation: Music 11 or 15Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. Not open for credit to students who have completed Music 191 in spring 2018.
Aims to unravel the mystery of Jazz?s allure, importance, and performance process, in a manner mostly divorced from technical musical terminology or music theory, through targeted readings, listening assignments, written projects, in-class visits, and concert attendance.
MUS 17. World Music
(4)
MARCUS
Enrollment Comments: No previous training in music required.
An introductory course surveying the unity and diversity of folk, traditional, and classical music of the non-western world. Emphasis given to dance, theatre, musical instruments, and the role of music in society.
MUS 17H. World Music, Honors
(1)
MARCUS
Prerequisite: Lower-division standing; honors students only.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a cumulative 3.5 for the proceeding 1 quarter(s). Open to non-majors. Concurrently offered with Music 17. Quarters usually offered: Fall.
Undergraduate independent research for honor students. Carefully selected topics in World Music intended to foster excellence in research or performance.
MUS 20A. Elementary Voice I
(1)
BRECHER
Prerequisite: Music 11 or UCSB Exam 38 (Music Theory Placement Test) with a score of 1 or higher. Placement by audition on the first day of class.
Enrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. Primarily for the BA Music Major, the BM Instrumental Music Major and the Music Minor.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated 8 times for credit in combination with Music 20B and 20C to a maximum of 9 units, but only 6 units may be applied toward the major.
Elementary voice lessons at beginning level. Placement in Music A, B, or C will be determined by the instructor after an audition.
MUS 20B. Elementary Voice II
(1)
BRECHER
Prerequisite: Music 11. Placement by audition the first day of class.
Enrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. Primarily for the BA Music Major, the BM Instrumental Music Major and the Music Minor.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated 8 times for credit in combination with Music 20A and 20C to a maximum of 9 units, but only 6 units may be applied toward the major.
Elementary voice lessons designed for those with a small amount of vocal experience.
MUS 20C. Elementary Voice III
(1)
BRECHER
Prerequisite: Music 11. Placement by audition on first day of class.
Enrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. Primarily for the BA Music Major, the BM Instrumental Music major and the Music Minor.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated 8 times for credit in combination with Music 20A and 20B to a maximum of 9 units, but only 6 units may be applied toward the major.
Elementary voice lessons designed for those who have significant vocal training and experience.
MUS 22AAZZ. Practicum in World Music Performance
(1)
MARCUS, RUDNICKI
Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. If there is no meeting time listed on the course schedule, contact instructor during first week of quarter to schedule instruction.
Applied instruction in non-Western instruments: the Middle Eastern oud (lute) and nay (end-blown flute), Middle Eastern percussion, and dastgah (Persian melodic practice).
MUS 22D. Practicum in World Music Performance: Dastgah
MUS 22G. Practicum in World Music Performance
MUS 22M. Practicum in World Music Performance: Arabic Maqam
MUS 22N. Practicum in World Music Performance: the nay (Middle- Eastern flute).
MUS 22O. Practicum in World Music Performance: the oud (Middle- Eastern lute).
MUS 22P. Practicum in World Music Performance: Middle Eastern percussion
MUS 22V. Practicum in World Music Performance: the Middle Eastern violin
MUS 22X. Practicum in World Music Performance
MUS 24. Carillon
(1)
HALSTED
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Recommended Preparation: Some keyboard proficiency (Music 31F, 32, or 33 or equivalent) recommended.Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. Concurrently offered with MUS 124. Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. Piano audition required. Contact instructor over email to schedule audition.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 9 units, but only 3 units may be applied toward the major.
Applied instruction on Carillon (bells in bell tower) performance.
MUS 25. Intermediate Voice
(1-3)
BRECHER, PORETSKY, SAHUC
Prerequisite: By audition. Departmental approval required prior to registration. Consent of instructor to finalize registration.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. Primarily for Music majors. Taken for 3 units per quarter by BM Voice emphasis majors and for 1-2 units per quarter by all others.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 9 quarters.
Intermediate voice lessons.
MUS 26A. Intermediate Double Bass
(1-3)
GARBER
Prerequisite: By audition. Consent of instructor and department.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 27 units. Taken for 3 unit per quarter by BM Double Bass emphasis majors, and for 1-2 units per quarter by all others.
Intermediate double bass lessons.
MUS 26B. Intermediate Cello
(1-3)
RUTKOWSKI
Prerequisite: By audition. Consent of instructor and department.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 27 units. Taken for 3 units per quarter by BM Cello emphasis majors, and for 1-2 units per quarter by all others.
Intermediate cello lessons.
MUS 26D. Intermediate Viola
(1-3)
CALLUS
Prerequisite: By audition. Consent of instructor and department.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 27 units. Taken for 3 units per quarter by BM Viola emphasis majors, and for 1-2 units per quarter by all others.
Intermediate viola lessons.