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MUSI 401 - Introduction to Music
Credits:
4.00
Fundamental approach to perceptive listening based on
a detailed study of several masterpieces representing
different periods and forms. Historical perspective, but
main emphasis is on confronting significant works of musical
art on their own terms. Some participation in musical life
of the University required. Does not fulfill a major
requirement.
MUSI 401H - Honors/Introduction to Music
Credits:
4.00
See description for MUSI 401.
MUSI 402 - Survey of Music History
Credits:
4.00
The study of the development of musical styles and idioms in
the context of selected historical and cultural aspects of
Western civilization.
MUSI 402H - Honors/Survey of Music History
Credits:
4.00
See description for MUSI 402.
MUSI 411 - Fundamentals of Music Theory
Credits:
4.00
Elements of music theory for the non-music major;
principles of musical structure, analysis, elementary
written counterpoint and harmony, and ear training. May
not be counted for credit toward a music major. Prereq:
ability to read music and permission of the instructor.
MUSI 412 - Fundamentals of Music Theory
Credits:
4.00
See description for MUSI 411.
MUSI 441 - Concert Choir
Credits:
1.00
A mixed chorus that studies and performs classical and
modern literature. Recommended for voice majors. Open to
all students. Prereq; permission.
MUSI 442 - Chamber Singers
Credits:
1.00
A mixed chorus which studies and performs sacred and
secular works from the Renaissance to the present,
participates with the opera workshop and with the orchestra,
and serves as a nucleus for larger choral-instrumental work.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 443 - Women's Chorus
Credits:
1.00
Open to all students interested in singing the finest
literature in this medium and who can fulfill the
requirement of an audition.
MUSI 448 - Opera Workshop
Credits:
1.00
Operatic singing, acting, and production techniques;
performance of both complete operas and operatic excerpts.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 450 - Symphony
Credits:
1.00
Presents several concerts during the year of
repertoire ranging from the great, standard symphonic
literature to experimental, multimedia composition. Prereq:
permission of conductor and audition.
MUSI 452 - Wind Symphony
Credits:
1.00
Open to all students. Campus concerts and New England tour.
Prereq: permission and audition.
MUSI 453 - Symphonic Band
Credits:
1.00
Original band music, transcription, marches, etc. For
students whose program does not permit music as a major
interest, but who are interested in maintaining their
playing proficiency and continuing their study of music.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 454 - UNH Marching Band
Credits:
1.00
Open to all students; performs during home and away football
games. Rehearsals conclude at the end of the football
season. Prereq: permission.
MUSI 455 - Piano Ensemble
Credits:
1.00
Drawing from available student instrumentalists and
singers, pianists learn the art of performing in trios, duo
sonatas, and two-piano works, and gain experience in Lieder
accompaniment.
MUSI 456 - String Ensemble
Credits:
1.00
Groups of instrumentalists gain experience in the
performance of literature for the smaller ensemble.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 457 - Woodwind Ensemble
Credits:
1.00
Groups of instrumentalists gain experience in the
performance of literature for the smaller ensemble.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 458 - Brass Ensemble
Credits:
1.00
Groups of instrumentalists gain experience in the
performance of literature for the smaller ensemble.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 459 - Percussion Ensemble
Credits:
1.00
Groups of instrumentalist gain experience in the
performance of literature for the smaller ensemble.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 460 - Jazz Ensemble
Credits:
1.00
Groups of instrumentalists gain experience in the
performance of literature for the smaller ensemble.
Prereq: permission.
MUSI 461 - Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Credits:
1.00
Singers perform in small ensembles such as trios,
quartets, quintets and octets. Prereq: permission.
MUSI 462 - Pep Band
Credits:
1.00
Rehearsal and performance of a broad range of band music
at hockey and basketball games.
MUSI 467 - Functional Piano
Credits:
1.00
Basic instruction for music majors with no previous
keyboard training. Piano technique, keyboard harmony
geared to the practical harmonization of simple melodies,
sight reading, transposition, and modulation. May involve
both class instruction and periodic short individual
lessons. Prereq: permission. Special fee.
MUSI 468 - Voice Class
Credits:
1.00
Basic instruction in voice for non-majors and music
majors who are not majoring in voice. Prereq: permission.
Special fee. May be repeated to a total of 2 credits.
MUSI 471 - Theory I
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to the tonal system; species counterpoint;
principles of voice leading and harmonic progression through
the analysis, realization, and composition of
one-, two-,and four-voiced textures. Concept of triad
inversion and consonant diatonic harmonies of the major and
minor modes. Students should register for MUSI 473-474
concurrently. Prereq: permission.
MUSI 472 - Theory I
Credits:
3.00
See description for MUSI 471.
MUSI 473 - Ear Training I
Credits:
1.00
Laboratory exercises to develop aural skills; sight-singing
and dictation. Students should register for MUSI 471-472
concurrently. Prereq: permission.
MUSI 474 - Ear Training I
Credits:
1.00
See description for MUSI 473.
MUSI 501 - History and Literature of Music
Credits:
3.00
Styles, forms, and techniques of composition in Western
music. Required of all music majors.
MUSI 502 - History and Literature of Music
Credits:
3.00
See description for MUSI 501.
MUSI 511 - Survey of Music in America
Credits:
4.00
From colonial times to the present, including the various
European influences, the quest for an American style, and
the emergence of such indigenous phenomena as jazz.
MUSI 512 - Survey of African American Music
Credits:
4.00
Survey of African American music written for the concert
stage. Includes both vocal and instrumental music forms, for
small and large ensembles from approximately 1850 to
present. The recorded compositions demonstrate a fusion
of African, American, and European traditions. Composers
studied include: Thomas Greene (Blind Tom), Frank Johnson,
James Bland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Grant Still,
Florence Price, Julia Perry, Nathaniel Dett, William Dawson,
Undine Smith-Moore, Margaret Bonds, John Work, Olly Wilson,
and Scott Joplin. Jazz considered as it relates to and has
roots in a particular concert work. An occasional field trip
to hear an African American performance required. Music
majors may receive elective credit. Credit/Fail.
MUSI 520 - Diction for Singers I
Credits:
2.00
A detailed and comprehensive study of the rules of
application of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
to English, French, German, and Italian. Emphasis will be
on both written and spoken performance. Students will be
required to memorize a great deal of material and quizzes
will be frequent. Since the number of rules concerning the
application of the International Phonetic Alphabet are
enormous, students will also be trained how to use their
texts as lifelong reference books for their work in the
world of classical vocal performance.
MUSI 521 - Diction for Singers II
Credits:
2.00
See description for MUSI 520. Prereq: MUSI 520.
MUSI 536 - Early Wind Instruments
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in Renaissance and Baroque wind
instruments. Special fee.
MUSI 541 - Piano
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in piano. Special fee.
MUSI 542 - Harpsichord
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in harpsichord. Special fee.
MUSI 543 - Organ
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in organ. Special fee.
MUSI 544 - Harp
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in harp. Special fee.
MUSI 545 - Voice
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in voice. Special fee.
MUSI 546 - Violin
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in violin. Special fee.
MUSI 547 - Viola
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in viola. Special fee.
MUSI 548 - Violoncello
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in violoncello. Special fee.
MUSI 549 - String Bass
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in string bass. Special fee.
MUSI 550 - Classical Guitar
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in classical guitar. Special fee.
MUSI 551 - Flute
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in flute. Special fee.
MUSI 552 - Clarinet
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in clarinet. Special fee.
MUSI 553 - Saxophone
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in saxophone. Special fee.
MUSI 554 - Oboe
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in oboe. Special fee.
MUSI 555 - Bassoon
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in bassoon. Special fee.
MUSI 556 - French Horn
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in French horn. Special fee.
MUSI 557 - Trumpet
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in trumpet. Special fee.
MUSI 558 - Trombone
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in trombone. Special fee.
MUSI 559 - Euphonium
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in euphonium. Special fee.
MUSI 560 - Tuba
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in tuba. Special fee.
MUSI 561 - Percussion
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in percussion. Special fee.
MUSI 562 - Keyboards
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in keyboard instruments. Special fee.
MUSI 563 - Jazz Guitar
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in jazz guitar. Special fee.
MUSI 564 - Drum Set
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in drum set. Special fee.
MUSI 571 - Theory II
Credits:
3.00
Continuation of MUSI 471-472. Compositional and
analytical work stresses the treatment of dissonance within
the tonal system; accessory tones, seventh chords,
tonicization, modulation, basic principles of chromatic
harmony, and harmonization of chorale melodies are covered.
Students should register for MUSI 573-574 concurrently.
Prereq: MUSI 472; 474; permission.
MUSI 572 - Theory II
Credits:
3.00
See description for MUSI 571.
MUSI 573 - Ear Training II
Credits:
1.00
Laboratory exercises to develop aural skills further.
Students should register for MUSI 571-572 concurrently.
Prereq: MUSI 472; 474; permission.
MUSI 574 - Ear Training II
Credits:
1.00
See description for MUSI 573.
MUSI #581 - Harmony in Traditional Jazz and Popular Music
Credits:
4.00
A practical course in the harmonization of popular songs
and "blues". Typical choral progressions; their logic,
extensions, and symbolic representations. Written exercises
and instrumental improvisation. Prereq: knowledge of
notation and fundamental harmony; ability to perform on a
musical instrument. Some keyboard skill highly desirable.
Permission.
MUSI 595 - Special Topics in Music Literature
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Open to music majors and non-majors; topics in areas not
easily covered in historical courses. Prereq: permission.
May be repeated for credit.
MUSI 609 - Ethnicity in America: The Black Experience in the 20th Century
Credits:
4.00
Team-taught course investigating music, literature, and
social history of black America in the period of the Harlem
Renaissance, in the Great Depression, World War II, and in
the 1960s. Special attention to the theme of accommodation
with, and rejection of, dominant white culture. (Also
offered as ENGL 609, HUMA 609.) Writing Intensive.
MUSI 610 - Popular Music and Rebellion in the 1960's
Credits:
4.00
Examines the ways in which popular music helped form the
youth culture, was used as an act of rebellion, and came to
be a focal point of generational conflict and protest in the
United States during the 1960s.
MUSI 703 - Music of the Renaissance
Credits:
3.00
Works of the 15th- and 16th-century composers from
Dunstable to Palestrina. Writing Intensive.
MUSI 705 - Music of the Baroque
Credits:
3.00
Music of Europe from de Rore to Bach. Writing Intensive.
MUSI 707 - Music of the Classical Period
Credits:
3.00
Growth of musical styles and forms from early classicism
through the high classicism of Haydn, Mozart, and the
young Beethoven. Writing Intensive.
MUSI 709 - Music of the Romantic Period
Credits:
3.00
A survey of romanticism in music from Beethoven's late
period to the end of the 19th century. The works of
Schubert, Berlioz, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin,
Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Austrian symphonists, French
pre-impressionists, and national styles in European music.
Writing Intensive.
MUSI 711 - Music of the 20th Century
Credits:
3.00
Styles and techniques of composers from Debussy to the
present. Special emphasis on tonal music before World War I;
neoclassical trends; the emergence of atonality and serial
techniques; anti-rationalist music; electronic music.
Writing Intensive.
MUSI 713 - Art Song
Credits:
3.00
History and literature of the solo song with piano
accompaniment. Survey of national styles of the 19th and
20th centuries and deeper study of the central core of the
art song--the German Lied. Writing intensive.
MUSI 715 - Survey of Opera
Credits:
3.00
History of the genre from Monteverdi to the present.
Representative masterpieces by Handel, Mozart,
Beethoven, Weber, Wagner, Verdi, Mussorgsky,
Debussy, Berg, and others. Writing Intensive.
MUSI #717 - Survey of Pianoforte Literature
Credits:
3.00
Keyboard literature from the Baroque to the present.
Analysis, discussion, and illustration of works by Bach,
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, the romantic composers, and
contemporary writers.
MUSI 731 - Conducting
Credits:
2.00
Physical aspects, equipment of conductor, fundamental
gestures and beats, baton techniques. Reading and analysis
of full and condensed scores, study of transposition,
psychology of rehearsal. Prereq: MUSI 571-572 and junior
standing.
MUSI 732 - Conducting
Credits:
2.00
See description for MUSI 731.
MUSI 736 - Early Wind Instruments
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in Renaissance and Baroque wind
instruments. Special fee.
MUSI 741 - Piano
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in piano. Special fee.
MUSI 742 - Harpsichord
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in harpsichord. Special fee.
MUSI 743 - Organ
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in organ. Special fee.
MUSI 744 - Harp
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in harp. Special fee.
MUSI 745 - Voice
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in voice. Special fee.
MUSI 746 - Violin
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in violin. Special fee.
MUSI 747 - Viola
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in viola. Special fee.
MUSI 748 - Violoncello
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in violoncello. Special fee.
MUSI 749 - String Bass
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in string bass. Special fee.
MUSI 750 - Classical Guitar
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in classical guitar. Special fee.
MUSI 751 - Flute
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in flute. Special fee.
MUSI 752 - Clarinet
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in clarinet. Special fee.
MUSI 753 - Saxophone
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in saxophone. Special fee.
MUSI 754 - Oboe
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in oboe. Special fee.
MUSI 755 - Bassoon
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in bassoon. Special fee.
MUSI 756 - French Horn
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in French horn. Special fee.
MUSI 757 - Trumpet
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in trumpet. Special fee.
MUSI 758 - Trombone
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in trombone. Special fee.
MUSI 759 - Euphonium
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in euphonium. Special fee.
MUSI 760 - Tuba
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in tuba. Special fee.
MUSI 761 - Percussion
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in percussion. Special fee.
MUSI 762 - Keyboards
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in keyboard instruments. Special fee.
MUSI 763 - Jazz Guitar
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in jazz guitar. Special fee.
MUSI 764 - Drum Set
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Private instruction in drum set. Special fee.
MUSI 771 - Counterpoint
Credits:
3.00
Contrapuntal techniques of tonal music. Melodic
construction and dissonance treatment through work in
species counterpoint and studies in harmonic elaboration and
prolongation. Analysis of selected compositions emphasizes
the connection between fundamental contrapuntal techniques
and the voice-leading of composition. Prereq: MUSI 572 or
permission.
MUSI 772 - Counterpoint
Credits:
3.00
See description for MUSI 771.
MUSI #773 - Advanced Counterpoint
Credits:
2.00
Continuation of MUSI 772. Prereq: MUSI 772 or permission.
MUSI 775 - Composition
Credits:
3.00
Construction of phrases, periods, and short compositions
following classical models. Problems of text-setting. Prereq
MUSI 572 or permission.
MUSI 776 - Composition
Credits:
3.00
See description for MUSI 775.
MUSI 777 - Advanced Composition
Credits:
3.00
Continuation of MUSI 776. Individual compositional
projects. Prereq: MUSI 776 and permission. May be
repeated for credit.
MUSI 779 - Orchestration
Credits:
3.00
Characteristics of band and orchestral instruments both
individually and in small (homogeneous) and large mixed
groupings. Students study scores, write assignments, and
have arrangements performed if at all possible. Some aspects
of vocal writing. Prereq: MUSI 572 or permission.
MUSI 781 - Analysis: Form and Structure
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to analytical techniques through the study
of representative masterworks: formal and structural
elements and their interrelationships. Semester I: analysis
of 18th- and 19th century works; semester II: analysis of
20th-century works. Prereq: MUSI 572 or permission.
MUSI 781W - Analysis: Form and Structure
Credits:
3.00
See description for MUSI 781. Writing Intensive.
MUSI 782 - Analysis: Form and Structure
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to analytical techniques through the study
of representative masterworks: formal and structural
elements and their interrelationships. Semester I: analysis
of 18th- and 19th century works; semester II: analysis of
20th-century works. Prereq: MUSI 572 or permission.
MUSI 785 - Electronic Sound Synthesis
Credits:
4.00
Computers and digital synthesizers, methods of sound
synthesis (e.g., fm synthesis, sampling), MIDI programming
in Visual Basic and C++, control programs for synthesizers,
notation using computers (e.g., Finale for PC and
Macintosh). (Generally offered in the spring.)
MUSI 795 - Special Studies
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
A) J.S. Bach; B) Franz Schubert; C) Debussy and Ravel;
D) The World of Jazz; E) The Iconography of Western European
Musical Instruments; F) 19th-Century French Music;
G) Advanced Analysis; H) Advanced Study in Electronic Music;
I) Composition through Computer-generated Sound; J) Woodwind
Literature; K) Brass Literature; L) String Literature;
M) Medieval Performance Practice; N) Renaissance
Performance Practice; O) Baroque Performance Practice;
P) Classical Performance Practice; Q) 19th-Century
Performance Practice; R) 20th-Century Performance Practice;
S) Woodwind Repair; T) String Repair; U) Advanced Jazz
Improvisation; V) Advanced Piano Pedagogy; W) Advanced
Accompanying; X) Advanced Conducting; Y) Independent Study.
Prereq: permission. May be repeated for credit with
permission.
MUSI 795U - Special Study in Advanced Jazz Improv
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
MUSI 795Y - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00