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MUS
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31A/B
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Music in Film and Media-A/B
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This is a professionally-related course for Image Arts students that emphasizes the creation, technology and business of scoring for moving images, including television, video games, film and the World Wide Web. Topics include the functions and effects of music in media, new technologies, business and legal issues, and acoustic, psychoacoustic and digital audio theory. The course will develop knowledge of the scoring process to facilitate communication between the composer and the media creator.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 2.00
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MUS
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101
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Intro to World and Early European Music
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This course provides basic knowledge and understanding of music in culture, with emphasis on listening skills and repertoire. Brief survey of world music and the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods in European music. The functions of music in culture. Study of music vocabulary and early genres of music. Not available to Performance Production students. MUS 101 is not available for credit to students who choose MUS 300.
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LL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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105
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Voices Without Borders: Global Chorus
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This course surveys vocal repertoire from around the globe, and may include African drumming songs, 'mingge' from China, Mexican 'corridos', Indian 'lok geet', Canadian folk songs, South-Asian 'qawwalis', and Eastern Europe folk song, among others. Students will explore the unique social histories and aesthetics of selected vocal genres with an eye to the breadth of stylistic approaches and forms of transmission in various cultural traditions.
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LL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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106
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The Architecture of Music
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From the Pythagorean monochord that ancient Greeks used to align with the Music of the Spheres to the Chinese bamboo pipes that sounded the first Chinese pentatonic scale, each culture has created its own coherent structure. This course introduces students to the historical development and foundational theories of both ancient and contemporary musical form through the exploration of musical genres around the world. Lectures will situate musical theories in their socio-historical and cultural contexts.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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107
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South Indian Music
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South Indians traditionally believe that the world was created by sound. Music is understood to impact mood, health, natural environment, and even physical matter. Each musical mode (raga) is to be performed only at a particular time of day and in a specific season. This course surveys the unique and sophisticated melodic, rhythmic and cultural traditions of South Indian Karnatak music, and the culture that both created it and is in turn shaped by it.
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LL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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108
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Gospel Music: Songs for the Spirit
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Gospel music evolved from syncopated African spirituals, field hollers, and Christian hymns, and in turn influenced musical traditions as diverse as the blues, Celtic music and soul. Using lecture, audio-visual examples, group discussion and group singing exercises, this course will explore the vocal tradition of gospel music through a socio-cultural, historical, political and aesthetic lens, and in so doing trace the history of one of the oldest and most exuberant vocal genres of North America.
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LL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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109
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Music of West Africa
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African artistry has broadly impacted contemporary North American popular culture for almost 150 years. This course explores the intersection of drumming, singing and dancing in the exuberant performance traditions of West Africa. In so doing, the course investigates the relationships between story-telling, oral transmission, community building and religious belief in a variety of representative genres. The socio-cultural and aesthetic frameworks of well-known African genres such as Kpanlogo, Gahu and Bobobo will be analyzed.
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LL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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The use of music with film has evolved from early stereotyped borrowing of nineteenth century classical European repertoire to newly created scores that enhance and support the dramatic themes of the film. This course explores the relationship between music and film, the functions and effects of music and how the music supports or plays against the visual images. Analysis of selected film genres will demonstrate how music can strengthen the film's dramatic themes.
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LL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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201
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Introduction to Classical Music
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This course examines Western music from the Classical, Romantic and Modern periods (approx. 1750 to the present day). Survey of the development of major styles, genres and forms of European music, including symphony, concerto and sonata. Lives and works of the great composers including Mozart, Beethoven and Stravinsky. Not available to Performance Production students. MUS 201 is not available for credit to students who choose MUS 300.
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LL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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211
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Music Cultures of the City
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Large urban centres such as Toronto offer a tremendous variety of events, from superstars in the Rogers Centre to amateur folk musicians in local coffee houses. What are the ways we might better understand the relationship between music culture and the culture of the city? This course considers genres from a number of areas including popular music, world music, jazz and classical music. It examines issues of production, distribution and performance, as well as reception, venues and audiences.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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A course designed to develop a sensitivity to and better understanding of music production, and to increase awareness of style. Study of materials and structural and expressive principles of music, instrumental and vocal media performance styles and great performers. Study of main genres of Western music with special regard to music dramatic forms and to functions of music in the theatre, historical backgrounds, cultural patterns, comparison with contemporary trends in theatre.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: THP 202 or THP 402.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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The guitar, or plucked lute, is the de facto instrument of the masses in the western world. Through lecture, audio-visual screenings, discussion and experiential learning, this course explores the ways in which the guitar and its global variants have given voice to individuals and groups around the world, from ancient Persia and India to Africa and the Americas, and in so doing examines the impact of class, gender, race, politics and commercialization on creative self-expression.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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401
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Music, Religion and Spirituality
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This course explores the dynamic interrelationship of music, religion and spirituality in a multicultural context. Topics will include the role, style, and conception of music in the Islamic, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Tibetan, and Taoist faiths, amongst others. The processes and traditions of spiritual practice through and with sound will be explored. The course will also analyze the musical forms through which these devotional practices are undertaken.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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403
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Latin American Music
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Latin America's music spans indigenous Andean panpipe music, African-derived carnival music, Haitian voodoo ritual, Brazilian samba, and hip-hop music in Latin American urban centres, among others, and reflects the dynamic cultural fusions of past and present. Through lecture, audio-visual analysis and experiential musical exercises, this course explores the socio-cultural, historical and political impact of Latin American musical genres, and investigates music as a tool for healing, identity negotiation, political fomentation, and group expression.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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406
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Chinese Instrumental Music
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This course explores the traditions and practice of Chinese instrumental music through score study, analysis of instrument technique and historiography, examination of pedagogy and transmission, and ensemble performance. Traditional folk, classical, and contemporary nationalized musical forms will be studied, with a particular emphasis on the stylistic differences of once discrete regions. Instruments studied may include: dizi, xiao, erhu, yanqin, ruan, sanxian, liuqin, guzheng, and Chinese percussion.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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501
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Traditional Musics of the World
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This course examines musical cultures around the world, focusing on traditional genres. Course content covers conceptual, structural, rhythmic and modal systems. The functions and meanings of music in diverse cultures will be examined. Representative genres will be studied, including the Indian raga, Turkish fasil (suite) and Japanese gagaku (court music).
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UL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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505
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Popular Music and Culture
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This course explores the development of North American, British and non-western popular music. Lectures investigate key historical periods and genres which define the popular idiom in the west, such as blues, jazz, country, rock n' roll, folk, rap, and electronica, as well as popular idioms from beyond the western world. Changes in technology, economics and demographics will be discussed, as will links between popular music and the prevailing social conditions of each period.
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UL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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506
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Chinese Music Studies
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This course explores a variety of Chinese musical genres including folk, classical, contemporary hybrid and popular forms. Topics may include: the philosophical roots of music in Chinese cosmology; music and meditation; Beijing and Cantonese opera; censorship and propaganda in the Cultural Revolution; Chinese rock in the Tiananmen Square protest; and the growth of Chinese music internationally. Both Chinese instrumental and vocal music will be examined through a socio-historical, political, and stylistic lens.
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UL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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MUS
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507
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Architecture of Music II
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Building on foundational concepts of musical structure examined in MUS 106, this course explores sophisticated musical form from a global perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the historical development of harmonic and melodic compositional tropes, and complex rhythmic and formal structures. Students will also investigate microtonal modes popular in global musical traditions. With examples from both ancient and modern genres, lectures will situate the subtleties of musical aesthetics in their socio-historical and cultural contexts.
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UL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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