School for Studies in Art and Culture
(Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
Music (MUSI) Courses
Note: the majority of courses are open to non-Majors; students are advised to consult the Discipline. Priority is given to Music students.
MUSI 1003 [0.5 credit]
Understanding Music
Through musical examples drawn from diverse cultures and historical periods, students develop the ability to describe and analyze different aspects of music and deepen their appreciation of music as a cultural experience. No credit for students in B.Mus, B.A. Honours Music or B.A. Music.
Understanding Music
Through musical examples drawn from diverse cultures and historical periods, students develop the ability to describe and analyze different aspects of music and deepen their appreciation of music as a cultural experience. No credit for students in B.Mus, B.A. Honours Music or B.A. Music.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 1020 [1.0 credit]
Thinking About Music
Introduction to issues and methods in the study of music, explored through case studies drawn from a wide range of musics (including Western art music, global music traditions, popular music, and jazz). Includes an introduction to writing and research about music.
Thinking About Music
Introduction to issues and methods in the study of music, explored through case studies drawn from a wide range of musics (including Western art music, global music traditions, popular music, and jazz). Includes an introduction to writing and research about music.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 1000 (no longer offered), MUSI 1001 (no longer offered), MUSI 1002 (no longer offered).
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 1107 [0.5 credit]
Elementary Materials of Music
An introduction to the rudiments of music and aural training. Successful completion of this course will fulfill the prerequisite for entry into MUSI 1700.
Elementary Materials of Music
An introduction to the rudiments of music and aural training. Successful completion of this course will fulfill the prerequisite for entry into MUSI 1700.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 1700 [0.5 credit]
Foundations of Music Theory
An introduction to the organizational principles underlying tonal music including intervals, scales, rhythm, metre, chords, counterpoint, form, cadences, and harmonic progressions.
Foundations of Music Theory
An introduction to the organizational principles underlying tonal music including intervals, scales, rhythm, metre, chords, counterpoint, form, cadences, and harmonic progressions.
MUSI 1701 [0.5 credit]
Tonal Music Literacy
A study of the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and formal structures of music of the common-practice period, with emphasis on the development of analytical and written skills of diatonic music.
Tonal Music Literacy
A study of the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and formal structures of music of the common-practice period, with emphasis on the development of analytical and written skills of diatonic music.
MUSI 1711 [0.5 credit]
Applied Rhythmic Training I
A study of the rhythm of selected classical, popular, and world musics, with emphasis on applied performance, movement, and dictation.
Applied Rhythmic Training I
A study of the rhythm of selected classical, popular, and world musics, with emphasis on applied performance, movement, and dictation.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
MUSI 1720 [0.5 credit]
Vocal Musicianship
A study of aural training and musicianship through group and individual singing of selected classical, popular, and world musics. Admission to the class is based on an individual assessment at the start of term.
Vocal Musicianship
A study of aural training and musicianship through group and individual singing of selected classical, popular, and world musics. Admission to the class is based on an individual assessment at the start of term.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 1710 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 1710 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
MUSI 1900 [0.5 credit]
Performance I
Individual vocal or instrumental instruction in classical, traditional or popular idioms, in addition to individual performances and group class instruction.
Performance I
Individual vocal or instrumental instruction in classical, traditional or popular idioms, in addition to individual performances and group class instruction.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): audition and enrolment in the B.Mus. program; first-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): audition and enrolment in the B.Mus. program; first-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
MUSI 1901 [0.5 credit]
Performance II
Individual vocal or instrumental instruction in classical, traditional or popular idioms, in addition to individual performances and group class instruction.
Performance II
Individual vocal or instrumental instruction in classical, traditional or popular idioms, in addition to individual performances and group class instruction.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1900 and enrolment in the B.Mus. program; first-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1900 and enrolment in the B.Mus. program; first-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
MUSI 1914 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble I
Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble I
Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): first-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): first-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
MUSI 1915 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble II
A continuation of MUSI 1914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble II
A continuation of MUSI 1914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): first-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): first-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
MUSI 2005 [0.5 credit]
Jazz History
A survey of jazz styles from their roots in pre-twentieth-century music to contemporary jazz idioms. Among others, areas may include New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz, and fusion.
Jazz History
A survey of jazz styles from their roots in pre-twentieth-century music to contemporary jazz idioms. Among others, areas may include New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz, and fusion.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2205.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2007 [0.5 credit]
Popular Music 1945-1980
History and style of popular musics (primarily in North America and the UK) from the mid-1940s to the 1980s. Among others, areas may include early rock `n' roll, British blues, soul, country, psychedelia, punk, heavy metal, disco, and hip hop.
Popular Music 1945-1980
History and style of popular musics (primarily in North America and the UK) from the mid-1940s to the 1980s. Among others, areas may include early rock `n' roll, British blues, soul, country, psychedelia, punk, heavy metal, disco, and hip hop.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2207, MUSI 2208, MUSI 2209.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2008 [0.5 credit]
Music of the World's Peoples
A survey of musical practices from various regions of the world, with an emphasis on the sociocultural contexts in which those musics are created and performed.
Music of the World's Peoples
A survey of musical practices from various regions of the world, with an emphasis on the sociocultural contexts in which those musics are created and performed.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2300.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2300.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2108 [0.5 credit]
Western Art Music 1750-1900
Introduction to Western art music of the Classical and Romantic periods. Major musical genres, compositional practices, and cultural contexts are investigated through examinations of representative works.
Western Art Music 1750-1900
Introduction to Western art music of the Classical and Romantic periods. Major musical genres, compositional practices, and cultural contexts are investigated through examinations of representative works.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 1001 (no longer offered), MUSI 2103 (no longer offered), MUSI 3408 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): Second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): Second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2203 [0.5 credit]
Music in Canada
Through an examination of selected genres, practices and creators, this course explores the ways that music participates in shaping complex and often conflicting ideas about nation, place, and identity in Canada.
Music in Canada
Through an examination of selected genres, practices and creators, this course explores the ways that music participates in shaping complex and often conflicting ideas about nation, place, and identity in Canada.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2006 (no longer offered), MUSI 3103 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2601 [0.5 credit]
Orchestration and Instrumentation
Introduction to the fundamentals of effective and professional arranging. All aspects of the various instruments of the orchestra and matters having to do with the practicalities of orchestration for both small and large ensembles, and accepted professional standards of score presentation.
Orchestration and Instrumentation
Introduction to the fundamentals of effective and professional arranging. All aspects of the various instruments of the orchestra and matters having to do with the practicalities of orchestration for both small and large ensembles, and accepted professional standards of score presentation.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1701 and MUSI 1711, or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours a week.
Lecture three hours a week.
MUSI 2602 [0.5 credit]
Composition I
Introduction to theories and technicalities involved in original creative writing through the preparation of individual assignments; based in the practice of recent music in the Western Classical tradition while allowing for the music of other Western styles and traditions to be addressed.
Composition I
Introduction to theories and technicalities involved in original creative writing through the preparation of individual assignments; based in the practice of recent music in the Western Classical tradition while allowing for the music of other Western styles and traditions to be addressed.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1701 and MUSI 1711, or permission of the instructor. MUSI 2601 is recommended.
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1701 and MUSI 1711, or permission of the instructor. MUSI 2601 is recommended.
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
MUSI 2605 [0.5 credit]
Choral Conducting
Introduction to the special stylistic features of choral music from the Renaissance to the present as well as to a variety of practical techniques (vocal production, gesture, conducting patterns, diction, etc.).
Choral Conducting
Introduction to the special stylistic features of choral music from the Renaissance to the present as well as to a variety of practical techniques (vocal production, gesture, conducting patterns, diction, etc.).
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2607 [0.5 credit]
Digital Music Literacy
Introduction to music theories and approaches with a focus on knowledge of digital music practices. This course embraces a variety of musical styles and traditions, and introduces students to Digital Audio Workstations, sound synthesis, analytical techniques of sound, and related concepts.
Digital Music Literacy
Introduction to music theories and approaches with a focus on knowledge of digital music practices. This course embraces a variety of musical styles and traditions, and introduces students to Digital Audio Workstations, sound synthesis, analytical techniques of sound, and related concepts.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2609 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1700 and enrolment in the BMus or BA Music program, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2609 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1700 and enrolment in the BMus or BA Music program, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2608 [0.5 credit]
Fundamentals of Electronic Music Production
Theory and practice of electronic music creation, focusing on audio editing, synthesis, sampling, beat-making, signal processing, and sound design, using a variety of professional-grade software packages.
Fundamentals of Electronic Music Production
Theory and practice of electronic music creation, focusing on audio editing, synthesis, sampling, beat-making, signal processing, and sound design, using a variety of professional-grade software packages.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2603 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2607 and enrolment in the BMus or BA Music program, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week, plus individual studio time.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2603 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2607 and enrolment in the BMus or BA Music program, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week, plus individual studio time.
MUSI 2700 [0.5 credit]
Western Art Music Theory
A continuation of the study of the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and formal structures of music of the common-practice period and early twentieth century, with emphasis on chromaticism and the development of analytical and written skills.
Western Art Music Theory
A continuation of the study of the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and formal structures of music of the common-practice period and early twentieth century, with emphasis on chromaticism and the development of analytical and written skills.
MUSI 2701 [0.5 credit]
Jazz and Popular Music Theory
A study of the rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and formal structures of jazz and popular musics.
Jazz and Popular Music Theory
A study of the rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and formal structures of jazz and popular musics.
MUSI 2703 [0.5 credit]
Practical Keyboard Skills
A practical study of rhythm, harmony and melody on the keyboard, with an emphasis on vocal and instrumental accompaniment and the development of improvisation skills in a variety of styles.
Practical Keyboard Skills
A practical study of rhythm, harmony and melody on the keyboard, with an emphasis on vocal and instrumental accompaniment and the development of improvisation skills in a variety of styles.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1701 or permission of the instructor.
Labs three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1701 or permission of the instructor.
Labs three hours a week.
MUSI 2710 [0.5 credit]
Aural Training
A continuation of the study of ear training, sight singing, and basic keyboard skills in relation to classical and popular musics, with emphasis on melodic, harmonic, and formal structures.
Aural Training
A continuation of the study of ear training, sight singing, and basic keyboard skills in relation to classical and popular musics, with emphasis on melodic, harmonic, and formal structures.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1710 or MUSI 1720, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1710 or MUSI 1720, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 2711 [0.5 credit]
Applied Rhythmic Training II
A continuation of the study of the rhythm of common-practice and world musics, with emphasis on applied performance, movement, and dictation.
Applied Rhythmic Training II
A continuation of the study of the rhythm of common-practice and world musics, with emphasis on applied performance, movement, and dictation.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1700, MUSI 1711.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1700, MUSI 1711.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
MUSI 2900 [0.5 credit]
Performance III
A continuation of MUSI 1901.
Performance III
A continuation of MUSI 1901.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and MUSI 1901 with a C+ or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and MUSI 1901 with a C+ or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
MUSI 2901 [0.5 credit]
Performance IV
A continuation of MUSI 2900.
Performance IV
A continuation of MUSI 2900.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and MUSI 2900 with a B- or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and MUSI 2900 with a B- or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
MUSI 2914 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble III
A continuation of MUSI 1915. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble III
A continuation of MUSI 1915. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week through either the fall or winter term, and participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week through either the fall or winter term, and participation in concerts.
MUSI 2915 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble IV
A continuation of MUSI 2914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble IV
A continuation of MUSI 2914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
MUSI 3000 [0.5 credit]
Careers in Music
An introduction to building a career in music and music-adjacent disciplines. Topics include finances; issues in freelance work and private teaching; overview of recording arts; collaboration with other disciplines; and graduate school and other specialized study. Culminates in the creation of an individualized professional portfolio.
Careers in Music
An introduction to building a career in music and music-adjacent disciplines. Topics include finances; issues in freelance work and private teaching; overview of recording arts; collaboration with other disciplines; and graduate school and other specialized study. Culminates in the creation of an individualized professional portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
MUSI 3006 [0.5 credit]
Popular Music Before 1945
Selected aspects of the development of popular musics (primarily in North American and the UK) from their roots in the nineteenth century until the mid-1940s. Among others, areas may include blues, country, ragtime and other early commercial dance musics, Tin Pan Alley, and musical theatre.
Popular Music Before 1945
Selected aspects of the development of popular musics (primarily in North American and the UK) from their roots in the nineteenth century until the mid-1940s. Among others, areas may include blues, country, ragtime and other early commercial dance musics, Tin Pan Alley, and musical theatre.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2006 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 3008 [0.5 credit]
Popular Music 1980-2000
History and style of popular musics (primarily in North America and the UK) from the mid-1980s to 2000. Among others, areas may include hip hop, new wave, heavy metal, electronic dance music, country, alternative rock, and R&B.
Popular Music 1980-2000
History and style of popular musics (primarily in North America and the UK) from the mid-1980s to 2000. Among others, areas may include hip hop, new wave, heavy metal, electronic dance music, country, alternative rock, and R&B.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 3105 [0.5 credit]
Western Art Music: 1600 to 1750
The Baroque era of western art music is considered in the contexts of politics and political structures, technologies, religious thought, aesthetics, compositional practices, identities, social and economic organization, technologies of musical creation and dissemination, and genre.
Western Art Music: 1600 to 1750
The Baroque era of western art music is considered in the contexts of politics and political structures, technologies, religious thought, aesthetics, compositional practices, identities, social and economic organization, technologies of musical creation and dissemination, and genre.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 2101 (no longer offered), MUSI 2102 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 3106 [0.5 credit]
Global Popular Music
An examination of selected popular musics from Africa, Asia, South America, Australia, and the Caribbean with special attention paid to music as an expression of cultural identity.
Global Popular Music
An examination of selected popular musics from Africa, Asia, South America, Australia, and the Caribbean with special attention paid to music as an expression of cultural identity.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 3200 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of musicology, theory or composition. The course offerings change from year to year.
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of musicology, theory or composition. The course offerings change from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 3201 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of musicology, theory or composition. The course offerings change from year to year.
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of musicology, theory or composition. The course offerings change from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 3205 [0.5 credit]
Individual Specialized Academic Studies
Course designed for BMus or BA Music Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through courses in theory, musicology, or composition. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Individual Specialized Academic Studies
Course designed for BMus or BA Music Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through courses in theory, musicology, or composition. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Prerequisite(s): Proposal, permission of the Program, and a minimum GPA of 9.0 in Music.
Individual instruction.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 3206 [0.5 credit]
Specialized Performance Studies
Course designed for BMus Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through performance. Course content is planned with the Supervisor of Performance Studies, and instruction is one-on-one.
Specialized Performance Studies
Course designed for BMus Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through performance. Course content is planned with the Supervisor of Performance Studies, and instruction is one-on-one.
Prerequisite(s): Proposal, permission of the Program, and a minimum GPA of 9.0 in Music.
Individual instruction.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 3301 [0.5 credit]
Music, Religion, and Spiritual Practices
An examination of the relationships between music, worship, spirituality and belief systems in various contexts and cultures through selected case studies.
Music, Religion, and Spiritual Practices
An examination of the relationships between music, worship, spirituality and belief systems in various contexts and cultures through selected case studies.
MUSI 3303 [0.5 credit]
Principles and Practices of Music Therapy
Literature, practice and theory of music therapy. The use of music (improvisation, the voice, and reception) with various populations, including children and adults with special needs, people in long term care, people with neurological disorders, and in palliative care.
Principles and Practices of Music Therapy
Literature, practice and theory of music therapy. The use of music (improvisation, the voice, and reception) with various populations, including children and adults with special needs, people in long term care, people with neurological disorders, and in palliative care.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 3304 [0.5 credit]
Principles and Practices of Music Pedagogy
An examination of key issues in music education theory and practice. Students will develop knowledge, skills, materials, and methodologies for teaching music to students of all ages and abilities in schools, private studios, and community settings.
Principles and Practices of Music Pedagogy
An examination of key issues in music education theory and practice. Students will develop knowledge, skills, materials, and methodologies for teaching music to students of all ages and abilities in schools, private studios, and community settings.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 3308 [0.5 credit]
Music and Environment
Examines the role of music in responding to the environment including climate change activism, communication, and education. Engages with interdisciplinary scholarship from ecomusicology, soundscape ecology, sensory ethnography, and bioacoustics, as well as composition and sound art.
Music and Environment
Examines the role of music in responding to the environment including climate change activism, communication, and education. Engages with interdisciplinary scholarship from ecomusicology, soundscape ecology, sensory ethnography, and bioacoustics, as well as composition and sound art.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 3402 [0.5 credit]
Film Music
The use of music in film, from the silent era to the present day, studying the techniques, styles and theory of film music through the examination of selected scenes.
Film Music
The use of music in film, from the silent era to the present day, studying the techniques, styles and theory of film music through the examination of selected scenes.
Also listed as FILM 3402.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week, screening two hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week, screening two hours a week.
MUSI 3602 [0.5 credit]
Composition II
Designed to enable students to develop abilities in the writing of original music. The study and appreciation of modern and contemporary styles and techniques are encouraged.
Composition II
Designed to enable students to develop abilities in the writing of original music. The study and appreciation of modern and contemporary styles and techniques are encouraged.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 3600 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2601, MUSI 2602, and MUSI 2700, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures, workshops, and individual consultations three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 3600 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2601, MUSI 2602, and MUSI 2700, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures, workshops, and individual consultations three hours a week.
MUSI 3603 [0.5 credit]
Computer Music Techniques
An introduction to the techniques of sound synthesis primarily through practical experience at the digital synthesizer and computer. The basics of machine operations, software and computer applications to composition and synthesis. Enrolment is limited.
Computer Music Techniques
An introduction to the techniques of sound synthesis primarily through practical experience at the digital synthesizer and computer. The basics of machine operations, software and computer applications to composition and synthesis. Enrolment is limited.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing, MUSI 2608 and enrolment in the BMus or BA Music program, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week, plus individual studio time.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing, MUSI 2608 and enrolment in the BMus or BA Music program, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week, plus individual studio time.
MUSI 3604 [0.5 credit]
Computer Music Projects
Examination of the various applications of digital equipment through the realization of original projects. Students may focus on studio composition, software development or analytic research. Appropriate compositional techniques and problem solving strategies are also discussed. Enrolment is limited.
Computer Music Projects
Examination of the various applications of digital equipment through the realization of original projects. Students may focus on studio composition, software development or analytic research. Appropriate compositional techniques and problem solving strategies are also discussed. Enrolment is limited.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing, and either MUSI 2603 (no longer offered) or MUSI 2608, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week, plus individual studio time.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing, and either MUSI 2603 (no longer offered) or MUSI 2608, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week, plus individual studio time.
MUSI 3605 [0.5 credit]
Instrumental Conducting
Introduction to the practice of conducting Instrumental music from the Classical era to the present as well as to a variety of practical techniques (rehearsal techniques, gesture, conducting patterns, score study, etc.).
Instrumental Conducting
Introduction to the practice of conducting Instrumental music from the Classical era to the present as well as to a variety of practical techniques (rehearsal techniques, gesture, conducting patterns, score study, etc.).
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing in the B.Mus. program or permission of the instructor.
MUSI 3606 [0.5 credit]
Live Sound
Theoretical, practical and technical requirements of audio production in live settings are explored through lectures, demonstrations and workshops. Students develop skills in critical listening, pre-production planning, microphone selection and placement, signal routing, audio processing, monitoring and mixing for live event venues. Prior experience not required.
Live Sound
Theoretical, practical and technical requirements of audio production in live settings are explored through lectures, demonstrations and workshops. Students develop skills in critical listening, pre-production planning, microphone selection and placement, signal routing, audio processing, monitoring and mixing for live event venues. Prior experience not required.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
Lectures and workshops three hours a week.
MUSI 3700 [0.5 credit]
Seminar in Theory and Analysis
Selected topic in music theory. Topics will change yearly and may include: methods of music analysis, analysis of selected works, styles and structures of common practice or post common practice period, music, modal, tonal, or post-tonal counterpoint, history of music theory.
Seminar in Theory and Analysis
Selected topic in music theory. Topics will change yearly and may include: methods of music analysis, analysis of selected works, styles and structures of common practice or post common practice period, music, modal, tonal, or post-tonal counterpoint, history of music theory.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 3500.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2700 or permission of the instructor.
Seminars three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2700 or permission of the instructor.
Seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 3701 [0.5 credit]
Jazz Styles and Structures
Techniques of arranging and composition for small and large ensembles will be studied through the examination of selected works drawn from the jazz repertoire. Works will be selected for stylistic and theoretical analysis, for exercises in aural recognition, and for arranging purposes.
Jazz Styles and Structures
Techniques of arranging and composition for small and large ensembles will be studied through the examination of selected works drawn from the jazz repertoire. Works will be selected for stylistic and theoretical analysis, for exercises in aural recognition, and for arranging purposes.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4203 (taken in 1994-95) or MUSI 4204 (taken in 1995-96).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2701 or permission of the instructor.
Workshops three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4203 (taken in 1994-95) or MUSI 4204 (taken in 1995-96).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2701 or permission of the instructor.
Workshops three hours a week.
MUSI 3702 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Physics and Psychoacoustics of Music
Basic topics in physics and psychoacoustics, with an emphasis on those concepts that are most useful for music performance, analysis, composition, and musicology.
Introduction to Physics and Psychoacoustics of Music
Basic topics in physics and psychoacoustics, with an emphasis on those concepts that are most useful for music performance, analysis, composition, and musicology.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Lectures three hours a week.
MUSI 3703 [0.5 credit]
Improvisation in Theory and Practice
Selected forms of improvisation from diverse musical and cultural traditions. In addition to weekly seminar meetings, the class will engage in experiential forms of learning by actively improvising in a weekly performance-oriented seminar.
Improvisation in Theory and Practice
Selected forms of improvisation from diverse musical and cultural traditions. In addition to weekly seminar meetings, the class will engage in experiential forms of learning by actively improvising in a weekly performance-oriented seminar.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Discussion and performance seminars three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing.
Discussion and performance seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 3710 [0.5 credit]
Global Music Theories
A continuation of the study of aural skills, theory and analysis that focuses on global traditions in musicianship and musical practices.
Global Music Theories
A continuation of the study of aural skills, theory and analysis that focuses on global traditions in musicianship and musical practices.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1700, MUSI 2710 and MUSI 2711, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1700, MUSI 2710 and MUSI 2711, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
MUSI 3720 [0.5 credit]
Global Music Traditions
A thematic exploration of key issues in global music studies through case studies analysis of selected music cultures. Topics may include cultural revival, gender and sexuality, colonialism, globalization, migration and diaspora, tradition and innovation, and race, class, and intersectionality.
Global Music Traditions
A thematic exploration of key issues in global music studies through case studies analysis of selected music cultures. Topics may include cultural revival, gender and sexuality, colonialism, globalization, migration and diaspora, tradition and innovation, and race, class, and intersectionality.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 3900 [0.5 credit]
Performance V
A continuation of MUSI 2901.
Performance V
A continuation of MUSI 2901.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in B. Mus. and MUSI 2901 with a B- or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in B. Mus. and MUSI 2901 with a B- or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
MUSI 3901 [0.5 credit]
Performance VI
A continuation of MUSI 3900.
Performance VI
A continuation of MUSI 3900.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in the B.Mus. program and MUSI 3900 with a B- or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in the B.Mus. program and MUSI 3900 with a B- or higher, or permission of the Discipline.
MUSI 3914 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble V
A continuation of MUSI 2915. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble V
A continuation of MUSI 2915. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
MUSI 3915 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble VI
A continuation of MUSI 3914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble VI
A continuation of MUSI 3914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
MUSI 4000 [0.5 credit]
Performance VII
This is an optional performance course for B.Mus. students with high academic standing.
Performance VII
This is an optional performance course for B.Mus. students with high academic standing.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4900, MUSI 4901, MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus., MUSI 3901, A- or higher average in second- and third-year MUSI performance courses, and permission of the Music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4900, MUSI 4901, MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus., MUSI 3901, A- or higher average in second- and third-year MUSI performance courses, and permission of the Music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 4001 [0.5 credit]
Performance VIII
This is an optional performance course for B.Mus. students with high academic standing.
Performance VIII
This is an optional performance course for B.Mus. students with high academic standing.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4002, MUSI 4003, MUSI 4900 (no longer offered), MUSI 4901, MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus. standing, MUSI 4000 with A- or higher, and permission of the Music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4002, MUSI 4003, MUSI 4900 (no longer offered), MUSI 4901, MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus. standing, MUSI 4000 with A- or higher, and permission of the Music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 4002 [0.5 credit]
Graduating Demo Recording
A graduation recording of substantial duration arranged in consultation with the discipline. A proposal must be submitted one week before the last day for course changes. All recording costs must be borne by the student.
Graduating Demo Recording
A graduation recording of substantial duration arranged in consultation with the discipline. A proposal must be submitted one week before the last day for course changes. All recording costs must be borne by the student.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4001, MUSI 4003, MUSI 4900 (no longer offered), MUSI 4901 (no longer offered), MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus., MUSI 4000 with a grade of A- or higher, and permission of both the relevant associate music instructor and the music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4001, MUSI 4003, MUSI 4900 (no longer offered), MUSI 4901 (no longer offered), MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus., MUSI 4000 with a grade of A- or higher, and permission of both the relevant associate music instructor and the music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 4003 [0.5 credit]
Graduating Recital
Public recital arranged in consultation with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. An outline of the program must be submitted one week before the last day for course changes.
Graduating Recital
Public recital arranged in consultation with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. An outline of the program must be submitted one week before the last day for course changes.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4001, MUSI 4002, MUSI 4900, MUSI 4901, MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus., MUSI 4000 with A- or higher, and permission of both the relevant associate music instructor and the Music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4001, MUSI 4002, MUSI 4900, MUSI 4901, MUSI 4907.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in B.Mus., MUSI 4000 with A- or higher, and permission of both the relevant associate music instructor and the Music performance supervisor.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 4005 [0.5 credit]
Issues in Jazz Studies
An examination of key issues in the study of jazz including history/historiography, gender, genre, race, politics, identity and performance.
Issues in Jazz Studies
An examination of key issues in the study of jazz including history/historiography, gender, genre, race, politics, identity and performance.
MUSI 4006 [0.5 credit]
Issues in Popular Music Studies
An introduction to current issues in the study of popular music. The course will be organized around a series of case studies.
Issues in Popular Music Studies
An introduction to current issues in the study of popular music. The course will be organized around a series of case studies.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing, and at least one of MUSI 2005 or MUSI 2007.
Seminars three hours a week.
Seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4008 [0.5 credit]
Exploratory Music
An examination of experimental and avant-garde musical practices from a variety of musical and cultural locations including the New York School (John Cage et al), musique concrete, minimalism, the AACM, free jazz, and free improvisation.
Exploratory Music
An examination of experimental and avant-garde musical practices from a variety of musical and cultural locations including the New York School (John Cage et al), musique concrete, minimalism, the AACM, free jazz, and free improvisation.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 4101 [0.5 credit]
Music and Identity
An exploration of the relationship between music, identity politics and identity formation and negotiation. Topics may include gender and sexuality, dis/ability, race, place, class, language, community and belonging.
Music and Identity
An exploration of the relationship between music, identity politics and identity formation and negotiation. Topics may include gender and sexuality, dis/ability, race, place, class, language, community and belonging.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 4102 [0.5 credit]
Music and Ethnography in Ottawa
In this course, students explore issues and practices in ethnographic music research through an individual project based in the city of Ottawa and/or neighbouring communities. Topics explored include research ethics, project design, interviewing techniques, field notes, participant observation, and researcher positionality.
Music and Ethnography in Ottawa
In this course, students explore issues and practices in ethnographic music research through an individual project based in the city of Ottawa and/or neighbouring communities. Topics explored include research ethics, project design, interviewing techniques, field notes, participant observation, and researcher positionality.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing, or permission of the Program.
Seminars three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing, or permission of the Program.
Seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4103 [0.5 credit]
Music, Migration and Diaspora in Canada
Critical analyses of diversity and multiculturalism narratives in Canada and the ways that settler-colonialism influenced and continues to inform music creation and expression. Various case studies examine the diversity of musics found in Canada and the ways that music facilitates belonging and/or exclusion to community.
Music, Migration and Diaspora in Canada
Critical analyses of diversity and multiculturalism narratives in Canada and the ways that settler-colonialism influenced and continues to inform music creation and expression. Various case studies examine the diversity of musics found in Canada and the ways that music facilitates belonging and/or exclusion to community.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as MUSI 5015, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminars three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as MUSI 5015, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4104 [0.5 credit]
Issues in Indigenous Music Studies
This course examines contemporary issues and priorities for First Peoples, including political activism, language and cultural maintenance and revitalization, environmental justice and the land, reconciliation, and decolonization.
Issues in Indigenous Music Studies
This course examines contemporary issues and priorities for First Peoples, including political activism, language and cultural maintenance and revitalization, environmental justice and the land, reconciliation, and decolonization.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as MUSI 5016, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminars three hours a week.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as MUSI 5016, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4105 [0.5 credit]
Issues in African Music Studies
An examination of issues related to the study of African musics, including colonialism, ownership and copyright, politics and protest, social change, and globalization.
Issues in African Music Studies
An examination of issues related to the study of African musics, including colonialism, ownership and copyright, politics and protest, social change, and globalization.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing, or permission of the Program.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4108 [0.5 credit]
Popular Music in 12 Songs
A detailed investigation into aesthetic, historical, social, technological, aesthetic, and industrial issues in popular music through the lens of twelve culturally significant songs and recordings from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Popular Music in 12 Songs
A detailed investigation into aesthetic, historical, social, technological, aesthetic, and industrial issues in popular music through the lens of twelve culturally significant songs and recordings from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 4200 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of either musicology, theory or composition. The course offerings change from year to year.
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of either musicology, theory or composition. The course offerings change from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4201 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of either musicology, theory or composition. Course offerings change from year to year.
Special Topics
Courses focusing on one selected aspect of music, in the area of either musicology, theory or composition. Course offerings change from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4205 [0.5 credit]
Individual Specialized Academic Studies
Course designed for BMus or BA Music Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through courses in theory, musicology, or composition. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Individual Specialized Academic Studies
Course designed for BMus or BA Music Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through courses in theory, musicology, or composition. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Prerequisite(s): proposal, permission of the Program, and a minimum GPA of 9.0 in Music.
Individual instruction.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 4206 [0.5 credit]
Specialized Performance Studies
Course designed for BMus Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through performance. Course content is planned with the Supervisor of Performance Studies, and instruction is one-on-one.
Specialized Performance Studies
Course designed for BMus Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through performance. Course content is planned with the Supervisor of Performance Studies, and instruction is one-on-one.
Prerequisite(s): Proposal, permission of the Program, and a minimum GPA of 9.0 in Music.
Individual instruction.
Individual instruction.
MUSI 4209 [1.0 credit]
Individual Specialized Academic Studies
A course designed for BMus or BA Music Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through courses in theory, musicology or composition. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Individual Specialized Academic Studies
A course designed for BMus or BA Music Honours students who have acquired an extensive background through courses in theory, musicology or composition. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Prerequisite(s): proposal, permission of the Program, and a minimum GPA of 9.0 in Music.
MUSI 4301 [0.5 credit]
Music, Community, and Social Justice
An examination of the varied roles that music can play in fostering community and as an agent of positive social change. How can our work as composers, musicians, scholars, educators, and students participate in the transformation of unjust social relations and unequal distributions of power?.
Music, Community, and Social Justice
An examination of the varied roles that music can play in fostering community and as an agent of positive social change. How can our work as composers, musicians, scholars, educators, and students participate in the transformation of unjust social relations and unequal distributions of power?.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4306 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Seminars three hours per week.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4306 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Seminars three hours per week.
MUSI 4302 [0.5 credit]
Music Industries and Histories
An examination of significant historical, technological, aesthetic, and cultural issues in music industries principally focusing on the late 19th century to the present. Topics considered range from the emergence of mass print and electronic dissemination to the wide-ranging impacts of digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
Music Industries and Histories
An examination of significant historical, technological, aesthetic, and cultural issues in music industries principally focusing on the late 19th century to the present. Topics considered range from the emergence of mass print and electronic dissemination to the wide-ranging impacts of digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
Also listed as COMS 4302.
Precludes additional credit for COMS 3404 (no longer offered), MUSI 3403 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Precludes additional credit for COMS 3404 (no longer offered), MUSI 3403 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 4305 [0.5 credit]
Western Art Music: 1900 to the Present
Study of the major movements and figures in 20th and 21st century music, including impressionism, expressionism, neoclassicism, nationalism, serialism, and minimalism.
Western Art Music: 1900 to the Present
Study of the major movements and figures in 20th and 21st century music, including impressionism, expressionism, neoclassicism, nationalism, serialism, and minimalism.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 3409 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 4309 [0.5 credit]
Music and Disability
This course investigates the varied and complex intersections between music and disability in the past and present. Topics will include disability and musical creation and performance, representations of disability in classical and popular music, and music and invisible and intellectual disability.
Music and Disability
This course investigates the varied and complex intersections between music and disability in the past and present. Topics will include disability and musical creation and performance, representations of disability in classical and popular music, and music and invisible and intellectual disability.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Seminars three hours per week.
Seminars three hours per week.
MUSI 4602 [0.5 credit]
Composition III
A continuation of MUSI 3602, focusing on the development of creative individual approaches to music composition.
Composition III
A continuation of MUSI 3602, focusing on the development of creative individual approaches to music composition.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 3600 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 3602, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures, workshops, and individual consultations three hours a week.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 3600 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 3602, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures, workshops, and individual consultations three hours a week.
MUSI 4700 [0.5 credit]
Advanced Seminar in Theory and Analysis
A study of a selected topic in music theory. Topics will change yearly and may include: methods of music analysis; analysis of selected works; styles and structures of common practice or post common practice period music; modal, tonal, or post-tonal counterpoint; history of music theory.
Advanced Seminar in Theory and Analysis
A study of a selected topic in music theory. Topics will change yearly and may include: methods of music analysis; analysis of selected works; styles and structures of common practice or post common practice period music; modal, tonal, or post-tonal counterpoint; history of music theory.
MUSI 4701 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Jazz Arranging
The art of arranging for small and large jazz ensembles is introduced through analysis of recordings by artists such as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, Rob McConnell, and Maria Schneider. Topics may include 2-, 3-, and 4-voice writing in a jazz idiom.
Introduction to Jazz Arranging
The art of arranging for small and large jazz ensembles is introduced through analysis of recordings by artists such as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, Rob McConnell, and Maria Schneider. Topics may include 2-, 3-, and 4-voice writing in a jazz idiom.
MUSI 4704 [0.5 credit]
Tonal Counterpoint
This course deals with the development of writing skills and knowledge of counterpoint as manifest in the Baroque era. Topics may include invention, canon, fugue, dance forms, the compositional language of J. S. Bach, and contrapuntal techniques in the late 18th century and beyond.
Tonal Counterpoint
This course deals with the development of writing skills and knowledge of counterpoint as manifest in the Baroque era. Topics may include invention, canon, fugue, dance forms, the compositional language of J. S. Bach, and contrapuntal techniques in the late 18th century and beyond.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2700, or permission of the instructor.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4705 [0.5 credit]
Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis
Fundamentals of post-tonal music theory and analysis. Neo-tonal, atonal, twelve-tone and third-stream jazz. Students will develop the critical skills to understand these theoretical tools and be conversant with some of the aesthetic precepts associated with them.
Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis
Fundamentals of post-tonal music theory and analysis. Neo-tonal, atonal, twelve-tone and third-stream jazz. Students will develop the critical skills to understand these theoretical tools and be conversant with some of the aesthetic precepts associated with them.
Prerequisite(s): MUSI 2700 or permission of the instructor.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
MUSI 4706 [0.5 credit]
Sound Studies
Explores the interdisciplinary field of sound studies through topics including sound art, field recording, space/time, technology, ecology, and media.
Sound Studies
Explores the interdisciplinary field of sound studies through topics including sound art, field recording, space/time, technology, ecology, and media.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures three hours per week.
Lectures three hours per week.
MUSI 4707 [0.5 credit]
Songwriting
Equips students with skills to create original songs through an examination of the structure, process, and techniques of popular songwriting from Bob Dylan and The Beatles to Taylor Swift and Rihanna.
Songwriting
Equips students with skills to create original songs through an examination of the structure, process, and techniques of popular songwriting from Bob Dylan and The Beatles to Taylor Swift and Rihanna.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Program.
Lectures and workshops three hours per week.
MUSI 4800 [0.5 credit]
Practicum in Music
Practical experience in music-specific projects such as recording studios, librarianship, research, multimedia, etc. at local institutions. Placements are planned with the Practica Supervisor and a proposal is required. A maximum of one credit of practicum may be offered in fulfillment of Music requirements.
Practicum in Music
Practical experience in music-specific projects such as recording studios, librarianship, research, multimedia, etc. at local institutions. Placements are planned with the Practica Supervisor and a proposal is required. A maximum of one credit of practicum may be offered in fulfillment of Music requirements.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): BMus or BA Music Honours students with third or fourth-year standing and minimum 9.0 CGPA.
Prerequisite(s): BMus or BA Music Honours students with third or fourth-year standing and minimum 9.0 CGPA.
MUSI 4906 [1.0 credit]
Honours Portfolio in Composition
The course requires the composition of an original work of substantial proportions, with an accompanying analytical paper. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Honours Portfolio in Composition
The course requires the composition of an original work of substantial proportions, with an accompanying analytical paper. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4600.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth -year standing, MUSI 3602, proposal, permission of the Program.
Precludes additional credit for MUSI 4600.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth -year standing, MUSI 3602, proposal, permission of the Program.
MUSI 4908 [1.0 credit]
Honours Essay in Musicology
An Honours research essay of approximately 50 pages. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Honours Essay in Musicology
An Honours research essay of approximately 50 pages. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing, minimum 10.0 CGPA, proposal, and permission of the Program.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing, minimum 10.0 CGPA, proposal, and permission of the Program.
MUSI 4909 [1.0 credit]
Portfolio in New Media
The course requires the creation of an original work (or works) of substantial proportions using applications in the electronic studios. A high level of independence and originality will be required. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Portfolio in New Media
The course requires the creation of an original work (or works) of substantial proportions using applications in the electronic studios. A high level of independence and originality will be required. Course content is planned with a Faculty Supervisor, and instruction is one-on-one.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing, proposal, and permission of the Program.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing, proposal, and permission of the Program.
MUSI 4914 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble VII
A continuation of MUSI 3915. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble VII
A continuation of MUSI 3915. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term and participation in concerts.
MUSI 4915 [0.0 credit]
Ensemble VIII
A continuation of MUSI 4914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Ensemble VIII
A continuation of MUSI 4914. Participation in a vocal or instrumental ensemble, by arrangement with the Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies. Graded Sat/Uns.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term participation in concerts.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in the B.Mus. program and permission of the Ensemble Director.
Ensemble work approximately two hours a week throughout either the fall or winter term participation in concerts.
Note: Not all courses listed are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for the current session and to determine the term of offering, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca.
Summer session: some of the courses listed in this Calendar are offered during the summer. Hours and scheduling for summer session courses will differ significantly from those reported in the fall/winter Calendar. To determine the scheduling and hours for summer session classes, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca