Programs of Study: Courses
Fall 2009
MUS 10111 - Section 01: Intro to 18th Century Music (CRN 18144)
Course Description:
Introduction to the major composers and musical genres of the 18th century. Composers studied include Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, C.P.E. Bach, Gluck, Mozart, and Haydn; musical genres studied include the cantata, concerto, sonata, fantasia, quartet, opera, and oratorio. Readings include reactions and criticisms of 18th-century listeners, and writings of modern music scholars.
MUS 10131 - Section 01: Introduction To Jazz (CRN 12434)
Course Description:
A music appreciation course requiring no musical background and no prerequisites. General coverage of the significant musicians, styles, and structures of jazz music.
MUS 10201 - Section 01: Brass Ensemble (CRN 12129)
Course Description:
Special groups of brass instruments meeting weekly. Literature covered will depend upon the nature of the ensembles organized and student enrollment. Will not apply to overload.
MUS 10203 - Section 01: Percussion Ensemble (CRN 12304)
Course Description:
This ensemble is organized according to the needs of those who audition through the regular process at the beginning of each semester. It consists of those for whom the larger ensembles are inappropriate. Examples include Clarinet Choir, Percussion Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble and other band instrument ensembles.
MUS 10203 - Section 01: Percussion Ensemble (CRN 12304)
Course Description:
This ensemble is organized according to the needs of those who audition through the regular process at the beginning of each semester. It consists of those for whom the larger ensembles are inappropriate. Examples include Clarinet Choir, Percussion Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble and other band instrument ensembles.
MUS 10210 - Section 01: Chorale (CRN 12130)
Course Description:
A select group devoted to the singing of diversified sacred and secular literature. Performs at Notre Dame and on tour.
MUS 10221 - Section 01: Glee Club (CRN 12301)
Course Description:
Notre Dame's traditional all-male choir.
MUS 10222 - Section 01: Collegium Musicum (CRN 12243)
Course Description:
A select choir that concentrates its performances in the medieval and Renaissance repertoire.
MUS 10230 - Section 01: Jazz Band (CRN 12400)
Course Description:
Open through audition.
MUS 10230 - Section 02: Jazz Band (CRN 14261)
Course Description:
Open through audition.
MUS 10231 - Section 01: New Orleans Brass Band (CRN 14260)
Course Description:
An ensemble performing the traditional and new music of New Orleans style brass bands.
MUS 10241 - Section 01: Wind Ensembles (CRN 13604)
Course Description:
Wind and brass ensembles assembled for performance with special instrumentation.
MUS 10244 - Section 01: Concert Band (CRN 12396)
Course Description:
This ensemble prepares and performs traditional and contemporary works for band in a large concert ensemble setting, rehearsing once per week with one concert near the end of the semester.
MUS 10245 - Section 01: University Band (CRN 12390)
Course Description:
This ensemble will provide a traditional concert band experience for brass, woodwind and percussion players in the Notre Dame community. Under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Dye and the Notre Dame band staff, the University band prepares and performs a wide variety of music, including everything from marches, overtures, and pop melodies to the traditional Notre Dame favorites. Rehearsals take place in the Band Building. Those who are able may register for "MUS 10245, University Band" for one credit, although registration is not required to participate. Application for membership can be made by contacting the band office.
MUS 10247 - Section 01: Concert Winds (CRN 12539)
Course Description:
This ensemble prepares and performs traditional and contemporary works for band in a small, wind ensemble setting, rehearsing once per week with one concert near the end of the semester.
MUS 10249 - Section 01: Marching Band (CRN 13337)
Course Description:
Performs for athletic events and special functions. Admission by audition.
MUS 10250 - Section 01: Orchestra (CRN 12394)
Course Description:
Performs music from the 18th to the 20th century in several concerts a year.
MUS 10251 - Section 01: Chamber Orchestra (CRN 12300)
Course Description:
An ensemble of 10-15 players drawn primarily from the ranks of the Notre Dame orchestra.
MUS 20001 - Section 01: Harmny/Voice Leading -Theory I (CRN 12273)
Course Description:
A systematic approach to the understanding and manipulation of the basic materials of music. Required of and intended for music majors and minors, but open to students with sufficient musical background.
MUS 20001 - Section 02: Harmny/Voice Leading -Theory I (CRN 10601)
Course Description:
A systematic approach to the understanding and manipulation of the basic materials of music. Required of and intended for music majors and minors, but open to students with sufficient musical background.
MUS 20011 - Section 01: Musicianship I (CRN 11926)
Course Description:
Exercise and mastery of basic skills in music: melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and keyboard. To be taken along with Theory I and II. Required of all students intending to major in music.
MUS 20011 - Section 02: Musicianship I (CRN 12905)
Course Description:
Exercise and mastery of basic skills in music: melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and keyboard. To be taken along with Theory I and II. Required of all students intending to major in music.
MUS 20101 - Section 01: Medvl & Renaissnce Mus-Hist I (CRN 13552)
Course Description:
A survey of music. The study of the major forms and styles in Western history. Required of music majors and minors, but open to students with sufficient musical background. MUS 20001 and MUS 20002 recommended before taking this class.
MUS 20145 - Section 01: Appreciating World Music (CRN 15322)
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the methods for conducting field research, reviewing live musical events and evaluating World Music recordings. Through discussions about music from South Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia and China, students learn about the musical practices of these other cultures and understand their motivations for musical production. Challenges faced by musicians from colonialism, racism, nationalism, cultural imperialism and commercialism are also engaged. In addition, students are encouraged to "discover" world music among the diasporic communities within their own societies, and get the opportunity to perform music of some of the cultures studied.
MUS 20651 - Section 01: Ensemble Management (CRN 13458)
Course Description:
Students will learn pedagogical techniques to help them manage a large ensemble rehearsal. Students will receive one-on-one instruction from faculty as well as have extensive hands-on opportunities to practice these techniques. Students will serve as directors within the Bandlink program and share responsibility for classroom management, literature selection, instruction, logistics and budget.Students will learn pedagogical techniques to help them manage a large ensemble rehearsal. Students will receive one-on-one instruction from faculty as well as have extensive hands-on opportunities to practice these techniques. Students will serve as directors within the Bandlink program and share responsibility for classroom management, literature selection, instruction, logistics and budget.
MUS 20691 - Section 01: Instrumental Pedagogy (CRN 13457)
Course Description:
Notre Dame students will learn teaching techniques on their instruments through hands-on instruction of local students in the Bandlink program. Instruction will be in individual lessons and small group rehearsals.
MUS 23140 - Section 01: Politics & Economics of Music (CRN 18414)
Course Description:
Using relevant case studies, this course explores various issues pertaining to music: its commodification, use in advertising and to promote tourism, its representation of gender identities and sexuality, its function in furthering nationalism and transnationalism, its role in projecting class, racial and ethnic identities, and its power to ignite political and social change. A widerange of music will be engaged with from Chopin and Celtic music to Balinese dance and the music of the Australian aborigines.
MUS 30003 - Section 01: Chromatic Harmony (Theory III) (CRN 11928)
Course Description:
Studies in advanced harmony.
MUS 30013 - Section 01: Musicianship III (CRN 15175)
Course Description:
Exercise and mastery of more advanced skills in music: melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, keyboard, and score-reading. To be taken along with Theory III and IV. Required of all students majoring in music.
MUS 30013 - Section 02: Musicianship III (CRN 14179)
Course Description:
Exercise and mastery of more advanced skills in music: melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, keyboard, and score-reading. To be taken along with Theory III and IV. Required of all students majoring in music.
MUS 30123 - Section 01: Clascl/Romtic Mus (Hist III) (CRN 11927)
Course Description:
A survey of music. The study of the major forms and styles in Western history. Required of music majors and minors, but open to students with sufficient musical background.
MUS 30200 - Section 01: Chamber Music (CRN 12441)
Course Description:
Study and performance of selected chamber compositions. Intended for music majors or with special permission.
MUS 30213 - Section 01: Opera Workshop (CRN 12567)
Course Description:
The course will end with workshop performances of various scenes, accompanied by piano, taking place in early December at a venue to be announced.
MUS 30400 - Section 01: Piano Performance (CRN 12522)
Course Description:
Master class format designed to give piano students opportunities in which to perform.
MUS 30410 - Section 01: String Performance Techniques (CRN 14146)
Course Description:
Performance class/master class format designed to give string students opportunities to perform.
MUS 30451 - Section 01: Conducting I (CRN 12570)
Course Description:
Basic techniques of instrumental and choral conducting. For music majors only or with special permission of the instructor.
MUS 31360 - Section 01: Composition (CRN 10378)
Course Description:
Creative writing in various forms, conventional and contemporary. Private instruction only. Must sign up in the Music Department Office (105 Crowley Hall) to get department approval.
MUS 37900 - Section 01: Special Studies (CRN 11099)
Course Description:
An individualized course in directed studies under personal supervision of the teacher.
MUS 37900 - Section 02: Special Studies (CRN 17008)
Course Description:
An individualized course in directed studies under personal supervision of the teacher.
MUS 38390 - Section 01: Junior Recital (CRN 10983)
Course Description:
Majors only. Public performance of appropriate solo reperatoire.
MUS 40160 - Section 01: Words and Music (CRN 18603)
Course Description:
We'll investigate three areas: (1) new psychological research on relationships between music and language, (2) how composers of many eras and cultures have set texts to music, (3) the uses of linguistic concepts in music theory and analysis. Units will include phonology (classification of sounds), prosody and rhythm, speech and melody, syntax and grammar, rhetoric and semantics (meaning).
MUS 40402 - Section 01: Piano Collaboration (CRN 16610)
Course Description:
For advanced piano students only, by permission of instructor. Pianists in this course have an opportunity to develop the specific skills and abilities needed for accompanying vocalists and/or instrumentalists, and are encouraged to bring their colleagues to class.
MUS 40441 - Section 01: Diction I - German (CRN 18147)
Course Description:
Elements and expressive techniques of German diction, utilizing the International Phonetic Alphabet.
MUS 40941 - Section 01: Vocal Physiology and Pedagogy (CRN 18145)
Course Description:
In this class, students will learn in detail the anatomical structures and processes that are involved in singing. They will also be introduced to important concepts and issues involved in vocal pedagogy. Coursework will involve class participation, reading assignments, tests, and a small project.
MUS 48390 - Section 01: Senior Recital (CRN 10984)
Course Description:
One full-length (one hour) or two half-length (30 min.) recitals required for all performance majors. An additional full length recital required for honors.
MUS 48900 - Section 01: Senior Thesis (CRN 11050)
Course Description:
Music history and theory majors in the honors program must write a senior thesis. They will be assigned an advisor with whom they will work.
MUS 50024 - Section 01: Chamber Music of Schubert... (CRN 18150)
Course Description:
The course focuses on the practice of hands-on analysis of the chamber music of these three nineteenth-century masters of the genre. Our engagement with the music will be holistic, with light cast on each composer's diverse yet related approaches to aspects of form, tonal-harmonic language, thematic process and motivic development, and rhythmic-metric characteristics. Secondarily, we will study the important historical relationships among Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms, as exhibited in the technical characteristics of their music. Much of the course will address the music itself, but there will also be readings from select secondary sources, which will provide background on the relevant analytical methodologies. Assignments will include weekly listening and score study, readings from the scholarly literature, periodic analysis assignments and short essays, and a final exam and final paper.
MUS 50113 - Section 01: Vocal Sacred Music III (CRN 18152)
Course Description:
This is a seminar designed for graduate students in the Master of Sacred Music program. Senior music majors may also register for this course (under this number only). The course covers sacred art music composed for performance within a liturgical context as well as in public concerts between ca. 1600 and 1750, or from Monteverdi and Schütz to Bach and Handel, and examines this repertoire both from an analytical perspective and in relation to its various performance contexts. Students will read a variety of studies from the disciplines of musicology, music theory, and church history (including papal legislation on music), and will be expected to be able to discuss the works under consideration in class from a variety of perspectives, including musical form, musical style, harmonic language, and liturgical use. Questions of the relationship between music and liturgy, devotion, spirituality, and contemporary culture will also be considered. The hymnody of this era will also be examined. The course will also include the examination of contemporary musical sources, both print and manuscript. Students will be asked to make several class presentations throughout the semester, and to write a research paper of at least 15 pages. Grading will be based on class participation, class presentations, and the research paper.
MUS 50440 - Section 01: Vocal Performance Techniques (CRN 18149)
Course Description:
Development of interpretation skills pertaining to songs and operatic literature. For advanced undergraduate students only.
MUS 51360 - Section 01: Composition (CRN 10382)
Course Description:
Creative writing in various forms, conventional and contemporary. Private instruction only. Must sign up in the Music Department Office (105 Crowley Hall) to get department approval.
MUS 60113 - Section 01: Vocal Sacred Music III (CRN 18148)
Course Description:
This is a seminar designed for graduate students in the Master of Sacred Music program. It covers sacred art music composed for performance within a liturgical context as well as in public concerts between ca. 1600 and 1750, or from Monteverdi and Schütz to Bach and Handel, and examines this repertoire both from an analytical perspective and in relation to its various performance contexts. Students will read a variety of studies from the disciplines of musicology, music theory, and church history (including papal legislation on music), and will be expected to be able to discuss the works under consideration in class from a variety of perspectives, including musical form, musical style, harmonic language, and liturgical use. Questions of the relationship between music and liturgy, devotion, spirituality, and contemporary culture will also be considered. The hymnody of this era will also be examined. The course will also include the examination of contemporary musical sources, both print and manuscript. Students will be asked to make several class presentations throughout the semester, and to write a research paper of at least 15 pages. Grading will be based on class participation, class presentations, and the research paper. Senior music majors may register for this course under the number MUS 50113.
MUS 60230 - Section 01: Jazz Band (CRN 12401)
Course Description:
Open through audition.
MUS 60240 - Section 01: Concert Band (CRN 12397)
Course Description:
The Fall Concert Band prepares and performs traditional and contemporary works for band in a large concert ensemble setting, rehearsing once per week with one concert near the end of the semester.
MUS 60243 - Section 01: Marching Band (CRN 12403)
Course Description:
Performs for athletic events and special functions.Admission by audition. Permission required; obtain authorization number from Nancy in the Band Building. Does not apply to overload.
MUS 60245 - Section 01: University Band (CRN 12389)
Course Description:
This ensemble will provide a traditional concert band experience for brass, woodwind and percussion players in the Notre Dame community. Under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Dye and the Notre Dame band staff, the University Band prepares and performs a wide variety of music including everything from marches, overtures and pop melodies to the traditional Notre Dame favorites. Rehearsals take place in the Band Building. Those who are able may register for "MUS 408, University Band" for 1 credit, although registration is not required to participate. Application for membership can be made by contacting the band office.
MUS 60247 - Section 01: Concert Winds (CRN 12540)
Course Description:
The Fall Concert Winds prepares and performs traditional and contemporary works for band in a small, wind ensemble setting, rehearsing once per week with one concert near the end of the semester.
MUS 60250 - Section 01: Orchestra (CRN 12393)
Course Description:
Performs music from the 18th to the 20th century in several concerts a year. Admission by audition.
MUS 60401 - Section 01: Organ Literature (CRN 14774)
Course Description:
Concentrated study of the principal literature written for the organ.
MUS 60440 - Section 01: Vocal Performance Techniques (CRN 18151)
Course Description:
Development of interpretation skills pertaining to songs and operatic literature. For advanced students only.
MUS 60451 - Section 01: Conducting I (CRN 16737)
Course Description:
Basic techniques of instrumental and choral conducting. For Master of Sacred Music students only or with special permission of the instructor.
MUS 60490 - Section 01: Orchestral Excerpts (CRN 11718)
Course Description:
Excerpts from the standard orchestral literature encompassing styles from the 18th century through the 20th century. Instructed by individual members of the faculty.
MUS 60643 - Section 01: Vocal Methods (CRN 16742)
Course Description:
Vocal Methods for Choral Conductors is a graduate-level one-credit course that will enhance the choral conductor's ability to do the following things: understand and model good vocal technique; transliterate text into the IPA; identify and create healthy choral sounds. The class will consist primarily of one-hour lectures each week. There may be additional classes involving group listening/singing or attendance at a choral concert.
MUS 67900 - Section 01: Special Studies (CRN 11929)
Course Description:
Individual study under personal direction of a faculty member.
MUS 67900 - Section 02: Special Studies (CRN 10602)
Course Description:
Individual study under personal direction of a faculty member.
MUS 68390 - Section 01: Qualifying Recital (CRN 11011)
Course Description:
For first-year students.
MUS 68900 - Section 01: Thesis Direction (CRN 11930)
Course Description:
Planning and developing the master's thesis for M.A. students.
MUS 68901 - Section 01: Nonresident Thesis Research (CRN 11723)
Course Description:
Required of nonresident graduate students who are completing their theses in absentia and who wish to retain their degree status.
MUS 68902 - Section 01: Research and Dissertation (CRN 10506)
Course Description:
Required of students in residence engaged in full-time dissertation research.
MUS 78390 - Section 01: Graduate Recital (CRN 11010)
Course Description:
Formal registration for final project in performance.
LESSONS IN INSTRUMENTS & VOICE - Credit is variable. Half-hour lessons are offered for 1 credit; one-hour lessons reserved for students of upper intermediate performance ability as determined through audition are offered for 2 credits. Lessons are given by members of the department and instructors hired from the community. A fee of $290.00 a semester is charged for 14 half-hour weekly lessons. 1-hour weekly lessons are $580.00. The department reserves the right not to offer lessons in instrumental areas where such instruction proves impractical. Instruction available in: flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, string bass, guitar, percussion, voice, piano, harpsichord, and organ.
Sign up is required through the Department of Music office in 105 Crowley Hall. Lesson forms are due by 12:00 noon on Thursday, August 27, 2009. No refunds after September 14, 2009.
