Music

This course examines popular music, Indigenous music, classical music, and the music of multicultural communities in Australia, as well as themes prevalent in the work of contemporary music scholars. These include gender and identity, ownership and appropriation, reception and transmission, colonialism and Empire, globalization, modernity, representation, and music and place.

Music is a fundamental activity found in all human societies and at all periods of history. This course introduces different methods of studying music as an academic subject, and considers the many ways that music intersects with other aspects of society. The course is recommended for potential music majors and any other students interested in music.

The course covers the following topics:

• Why study music?
• Histories of music
• Music theory and analysis
• The Sociology of music
• The musical mind – music and psychology
• The new ‘musicologies’
• Decolonization of music studies
• The economics and business of music 

This course examines music focusing on its social, cultural, economical, and commercial aspects. It surveys major genres of Western classical music including opera, mass, concerto, chamber music, sonatas, as well as a variety of popular music genres such as jazz, blues, country, musical, rock, pop, folk, disco, soul, hip-hop, and trot. By analyzing different music repertoires based on their historical and social background, this course develops an understanding of music elements such as musical form, harmony, chords, scale, rhythm, and performance practice, as well as social and economic mechanism of music such as production, distribution, and consumption.

Students explore all aspects of choral and ensemble singing, from the purely technical (intonation, breathing, listening, pronunciation, vocal attacks, legato) to the subtleties of developing internal choral relationships and relationships with conductors and where appropriate, instrumentalists.

This liberal arts course provides a study of and appreciation for classical music. 

This course provides a study of the culture, tradition and history of the Korean modern era by analyzing musical narratives with selected music examples from various angles. It looks at music through historical, cultural and political lenses; the contemporary Korea era with music examples in Korean and English; and Korean modern musical culture with different genres of music.

This course examines the history of Western art music, from the medieval era to the present day, with an emphasis on the period between Late Middle Ages (14th century) and Romanticism (19th century). It examines the foundations of music cognition and acoustics by looking at works in their historical and political context while inspecting the relationship of music to other art forms.

This course examines traditional and contemporary jazz literature in a variety of idioms and styles. Students prepare for an end-of-semester concert in weekly rehearsals that enable them to develop their technical proficiency, stylistic accuracy, improvisation skills, and creative expression.

This is a small chamber choir of 12–20 members that performs music of the middle ages, renaissance and baroque. The ensemble performs both acappella and also in conjunction with other early music ensembles.

This course examines the introduction to digital music and audio through computer programming, sound synthesis, and audio effects, with a focus on learning through creative work. Students will gain core abilities in computer programming that will enable them to generate and process sound for use in creative disciplines such as interactive game audio, sound design, web sound, sound art and composition.