Music

This course examines the mythological origins of Māori performing arts, the form, style and performance of mōteatea (traditional song and poetry), waiata-ā-ringa (action songs), poi and haka, the renaissance of kapa haka and its place in Māori culture and society.

This course provides basic understanding of piano and the playing skills of piano, including: staccato, legato, skipping, scales and voices, chords.

This course examines the ways of thinking, talking and writing about music.

Korea began to adopt Western culture in the nineteenth century and developed their own hybridized music culture into the twentieth-first century. This class examines contemporary Korean musical culture alongside the history of Korea and explores Korean music culture as a global phenomenon. The course covers Korean aesthetic and sensibility in Korean musical culture with select examples from Korean traditional music, Korean’s children music, Korean arts songs of the Colonial Korea period, popular music (K-pop), Korean drama music, Korean film music, and K-classical music.

The course helps students build their compositional skills and contextualize various theoretical concepts through analytical exercises and stylistic writing. Students explore a variety of musical pieces throughout the course to develop their skills for analysis of common practice European music. Through close listening and analysis, students learn about the use of melodic motives, repetition, variation, and harmonic progressions to write their own simple compositions. While prior experience with music composition is not required, a familiarity with music theory rudiments is highly recommended.