Music

This course examines the production, compositional and performance skills required to create electronic dance music including the aesthetics, fundamental and principals of production, arrangement, remixing and performance.

This course follows the discussions, the topics, and the paradigm changes concerning film music from a historical point of view. The course studies context and content of the most prominent functions of music within (most importantly) narrative feature film. At the same time, the course provides a historical tour d’horizon on technology, aesthetics, and implications of film sound and film music, using several theoretical approaches. A HISTORY OF FILM MUSIC by Mervyn Cooke provides the historical framework. Students of this class practice various theoretical approaches and coinciding audio-visual analyses in a series of weekly assignments. A weekly film viewing is part and parcel of the course. This course requires students to have intermediate to advanced knowledge of Western music history, and elementary to intermediate knowledge of music theory, as a prerequisite.

Issues and Topics in Music offers a broad introduction to some of the main areas of music. These include an introduction to a key selection of music and music history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century; and 2) an introduction to contemporary topics and methodologies, such as jazz studies, ethnomusicology, or sound studies. The course gives students a solid basis of information and methodologies, a platform from which they can enter into more specialized work.

This course explores the topic of music and culture in Baroque Italy. The topic of this course thus offers extremely fertile material for the exploration of rich networks of cultural, aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual experiences in early modern Europe. Lecture topics include Florence and the birth of Opera; Madrigal, Early Baroque opera, Peri and Monteverdi; Venice and the rise of public musical institutions; Italian sacred music of the mid-17th century, Monteverdi and Carissimi; Rome and the Catholic Counter-Reformation; academy, opera houses, conservatories, and Ospedali; early Baroque Milan and urban identity; Naples and the development of Opera Seria and Opera Buffa; and Italian sacred music of the Late Baroque era. Assessment: listening quizzes, discussion session preparation.

The course examines the relationship between the historical, aesthetic, and social dimensions of the Latin American popular music in the 20th century and its impact on Chile today. Topics include: african roots; european heritage; authorial trends.

This course examines various aspects of the relation between music and the mind and emotions, including how humans came to be musical; how people listen to, understand, and perform music; why we listen to and make music.