Music

The course develops a broad range of innovative, practical, creative, and collaborative musical skills. It promotes student initiative and creativity, while developing focused, critical, technical, and context sensitive perspectives on selected musical repertoires/traditions/genres. It seeks to explore, reflect upon, extend and/or challenge specific musical performance conventions. 

This course offers an initial exploration of music psychology research. Selected researchers within the field, including music therapists, behavioral neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, and experimental psychologists outline recent and current practical research involving music across the lifespan. Information is provided on the relationship between music and the brain, as well as music and the body. The development of musical skills at different life stages is outlined from birth to old age.

This course provides an in-depth critical introduction to a range of important themes, scenes, artists, groups, recordings, and/or performance in popular music and explores both their impact on musical culture more broadly and their relationship to wider political, social and artistic issues.

This course aims to acquire an understanding of the materials and common practice of European music. It teaches music theory such as musical notation, tonality, modality, scales, rhythm, intervals, triads and various musical terms with many exercises, as well as the basic knowledge of physics of sound.

The course also examines European thought and science related to the principles of music theory.
 

This course provides a hands-on project-based introduction to electronic audio circuits for artistic purposes. Through hardware hacking, circuit bending, and circuit building, students gain an understanding of basic electronics theory as well as develop valuable hands-on experience with battery-powered sound-making and sound-processing projects. From repurposing games, toys, and radios to building oscillators, filters, mixers, and amplifiers, and finally interfacing between the physical world and computers via microcontrollers, students explore the artistic potential of electronic circuits. An introduction to the history and current practice of electronic sound art will be integral to the module. The module will culminate in a group installation/performance. No prior experience in electronics or music is assumed, though either would be helpful.

This class presents Solo (singing), the basic of finger-style technique, how to read sheet music and the knowledge of music theory and analysis. At the end of the semester, the students will have the ability to develop and promote multicultural music and art, and the ability to create and perform independent music.