Music
The Department of Music at Emory University offers a broad array of courses and experiences in the classroom, performance hall, and studio. Students can receive individualized instruction from Atlanta's finest professional artists and performers, including members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and take courses in music theory, music history and literature, world music and culture, composition, hip-hop, electronic music, and performance practices. Students who major in music work toward a bachelor of arts degree, which provides development through private instruction and ensemble participation, a solid grounding in theory and musicianship, and a comprehensive background in the history and literature of music. Emory offers private lessons in piano, voice, strings, winds, guitar, percussion, jazz studies, and non-Western instruments to all students who pass an audition. Students have the opportunity to perform in recitals that are open to the public. The department sponsors a variety of ensembles, including the University Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, Concert Choir, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensembles, World Music Ensembles, and Chamber Ensembles. All students are encouraged to participate; auditions for ensembles are held at the beginning of each semester. Emory presents a full calendar of musical events throughout the school year. The Music at Emory Series and the Flora Glenn Candler Artists Series bring musicians of national and international stature to campus. The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta and the Vega String Quartet, in residence at Emory, present the finest in chamber literature. Their members teach and coach Emory students regularly. In addition, the metropolitan Atlanta area offers a wide range of music opportunities to Emory students.
Concentrations
Faculty
- Chair
- Stephen Crist
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Kristin Wendland
- Core
Courses
MUS 100-Level Courses
An introduction to perceptive listening. Students are trained to listen analytically and are acquainted with a wide variety of music literature.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course is designed to introduce non-music majors to representative major works in the Western classical music canon. It will focus on the historical, social and cultural contexts of the works, as well as the fundamental skills needed to hear, understand, analyze and write about music.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to music fundamentals, including rhythm, meter, scales, intervals, and chords, with practical application to analysis and composition/song writing. This course is designed for non-music majors and music minors.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Music majors only. Students will acquire proficiency to play major/minor scales and arpeggios, chord progressions, melodies, and simple keyboard pieces. Piano students are exempt from this required course. Students must either exempt from or be registered for MUS 120 by the time they begin MUS 121.
- Credit Hours
- 1
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course is an applied technical study of harmony and counterpoint focusing on the written and aural aspects of the common-practice period, but including repertory from earlier periods and modern times. This course is designed for music majors and minors.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Continuation of Theory,Analysis,Aural Skills I. Applied technical study of harmony and counterpoint focusing on written and aural aspects of the common-practice period but including repertoire from earlier periods and modern times. Designed for music majors and minors.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- MUS 121 as prerequisite or equivalent transfer credit.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Fulfills the freshman seminar requirement of the General Education Requirements. A variety of courses covering a wide range of topics in music. Refer to the Music Department website for a listing of classes currently offered.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- FS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
MUS 200-Level Courses
Students will be introduced to classical and vernacular traditions from throughout the world, and equipped with skills they need to research and write critically about musical cultures, repertoires, and practices. Designed for music majors/minors, it is a prerequisite for many other music courses.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to opera through the study of selected works from the Classical era to the present. Visual and aural presentation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course serves as an introduction to the study of music in global perspective. Through an array of readings, multimedia, and guided listening examples, students will develop critical skills for thinking, writing, and talking about a selection of world musical traditions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course serves as an introduction to the study of music in global perspective. Through an array of readings, multimedia, and guided listening examples, students will develop critical skills for thinking, writing, and talking about a selection of world musical traditions.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course will examine the development of musical traditions in the Asian cultures of India, China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. The influence of philosophy and aesthetics from India, China, and the West on the development of music, theater, and dance in Asia will be examined as well.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course will examine the development of musical traditions in the Asian cultures of India, China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. The influence of philosophy and aesthetics from India, China, and the West on the development of music, theater, and dance in Asia will be examined as well.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Exploration of the central tradition of Western music, beginning with the Renaissance masters; moving through the great figures of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic music; to end with the challenge of musical modernism. Part of Emory's Voluntary Core Curriculum.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Music in Vienna is taught as an elective course in the Emory Summer Abroad Program in Vienna, Austria. The course focuses on classical music repertoire (opera, ballet, orchestral programs, organ recitals, chamber music, lieder recitals) being performed during the summer program in Vienna.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course for music and dance students to study Argentine tango in Buenos Aires will intersect scholarly studies of tango history and culture with performance practice. It will provide an authentic, holistic learning experience for students to understand how theory and practice inform each other. Music and dance majors and minors only, or by permission of instructor with letter of recommendation by a music or dance professor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- DANC 211
This course will explore the structure, purpose, and meaning of the most significant choral works in recorded history, with emphasis on the music of the Western Hemisphere. Students will learn key composers, genres, musical processes and vocabulary.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Critical and analytic study of jazz idioms from the turn of the century to the present, including the blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, and modern jazz. Emphasis on such figures as Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Monk, and Coleman.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 215
Continuation of Theory and Analysis II. Topics include chromatic harmony, tonicization and modulation, contrapuntal techniques, variation, rondo and sonata forms, and linear chromaticism. Written work comprises analytical and composition assignments, and musicianship skills include ear training, keyboard theory, and improvisation.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Continuation of Theory and Analysis III. Analysis of 20- and 21-century compositions and techniques. Exercises include short original compositions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- This course requires MUS 221 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course provides the student the opportunity to create original music in collaboration with students in theater, dance, or film. Music majors, minors, and students from other departments may enroll with permission of instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Student composers and performers learn techniques and practices of improvisation and study stylistically and culturally diverse perspectives on improvisation to develop listening, performing, and composing skills. We will form a band and rehearse during class at least once per week.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Prerequisite: Music 121 or permission of instructor. Theoretical and applied study of melodic patterns, chord types, and rhythmic patterns in the jazz idiom; development of aural and technical skills to create jazz styles spontaneously.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
A lecture/laboratory course on how artists accomplish their work in the face of changes in values, government mandates, and the economy. .
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- THEA 243
- ARTHIST 243
- DANC 243
This lab is designed to develop students' musical literacy and creativity through ear training, transcription, writing, arranging, and improvisation exercises. Students will also gain experience with music notation software. Final projects will be read and recorded by a peer student jazz ensemble.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This seminar hopes to attract music majors, minors, and those majoring in other disciplines interested in exploring connections among the arts. Emanating from a musical perspective, influences and relationships with other artists and art forms, and entities are studied.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course concentrates on music written for the wind band, a general description for any musical ensemble consisting of wind (often with percussion) instruments, beginning with the Austro-Germanic tradition of wind bands in Medieval times and conclude with forays into the repertoire of the twenty-first century.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course concentrates on music written for the wind band, a general description for any musical ensemble consisting of wind (often with percussion) instruments, beginning with the Austro-Germanic tradition of wind bands in Medieval times and conclude with forays into the repertoire of the twenty-first century.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This seminar provides an overview of the vast amount of music composed for solo piano since 1700, including works by J. S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms, and Debussy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
A listening-intensive exploration of orchestral literature with detailed reference to the sociopolitical and cultural contexts of the composers and their music.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Students will work collaboratively as producers, instrumentalists, and rappers to create hip hop tracks and will meet other members of the Atlanta hip hop community to learn about the broader cultural and commercial context of hip hop in Atlanta. No prerequisite necessary.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or lecture series of topics in music. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or lecture series of topics in music. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from antiquity through 1600, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from 1600 through 1750, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from 1750 through the 1820s, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from the 1820s through 1900, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music composed since 1900, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Supervised Reading. Permission of instructor required.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
MUS 300-Level Courses
Group instruction in instrumental and/or vocal music and the performance of selected repertoire. Enrollment in the ensembles is open to all students by audition only. May be repeated for credit; a maximum of eight hours may be applied toward graduation. The principal ensembles that fulfill the requirement for the music major are: University Chorus; Emory Symphony Orchestra; Emory Wind Ensemble; Emory Jazz Ensemble; Collaborative Piano. Interested students may participate in more than one ensemble. Membership in all other ensembles must be concurrent with enrollment in a principal ensemble. Fall: To schedule a ensemble audition online please go to: www.music.emory.edu/undergrad/auditions.html Spring: Contact the ensemble director.
- Credit Hours
- 1
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Hands-on experience playing Central Javanese gamelan. Rehearsals will prepare traditional and contemporary pieces for the end of semester concert and offer opportunities for students to explore and discuss the musical structure of and meanings inherent in this performing tradition.
- Credit Hours
- 1
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 303R
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course considers the idea of Black Music. What is it? What does it sound like? Who created it? These musical questions are set in the context of an equally complicated web of ideas about race and the relationship between racial expectation and black music/cultural production.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAPE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 303
The 1960s was a decade of turbulence and dramatic social and cultural change. The war in Vietnam, the civil rights and Black Nationalist movements, the so-called sexual revolution, and the popularization of psychedelic drugs all had considerable impact in shaping the musical culture of the day. This course considers the music of the period, the relationships between musical forms, and the shifting relationships between the communities associated with them.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 304
Considers common roots of spirituals, blues, and jazz, and surveys historical, cultural, social, and denominational factors that have shaped our perspective on the spiritual capacity of jazz. Focus is on the sacred works, biographies, and implicit theological positions of specific jazz masters.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 305
- REL 335
Designed to introduce the student to the music associated with the so-called Harlem Renaissance. The course will examine African American and American works, composers, and performers referred to in the famous essays and controversies of this important period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 306
Designed to introduce the student to the music associated with the so-called Harlem Renaissance. The course will examine African American and American works, composers, and performers referred to in the famous essays and controversies of this important period.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 306W
This more advanced jazz history course focuses on the various styles and trends in jazz since 1945. The course will look specifically at Bebop, the Post Bop musics such as Hard Bop and Funky Bop, and the Cool School, Third Stream, avant-garde expressions, Fusion, Jazz Rock, and Acid Jazz.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 307
This course examines the subjective experience and neural substrates of music perception and performance.Each week the class participates in a dialog between musicians and neuroscientists that examines both the experiential and mechanistic approach to music by asking questions such as "What makes something musical" and "how are the complex sounds of music processed by the brain?". The relationships of music to language, emotion and memory will be examined in detail. Theories of motor learning will be discussed and applied to musical performance. The course explores the development of the musical mind from infancy to adulthood and asks the question, "How are the brains of composers, conductors, and performers different?" Evidence of the efficacy of music therapy and the impact of music on mental health are evaluated. Finally, the evolution of musicality in animals and humans explained.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- NBB 300
Non-music majors. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. The study of applied music involves the understanding of music literature through performance on a specific instrument. One-hour private instruction weekly. Students are required to practice a minimum of three hours per week and perform a final jury exam. Contact the instructor to arrange an audition. Lesson fees apply; refer to the departmental website (www.music.emory.edu) for current information.
- Credit Hours
- 1
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Instrumental and choral conducting technique and theory, including manual techniques, score study, ensemble rehearsal methods, and preparation for performance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- MUS 122 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Music Majors. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. The study of applied music involves the understanding of music literature through performance on a specific instrument. One-hour private instruction weekly. Students are expected to practice a minimum of five hours per week, perform on a student recital and final jury exam, and attend several recitals and performances during the semester. Contact the instructor to arrange an audition. Lesson fees apply; refer to the departmental website (www.music.emory.edu) for current information.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course offers an in-depth study of improvisation in the jazz idiom. Topics include the study of form, patterns, vocabulary style analysis, and transcription techniques. Principles include melodic and harmonic analysis, phrase construction, and ear training.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- This course requires MUS 240 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Techniques and principles of electronic music and computer applications in music.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Independent or group work in original composition
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores music from the second half of the 20th century to today. It considers the intersections of technology, global influences, aesthetics, and musical language/structure. Emphasis is placed on developing the appropriate analytic tools to this varied and multi-dimensional repertoire.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- MUS 221 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This undergraduate course on the contributions of women in music explores the power of perspective in historical narrative, gender and control in music, how spiritual tradition is intertwined with music, and how women in music are perceived cross-culturally.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 356
This undergraduate course on the contributions of women in music explores the power of perspective in historical narrative, gender and control in music, how spiritual tradition is intertwined with music, and how women in music are perceived cross-culturally.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 356W
Anyone who attempts to use words to describe the experience of listening to music soon finds this to be a challenging task. Yet writers throughout the ages have faced this challenge and developed a variety of ways to write about music. This course provides the opportunity for students to hone their skills as music critics, by listening to and writing short essays about recorded and live performances of many different kinds of music. Each student will also write a substantial research paper on a musical topic of interest to them, and give an oral presentation on the same subject.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Anyone who attempts to use words to describe the experience of listening to music soon finds this to be a challenging task. Yet writers throughout the ages have faced this challenge and developed a variety of ways to write about music. This course provides the opportunity for students to hone their skills as music critics, by listening to and writing short essays about recorded and live performances of many different kinds of music. Each student will also write a substantial research paper on a musical topic of interest to them, and give an oral presentation on the same subject.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Explains the intersections of musical creativity and Romantic aesthetics in the nineteenth century. Topics considered include the nature of musical expressiveness, relationship between art and religion, and theories of musical narrative.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Explains the intersections of musical creativity and Romantic aesthetics in the nineteenth century. Topics considered include the nature of musical expressiveness, relationship between art and religion, and theories of musical narrative.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course examines the music of Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, Schoenberg, and contemporaries in light of trends in literature, the visual arts, politics, and philosophy, ca. 1870-1914.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course examines the music of Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, Schoenberg, and contemporaries in light of trends in literature, the visual arts, politics, and philosophy, ca. 1870-1914.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Composition and performance in the digital studio; projects involve synthesis, sampling, sequencing, MIDI and digital recording and editing, and algorithmic composition. Focuses on the use and design of computer-based synthetic instruments and compositional software.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- This course requires MUS 347 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Explores encounters by Austro-German Jewish musicians and writers with ideas of modernity from 1900 through the 1950s, including responses to the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust, and postwar emigration. Cases studied include Gustav and Alma Mahler, Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and Arnold Schoenberg
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 369
Explores encounters by Austro-German Jewish musicians and writers with ideas of modernity from 1900 through the 1950s, including responses to the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust, and postwar emigration. Cases studied include Gustav and Alma Mahler, Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and Arnold Schoenberg
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 369W
Selected topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Selected topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 371
This course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 371W
Open to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 369
Open to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 369W
From high-pitched voices in Peking opera, classical zither, the drum tower in Beijing, numerous dialects spoken (and sung) to online rap competitions, China is full of wonderful sounds. Using comparative and transmedia approaches, this course offers a comprehensive introduction to these phenomena.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 374
From high-pitched voices in Peking opera, classical zither, the drum tower in Beijing, numerous dialects spoken (and sung) to online rap competitions, China is full of wonderful sounds. Using comparative and transmedia approaches, this course offers a comprehensive introduction to these phenomena.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 374W
This course explores the Silk Road from the perspective of musical interactions between different societies along the Silk Road. With a focus on music, students will examine the historical processes that have led to the formation of contemporary instruments, genres, styles, and performance aesthetics in modern nation-states whose cultural histories are connected to the ancient Silk Road.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores the Silk Road from the perspective of musical interactions between different societies along the Silk Road. With a focus on music, students will examine the historical processes that have led to the formation of contemporary instruments, genres, styles, and performance aesthetics in modern nation-states whose cultural histories are connected to the ancient Silk Road.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Studies music and dance of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and how they reflect languages, social structures, philosophies, and the geography and history of each region. Examines changing historical and social dynamics and cultural traditions. Introduces ethnomusicology theory and research methods.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAPE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 376
Studies music and dance of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and how they reflect languages, social structures, philosophies, and the geography and history of each region. Examines changing historical and social dynamics and cultural traditions. Introduces ethnomusicology theory and research methods.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HPWE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 376W
An introduction to musical narrative in cross-cultural perspective, exploring the qualities of music that make it a powerful and pervasive medium for storytelling around the world. Assignments will facilitate the development of world music listening, research, and analysis skills.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to musical narrative in cross-cultural perspective, exploring the qualities of music that make it a powerful and pervasive medium for storytelling around the world. Assignments will facilitate the development of world music listening, research, and analysis skills.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This writing-intensive seminar explores to what end music is used in political films. How does music affect our perception of political films? How does music manipulate our feelings for or against the subject matter?
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- FILM 383
This writing-intensive seminar explores to what end music is used in political films. How does music affect our perception of political films? How does music manipulate our feelings for or against the subject matter?
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- FILM 383W
Introduction to techniques and history of live electronic music through music coding, seminar discussion and performance. Topics include live sound engineering, synthesis, sampling, processing, algorithmic and interactive approaches, and creating performance patches.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- MUS 347 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Music majors may apply to perform a half-recital. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 1
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Students conduct independent research in support of their own research agenda or question with guidance from a faculty member. Permission of the department and a supervising faculty member is required.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
MUS 400-Level Courses
Designed for singers who wish to develop their understanding and coordination of performance skills on the lyric stage. Public performance of staged works is scheduled.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Analysis and discussion focuses on Bach's harps/chord and organ works published both during his lifetime and posthumously. Designed for music majors, but opened to any student who has completed MUS 122. Students will be encouraged to perform in class. Satisfies a HAP as GER and a music major elective.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- MUS 122 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course surveys the principal performance genres, instruments, compositional and improvisational forms, and theoretical structures of art, folk music, and dance from both south and north India. Emphasis is placed on developing the ability to listen sensitively and critically to recorded and live performances. The social and religious context of the music and dance will be examined.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course provides instruction in diction usage by solo singers and includes the study of Introduction to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as applied to English and Italian. It focuses on the special needs and considerations for diction utilized by singers.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course provides instruction in diction usage by solo singers and includes continued study of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as applied to French and German languages. It focuses on the special needs and considerations for diction utilized by singers.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Explores skills to effectively and successfully combine singing, facial expression, gestures, interpretation, movement, and interaction with other performers without tension and self-judgment. Repeatable without music major credit. Instructor approval required
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- THEA 443R
Analysis and writing in both the Renaissance-modal and eighteenth-century tonal styles. A composition project demonstrating contrapuntal skills will be required for each of the two style periods.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Prerequisite: Music 122 or permission of instructor. Addresses the styles of orchestration in the Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and modern eras. In addition to readings and brief written assignments, an orchestral reduction project and a piano orchestration project will be required in the style of each era. Other media, such as vocal or wind ensembles and jazz bands, will be discussed.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Introduces advanced undergraduates to music research using primary source materials from the 16th-20th centuries; taps the research potential of the special collections in Emory's libraries; provides the opportunity to pursue original research on musical topics in a writing-intensive seminar.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Introduces advanced undergraduates to music research using primary source materials from the 16th-20th centuries; taps the research potential of the special collections in Emory's libraries; provides the opportunity to pursue original research on musical topics in a writing-intensive seminar.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This seminar examines 20th-century music through the study of primary documents. The course provides insight into tracking the composers' creative processes, exploring the ways original sources can enrich our analysis, understanding, and performance of 20th-century music.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- MUS 122 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This writing-intensive seminar examines 20th-century music through the study of primary documents. The course provides insight into tracking the composers' creative processes, exploring the ways original sources can enrich our analysis, understanding, and performance of 20th-century music.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- MUS 122 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This is a variable topics course in music history and culture. Each study treats a special topic in the field by implementing various research methodologies, discussion sessions, and writing of papers.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This is a variable topics course in music history and culture. Each study treats a special topic in the field by implementing various research methodologies, discussion sessions, and writing of papers.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course introduces theories and methodologies relevant to the study of ethnomusicology. Specific topics will vary by semester, but may include musical ethnography, research ethics, critical theory, and/or approaches to analysis. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course introduces theories and methodologies relevant to the study of ethnomusicology. Specific topics will vary by semester, but may include musical ethnography, research ethics, critical theory, and/or approaches to analysis. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
How does sound organize the space we inhabit? This course examines different types of music to understand how sounds are incorporated into different facets of human expression.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
How does sound organize the space we inhabit? This course examines different types of music to understand how sounds are incorporated into different facets of human expression.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This is a variable topics course in Ethnomusicology. Each study treats a special topic in the field by implementing various research methodologies, discussion sessions, and writing of papers.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This is a variable topics course in music theory. Each study treats a special topic in the field by implementing various analytical techniques, discussion sessions, and writing of papers.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- MUS 221 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This is a variable topics course in music theory. Each study treats a special topic in the field by implementing various analytical techniques, discussion sessions, and writing of papers.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- MUS 221 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Special Topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Special Topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Music majors may apply to perform a full-recital. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Permission of instructor required. This course is open to music majors who wish to pursue research in music under the supervision of a music faculty. Students would need to have taken courses in the Research Track and be approved to write a senior thesis, normally in their final year of studies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Permission of instructor required. This course is open to music majors who wish to pursue research in music under the supervision of a music faculty. Students would need to have taken courses in the Research Track and be approved to write a senior thesis, normally in their final year of studies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Music majors may apply to the music faculty to engage in a special senior project.
- Credit Hours
- 2 - 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Credit, eight hours for sequence. Open by invitation to candidates for honors in the senior year. Must be taken in addition to the major requirements.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Credit, eight hours for sequence. Open by invitation to candidates for honors in the senior year. Must be taken in addition to the major requirements.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Credit, eight hours for sequence. Open by invitation to candidates for honors in the senior year. Must be taken in addition to the major requirements.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Student arranges internship location with member of music department faculty prior to registration for this course.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 6
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Supervised Reading. Permission of instructor required.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None