Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40563

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 120

St Paul: Schoenecker Center

  Douglas Orzolek

The student convocation hour is for all music majors regardless of specialization. This course meets three times per semester for each semester of enrollment and gives the community of learners performance opportunities, lectures/ discussions on topics applicable to all music concentrations; and lecture/discussions on topics specific to each music concentration.

0 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40654

In Person | Lecture/Lab

St Paul: Brady Educational Center LL23

  Suzanne Schons

This course teaches the keyboard skills required for music majors whose principal instrument is not piano. It includes training in basic keyboard technique, sight reading , score reading, accompanying, transposing, playing by ear, harmonizing melodies, and making practical applications of music theory.

1 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 42269

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 111

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm

  Shersten Johnson

Open to all students, this class introduces those with diverse levels of musical background to the elements of music theory and listening skills. No musical training is necessary for participation – all levels of musical abilities are welcome. Two priorities will guide our activities: (1) drawing on musical practices from multiple social and cultural contexts in both familiar and unfamiliar styles; (2) learning via direct experience. This course offers real-life practice of skills to help students develop their understanding of how music works and how it moves us, particularly regarding the interaction between music elements (e.g. rhythm, melody, harmony, and form) with emotion, meaning, and performance.  

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41444

Online: Asynchronous | Online: Asynchronous

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Christopher Kachian

This survey course explores the classics of European and American music in their historical, cultural and social contexts. It will investigate the many ethnic, religious, political, philosophical, economic and scientific influences that have shaped these traditions. This course is designed to enable students, regardless of musical background, to increase their understanding of music. The listening skill and knowledge acquired will provide a foundation for students to become more critical and discerning listeners of music of all types. NOTE: Students who receive credit for MUSC 115 may not receive credit for MUSC 118 or 119.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41445

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 111

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     Writing Intensive

  Bruce Gleason

This survey course explores the classics of European and American music in their historical, cultural and social contexts. It will investigate the many ethnic, religious, political, philosophical, economic and scientific influences that have shaped these traditions. This course is designed to enable students, regardless of musical background, to increase their understanding of music. The listening skill and knowledge acquired will provide a foundation for students to become more critical and discerning listeners of music of all types. NOTE: Students who receive credit for MUSC 115 may not receive credit for MUSC 118 or 119.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 42268

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 111

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     Writing Intensive

  Bruce Gleason

This survey course explores the classics of European and American music in their historical, cultural and social contexts. It will investigate the many ethnic, religious, political, philosophical, economic and scientific influences that have shaped these traditions. This course is designed to enable students, regardless of musical background, to increase their understanding of music. The listening skill and knowledge acquired will provide a foundation for students to become more critical and discerning listeners of music of all types. NOTE: Students who receive credit for MUSC 115 may not receive credit for MUSC 118 or 119.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41930

Online: Asynchronous | Online: Asynchronous

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Ora Itkin

This fully online survey course explores the historical foundations of western European concert music traditions. It will explore the various ethnic, religious, political, economic, and scientific influences that have shaped our understanding of “classical” western music into stylistic periods or eras – Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twenty/Twenty-First Century. Students will conduct listening fieldwork by attending live concert events as approved by the instructor. The listening skills and knowledge gained in this course will provide an essential foundation for students seeking a degree in music.

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41046

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 110

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts
          OR
     [Core] Global Perspective

Other Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     Writing to learn

  Sarah Schmalenberger

This course provides students a foundation for developing critical thinking and self-analysis, by way of exploring the diversity of musical traditions across the world. Students will develop attentive listening skills and analytical perspectives that engage with music’s distinctive sounds, settings, and meanings. Students will gain awareness and appreciation of music as expressions of human experience at the individual, community, and global level.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40777

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 102

Requirements Met:
     School of Ed Transfer Course

  Brian Casey

This course will serve to introduce first semester freshman music majors to software, hardware, techniques and issues surrounding digital music media. Learners will engage in the retrieval, generation, and distribution of musical notation, digital recordings, and MIDI sequences.

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40607

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 102

Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     Writing to learn

  Steve Cole Finckle

This course provides an overview of the music industry, exploring and examining aspects of technology, economics, industry structures, marketing, audiences, and artistic innovations and trends. Students will begin exploring personal career interests.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40611

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 111

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing Intensive

  Bruce Gleason

This course traces the development of American popular music from its roots through multiple genres such as minstrelsy, jazz, big band, swing, crooning, jump blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, country, western, folk/protest, and rock 'n' roll, concluding with the British Invasion. Popular music development is critically examined through four interrelated driving forces: identity (ethnicity, gender, culture, generation), centers vs. peripheries (the established vs. the innovative ), technology (impact on musical performance and listening), and business/law (commercial competition and development). Multimedia presentations include extensive audio and video support. Designed for the Popular Music minor.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41440

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 111

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     CommGood/Changemaking
     Writing to learn

  Ora Itkin

Why do we laugh when bad things happen to good people and what makes scary movies surprisingly funny to us? Most cultural traditions around the globe have long identified both music and humor as supremely human activities, profoundly tied to language, community, and social living. In this class we will take comedy seriously. We will look at and listen to movies, asking not only what makes them funny (or not) but also examining how music and sound reinforce the comedic effect of the film. Through weekly engagement with images and sounds from all over the world we will explore the ability of humor not only to challenge boundaries of social and cultural conventions but also redefine our relationships with fear and with things beyond our knowledge.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 43188

In Person | Lecture/Lab

St Paul: Brady Educational Center LL23

  Suzanne Schons

This course teaches the keyboard skills required for music majors whose principal instrument is not piano. It includes training in basic keyboard technique, sight reading, score reading, accompanying, transposing, playing by ear, harmonizing melodies, making practical applications of music theory, and the development of other skills studied in Piano Skills II. Prerequisites: MUSC 102, and MUSC 213 (concurrent registration preferred).

1 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41178

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center LL07

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     Writing Intensive

  Sarah Schmalenberger

This unique course welcomes students of all musical backgrounds and abilities to explore the creative processes of collaborative music making. In the absence of notated music, the techniques and principles of Soundpainting will be studied toward understanding music’s creative structures. Students will meet in class twice a week, study learning materials for the course (reading, listening, discussion activies), toward applying ideas and skills to create together musical works of their own design. All students will learn to direct, improvise, and co-create music that reflects the expressive input of the group. Reflective study and dialogue on the creative process will facilitate critical understanding of how music expresses ideas about self, others, and community, and can generate deeply transformational change to those identities. Course assignment toward the final grade include: Three compositions; Two short written essays analyzing the creative processes of selected musicians; Low-Stakes reading summaries; Attendance and Engagement; Collaborative Community Vision.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41805

CoFlex:In Person&Online Sync | Lecture/Lab

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 102

  Brian Casey

This course is a continuation and further practice of the studio production techniques explored in MUSC 140 - Music Media. Students will become more autonomous in the studio as they learn to manage and run sessions. As students delve deeper into the many layers of various digital audio workstations they will begin to discover how this technology is at its best when it serves the music, its performers, and creators. Students will further explore digital signal processing, plug-in's, and editing. Students will also further their knowledge of microphone applications and placement by producing and recording projects of their own. Prerequisites: MUSC140 or successful music technology placement test

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40465

Online: Asynchronous | Online: Asynchronous

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing Intensive
     WGSS Major Approved

  Christopher Kachian

The origins and history of jazz in the United States. Various phases in the development of jazz style are discussed. Blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, cool jazz, fusion, as well as other recent developments in jazz performances are investigated. An essential part of the course is the analysis and evaluation of recorded performances by outstanding jazz musicians. Designed for non-majors as well as an elective for music majors interested in jazz. Offered fall semester.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 42379

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center LL07

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Fine Arts
          OR
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
     CommGood/Community-Engaged
     Writing Intensive

  Sarah Schmalenberger

This course focuses on the study of music in the United States within its historical, cultural, and sociological contexts. The course will develop skills in critical listening analysis using appropriate musical terminology, to describe both aural and written traditions of music. Repertoire to be explored include homeland traditions of cultures and population groups brought over through migration/immigration, blends of popular and concert traditions, and new and emerging styles unique to the United States. Historical, cultural, and social contexts will facilitate and understanding of how music reflects particular identities, ideas, values, and issues among population groups in the United States.

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 43055

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 102

Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Steve Cole Finckle

This immersive course focuses on the crucial functions of Artists and Repertoire (A&R) and artist development within the University of St. Thomas's student-run record label, The 480 Collective. Students will gain practical experience in scouting, evaluating, and nurturing musical talent, while also navigating the legal and ethical complexities of signing artists and releasing music. The course will cover the development of effective marketing and promotional strategies for music releases. Working in teams, students will scout and sign new artists to the label and create a comprehensive artist development plan, which will be implemented in the subsequent course, MUSC 296-01: "Album Production & Release."

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 43202

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 102

  Steve Cole Finckle

This hands-on course in a continuation of MUSC 295-01 and inquires deeper into the critical aspects of music production, artist relations, and release strategy within the University of St. Thomas's student-run record label, The 480 Collective. Students will have the opportunity to work directly with artists signed to the label, producing high-quality music in our new state-of-the-art recording studios. Students will also implement artist development plans, management and maintain effective artist relationships, and utilize digital distribution platforms and social media to develop successful release strategies for singles, EPs, or albums.

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 42283

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center 111

  Douglas Orzolek

Advanced Conducting and Materials: Instrumental Concentration : Continuation of Introduction to Conducting I and II. Study of advanced conducting patterns and refined expressive gestures. Survey of orchestral and band literature and in-depth study of selected pieces. Rehearsal planning, rehearsal techniques, and classroom management. Offered fall semester of even years. Prerequisites: MUSC 231.

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 43268

In Person | Directed Study

St Paul: In Person

Requirements Met:
     School of Ed Transfer Course

T.J. Harper

Continuation of Introduction to Conducting I and II. Study of advanced conducting patterns and refined expressive gestures. Survey of choral literature and in-depth study of selected pieces. Rehearsal planning, rehearsal techniques, and classroom management. Offered fall semester of even years. Prerequisites: MUSC 231

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41797

In Person | Directed Study

St Paul: In Person

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Integ/Humanities

Other Requirements Met:
     School of Ed Transfer Course
     Writing in the Discipline

  Bruce Gleason

A survey of Western European music from 1750 to the present: the Classical and Romantic eras and the Twentieth century. Emphasis of study is on social context and issues of meaning and expression. Continuation of MUSC 411. Writing assignments are designed for teaching to the "Writing in the Discipline" objectives for the Writing Across the Curriculum initiative. This is a core course for students seeking a major degree in music. Offered in spring semester. Prerequisites: MUSC 113 and junior standing

4 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40831

In Person | Directed Study

St Paul: In Person

Requirements Met:
     [Core] Signature Work

Instructor: TBD

This course allows music students to demonstrate research and writing skills by utilizing standard music resources (Music Index, RILM, Grove, Baker's, etc.). The paper may contain theoretical analysis, and/or it may be connected to the student's performance area or degree focus. Prerequisite: 80 credits completed; Seeking a BM or BA in music.

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 41291

In Person | Directed Study

St Paul: In Person

  Steve Cole Finckle

2 Credits

Subject: Music Classes (UG) (MUSC)

CRN: 40303

Independent Study

St Paul: No Room

  Douglas Orzolek

4 Credits