Wells School of Music

AIM 429: Deep Diving: Music information, Research and Wikipedia (1 CR.)
This course focuses on the development of information literacy and research skills in music. Students learn how to identify, evaluate, and use information as part of the research process; then, using Wikipedia as our jumping-off platform, we will dive deep into the world of scholarly music information and bring back what we find to help edit and enhance this popular resource.

MUE 500: Methods and Materials Research (3 CR.)
This course will cover basic techniques and procedures. Major types of research. Methods for locating, evaluating, and interpreting evidence. Preparation of a research outline.

MUE 567: Kodaly Level IV: Folk Music (2 CR.)
This course is designed to review and identify folk song genre, identify principal researchers and collections, analyze materials collected, and submit a project containing all materials.

MUE 592: Intro to Internet, Multimedia, and Computer Assisted Instruction (3 CR.)
This course covers computer-assisted instruction, multimedia and the Internet in elementary and secondary music classroom.

MUE 597: Digital Media for Music Education (3 CR.)
This course covers creating and editing digital multimedia for the music classroom with an emphasis on text, graphics, sound and video. Digital media will be integrated into presentation programs and stand-alone formats such as audio and video tape and CD.

MUE 598: Integrating Music Technology into the Classroom (3 CR.)
This course will cover effective teaching strategies using music technology. Topics will include computer-assisted instruction, multimedia, Internet, notation software, sequencing software and electronic instruments.

MHL 501: Style, Form and Genre (3 CR.)
An introduction to the study of music at the graduate level designed as a survey of Western art music with emphasis on fundamental considerations of form, style, and genre. This course is intended primarily for graduate music students who have scored below 70 on the music history graduate admission test.

MHL 610: Topics in Medieval Music (3 CR.)
This course is an exploration of selected topics in medieval music. Specific topics deal with various aspects of music and musical development during this period. Taught as a seminar with emphasis placed on student participation and research. This summer, we will take an interdisciplinary approach to ideas of celestial, human, and sounding music from their origins in Antiquity into the Medieval period and beyond. We will examine ideas of consonance, proportion, and hierarchy as found in the works of Plato, Neoplatonism, the Pythagoreans, and other ancient thinkers as they appear in the works of medieval poets, musicians and philosophers, reading works by Boethius, Guillaume da Machaut, and several influential music treatises. We will then trace the long tail of the medieval tradition into the Renaissance and beyond, proving that medieval Pythagorean-platonic harmony and its elements persist and shape the works of Shakespeare, Bach, and even into 20th century thinkers like Heinrich Schenker, Claude Debussy, Virginia Woolf and Paul Hindemith, directly and indirectly. And it will help to provide a deep context for many of our contemporary musical assumptions.

MTC 272: Studio Production (3 CR.)
This course focuses on the techniques of music production in computer software. Students learn about basic editing, mixing, synthesis, sampling, and MIDI sequencing via creative projects, focusing on virtual instruments in a digital audio workstation. All software used in this course is free and available for both Windows and Macintosh computers.

MTC 512: Composition 1 (3 CR.)
Exploration of basic compositional principles with a focus on the development of each student’s diverse musical interests. Students compose a large project of their own design, and short exercises in order to progressively develop basic compositional skills. Additionally, students will complete three compositional “challenges” that will focus on different approaches to creating music. Works in progress are evaluated by peer and instructor critiques of Sibelius or Finale files.