MUSC235Analysis of the 17th Century Music
2 credits
This course will provide a deep analysis (form, genre, structure, themes, rhythm, orchestration and harmonic and polyphonic writing, language, general nature of the work) of musical styles and composition, in examples mostly selected from Greek, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music.
MUSC355Analysis of the 18th Century Music
2 credits
Analysis of corresponding parts in the history course of the 18th century.
MUSC455Analysis of the 19th Century Music
2 credits
Analysis of corresponding parts in the history course of the 19th century.
MUSC240Arab Music I
2 credits
This course aims to teach the student about Arab music in all its categories, popular and art music, theoretical and practical, the Maghreb and the Mashreq. Several titles and themes will be discussed: the general history of Arabic music, the maqams, the Arab musical scale and the modal system, the rhythms and musical writings of: Ibn AlMunajjim, AlKindi and AlFarabi.
MUC201Chamber Music I
1 credits
The goal of this music performance course is to provide the opportunity for the students as performers to come together with other likeminded musicians in an ensemble setting to rehearse and perform from the chamber orchestra repertoire. In this course we will focus on overall concepts of self and ensemble expression, engagement, participation, and performance. We will also address musical concepts of ensemble and individual balance, blend, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, rhythmic precision, color, and ensemble clarity. We are going to listen to ourselves, to each other and to the composer’s voice.
MUC202Chamber Music II
1 credits
The goal of this music performance course is to provide the opportunity for the students as performers to come together with other likeminded musicians in an ensemble setting to rehearse and perform from the chamber orchestra repertoire. In this course we will focus on overall concepts of self and ensemble expression, engagement, participation, and performance. We will also address musical concepts of ensemble and individual balance, blend, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, rhythmic precision, color, and ensemble clarity. We are going to listen to ourselves, to each other and to the composer’s voice.
MUC303Chamber Music III
1 credits
The goal of this music performance course is to provide the opportunity for the students as performers to come together with other like-minded musicians in an ensemble setting to rehearse and perform from the chamber orchestra repertoire.
In this course we will focus on overall concepts of self and ensemble expression, engagement, participation, and performance. We will also address musical concepts of ensemble and individual balance, blend, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, rhythmic precision, color, and ensemble clarity. We are going to listen to ourselves, to each other and to the composer’s voice.
MUC304Chamber Music IV
1 credits
The goal of this music performance course is to provide the opportunity for the students as performers to come together with other like-minded musicians in an ensemble setting to rehearse and perform from the chamber orchestra repertoire.
In this course we will focus on overall concepts of self and ensemble expression, engagement, participation, and performance. We will also address musical concepts of ensemble and individual balance, blend, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, rhythmic precision, color, and ensemble clarity. We are going to listen to ourselves, to each other and to the composer’s voice.
MUSC420Choir Conducting I
1 credits
This course aims to train musicians on vocals, choirs and choir conducting. It includes concepts about the human voice and its education, the choir and its training, the conductor of the choir (values, posture, technique, behavior, etc.), choral conducting: departure gesture, the fermata, the stop gestures, the syncopation and offbeat, repeat, etc. This course includes exercises on the evolution of the musical ear, on conductor gestures, on the conducting of simple meters (2/4, 3/4, 4/4).
MUSC425Choir Conducting II
1 credits
This course aims to train musicians on vocals, choirs and choir conducting. It includes concepts about the human voice and its education, the choir and its training, the conductor of the choir (values, posture, technique, behavior, etc.), choral conducting: departure gesture, the fermata, the stop gestures, the syncopation and offbeat, repeat, etc. This course includes exercises on the evolution of the musical ear, on conductor gestures, on the conducting of simple meters (2/4, 3/4, 4/4).
MUSC210Choral singing I
1 credits
Choral singing closely follows the course of history. Each year the students learn to interpret, in the context of Western choral singing of the Faculty, the corresponding repertory according to the current history course.
MUSC215Choral Singing II
1 credits
Choral singing closely following the course of history. Each year the students learn to interpret, in the context of Western choral singing of the Faculty, the corresponding repertory according to the current history course.
MUSC310Choral Singing III
1 credits
Choral singing closely follows the course of history. Each year the students learn to interpret, in the context of Western choral singing of the Faculty, the corresponding repertory according to the current history course.
MUSC315Choral Singing IV
1 credits
Choral singing closely follows the course of history. Each year the students learn to interpret, in the context of Western choral singing of the Faculty, the corresponding repertory according to the current history course.
HRP210Harmony I
2 credits | Pre-requisite: MPR209 Or MPR210 Or MUP353 Or MUP356 Or MUP355 Or THO220
Figured Bass and given Song: A. Realization of a given bass with 3 sound chords (root position, 1st and 2nd inversions). Harmonization of a song given with 3 chord sounds (all positions). B. Modulations to the adjacent and distant tones, unitonal and modulating harmonic movements, figured bass and given song. C. Chords of the dominant 7th, with and without fundamental, regular and exceptional resolution: given bass and given song.
HRP220Harmony II
2 credits | Pre-requisite: MPR201 Or MPR212 Or MPR205 Or MUP259 Or MUP261 Or HRP210
Figured Bass. A. Chords of the Dominant 9th major and minor, with and without fundamental Chords of the 7th in various species. B. Changes, delays and pedals. C. The foreign notes: changes, delays, pedals, notes of passage, anticipation, appoggiatura etc.
MUSC230History of the 17th Century Music
2 credits
This course will consist of an investigation of the principal styles of European music from ancient Greece to the time of Bach and Handel. It will focus on a panoramic view of the main events, composers, genres, forms, schools, language and problems of the music during those periods.
MUSC350History of the 18th Century Music
2 credits
This course opens on the years that mark the death of JeanSébastien Bach, the decline of the baroque era, with the dawn of the classical musical style. It deals with the following subjects: French (from 1661 to 1764) music, music of the Germanic countries around Bach and Handel, English music in the 18th century, the birth and diffusion of classicism in Polish music, music in Spain, the music in Italy from the death of Carissimi to the end of the eighteenth century, classicism in Austria and the Germanspeaking countries, from the death of Telemann to the death of Beethoven, the formation of the classical style in Europe and the classical masters: Haydn and Mozart.
MUSC450History of the 19th Century Music
2 credits
This course explores the music of the Romantic era. 1 Characteristics of Romantic music: themes of Romanticism, individuality of style, expressive subjects, nationalism and exoticism, the use of timbers to obtain a variety of sensations and atmospheres, the use of chromatic harmony, contrasts in nuances etc. 2. Vocal music, program music, the Romantic Symphony, the brief forms and developed forms. 3. Romantic composers: Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Dvorak, Brahms, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Mahler.
MUSC220Music Critique I
1 credits
This course includes: A guided reading and musical critique - Readings in the literature and the science of music. Each student will have to read a book (or chapters in a book) per semester and present the content to others. The criticism is about:
• Various reports and interviews, mainly in the field of contemporary musical creation.
• Conception, realization and animation of a series of programs devoted to classical, modern and contemporary music.
• A roundtable around musical works by various composers.
• A report on a festival and concerts presented as part of this festival.
• Leaflet of a compact disc, published flyers or texts in concert programs.
• Symposia concerning music and conferences contained therein.
MUSC225Music Critique II
1 credits
This course includes: A guided reading and musical critique - Readings in the literature and the science of music. Each student will have to read a book (or chapters in a book) per semester and present the content to others. The criticism is about:
• Various reports and interviews, mainly in the field of contemporary musical creation.
• Conception, realization and animation of a series of programs devoted to classical, modern and contemporary music.
• A roundtable around musical works by various composers.
• A report on a festival and concerts presented as part of this festival.
• Leaflet of a compact disc, published flyers or texts in concert programs.
• Symposia concerning music and conferences contained therein.
MUSC320Music Critique III
1 credits
This course includes: A guided reading and musical critique - Readings in the literature and the science of music. Each student will have to read a book (or chapters in a book) per semester and present the content to others. The criticism is about:
• Various reports and interviews, mainly in the field of contemporary musical creation.
• Conception, realization and animation of a series of programs devoted to classical, modern and contemporary music.
• A roundtable around musical works by various composers.
• A report on a festival and concerts presented as part of this festival.
• Leaflet of a compact disc, published flyers or texts in concert programs.
• Symposia concerning music and conferences contained therein.
MUSC325Music Critique IV
1 credits
This course includes: A guided reading and musical critique - Readings in the literature and the science of music. Each student will have to read a book (or chapters in a book) per semester and present the content to others. The criticism is about:
• Various reports and interviews, mainly in the field of contemporary musical creation.
• Conception, realization and animation of a series of programs devoted to classical, modern and contemporary music.
• A roundtable around musical works by various composers.
• A report on a festival and concerts presented as part of this festival.
• Leaflet of a compact disc, published flyers or texts in concert programs.
• Symposia concerning music and conferences contained therein.
MUSC245Music Languages
2 credits
The goal of this course is to give to the students a general idea about the evolution of musical language from its beginning to the twentieth century: the scale of harmonics; the cycle of fifths, consonance and attraction, tolerance, habituation, equalization, the formation of the scales, relative pitch and absolute pitch, the organization of the sounds in space and in time, the melodic order and the harmonic order, the chromatic scale; the irregular and altered scales; from ditonic scale to heptatonic scale; accuracy and the acoustic systems; the equal temperament.
MUSC435Musical Acoustics
2 credits
This course concentrates on: Vibratory motion of typical musical sound sources, propagation of sound, wavelength, period and frequency, pressure and acoustic intensity, the acoustic impedance speed etc. Perceived pitch, loudness and timbre of a sound. The objectively measurable properties of a sound wave Explaining how sound is generated - transformed by the musical instruments and the human voice Defining the reverberation time of a hall, using a formula relating reverberation time to the volume of the hall and the absorption of its surfaces, and discussing the acoustical properties desirable in concert halls and opera houses Microphones, amplifiers, speakers and sound captation acoustic treatment and correction.
MUSC340Musical Forms
2 credits
The examination of the form is a fundamental element of any analysis, because the form depends on the various components of a work: Melody, rhythm, instrumentation, dynamics, tonal course, elements of unity and contrast ratio, relationship between text and music if it is a voice composition and other components. To understand musical forms, is to discern the sound architecture.
MUSC405Organology and instrumentation
2 credits
This course studies different musical instruments from antiquity to the present day. History, classifications, mechanical, acoustic, development, manufacturing, the different families of instruments etc. and helps deepen the concept of instrumentation and know the specificity of each instrument: timbre, register, transposition, combination of timbers, transcription etc.
MUSISCSecondary instrument level I
2 credits
Students will perform on another instrument rather than the major one they have chosen in their MUSPIV I and in additional to the singing program they decided to do.
MUSPIV1Secondary instrument level I
6 credits
Students will perform on another instrument rather than the major one they have chosen in their MUSPIV I and in additional to the singing program they decided to do.
SDO201Solfeggio/Dictation I
2 credits | Pre-requisite: MUP157 Or MPR220 Or SDO101
1st course
a Solfeggio parlati : Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°1 au n°31
b Solfeggio cantati: Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°1 au n°31.
c Dictation : Noël Gallon du n°1 au n°20. melodic intervals : 5th, 4th, octave, 3rd Maj and min, 2nd Maj and min.
SDO202Solfeggio/Dictation II
2 credits | Pre-requisite: MPR221 Or MPR211 Or MUP257
2nd course
a Solfeggio parlati : Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°32 au n°60.
b Solfeggio cantati: Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°32 au n°60.
c Dictation : Noël Gallon du n°21 au n°40. melodic intervals : Triton, 6th Maj and min, 7th Maj and min.
SDO303Solfeggio/Dictation III
2 credits | Pre-requisite: MPR222 Or MPR321 Or MUP258 Or SDO202
3rd course
a Solfeggio parlati : Pozzoli: appendice al primo corso du n°1 au n°31.
b Solfeggio cantati: Pozzoli: appendiceal prima corso du no1 au no27.
c- Dictation:-Noel Gallon du no41 au no60. - melodic intervals: all intervals, and major and minor chords.