MUS - Music - Undergraduate Courses

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• MUS 1 Beginning Music Theory
• MUS 2 The Music of Today
• MUS 3 American Music
• MUS 3.01 African-American Music
• MUS 3.02 American Music: Covers, Theft, and Musical Borrowing
• MUS 3.03 American Music: Roots and Revolutionaries
• MUS 3.04 American Music: Music and Metaphor
• MUS 3.05 American Music: Musical Experiments
• MUS 3.06 Sound Relations: Indigenous Musical Perspectives
• MUS 3.07 American Music: The Minimalist Impulse
• MUS 3.08 Music and Democracy in the Americas
• MUS 4 Global Sounds
• MUS 5 Jazz: Black Creative Music and American Culture
• MUS 5.01 History of Jazz to 1965
• MUS 5.02 History of Jazz since 1959
• MUS 6 Masterpieces of Western Music
• MUS 7 First-Year Seminar
• MUS 8 Programming for Interactive Audio-Visual Arts
• MUS 9 Learning to Play a Musical Instrument
• MUS 9.01 Introductory Guitar
• MUS 10 Lives and Works of the Great Composers
• MUS 11 Introduction to Opera
• MUS 13 Literature and Music
• MUS 14 Music and Science
• MUS 14.01 Music, Mind, Invention
• MUS 14.02 Datascapes: Objective and Subjective Cinematic Interpretations of Data
• MUS 14.03 Electronics for Musicians
• MUS 14.04 Music and Healing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• MUS 14.05 Music and Artificial Intelligence
• MUS 16 Music and Image
• MUS 16.01 Visual Music
• MUS 16.02 Music and Media in Everyday Life
• MUS 16.03 Water In the Lake: Real Events for the Imagination
• MUS 16.04 Transmissions: Histories and Theories of Broadcast Sound
• MUS 17 Interdisciplinary Studies
• MUS 17.01 Sonic Landscapes
• MUS 17.02 Music and Dance of North India
• MUS 17.03 Audio-Vision: Film, Music, and Sound
• MUS 17.04 The Art, Science, and Symbolism of Musical Instruments
• MUS 17.05 The Poetics and Politics of Sounds and Words
• MUS 17.06 The Language-Music Connection
• MUS 17.07 Entrepreneurship and the Arts
• MUS 18 Topics in Popular Music
• MUS 18.01 Pop Music: Past, Present, Future
• MUS 18.02 Hip-Hop in the United States
• MUS 18.03 Verzuz: A History of Black Popular Music
• MUS 20 Creative Music Theory I
• MUS 21 Melody and Rhythm
• MUS 22 Creative Music Theory II
• MUS 23 Timbre and Form
• MUS 25 Sonic Arts I: Machine Music
• MUS 26 Sonic Arts II: Sound is Alive
• MUS 27 Sound Design
• MUS 27.01 Emerging Musical Theater
• MUS 28 Sonic Space and Form
• MUS 30 Making Music
• MUS 30.01 Composition Seminar
• MUS 30.02 Film Scoring
• MUS 32 Improvisation
• MUS 34 Sound Art Practice
• MUS 35 The Jazz Language
• MUS 36 Songwriting 1
• MUS 37 Songwriting 2: Making the Album
• MUS 38 Noise: Exploring Liberation in Sound
• MUS 40.02 Nineteenth-century Music
• MUS 40.04 Music and Social Identity
• MUS 40.05 Topics in Music History: Russian Music
• MUS 40.06 Sounds of Totalitarianism and Resistance
• MUS 41 Musical Innovators
• MUS 41.01 Debussy the Innovator
• MUS 42 From Plato to Mozart (Early Classical Music)
• MUS 43 From Beethoven to Now (Modern Classical Music)
• MUS 45 Topics in World Music
• MUS 45.03 The Music of Central Asia
• MUS 45.04 Music and Social Justice
• MUS 45.05 Polyphony
• MUS 45.06 Music from the Lands of the Silk Road
• MUS 45.07 Afropop!
• MUS 45.08 Cities, Subjects & Sonic Africa
• MUS 45.09 Music and the Racial Imagination
• MUS 45.10 Jewish Music: Traditional and Modern
• MUS 45.11 The Power of Music
• MUS 45.12 Advanced Studies in Jazz History: A Century of Jazz at Dartmouth
• MUS 46 Video Games and the Meaning of Life
• MUS 50 Performance Laboratories
• MUS 50.11 Chamber Music I
• MUS 50.12 Chamber Music II
• MUS 50.13 Chamber Music III
• MUS 50.21 Contemporary Music I
• MUS 50.22 Contemporary Music II
• MUS 50.23 Contemporary Music III
• MUS 50.31 Jazz Improvisation I
• MUS 50.32 Jazz Improvisation II
• MUS 50.33 Jazz Improvisation III
• MUS 50.41 Opera Lab I
• MUS 50.42 Opera Lab II
• MUS 50.43 Opera Lab III
• MUS 51 Oral Tradition Musicianship
• MUS 52 Conducting
• MUS 52.01 Conducting and Artistic Direction
• MUS 52.02 Applied Conducting
• MUS 52.03 The Art of Conducting: An Introduction to Choral and Orchestral Conducting
• MUS 52.04 The Modern Conductor: An Introduction to Wind and Chamber Conducting
• MUS 53.01 Keyboard Individual Instruction: Classical and Jazz Piano and Organ I
• MUS 53.02 Keyboard Individual Instruction: Classical and Jazz Piano and Organ II
• MUS 53.03 Keyboard Individual Instruction: Classical and Jazz Piano and Organ III
• MUS 54.01 Woodwind Individual Instruction: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone
• MUS 54.02 Woodwind Individual Instruction: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone
• MUS 54.03 Woodwind Individual Instruction: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone
• MUS 55.01 Brass Individual Instruction: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
• MUS 55.02 Brass Individual Instruction: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
• MUS 55.03 Brass Individual Instruction: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
• MUS 56.01 String Individual Instruction: Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass Viol, Electric Bass, Classical and Electrical Guitar
• MUS 56.02 String Individual Instruction: Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass Viol, Electric Bass, Classical and Electrical Guitar
• MUS 56.03 String Individual Instruction: Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass Viol, Electric Bass, Classical and Electrical Guitar
• MUS 57.01 Voice Individual Instruction
• MUS 57.02 Voice Individual Instruction
• MUS 57.03 Voice Individual Instruction
• MUS 58.01 Percussion Individual Instruction
• MUS 58.02 Percussion Individual Instruction
• MUS 58.03 Percussion Individual Instruction
• MUS 59 Ensemble Performance and Leadership
• MUS 59.11 Coast Jazz Orchestra I
• MUS 59.12 Coast Jazz Orchestra II
• MUS 59.13 Coast Jazz Orchestra III
• MUS 59.21 Dartmouth College Glee Club I
• MUS 59.22 Dartmouth College Glee Club II
• MUS 59.23 Dartmouth College Glee Club III
• MUS 59.31 Dartmouth College Gospel Choir I
• MUS 59.32 Dartmouth College Gospel Choir II
• MUS 59.33 Dartmouth College Gospel Choir III
• MUS 59.41 Handel Society of Dartmouth College I
• MUS 59.42 Handel Society of Dartmouth College II
• MUS 59.43 Handel Society of Dartmouth College III
• MUS 59.51 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra I
• MUS 59.52 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra II
• MUS 59.53 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra III
• MUS 59.61 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble I
• MUS 59.62 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble II
• MUS 59.63 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble III
• MUS 59.71 Dartmouth College Marching Band I
• MUS 59.72 Dartmouth College Marching Band II
• MUS 59.73 Dartmouth College Marching Band III
• MUS 60 Studies in Musical Performance: Keyboard
• MUS 61 Studies in Musical Performance: Woodwinds
• MUS 62 Studies in Musical Performance: Brass
• MUS 63 Studies in Musical Performance: Strings
• MUS 64 Studies in Musical Performance: Voice
• MUS 65 Studies in Musical Performance: Percussion
• MUS 70 Perspectives in Music Performance
• MUS 71 The History of Music in England
• MUS 74 The History of Music in Central Europe
• MUS 82 Special Study in History, Musicology, Ethnomusicology
• MUS 83 Special Study in Composition and Theory
• MUS 84 Special Study in Performance
• MUS 86 Other Special Studies
• MUS 87 Special Studies in Music Abroad (Individual Instruction on Music FSP)
• MUS 88 Honors
• MUS 99 Proseminar