MUS - Music - Undergraduate Courses

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MUS 1 Beginning Music Theory
MUS 2 The Music of Today
MUS 3.02 American Music: Covers, Theft, and Musical Borrowing
MUS 3.09 Mestizaje: Music in Latin America
MUS 5 Jazz: Black Creative Music and American Culture
MUS 7 First-Year Seminar
MUS 8 Programming for Interactive Audio-Visual Arts
MUS 9.01 Introductory Guitar
MUS 9.02 Creativity Through Percussion
MUS 11 Introduction to Opera
MUS 12 Intro to Music Technology
MUS 13 Literature and Music
MUS 14.01 Music, Mind, Invention
MUS 14.04 Music and Healing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
MUS 14.05 Music and Artificial Intelligence
MUS 14.06 Foundations of Sonic Practice: Embodiment, Listening, and Vibration
MUS 16.01 Genre: History of Visual Music
MUS 16.02 Music and Media in Everyday Life
MUS 17.06 The Language-Music Connection
MUS 17.07 Entrepreneurship and the Arts
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 20.01 Melody and Rhythm
MUS 21.01 Creative Music Theory I
MUS 22 Creative Music Theory II
MUS 23 Timbre and Form
MUS 24.01 Black Sound Studies
MUS 25 Sonic Arts I: Machine Music
MUS 26 Sonic Arts II: Sound is Alive
MUS 27.01 Musical Theater Writing
MUS 28 Sonic Space and Form
MUS 30.01 Composition Seminar
MUS 30.02 Film Scoring
MUS 30.03 Writing for Musical Theatre
MUS 32 Improvisation
MUS 34.01 Sound Art Practice
MUS 34.02 Autonomous Musical Bodies
MUS 35 The Jazz Language
MUS 36 Songwriting 1
MUS 37 Songwriting 2: Making the Album
MUS 38 Noise: Exploring Liberation in Sound
MUS 39 A Critical Inquiry of Sound: Experimental Ethnographic Field Methods
MUS 41.01 Debussy the Innovator
MUS 42 Early Classical Music (From Plato to Mozart)
MUS 43 Modern Classical Music (From Beethoven to Now)
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 45.12 Advanced Studies in Jazz History: A Century of Jazz at Dartmouth
MUS 45.13 Global Sounds
MUS 45.14 American Music: Roots and Revolutionaries
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 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 53.11 Classical Piano Individual Instruction I
MUS 53.12 Classical Piano Individual Instruction II
MUS 53.13 Classical Piano Individual Instruction III
MUS 53.21 Jazz Piano Individual Instruction I
MUS 53.22 Jazz Piano Individual Instruction II
MUS 53.23 Jazz Piano Individual Instruction III
MUS 53.31 Organ Individual Instruction I
MUS 53.32 Organ Individual Instruction II
MUS 53.33 Organ Individual Instruction III
MUS 54.11 Flute Individual Instruction I
MUS 54.12 Flute Individual Instruction II
MUS 54.13 Flute Individual Instruction III
MUS 54.21 Oboe Individual Instruction I
MUS 54.22 Oboe Individual Instruction II
MUS 54.23 Oboe Individual Instruction III
MUS 54.31 Clarinet Individual Instruction I
MUS 54.32 Clarinet Individual Instruction II
MUS 54.33 Clarinet Individual Instruction III
MUS 54.41 Basson Individual Instruction I
MUS 54.42 Basson Individual Instruction II
MUS 54.43 Basson Individual Instruction III
MUS 54.51 Classical Saxophone Individual Instruction I
MUS 54.52 Classical Saxophone Individual Instruction II
MUS 54.53 Classical Saxophone Individual Instruction III
MUS 54.61 Jazz Saxophone Individual Instruction I
MUS 54.62 Jazz Saxophone Individual Instruction II
MUS 54.63 Jazz Saxophone Individual Instruction III
MUS 55.11 Horn Individual Instruction I
MUS 55.12 Horn Individual Instruction II
MUS 55.13 Horn Individual Instruction III
MUS 55.21 Trumpet Individual Instruction I
MUS 55.22 Trumpet Individual Instruction II
MUS 55.23 Trumpet Individual Instruction III
MUS 55.31 Low Brass Individual Instruction I
MUS 55.32 Low Brass Individual Instruction II
MUS 55.33 Low Brass Individual Instruction III
MUS 56.11 Classical Guitar Individual Instruction I
MUS 56.12 Classical Guitar Individual Instruction II
MUS 56.13 Classical Guitar Individual Instruction III
MUS 56.21 Jazz and Popular Styles Guitar Individual Instruction I
MUS 56.22 Jazz and Popular Styles Guitar Individual Instruction II
MUS 56.23 Jazz and Popular Styles Guitar Individual Instruction III
MUS 56.31 Harp Individual Instruction I
MUS 56.32 Harp Individual Instruction II
MUS 56.33 Harp Individual Instruction III
MUS 56.41 Violin Individual Instruction I
MUS 56.42 Violin Individual Instruction II
MUS 56.43 Violin Individual Instruction III
MUS 56.51 Viola Individual Instruction I
MUS 56.52 Viola Individual Instruction II
MUS 56.53 Viola Individual Instruction III
MUS 56.61 Cello Individual Instruction I
MUS 56.62 Cello Individual Instruction II
MUS 56.63 Cello Individual Instruction III
MUS 56.71 Double Bass and Bass Guitar Individual Instruction I
MUS 56.72 Double Bass and Bass Guitar Individual Instruction II
MUS 56.73 Double Bass and Bass Guitar Individual Instruction III
MUS 57.11 Voice Individual Instruction I
MUS 57.12 Voice Individual Instruction II
MUS 57.13 Voice Individual Instruction III
MUS 58.01 Percussion Individual Instruction
MUS 58.02 Percussion Individual Instruction
MUS 58.03 Percussion Individual Instruction
MUS 58.11 Sound Engineering I
MUS 58.12 Sound Engineering II
MUS 58.13 Sound Engineering III
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 59.41 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