Offered by:Performance
Degree:Bachelor of Music
Program Requirement:
The Bachelor of Music; Major Early Music Performance program provides comprehensive training in historical performance practice and in performance on a period instrument. The program combines individual lessons and ensembles with the study of historical approaches to performance in its various activities - workshops, master classes, guest lectures, and research projects.
The Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.); Major Early Music Performance program requires 91 credits (plus 34 credits for the Freshman requirement for out-of-province students).
Special Requirements:
Continuation in the program requires a minimum grade of B- in practical instruction/exams and ensembles.
Program Prerequisites - Freshman Program (34 credits)
34 credits selected as described below, in consultation with the Program Adviser:
22 credits of Prerequisite Courses
2 credits of Assigned Small Ensemble
4 credits of Large Ensemble
6 credits of Non-Music Electives
Prerequisite Courses
22 credits, all of the courses below:
Note: Applicants who can demonstrate through auditions and placement tests that they have mastered the material in any of the courses below will be exempt from them and may proceed to more advanced courses.
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MUHL 186
Western Musical Traditions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: A survey of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis on key musical concepts and genres in their historical context and aural recognition of style.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 180
BMus Practical Lessons 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.
Offered by: Performance
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: Admission to the B.Mus. program by audition.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 181
BMus Practical Lessons 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical examination in clarinet techniques.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: MUIN 180
- Restriction: Open to students entering directly from High Schools outside Quebec.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPD 135
Music as a Profession 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Professional Development: Music Professional Development: An introduction to information, resources, and skills related to physical, mental, and professional well-being for the musician and scholar.
Offered by: Music Research
- Open to B.Mus. students or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 140
Musicianship Training 1
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Rhythm and metre basic subdivisions and conducting patterns; intervals, chords, and scale patterns; non-modulating tonal melodies with treble and bass clefs; harmonic progressions emphasizing two-part outer voice structures.
Offered by: Music Research
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: Matriculation Music or McGill Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent.
- Corequisites: MUTH 150, MUSP 170
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 141
Musicianship Training 2
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Rhythm and metre mixed divisions and syncopations; triadic and seventh chord voicings and disjunct pitch collections; chromatically embellished melodies adding alto clef; simple modulating harmonic progressions emphasizing two-part outer voice structures.
Offered by: Music Research
- 2 hours
- Prerequisites: Matriculation Music or McGill Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent. MUSP 140
- Corequisites: MUTH 151, MUSP 171
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 170
Musicianship (Keyboard) 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Harmonic, melodic and rhythmic analysis at the keyboard through the study of rudiments, repertoire, chorale/score reading, transposition and harmonization.
Offered by: Music Research
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: Matriculation Music or McGill Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent.
- Corequisites: MUTH 150 and MUSP 140.
- Course contents parallel with those of MUTH 150 and MUSP 140.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 171
Musicianship (Keyboard) 2
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Building chordal fluency. Harmonic vocabulary including sequences, chromaticism and modulation. Chorale and score reading with transposing instruments and alto/tenor clefs.
Offered by: Music Research
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: MUSP 170
- Corequisites: MUTH 111 and MUSP 131; or MUTH 151 and MUSP 141
- Restriction: All students admitted to B.Mus. and L.Mus. programs, including those with keyboard or guitar as their principal instrument, are required to take MUSP 171 Keyboard Lab, unless exempt on the basis of a placement test. Students who are exempt from MUTH 111 through placement tests must still take MUSP 171 (unless exempt) since this course forms the foundation of keyboard-based musicianship tasks at upper levels. (All Majors in Jazz Performance substitute MUJZ 171 for MUSP 171. Students in Jazz Performance who have completed MUJZ 170 and MUJZ 171, and who transfer to a Department of Theory program, will be required to complete MUSP 171.) Students who do not achieve a continuation pass in MUSP 171 must reregister for the course in the semester immediately following. Students who do not achieve a continuation pass after repeating the course will not be allowed to proceed with further Musicianship or Theory studies until a continuation pass is achieved. Tests for MUSP 171 are held in August-September, December-January, and April-May [as well as during the Summer Session when course(s) offered], the exact dates determined by the Department of Music Research.
- Course contents parallel with those of MUTH 151 and MUSP 141.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUTH 150
Theory and Analysis 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Theory and Analysis: Diatonic chords and harmonic progressions, focus on outer-voice framework, cadences, embellishments, building chordal fluency in common-practice tonality, applied chords.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: Matriculation Music or McGill Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent.
- Corequisites: MUSP 140 and MUSP 170
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUTH 151
Theory and Analysis 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Theory and Analysis: Sequences and modulation, chromatic vocabulary, analysis of simple theme types (sentence, period, hybrids) and fugal techniques.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Required Courses (41 credits)
Performance
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MUIN 280
BMus Practical Lessons 3
2.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 281
BMus Practical Lessons 4
2.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 282
BMus Performance Exam 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Assessment of student's progress in the practical area.
Offered by: Performance
- Exam details are to be found under Examinations and Goals in Practical Subjects in the Music Chapter of the University Calendar.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 380
BMus Practical Lessons 5
2.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 381
BMus Practical Lessons 6
2.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 382
BMus Performance Exam 2
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Assessment of student's progress in the practical area.
Offered by: Performance
- Exam details are to be found under Examinations and Goals in Practical Subjects in the Music Chapter of the University Calendar.
- Prerequisite(s): MUIN 282
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 480
BMus Practical Lessons 7
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 481
BMus Practical Lessons 8
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction on an instrument or voice.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUIN 482
BMus Performance Exam 3
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Assessment of student's progress in the practical area.
Offered by: Performance
- Exam details are to be found under Examinations and Goals in Practical Subjects in the Music Chapter of the University Calendar.
- Prerequisite(s): MUIN 382
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Theory
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MUTH 250
Theory and Analysis 3
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Theory and Analysis: Compositional resources of late 18th and early 19th century music. Analysis of forms common to the period c. 1770 - 1840, including Classical sonata forms in several media.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUTH 251
Theory and Analysis 4
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Theory and Analysis: Expanded harmonic resources of the 19th century (e.g., advanced chromaticism including enharmonic reinterpretation and symmetrical division). Analysis of characteristic small and large forms. Writing and analytical skills with a goal toward perceiving how levels of musical structure interact.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUTH 350
Theory and Analysis 5
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Theory and Analysis: Exploration of 20th and 21st century organizations of pitch, rhythm, timbre etc. Written and analytical skills for the purpose of gaining insight into the compositional techniques and aesthetics of this repertoire.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUTH 426
Topics in Early Music Analysis
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Theory and Analysis: Music from before 1700 is analyzed using recently developed techniques as well as materials gathered from treatises contemporaneous with the music. The implications of analysis for performance are considered.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Musicianship
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MUSP 240
Musicianship Training 3
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Rhythm and metre mixed divisions and two-part work; additional chordal voicings and pitch collections; melodies modulating to closely-related keys adding tenor clef; harmonic progression including applied chords; two-part keyboard-style passages.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisites: Matriculation Music or McGill Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent. MUSP 141
- Corequisite: MUTH 250
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 241
Musicianship Training 4
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Changing metres; chord voicings and atonal pitch collections; modulating tonal melodies and score reading of transposing instruments; harmonic progression including chromatic chords; two-part passages.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Music History/Literature/Performance Practice
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MUHL 286
Critical Thinking About Music
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: Examination of various periods and styles: e.g., central works from different traditions, the interaction of music and society, performance practice, and music's relation to other arts.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPP 381
Topics in Performance Practice
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance Practice: An overview of the techniques, methods, and problems of historical performance. Topics covered include theoretical matters involving source material, treatises, organology, 17th-century views of rhetoric and emotion, 18th-century composition methods, rhythmic interpretation, embellishment and ornamentation, tuning and temperament, and basso continuo.
Offered by: Performance
- 3 hours
- Restriction: Open to Early Music students and those interested in modern performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Professional Development
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MUPD 235
Music as a Profession 2
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music Professional Development: An overview of the responsibilities and skills required of professions in music and of the varied career paths leading from a music degree.
Offered by: Music Research
- Open to BMus students in U2 and U3, or by permission of the instructor.
- Prerequisite(s): MUPD 135
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken MUPD 136.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Courses (27 credits)
Performance
12 credits*(2 credits per term; as assigned by audition) from large ensembles:
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MUEN 563
Jazz Vocal Workshop
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Vocal workshop for jazz musicians.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 572
Cappella Antica
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: An ensemble of 8 to 12 voices specializing in early music. N.B. This ensemble may substitute as a Basic Ensemble in programs that specify Choral Ensemble, with Departmental approval.
Offered by: Performance
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 573
Baroque Orchestra
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Open to singers and instrumentalists, this ensemble specializes in chamber music primarily of the Baroque era.
Offered by: Performance
- 4 hours
- Prerequisites: Audition
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 587
Cappella McGill
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: An ensemble of 16 voices performing challenging repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Since the expectation is a level of performance equivalent to a professional chamber ensemble, singers wishing to join this group should have had considerable ensemble experience, and advanced vocal and sight-reading skills.
Offered by: Performance
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Note: May be taken instead of Choral Ensemble.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 590
McGill Wind Orchestra
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Large ensemble for wind instruments.
Offered by: Performance
- 4-6 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 592
Chamber Jazz Ensemble
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: This ensemble will deal with the extensive repertoire of music which exists for small jazz orchestra (9-13 instruments).
Offered by: Performance
- Restriction: Open to Jazz Performance students only.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 593
Choral Ensembles
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Students enrolling in Choral Ensembles will be assigned to one of the above groups.
Offered by: Performance
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Section 001 Chamber Singers: a group of approximately 24 mixed voices which explores the a cappella repertoire of all periods as well as works with chamber accompaniment.
- Section 002 Concert Choir: an ensemble of approximately 60 voices (S.A.T.B.) which performs the repertoire from all periods appropriate to a group of this size.
- Section 003 University Chorus: a mixed chorus of approximately 100 which performs a variety of choral material including both traditional and popular selections.
- Section 004 Women's Chorale: an ensemble of approximately 40 women stressing the fundamentals of singing and ensemble participation.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 594
Contemporary Music Ensemble
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Ensemble for contemporary music - instruments and voice.
Offered by: Performance
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 595
Jazz Ensembles
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Ensemble for jazz - instruments and voice.
Offered by: Performance
- 3-4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 597
McGill Symphony Orchestra
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Ensemble for orchestral instruments.
Offered by: Performance
- 6 - 7 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
4 credits* (1 credit per term)
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MUEN 569
Tabla Ensemble
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: Performance and practice of the tabla of North India.
Offered by: Performance
- Can be taken more than once.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUEN 580
Early Music Ensemble
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ensemble: An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
* All ensemble courses under MUEN may be taken in multiple terms.
6 credits from:
Baroque Instruments
MUEN prefix - maximum 4 credits
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MUPG 473
Special Project in Performance
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: For details, contact the Department of Performance.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 474
Special Project in Performance
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: For details, contact the Department of Performance.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 475
Special Project in Performance
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: For details, contact the Department of Performance.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
OR
Harpsichord
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MUPG 272D1
Continuo
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: An historically-oriented study of the principles of figured-bass. The student will realize at sight elementary bass patterns. Standard idioms from historical treatises will be introduced.
Offered by: Performance
- 2 hours
- Prerequisites: MUTH 150 and permission of instructor.
- Students must register for both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Enrolment limited to 6.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 272D2
Continuo
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: See MUPG 272D1 for course description.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: MUPG 272D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- 2 hours
- Enrolment limited to 6.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 372D1
Continuo
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A study of 17th and 18th Century styles of figured-bass accompaniment as revealed in contemporary sources. The emphasis will be on the realization at the keyboard of representative works using original sources.
Offered by: Performance
- 1 hour
- Prerequisites: MUPG 272 AND permission of instructor. Enrolment limited to 4
- Students must register for both MUPG 372D1 and MUPG 372D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 372D1 and MUPG 372D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 372D2
Continuo
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: See MUPG 372D1 for course description.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: MUPG 372D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 372D1 and MUPG 372D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
OR
Organ
MUEN prefix - maximum 2 credits
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MUPG 272D1
Continuo
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: An historically-oriented study of the principles of figured-bass. The student will realize at sight elementary bass patterns. Standard idioms from historical treatises will be introduced.
Offered by: Performance
- 2 hours
- Prerequisites: MUTH 150 and permission of instructor.
- Students must register for both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Enrolment limited to 6.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 272D2
Continuo
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: See MUPG 272D1 for course description.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: MUPG 272D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- 2 hours
- Enrolment limited to 6.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 473
Special Project in Performance
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: For details, contact the Department of Performance.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 474
Special Project in Performance
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: For details, contact the Department of Performance.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Musicianship
2 credits from:
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MUSP 346
Post-Tonal Musicianship
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Extended tonal and post-tonal harmonic and contrapuntal structures, rhythmic practices of the 20th and 21st century, score reading.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 354
Intro to Improv and Ornamen
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Principles of improvisation and ornamentation for music before 1800, including harmonic progressions and voice-leading and contrapuntal patterns for instrumentalists and singers, along with examples of ornamented vocal and instrumental works from 17th and 18th century sources.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 361
Topics in Musicianship
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Advanced ear training challenges in rhythm, pitch, harmony, form, or timbre.
Offered by: Music Research
- Topics will change from semester to semester.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 363
Topics in Global Musicianship
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Musicianship skills from one or more global musical practice(s), with specific challenges and approaches corresponding to the selected topic.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUSP 381
Singing Renaissance Notation
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Musicianship: Choral sightsinging of mensural notation, with a focus on white notation c. 1420-1600. Development of basic fluency in the notation, interpretation of values in triple meter, addition of accidentals given the contrapuntal context as perceived aurally, Renaissance solmisation.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
History/Literature/Performance Practice
3 credits from:
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MUHL 377
Baroque Opera
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: History of opera from its origins in the musical, literary, and philosophical models available to the Florentine Camerata to the end of the baroque. The development of opera will be studied from the perspective of artistic style and in the light of historical, political, social, and economic conditions.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 380
Medieval Music
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: The medieval style - an intensive study of one or more selected topics from the repertoire. Possible subjects include liturgical chant, Notre Dame, the medieval motet, secular developments, and instrumental literature.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 381
Renaissance Music
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: Sacred and secular musical genres of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Various phases of imitative practice, cantus firmus and parody techniques. The emergence of homophonic textures in peripheral areas of the repertoire. Selected problems in the fields of theory, bibliography and aesthetics.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 382
Baroque Music
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: A detailed examination of several selected areas of Baroque music. Topics will be drawn from different geographical regions (e.g., Italy, France, Germany, etc.) and encompass church, chamber and theatre music, as well as performance practice. Each topic will be related to general musical developments of the period.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 383
Classical Music
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: The period covered will be from approximately 1740-1828, from the schools of the Italian keyboard composers, opera buffa and seria, and composers centred at Mannheim, Paris, London, Berlin and Vienna, through the Viennese Classic period of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, to the death of Schubert.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 395
Keyboard Lit before 1750
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: The solo repertoire for organ, harpsichord, and clavichord from 1400 to 1750: intabulation, cantus firmus treatment, indigenous keyboard genres, German organ literature, French harpsichord repertoire.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 591D1
Paleography
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: The theory and practice of musical transcription for the period 1100 to 1600. Black modal notation, Franconian notation, French and Italian Ars Nova notation, Mannerism, white mensural notation, proportions, and lute and keyboard tablatures will be studied.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUHL 591D2
Paleography
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Music History and Literature: See MUHL 591D1 for course description.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: MUHL 591D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Elective Courses (23 credits)
3 credits of non-Music Electives
20 credits of Free Electives (may include 2 credits of courses with a MUEN prefix)
