Sweet Briar College

2010-2011 Catalog Prerequisite: Interested incoming firstyearstudents should plan to audition duringorientation week. Other audition dateswill be announced during the academic year.Upperclassmen desiring applied music studyshould arrange an audition or consult with thechair of the department prior to registrationfor the term in which lessons are desired. A feewill be assessed for these courses. Music scholarshipsare available to defray part of the cost.Once a scholarship has been awarded, it willcontinue to be awarded whenever the studentenrolls in the course, as long as funds are availableand the student shows sufficient progress.A weekly, 50-minute private lesson is availablein the following areas: piano, organ, voice,harpsichord, harp, guitar, stringed instruments,woodwind instruments, and brass instruments.Lessons are offered both on campus and inconjunction with neighboring institutions andprofessional musicians.All students enrolled in applied music arerequired to perform in a departmental recitalor before a faculty jury, usually near the end ofthe academic term. Exceptions may be madefor those students who have performed a solorecital or program of equivalent difficulty. Maybe repeated for credit. V.6b.Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor;intermediate level of competency in appliedmusic area and a background in music theory.Co-requisite: An applied music course. Anintroduction to applied music pedagogy in theareas of piano, strings, and voice. The studentwill select one area of concentration for twothirdsof the course. The other third will bedivided equally to demonstrate the kinds ofspecialized pedagogy in the other two appliedareas. The string area will concentrate in theSuzuki methods of teaching and may lead to certificationas a Suzuki teacher. This course may berepeated for credit. Offered alternate years.Prerequisites: Audition and permission of theinstructor. Coaching and preparation of repertoryfor keyboard with voice or instrumentation;sight-reading; with possible performancein recital of literature studied. V.6b.Prerequisite: MUSC 157. A study of Westernvocal and instrumental music from 1770 to1890, focusing both upon general stylistic developmentsin their historical contexts and uponthe closer study of great works of the Classicand Romantic masters. Basic forms and scoreanalysis will be introduced. These forms includeSonata-allegro form, theme and variations,rondo, minuet and trio, and song forms. III.W,V.1, V.6a.Prerequisite: MUSC 181. Study and analysis ofkeyboard music from the pre-piano period tothe present. Special attention will be given to thedevelopment of keyboard forms, techniques andidiomatic styles. V.6a.As a musical language, jazz is the first indigenousAmerican style to affect music in the restof the world. This course will teach the musicianand non-musician alike how to identify themusical parameters used in jazz compositionand performance. We shall look at the historicaland social impact of slavery, segregation, drugs,and the growth of international attention onthis art form, as well as the role of women jazzmusicians. Offered alternate years. III.O, V.6a.Prerequisite: MUSC 107 or MUSC 157. Thiscourse will introduce students to the processof composing film scores, as well as analyzingfilms, representing various compositional stylesand techniques. Students will use technical andmusical vocabularies to analyze and critique filmscores. Included in our study will be film composersJohn Williams, Danny Elfman, HowardShore, Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann,Nino Rota, Miklos Rosza, Jerry Goldsmith, andothers. Offered alternate years. May be countedtoward the minor in film studies. III.O, V.6a.