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Program Requirements
Voice, Baroque Flute, Recorder, Baroque Oboe, Baroque Bassoon, Baroque Violin, Baroque Viola, Baroque Cello, Early Music Clarinet, Viola da Gamba, Organ, Harpsichord, Lute, Early Brass, Fortepiano
Applicants to the Performance program are expected to have a background in Music Theory equivalent to the B.Mus. in Performance. Applicants found to be deficient in their background preparation may be required to take certain additional music theory undergraduate courses.
The following program prerequisites may be assigned as additional required courses on the basis of transcript review:
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MUPD 560 Introduction to Research Methods in Music (1 credit)
Overview
Music Professional Development : Introduction to music research, including print and online tools for finding printed and recorded music and research on music; appropriate citation of sources; writing grant proposals, program/liner notes, and reviews.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Gioffredo, Myl猫ne; Morrison, Robert; Duinker, Benjamin (Fall)
3 credits from the following:
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MUHL 377 Baroque Opera (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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MUHL 380 Medieval Music (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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MUHL 381 Renaissance Music (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Ignesti, Alessandra (Winter)
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MUHL 382 Baroque Music (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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MUHL 383 Classical Music (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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MUHL 395 Keyboard Literature before 1750 (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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MUPP 381 Topics in Performance Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : Issues in performance traditions. Topics focus on rhythmic interpretation, vocal and instrumental style, ornamentation, improvisation, performance venues and context. Sources include original notation and modern editions, treatises, iconography, organology, analysis, criticism, and recordings.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Risler, Alexis (Winter)
3 hours
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPP 385
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MUTH 426 Topics in Early Music Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Schubert, Peter N (Fall)
Fortepiano students:
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MUHL 366 The Era of the Fortepiano (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : Survey of the repertoire for keyboard 1750-1850: the instruments, Empfindsamkeit, gallant style, London, Paris, Vienna, the Czech school, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, sonatas, variations, character pieces, "high" and "low" salon music, virtuosos and the virtuoso repertoire, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, early Liszt.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Harpsichord students:
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MUPG 272D1 Continuo (2 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Nadler, Rona Miriam (Fall)
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.
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MUPG 272D2 Continuo (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : See MUPG 272D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Nadler, Rona Miriam (Winter)
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.
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MUPG 372D1 Continuo (1 credit)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Knox, Hank (Fall)
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
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MUPG 372D2 Continuo (1 credit)
Overview
Performance : See MUPG 372D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Knox, Hank (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUPG 372D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 372D1 and MUPG 372D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Organ/Lute students:
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MUPG 272D1 Continuo (2 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Nadler, Rona Miriam (Fall)
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.
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MUPG 272D2 Continuo (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : See MUPG 272D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Nadler, Rona Miriam (Winter)
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.
Voice students:
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MUPG 210 Italian Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of International Phonetic Alphabet. Study of Italian pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Popescu, Maria (Fall)
2 hours
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MUPG 211 French Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of French pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Godin, Olivier (Winter)
2 hours
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MUPG 212 English Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of International Phonetic Alphabet. Study of Standard English pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts with a special emphasis on problematic vowels, diphthongs and consonants.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Koch, Elizabeth (Fall)
2 hours
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MUPG 213 German Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of German pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Strauss, Anja (Winter)
2 hours
Thesis Performance (27 credits)
18 credits:
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MUIN 620 Performance Tutorial 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Individual instrumental, vocal, conducting, collaborative piano or operatic tutorial. Technical and interpretive development, preparation of thesis performance projects.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Mdivani, Marina; Guimond, Claire; Bergeron, Sylvain; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Poletaev, Ilya; Christie, Carolyn; Levesque, Stephane; Zirbel, John; Roy, Andre J; Yazdanfar, Ali; Algie, Stephen; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Popescu, Maria; Beaudry, Pierre; Eriksson, Erik; Hauser, Rudolf-Alexius; Aldrich, Simon; Haimovitz, Matt; Merkelo, Paul A; McMahon, Michael; Kutan, Aline; Fewer, Mark; Swartz, Jennifer; Leclair, Jacqueline; Dolin, Elizabeth; Baskin, Theodore; Box, James; Hutchins, Timothy; Chappell, Eric; Dyachkov, Yegor; Robinson, Brian; Freeman, Peter; Strauss, Axel; Manker, Brian; Plouffe, Helene; Napper, Susan; Weman Eriksson, Lena; Beghin, Tom; Cazes, Alain; Knox, Hank; Richer, Patrice; Johnson, Alexander David; Lemelin, St茅phane; Labelle, Dominique; Devuyst, Russell; Laimon, Sara; Mallette, Marcelle; Normand, Jean-Francois; Dann, Steven Arthur; Stoelzel, Richard; Ducharme, J茅r么me; Wan, Andrew; Cope, Todd; Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien; Desgagne, Alain; Read, Alexander; Howle, Mark Austin; Lupien, Denise; Smith, Tracy; Mac Master, John; Roy, Jocelyne; Cote, Nadia; Brault, Olivier; Watson, Nathaniel; Gavrilova, Julia; Melancon, Violaine (Fall) Beaudry, Pierre; Mdivani, Marina; Christie, Carolyn; Leclair, Marie-; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Bergeron, Sylvain (Winter)
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MUIN 621 Performance Tutorial 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Additional individual instrumental, vocal, conducting, collaborative piano or operatic tutorial according to area of performing specialization.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Hashimoto, Kyoko; Chappell, Eric; Roy, Andre J; Strauss, Axel; Kutan, Aline; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Levesque, Stephane (Fall) Mdivani, Marina; Guimond, Claire; Bergeron, Sylvain; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Poletaev, Ilya; Christie, Carolyn; Levesque, Stephane; Zirbel, John; Roy, Andre J; Yazdanfar, Ali; Algie, Stephen; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Popescu, Maria; Beaudry, Pierre; Eriksson, Erik; Hauser, Rudolf-Alexius; Aldrich, Simon; Haimovitz, Matt; Merkelo, Paul A; McMahon, Michael; Kutan, Aline; Fewer, Mark; Swartz, Jennifer; Leclair, Jacqueline; Dolin, Elizabeth; Baskin, Theodore; Box, James; Hutchins, Timothy; Chappell, Eric; Dyachkov, Yegor; Robinson, Brian; Freeman, Peter; Strauss, Axel; Manker, Brian; Plouffe, Helene; Napper, Susan; Weman Eriksson, Lena; Cazes, Alain; Knox, Hank; Richer, Patrice; Johnson, Alexander David; Lemelin, St茅phane; Labelle, Dominique; Devuyst, Russell; Mallette, Marcelle; Moye, Felicia; Beghin, Tom; Normand, Jean-Francois; Dann, Steven Arthur; Laimon, Sara; Stoelzel, Richard; Ducharme, J茅r么me; Wan, Andrew; Kinslow, Valerie; Cope, Todd; Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien; Desgagne, Alain; Read, Alexander; Howle, Mark Austin; Lupien, Denise; Smith, Tracy; Mac Master, John; Roy, Jocelyne; Cote, Nadia; Brault, Olivier; Watson, Nathaniel; Melancon, Violaine; Gavrilova, Julia; Fournelle-Blain, Victor; Lambert, Fr茅d茅ric (Winter)
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MUIN 622 Performance Tutorial 3 (3 credits) **
Overview
Practical Instrument : Individual tutorial according to area of performing specialization. Interpretative preparation of thesis performance projects and development of individual artistic vision.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Box, James; Zirbel, John; Guimond, Claire; Bergeron, Sylvain; Plouffe, Helene; Eriksson, Erik; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Mdivani, Marina; Poletaev, Ilya; Popescu, Maria; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Algie, Stephen; Levesque, Stephane; Aldrich, Simon; Christie, Carolyn; Fewer, Mark; Roy, Andre J; Haimovitz, Matt; Yazdanfar, Ali; Merkelo, Paul A; Kestenberg, Abe; Hutchins, Timothy; Leclair, Jacqueline; Robinson, Brian; Baskin, Theodore; Bolduc, Remi; Kutan, Aline; Dyachkov, Yegor; Swartz, Jennifer; Knox, Hank; Napper, Susan; Beghin, Tom; Manker, Brian; Strauss, Axel; Freeman, Peter; Labelle, Dominique; Hauser, Rudolf-Alexius; Cazes, Alain; Dolin, Elizabeth; Johnson, Alexander David; Richer, Patrice; Lemelin, St茅phane; McMahon, Michael; Purdy, Winston; Normand, Jean-Francois; Dann, Steven Arthur; Devuyst, Russell; Ducharme, J茅r么me; Mallette, Marcelle; Stoelzel, Richard; Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien; Read, Alexander; Cope, Todd; Wan, Andrew; Melancon, Violaine; Brault, Olivier; Mac Master, John; Marandola, Fabrice (Fall) Hashimoto, Kyoko; Poletaev, Ilya; Hauser, Rudolf-Alexius; Roy, Andre J; Mdivani, Marina; Merkelo, Paul A; Bolduc, Remi; Chappell, Eric; Strauss, Axel; Kutan, Aline; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Knox, Hank; Christie, Carolyn; Beghin, Tom; Zirbel, John; Stoelzel, Richard; Levesque, Stephane; Johnson, Alexander David; Labelle, Dominique; Algie, Stephen; Mac Master, John; Cope, Todd; Leclair, Jacqueline; Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien; Marandola, Fabrice; Wan, Andrew; Popescu, Maria; Dolin, Elizabeth; Manker, Brian; Eriksson, Erik (Winter)
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MUIN 622D1 Performance Tutorial 3 (1.5 credits) **
Overview
Practical Instrument : Individual tutorial according to area of performing specialization. Interpretative preparation of thesis performance projects and development of individual artistic vision.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Poletaev, Ilya; Johnson, Alexander David; Zirbel, John; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Labelle, Dominique; Algie, Stephen; Mac Master, John; Cope, Todd; Leclair, Jacqueline; Levesque, Stephane; Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien; Marandola, Fabrice; Wan, Andrew; Popescu, Maria; Dolin, Elizabeth; Manker, Brian; Eriksson, Erik; Hashimoto, Kyoko (Fall)
Students must register for both MUIN 622D1 and MUIN 622D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUIN 622D1 and MUIN 622D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
MUIN 622D1 and MUIN 622D2 together are equivalent to MUIN 622
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MUIN 622D2 Performance Tutorial 3 (1.5 credits) **
Overview
Practical Instrument : Individual tutorial according to area of performing specialization. Interpretative preparation of thesis performance projects and development of individual artistic vision.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Poletaev, Ilya; Johnson, Alexander David; Zirbel, John; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Labelle, Dominique; Algie, Stephen; Mac Master, John; Cope, Todd; Leclair, Jacqueline; Levesque, Stephane; Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien; Marandola, Fabrice; Wan, Andrew; Popescu, Maria; Dolin, Elizabeth; Manker, Brian; Eriksson, Erik; Hashimoto, Kyoko (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUIN 622D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUIN 622D1 and MUIN 622D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
MUIN 622D1 and MUIN 622D2 together are equivalent to MUIN 622
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MUPG 600 Recital Project 1 (9 credits) *
Overview
Performance : Solo recital, collaborative piano recital, conducting recital or principal Opera Role (by audition) with program notes.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Solo recital (60-70 minutes), collaborative piano recital (60-70 minutes), conducting recital (30-40 minutes) or Principal Opera Role as defined by the American Guild of Musical Artists' website (), Lead, Schedule C
* Solo Recital only
** Student may take either MUIN 622 or MUIN 622D1 and MUIN 622D2.
9 credits from:
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MUPG 601 Recital Project 2 (9 credits)
Overview
Performance : Solo recital, collaborative piano recital, conducting recital or principal opera role (by audition) with program notes. May include chamber music providing none of the repertoire was prepared in a chamber ensemble taken for credit.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Solo recital (60-70 minutes), collaborative piano recital (60-70 minutes), conducting recital (30-40 minutes) or principal opera role (by audition) as defined by the American Guild of Musical Artists' website (), Lead, Schedule C
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MUPG 602 Recital Project 3 (6 credits)
Overview
Performance : Recital, conducting recital or featured opera role (by audition) with program notes.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Recital (30-40 minutes), conducting recital (20-30 minutes) or featured opera role (by audition) as defined by the American Guild of Musical Artists' website (), Featured, Schedule C
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MUPG 603 Recital Project 4 (3 credits)
Overview
Performance : Concerto performance with orchestra (for the concerto competition or other competition in Montreal) or supporting opera role (by audition) with program notes.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Supporting Opera Role as defined by the American Musical Artists' website (), Supporting, Schedule C
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MUPG 604 Chamber Music Recital (6 credits)
Overview
Performance : Chamber Music Recital with program notes. Repertoire may not include works performed in MUEN courses. Various instrumentations permitted as long as student performs in all works.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Chamber Music Recital (60-70 minutes). If single ensemble, recital may be taken for credit by all participating students, by approval of department.
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MUPG 605 Recording Project (3 credits)
Overview
Performance : Recording project with liner notes.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Limited enrolment; admissions by proposal only and with approval of the Department; additional fees apply.
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MUPG 606 Interdisciplinary Project 1 (3 credits) **
Overview
Performance : Research-creation involving collaboration between different disciplines resulting in a new work, interpretation or contribution to knowledge presented in public (i.e., performer-composer commission; performer and actor/dancer collaboration, subject in CIRMMT research study, etc) with program notes as relevant.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Performer-composer composition of 5-10 minutes. By proposal only and with approval of the Department.
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MUPG 607 Interdisciplinary Project 2 (6 credits) **
Overview
Performance : Research-creation involving collaboration between different disciplines resulting in a new work, interpretation or contribution to knowledge presented in public (i.e., performer-composer commission); performance and actor/dancer collaboration, participant as co-researcher in CIRMMT study including participation in analysis of data, etc.) with program notes as relevant.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Performer-composer commission of 10-20 minutes. By proposal only and approval of the Department.
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MUPG 614 Quick Study (3 credits) *
Overview
Performance : Preparation and performance of short program of vocal, operatic, or collaborative piano repertoire in a limited three week time frame.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
20-25 minutes of repertoire
* Voice Only
** Students may take either MUPG 606 or MUGP 607
Required Course
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MUGS 605 Graduate Performance Colloquium
Overview
Graduate Faculty Music Courses : Participation in three professional development workshops or research colloquium approved by the department on topics such as performance pedagogy, academic teaching, music production, copyright, business, grantsmanship, etc. Students participate in each semester of residency until requirements have been met.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Complementary Seminars (9 credits)
3 credits from the following:
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MUPG 590 Vocal Styles and Conventions (3 credits) *
Overview
Performance : Emphasis on vocal performance practices through practical application: text, language, inflection, pronunciation and interpretation considered with individuality of each student's voice and technical development. After examining historical treatises, students will discuss and present musical selections utilizing modern performance standards yet remaining true to stylistic demands of each period.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Strauss, Anja (Fall)
3 hours
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 690.
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MUPP 690 Performance Practice Seminar 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Smith, Tracy (Fall) Chiasson, Rachelle A M (Winter)
3 hours
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MUPP 691 Performance Practice Seminar 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Chiasson, Rachelle A M (Fall) Weman Eriksson, Lena (Winter) Weman Eriksson, Lena (Summer)
3 hours
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MUPP 692 Performance Practice Seminar 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Foster, Adrian (Fall) Poulin, Brigitte (Winter)
3 hours
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MUPP 693 Performance Practice Seminar 4 (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Marandola, Fabrice; Cossette, Isabelle; Wanderley, Marcelo (Fall) Bourgogne, Guillaume (Winter)
3 hours
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MUPP 694 Performance Practice Seminar 5 (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Aldrich, Simon (Fall) Marandola, Fabrice (Winter)
3 hours
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MUPP 695 Performance Practice Seminar 6 (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
3 hours
One approved graduate 3-credit seminar with the prefix MUCO, MUGS, MUGT, MUHL, MUMT, MUPP, or MUTH.
3 credits from the following:
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MUHL 591D1 Paleography (1.5 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
1.5 hours
Prerequisites: MUHL 286
Corequisites: MUTH 250 or MUCO 241, AND MUSP 241 or MUJZ 214
Normally alternates with MUHL 529
Students must register for both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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MUHL 591D2 Paleography (1.5 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : See MUHL 591D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUHL 591D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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MUPG 575D1 Liturgical Organ Playing (1.5 credits) **
Overview
Performance : This seminar focuses on the development of skill in the leadership and accompaniment of hymns, the accompaniment of sung psalmody (particularly Anglican and Gregorian), and the conducting of choral music while accompanying at the organ. Additionally, regular instruction in techniques of improvisation will focus in particular upon hymn introductions and free accompaniments.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
1. 1 1/2 hours
2. Students must register for both MUPG 575D1 and MUPG 575D2.
3. No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 575D1 and MUPG 575D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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MUPG 575D2 Liturgical Organ Playing (1.5 credits) **
Overview
Performance : This seminar focuses on the development of skill in the leadership and accompaniment of hymns, the accompaniment of sung psalmody (particularly Anglican and Gregorian), and the conducting of choral music while accompanying at the organ. Additionally, regular instruction in techniques of improvisation will focus in particular upon hymn introductions and free accompaniments.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): MUPG 575D1.
1. 1 1/2 hours
2. Students must register for both MUPG 575D1 and MUPG 575D2.
3. No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 575D1 and MUPG 575D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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MUPG 590 Vocal Styles and Conventions (3 credits) *
Overview
Performance : Emphasis on vocal performance practices through practical application: text, language, inflection, pronunciation and interpretation considered with individuality of each student's voice and technical development. After examining historical treatises, students will discuss and present musical selections utilizing modern performance standards yet remaining true to stylistic demands of each period.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Strauss, Anja (Fall)
3 hours
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 690.
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MUPG 691 Vocal Ornamentation (3 credits)
Overview
Performance : Introduction to the major treatises with emphasis on their practical application to modern performance. Through the study and discussion of both primary and secondary sources, students will observe and compare national styles. Special topics include the conventions of recitative; text-driven embellishment; ornamentation in Handel's dramatic works.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Smith, Tracy (Winter)
3 hours
Restriction: Open to singers, keyboardists, and conductors or with permission of the instructor
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MUTH 602 Keyboard Modal Counterpoint (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Advanced study of polyphonic techniques of the renaissance period through written exercises, in-depth written case study, and improvised practice at the keyboard.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUTH 202 or equivalent
Restrictions: Open to graduate keyboardists in early music and organ or permission of the instructor. This course may count only as the additional seminar and not as the approved graduate seminar with the prefix MUCO, MUGS, MUGT, MUHL, MUMT, MUPP, MUTH.
or one graduate 3-credit seminar approved by the Department.
* If not already taken
** May be repeated once
Complementary Performance (9 credits)
Instruments:
3 terms of:
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MUEN 580 Early Music Ensemble (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Basque, Alexis; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Bergeron, Sylvain; La Rotta, Esteban; Weman Eriksson, Lena; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; Smith, Tracy; Andriani, Laura (Fall) MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Bergeron, Sylvain; Andriani, Laura; Basque, Alexis; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; La Rotta, Esteban; Smith, Tracy (Winter)
Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
6 credits from (may be taken more than once):
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MUEN 569 Tabla Ensemble (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : Performance and practice of the tabla of North India.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Mativetsky, Shawn Eliot (Fall) Mativetsky, Shawn Eliot (Winter)
Can be taken more than once.
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MUEN 572 Cappella Antica (2 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien (Fall) Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien (Winter)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
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MUEN 573 Baroque Orchestra (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : Open to singers and instrumentalists, this ensemble specializes in chamber music primarily of the Baroque era.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Knox, Hank (Fall) Knox, Hank (Winter)
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Voice:
2 credits of:
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MUEN 580 Early Music Ensemble (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Basque, Alexis; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Bergeron, Sylvain; La Rotta, Esteban; Weman Eriksson, Lena; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; Smith, Tracy; Andriani, Laura (Fall) MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Bergeron, Sylvain; Andriani, Laura; Basque, Alexis; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; La Rotta, Esteban; Smith, Tracy (Winter)
Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
3 credits:
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MUIN 610 Vocal Coaching 1 (1 credit)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Individual coaching sessions on advanced vocal repertoire with emphasis on musical and linguistic nuance.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: McMahon, Michael; Hansen, Patrick; Gonthier, Esther; Godin, Olivier; Hargreaves, Stephen; Knox, Hank; Leblanc, Suzie (Fall) McMahon, Michael; Godin, Olivier; Gonthier, Esther; Hargreaves, Stephen (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUIN 600
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MUIN 611 Vocal Coaching 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Continuation of Vocal Coaching I with emphasis on musical and linguistic nuance.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: McMahon, Michael; Gonthier, Esther; Hargreaves, Stephen (Fall) McMahon, Michael; Gonthier, Esther; Kinslow, Valerie; Godin, Olivier; Hargreaves, Stephen; Knox, Hank; Hansen, Patrick; Leblanc, Suzie (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUIN 601
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MUIN 612 Vocal Coaching 3 (1 credit)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on advanced vocal repertoire with emphasis on musical nuance and the expression of an individual artistic voice.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: McMahon, Michael; Kutan, Aline; Hansen, Patrick; Gonthier, Esther; Godin, Olivier; Hargreaves, Stephen (Fall) Gonthier, Esther; Kutan, Aline; McMahon, Michael; Kinslow, Valerie; Hargreaves, Stephen; Scarfone, Marie-脠ve (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUIN 602
4 credits from (may be taken more than once):
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MUEN 569 Tabla Ensemble (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : Performance and practice of the tabla of North India.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Mativetsky, Shawn Eliot (Fall) Mativetsky, Shawn Eliot (Winter)
Can be taken more than once.
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MUEN 572 Cappella Antica (2 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien (Fall) Vall茅e, Jean-S茅bastien (Winter)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
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MUEN 579 Song Interpretation 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : Study of song repertoire for singers and pianists.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Fall) McMahon, Michael (Winter)
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MUEN 580 Early Music Ensemble (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Basque, Alexis; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Bergeron, Sylvain; La Rotta, Esteban; Weman Eriksson, Lena; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; Smith, Tracy; Andriani, Laura (Fall) MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Bergeron, Sylvain; Andriani, Laura; Basque, Alexis; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; La Rotta, Esteban; Smith, Tracy (Winter)
Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
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MUEN 696 Opera Theatre (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : Individual coaching in acting, movement and role preparation; possibility for roles in Opera 不良研究所 productions (by audition).
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Hargreaves, Stephen; Patterson, Jonathan David (Fall) Hansen, Patrick (Winter)
3 - 6 hours
Prerequisite: open to all Graduate Performance and Artist Diploma students who have completed MUEN 496 or its equivalent.
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