Chamber Music for string instruments

Chamber Music for wind instruments

Explores the ways in which sound is organized;into musical structures. Topics include the;physical properties of sound; the basic;vocabulary of Western music (scales, key;signatures, intervals, triads, rhythm, meter);;and an introduction to musical form and analysis.;Includes extensive practice in music reading,;sight singing, ear training, and critical;listening.

It is now possible to record, manipulate, and;compose music with a variety of powerful and;flexible tools using the personal computer.;Through reading, discussion, demonstration,;listening sessions, technical tutorials and;hands-on projects, we will explore the;techniques, practices and aesthetics surrounding;creative applications of current and emerging;music technologies, including sound recording and;editing, mixing, synthesis and music sequencing.

In this half-semester course students will become;familiar with the elements of music notation;(staves, clefs, pitch names, note and rest;values) and with some of the basic skills;necessary for college-level music instruction;(e.g., construction and identification of scales,;intervals, triads, and basic diatonic functions).

This hybrid studio addresses human comfort with lectures and problem work sessions integrated with design projects. We start with an in-depth study of the world's climate regions, the sun, and the earth's tilt and spin. Primary methods of heat transfer are investigated as students research two architectural solutions (vernacular and contemporary) within each climate. Using daylight, the sun's movement, and sun-path diagrams students will design, draw and build a functioning solar clock. Issues in day-lighting and thermal comfort will then drive an extended design problem.

This course looks at the recent flowering of non-classical logics. The most prominent are modal logics concerning necessity and possibility, which have come to dominate work in metaphysics and epistemology. Conditional logics, intuitionist logics, and relevance logics have also become important. These logics are particularly useful in graduate-level classes in philosophy but also are interesting in their own right.

A detailed survey of the archaeology of the city;of Rome from its origin in the early Iron Age to;the beginning of the fourth century CE. The;principal monuments and architectural development;of the ancient city will be discussed against a;broader cultural and historical background, with;an emphasis on the powerful families and;individuals responsible for the shaping of the;urban landscape, and the specific social and;political circumstances that gave the monuments;meaning.

This course will trace the emergence and;expansion of Greek civilization in the;Mediterranean between the Bronze Age and;Alexander the Great. Among themes to be explored;are political structures, trade, slavery, gender;relations, and religion, as well as the;contributions of ancient Greeks to literary;genres (drama, rhetoric, historiography,;philosophy) and to the visual arts. Throughout we;will consider how the history of the ancient;Greeks can speak to modern concerns.