This course is designed as a follow-up to MUSIC-117, Foundations of Voice I, with a primary focus on in-class study, singing, and accompanying of Western Art songs and International Folk songs (Mexican, French, Arabic, Czech, German, American). Course study will include an overall examination of composers, performance practice, musical styles, poetry, structural form, and nationalistic characteristics. All students will participate in regular in-class performances of music by well-known as well as historically marginalized composers. Music by Purcell, Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn, Schubert, L.

The course focuses on the musics of Africa and the African diaspora through the lens of ethnomusicology. Concentrating on countries like Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States, it examines the musical performance of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality and the role of music in social and political movements. The course explores the global dimensions and resonances of Africanist musical cosmopolitanism as enabled historically and sustained through ongoing transatlantic exchanges between Africa and the African diasporas.

Fundamentals of conducting: gestures, rehearsal techniques, study of representative short scores, and practice leading primarily choral ensembles. Videotaping, class recital.

This course explores the interplay between language, music and cognitive skills. For centuries, questions about the relationship between language and music have been asked by philosophers, artists, and scientists. Is music a language and is language a music? What is the evolutionary value of language and music? What are the formal characteristics that are shared between the two? What happens in the human mind when language or music breaks down? How can we design interdisciplinary studies to look into language and music?

Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.