Course List

This course promotes the enjoyment of music through engaged listening. Through aural analysis of recordings, students will learn to discern the various aspects [physical, psychological, social, ethical, etc.] inherent in music and its aesthetic evaluation. The main forms, genres and styles are introduced and analyzed. Music reading skills are not required.

This course acquaints students with the musical practices of selected cultural areas from various parts of the globe. We will listen to music analytically and examine the social and cultural significance that music and music-making have for those who perform, listen, or otherwise engage with it. We will also learn about the role that music has in defining different types of identity (social, regional, religious, cultural, etc.), the development of different types of music both as a result of internal continuity and due to interactions with other cultural groups, and the relationship of music to alternate ways of looking at the world.

This course takes students through the development of Western popular musical styles such as blues, gospel, jazz, folk, country-and-western and rock-and-roll. The course examines the musical elements that define these common genres, how those elements have changed over time and how popular music has both reflected and influenced social change.

An overview of Western Classical music from early Christianity through the end of the Renaissance with weekly seminars on special topics.

An overview of Western Classical music in the Romantic era with weekly seminars on special topics.

An overview of modernist and post-modernist Western Classical music with weekly seminars on set theory and the twelve-tone system.

An overview of Western Classical music in its cultural context as it developed from Antiquity to the present with weekly seminars on special topics.

An overview of the Baroque and Vienna Classic eras of Western Classical Music with weekly seminars on special topics.

This course acquaints students with the musical practices of selected cultural areas from various parts of the globe. We will listen to music analytically and examine the social and cultural significance that music and music-making have for those who perform, listen, or otherwise engage with it. We will also learn about the role that music has in defining different types of identity (social, regional, religious, cultural, etc.), the development of different types of music both as a result of internal continuity and due to interactions with other cultural groups, and the relationship of music to alternate ways of looking at the world. This course fulfils requirements for music majors through a weekly 50-minute seminar, specialized assignments and modified examinations.

This course takes students through the development of Western popular musical styles such as blues, gospel, jazz, folk, country-and-western and rock-and-roll. The course examines the musical elements that define these common genres, how those elements have changed over time and how popular music has both reflected and influenced social change. Fulfils requirements for music majors through a weekly 50-minute seminar, specialized assignments and modified examinations.

A study of Christian worship which includes biblical principles for worship, the historical development of liturgy, cultural dynamics in contemporary worship, and explores the rich and varied resources with the ecumenical Christian community. Themes to be studied include praise and lament, confession and proclamation, use of the lectionary, sacraments, liturgical dance, the use of art in worship, the relationship of worship and justice, and more. There will be a strong emphasis on the music of worship. Students will have an opportunity to attend various worship services as well plan, lead, and participate in worship. This course meets the senior level foundation theology requirement only for students with music as their major/first concentration. Same as THEO 376

A counterpart to the Historical Musicology courses, this capstone course is a fascinating exploration of how music interacts with a variety of other disciplines, from acoustics and psychology to aesthetics and economics.

This one-hour-per-week directed study is open to students who want to explore a specialized musicological topic.

Topics include an introduction to the tonic sol-fa system sight-singing system, performance and recognition of ascending and descending diatonic intervals, diatonic melodies, root position chord progressions and rhythms in simple and compound metres.

Topics include performance and recognition of ascending and descending chromatic intervals, melodies and chord progressions with tonicizations and rhythms including the 2:3, 3:2 cross-rhythm.

Topics include performance and recognition of compound intervals, melodies with modulation, chord progressions with secondary functions and complex rhythms.

Topics include performance and recognition of chromatic and modulating melodies, modulating chord progressions including chords of the flat sixth, rhythms with changing metre and the 3:4, 4:3 cross-rhythm.

Topics include performance and recognition of modal, freely chromatic, octatonic, whole-tone and non-tonal melodies, non-tonal sonorities, metrical modulation, advanced beat groupings and the 5:4 and 5:3 cross-rhythms.

A course designed to provide the student with a solid foundation in the principles and tools of music theory. Topics include rhythmic notation, major and minor scales, intervals, chords and cadences.

Topics include harmonic progression, three- and four-part voice-leading, non-chord tones and an introduction to phrase structure.

Topics include seventh chords, secondary functions, modulation, mode mixture and large forms.

Topics include chords of the flat sixth, enharmonic re-spelling and dominant extensions.

An introduction to two-part species counterpoint including invertible counterpoint, cadence formulas, mixed values and the imitative duo.

Advanced study of tonal harmony includes basic Schenkerian linear analysis, interworking of text and tonality, sonata-allegro form and tonality of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.

This one-our-per-week directed study is open to students who want to explore music composition or a specialized music theory topic.

Placement of a student with an employer organization for work experience. The practicum is designed by the student, supervising faculty member, and supervising organizational director, to integrate the liberal arts study of music with work experience in a professional music context.

This course prepares students for musical leadership in a contemporary Christian Praise and Worship setting. Students work with an instructor for one hour each week to develop specific skills. Students demonstrate their skills in Chapel services at the university and/or in cooperative intern positions in local assemblies.

A course on a topic or figure of special interest to a member of the music faculty and offered on a non-recurring basis.

Placement of a student with an employer organization for work experience. The practicum is designed by the student, supervising faculty member, and supervising organizational director, to integrate the liberal arts study of music with work experience in a professional music context.

This one-hour-per-week tutorial course is for singers and for pianists interested in coaching voice. Students will build a knowledge of the pronunciation of the languages required to perform the repertoire of the Western European tradition through the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

This one-hour-per-week tutorial course is open to two or more advanced students who wish to form a mixed chamber ensemble of unlike instruments.

This one-hour-per-week tutorial course is open to the exploration of specialized topics related to a student's voice or instrument.

This one-hour-per-week tutorial course provides a directed study in choral conducting or some other area in choral music.

This open one-hour-per-week tutorial course may address a variety of creative musical fields: from music composition and arranging to creative stage techniques for singers and improvisation.

This one-hour-per-week tutorial course provides an additional coaching session per week for students preparing for their Senior Recital.

This open senior-level independent study may involve any area of music: from the chosen instrument to reading, research, and/or analysis/interpretation on a topic arranged with a music professor or instructor.

This course introduces organists or pianists to the basic conducting techniques, repertoire, and liturgical role of choral music within the worship service.

A continuation of MUSI 235.

This course introduces the student to the technique of choral conducting and choral repertoire. It is required of all senior students in the Diploma of Church Music program. The consent of the instructor is required for others.

Advanced choral conducting techniques, choral practicum and choral literature. It is required of all senior students in the Diploma of Church Music program.

These courses allow students to acquire orchestral or instrumental ensemble experience through enrolment in an approved instrumental ensemble course (e.g. Festival City Winds Music Society, University of Alberta University Orchestra, Academy Strings, Orchestral Winds, Wind Ensemble or Jazz Band) or in a comparable university-level ensemble.

These courses allow students to acquire orchestral or instrumental ensemble experience through enrolment in an approved instrumental ensemble course (e.g. Festival City Winds Music Society, University of Alberta University Orchestra, Academy Strings, Orchestral Winds, Wind Ensemble or Jazz Band) or in a comparable university-level ensemble.

These courses allow students to acquire orchestral or instrumental ensemble experience through enrolment in an approved instrumental ensemble course (e.g. Festival City Winds Music Society, University of Alberta University Orchestra, Academy Strings, Orchestral Winds, Wind Ensemble or Jazz Band) or in a comparable university-level ensemble.

These courses allow students to acquire orchestral or instrumental ensemble experience through enrolment in an approved instrumental ensemble course (e.g. Festival City Winds Music Society, University of Alberta University Orchestra, Academy Strings, Orchestral Winds, Wind Ensemble or Jazz Band) or in a comparable university-level ensemble.

These courses allow students to acquire orchestral or instrumental ensemble experience through enrolment in an approved instrumental ensemble course (e.g. Festival City Winds Music Society, University of Alberta University Orchestra, Academy Strings, Orchestral Winds, Wind Ensemble or Jazz Band) or in a comparable university-level ensemble.

These courses allow students to acquire orchestral or instrumental ensemble experience through enrolment in an approved instrumental ensemble course (e.g. Festival City Winds Music Society, University of Alberta University Orchestra, Academy Strings, Orchestral Winds, Wind Ensemble or Jazz Band) or in a comparable university-level ensemble.

This not-for-credit large choir rehearses once a week in the evening and performs in the major public concert at the end of each semester, as a stand-alone choir and with The King's Cantorum and Chamber Singers. The Alumni and Community Chorus is open to anyone interested in choral music. No previous vocal or choral experience is necessary.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs multiple semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

This course is an introduction to the techniques and practice of musical theatre performance. Students will develop their theatre skills through voice exploration, movement, character development and staging. Students will develop their voices through study and practice of vocal range, technique and musicality in solo and group settings. Students will present staged scenes as a final project.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other.This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

Advanced vocal students gain professional experience performing with Edmonton Opera in its chorus.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

Advanced vocal students gain professional experience performing with Edmonton Opera in its chorus.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

Advanced vocal students gain professional experience performing with Edmonton Opera in its chorus.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

Advanced vocal students gain professional experience performing with Edmonton Opera in its chorus.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

Advanced vocal students gain professional experience performing with Edmonton Opera in its chorus.

This more advanced, smaller choir rehearses thrice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. It focuses primarily on a cappella repertoire. Students usually know how to sing already and experience refinement and development of their existing choral singing skills.

Singing in choir connects us to each other in marvellous musical ways and in today's world, we need to connect with each other. This large choir rehearses twice a week, performs each semester and works towards at least one major public performance each year. Students learn to sing a variety of repertoire from the world's choral traditions, to listen to each other and to follow a conductor. This choir is not auditioned and requires only a voice placement to join.

Advanced vocal students gain professional experience performing with Edmonton Opera in its chorus.

This course introduces students to the basics of expressive conducting techniques for instrumental ensembles, including score study and performance program planning.

This course explores principles and practices fundamental to the learning and teaching of music. Topics include philosophical bases for teaching music, psychological foundations of musical learning and an overview of major figures and concepts in learning theory as they relate to music curriculum guidelines and standards.

This course addresses practical aspects of teaching music in an elementary school setting, including pedagogical issues surrounding different current methodologies, additional focus on music learning within a Kodaly context, and the place of music within the school culture. Lab hours will focus on peer teaching activities and observation.

This course explores different approaches to music education in junior and senior high school settings, with emphasis on methods and materials for instrumental, choral, and general music classes. Pedagogical issues include the balance between aural and notational approaches to music, and the integration of performance with music theory, musicology and composition. Practical issues include curriculum development and implementation, plus the operation of a music program, including instrumentation, facilities, and music library organization. Lab hours will focus on peer teaching activities and observation.

This course is designed to assist the student and future teacher in developing the necessary skills, techniques, knowledge and teaching methods for the trumpet as part of a Secondary Music Education focus.

This course is designed to assist the student and future teacher to develop the necessary skills, techniques, knowledge and teaching methods for French horn, trombone, euphonium and tuba as part of a Secondary Music Education focus.

This course is designed to assist the student and future teacher in developing the necessary skills, techniques, knowledge and teaching methods for woodwind instruments including the flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and saxophone as part of a Secondary Music Education focus.

This course is designed to assist the student and future teacher in developing the necessary skills, techniques, knowledge and teaching methods for percussion instruments including the snare drum, keyboard percussion instruments, timpani, drum kit and the primary auxiliary instruments used in symphonic bands and orchestras as part of a Secondary Music Education focus.

This course is designed to assist the student and future teacher in developing the necessary knowledge and techniques to teach the common musical instruments found in an elementary educational setting. These instruments include recorder, ukulele, Orff instrumentarium and various percussion instruments, as part of an Elementary Music Education focus.

This one-hour-per-week tutorial course teaches pianists to teach piano effectively and includes studio business modelling and other practical aspects of the piano teacher's career. Recommended for all piano students.

A continuation of MUSI 489. This one-hour-per-week tutorial course teaches pianists to teach piano effectively and includes studio business modelling and other practical aspects of the piano teacher's career. Recommended for all piano students.

This non-credit course provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice.

This non-credit course provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

MUSI214 and MUSI264 are the common, one-hour-per-week private lessons taken by all first-year music majors. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

MUSI214 and MUSI264 are the common, one-hour-per-week private lessons taken by all first-year music majors. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a performance career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to an advanced level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series at least twice each semester. As well, completion of MUSI 463 requires performance of a public, non-graded Junior Recital and completion of MUSI 563 requires performance of a public, graded Senior Recital.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a general career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a performance career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to an advanced level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series at least twice each semester. As well, completion of MUSI 463 requires performance of a public, non-graded Junior Recital and completion of MUSI 563 requires performance of a public, graded Senior Recital.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a general career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a performance career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to an advanced level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series at least twice each semester. As well, completion of MUSI 463 requires performance of a public, non-graded Junior Recital and completion of MUSI 563 requires performance of a public, graded Senior Recital.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a general career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a performance career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to an advanced level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series at least twice each semester. As well, completion of MUSI 463 requires performance of a public, non-graded Junior Recital and completion of MUSI 563 requires performance of a public, graded Senior Recital.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a general career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a performance career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to an advanced level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series at least twice each semester. As well, completion of MUSI 463 requires performance of a public, non-graded Junior Recital and completion of MUSI 563 requires performance of a public, graded Senior Recital.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a general career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This eight-semester track of courses for non-majors provides half-hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their non-major level, may participate in repertoire classes and may perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a performance career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to an advanced level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series at least twice each semester. As well, completion of MUSI 463 requires performance of a public, non-graded Junior Recital and completion of MUSI 563 requires performance of a public, graded Senior Recital.

This six-semester track of courses provides one hour per week of private instruction on a chosen instrument or voice with a general career focus. Students will learn repertoire and technique appropriate to their level, may participate in repertoire classes and will perform in the Noon Tunes concert series once each semester.

One hour per week of private instruction for advanced musical performers.

One hour per week of private instruction for advanced musical performers.

One hour per week of directed study of a topic related to the chosen instrument or voice.

One hour per week of directed study of a topic related to the chosen instrument or voice.

One hour per week of coaching in preparation for the term-end graded recital.

One hour per week of coaching in preparation for the term-end graded recital.

One hour per week of private instruction for advanced performers.

One hour per week of private instruction for advanced performers.

One hour per week of directed study of a topic related to the chosen instrument or voice.

One hour per week of directed study of a topic related to the chosen instrument or voice.

One hour per week of coaching in preparation for the term-end graded recital.

One hour per week of coaching in preparation for the term-end graded recital.