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See page 30 for Key to Course Descriptions.)

For Distribution Requirement purposes (see page 24), HMU, MUS, TMU courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses.

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MUS110H1
Introduction to Music History and Culture        26L


Introduction to form, style and the interrelationships of music and culture. A basic ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1, VPMA80H3


MUS111H1
Historical Survey of Western Music        26L

Historical survey of Western art music from the Middle Ages to the present. A basic ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1


MUS120Y1
Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles I       156P


Students rehearse and perform in concerts and reading sessions as assigned by the Faculty of Music. Provides experience in
choral groups, orchestra, or in concert band and large wind groups of diverse instrumentation. Development of musicianship
skills through performance of large ensemble works; emphasis on sight-reading, ear-training, and musical knowledge.
Attendance at all sessions is required. Placement audition and permission of the Department required.
Contact Andrea McGee at 416-978-3741 in July in order to obtain your audition time and materials, and to determine the
availability of specific ensembles. Placement audition-interview will be held on Thursday, September 8, 2005 from 6-10 p.m. in
the Edward Johnson Building. The audition-interview will be 10 minutes in length.

Exclusion: MUS291Y


MUS200H1
Music of the World's Peoples        26L

A survey of musical traditions from various regions of the world, with particular emphasis on the sociocultural contexts in which
those musics are created and appreciated. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1, VPMA99H3


MUS202H1
Beethoven        26L

A study of Beethoven's musical style in historical context, including a non-technical consideration of Beethoven's innovations
based on listening to music and reading history. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1, VPMC85H3


MUS220Y1
Vocal and Instrumental  Ensembles II      156P


Students rehearse and perform in concerts and reading sessions as assigned by the Faculty of Music. Provides experience in
choral groups, orchestra, or in concert band and large wind groups of diverse instrumentation. Development of musicianship
skills through performance of large ensemble works; emphasis on sight-reading, ear-training, and musical knowledge.
Attendance at all sessions is required. Placement audition and permission of the Department required.
Contact Andrea McGee at 416-978-3741 in July in order to obtain your audition time and materials, and to determine the
availability of specific ensembles. Placement audition-interview will be held on Thursday, September 8, 2005 from 6-10 p.m. in
the Edward Johnson Building. The audition-interview will be 10 minutes in length.
Prerequisite: MUS120Y1. Placement audition and permission of the Department required.


MUS306H1
Popular Music in North America        26L

A selected survey of North American popular music from the 1930's through present. Students will develop a critical framework
for listening to and analyzing popular music in historical and social context by focusing on aspects of performance,
representation, composition, mass media aesthetics, and commodification. No prior background in music or ability to read
music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1


MUS325H1
The Age of Haydn & Mozart        26L

Selected works from the second half of the eighteenth century by Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries will be examined in
cultural and historical context. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1


ABS330Y1
Aboriginal Music: Technical and Theoretical Aspects

See "Aboriginal Studies"


Future Offerings:

MUS204H1: The Age of Bach

MUS205H1: Mozart

MUS206H1: The World of Opera

MUS207H1: Music for the Orchestra

MUS208H1: Medieval and Renaissance Masterpieces

MUS209H1: Performing Arts of South Asia

MUS211H1: The World of Popular Music

MUS225H1: Music: Islamic World

MUS230H1: Music of the 1960's

MUS300H1: Music, Media & Technology

MUS302H1: Symphony

MUS303H1: Music in the Contemporary World

MUS308H1: Handel

MUS315H1: Vernacular Music in North America

MUS408H1: Wagner

 


HMU, TMU Faculty of Music Courses

HMU111H1
Introduction to Music and Society        26L, 13T


An examination of musical thought and practice in Western and non-Western traditions.
Prerequisite: Permission of Department
Co-requisite: TMU140Y1


TMU140Y1
Materials of Music I        52L, 78P

Harmony: triads, non-harmonic materials, dominant seventh and derivatives, secondary dominants, simple modulation.
Elementary forms and analysis of 18th- and 19th-century literature. Sight singing: melodic, rhythmic and harmonic dictation.
Keyboard harmony: chords and scales in all major and minor keys; playing of cadence types, modulation to closely related
keys, realization of elementary figured bass, two-part transposition, score reading in five clefs, and sight harmonization of
simple melodies.
Prerequisite: Grade 2 Rudiments, Grade 3 Harmony (RCMT), Grade 8 level performing audition, permission of Department
Co-requisite: HMU111H1

Note
HMU111H1 and TMU140Y1 are Prerequisites for all other HMU/TMU courses which are offered annually. Full details on
these and other courses may be found in the Calendar of the Faculty of Music.


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