First Year Seminars
The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to
work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students.
These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here.
MUS110H1
Introduction to Music History and Culture [24L]
IIntroduction to form, style and the interrelationship of music and culture. A basic ability to read music is required.
Exclusion: HMU111H1, VPMA80H3
DR=HUM; BR=1
MUS120Y1
Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles I [144P]
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.
Download the excerpt that is relevant to the instrument you would like to audition on; excerpts will be available at www.music.utoronto.ca beginning early July. Complete and return the MUS120Y1 & MUS220Y1 Audition Request Form before August 21. Once your request form is received, you will be notified of your audition time. Placement audition will be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 from 4-10 p.m. in the Edward Johnson Building. The audition will be 10 minutes in length.
Exclusion: MUS291Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1
MUS211H1
The World of Popular Music [24L]
A survey of popular music traditions from various regions of the world with particular emphasis on the sociocultural contexts in which those musics are created and appreciated. Explores the role of the recording industry, media, festivals, and local institutions in shaping these music cultures both at home and in the international arena. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.
Exclusion: HMU111H1
DR=HUM; BR=1
MUS220Y1
Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles II [144P]
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.
Download the excerpt that is relevant to the instrument you would like to audition on; excerpts will be available at www.music.utoronto.ca beginning early July. Complete and return the MUS120Y1 & MUS220Y1 Audition Request Form before August 21. Once your request form is received, you will be notified of your audition time. Placement audition will be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 from 4-10 p.m. in the Edward Johnson Building. The audition will be 10 minutes in length.
Prerequisite: MUS120Y1. Placement audition and permission of the Department required.
DR=HUM; BR=1
MUS230H1
Music of THE 1960s [24L]
Examination of musical and cultural aspects of the decade, with emphasis on North America. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.
Exclusion: HMU111H1
DR=HUM; BR=1
MUS315H1
North American Vernacular Music [24L]
Explores vernacular music in North America, considering how musical performances and festivals of vernacular music map local, regional, and ethnic identities in North America. Specific case studies will include Scottish Highland, Tejano Conjunto, Metis Fiddling, Powwow, and Zydeco. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.
Exclusion: HMU111H1
DR=HUM; BR=TBA
MUS330H1
Music, Violence, and War [24L]
An inquiry into the social life of music in situations of violence, war, social domination, and traumatic experience. Case studies include music and African-American slavery, the First World War, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the Asia-Pacific War, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, the Iraq Wars and others.
DR=HUM; BR=TBA
MUS335H1
A Social History of the Piano
A survey of the changing roles and gendered associations of the piano c.1700 to the present day. Examples from the western art music tradition are compared to the acculturating force of the piano in other cultures, representations in the visual arts and film, and contemporary contexts of piano performance.
Exclusion: VPMB76
DR=HUM; BR=TBA
Future Offerings:
MUS111H1
Historical Survey of Western Music
MUS200H1
Music of the World’s Peoples
MUS202H1
Beethoven
MUS204H1
Age of Bach & Handel
MUS205H1
Mozart
MUS206H1
The World of Opera
MUS207H1
Music for Orchestra
MUS208H1
Medieval and Renaissance Masterpieces
MUS209H1
Performing Arts of South Asia
MUS225H1
Music: Islamic World
MUS300H1
Music, Media & Technology
MUS302H1
Symphony
MUS303H1
Music in the Contemporary World
MUS306H1
Popular Music in North Americ
MUS308H1
Handel
MUS321H1
The Beatles
MUS325H1
The Age of Haydn & Mozart
HMU, TMU Faculty of Music Courses
HMU111H1
Introduction to Music and Society [24L, 12T]
An examination of musical thought and practice in Western and non-Western traditions.
Prerequisite: Permission of Department
Co-requisite: TMU140Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1
TMU140Y1
Materials of Music I [48L, 72P]
Harmony: triads, non-harmonic materials, dominant seventh and derivatives, secondary dominants, simple modulation. Elementary forms and analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-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
DR=HUM; BR=1
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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