Stanford University Bulletin

Code	Name	Description
MUSIC101	Introduction to Creating Electronic Sounds	Introduction to Creating Electronic Sounds enables students from a wide variety of backgrounds to cultivate conceptual and technical skills within the production of electronic sound and music composition. Lectures, readings, and group discussions wil...
MUSIC107	Close Analysis: Film Sound	The close analysis of film, with an emphasis on sound, music, and audio-visuality. Films from various historical periods, national cinemas, directors, and genres. Prerequisite: FILMSTUD 4 or equivalent. Recommended: ARTHIST 1 or FILMSTUD 102. Course...
MUSIC112	Film Scoring	Through analysis and technical exercises that involve click tracks, spotting, scoring under dialogue and picture, and the creative use of overlap cues, among others, students will learn how to develop and synchronize an engaging music score that supp...
MUSIC113	Introduction to Instrumental Composition	Students compose weekly exercises to improve creative fluency and develop basic control of instruments. Audio examples of diverse compositional techniques are introduced, analyzed and emulated. Prerequisite: Music 19A or Instructor's permission.
MUSIC113P	Media and Communication Before the Printing Press	Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...
MUSIC115	Individual Undergraduate Projects in Jazz	Students may pursue individual projects in jazz performance, theory, history, etc. Prerequisite: Music 20A or permission of instructor.
MUSIC118	Musics and Appropriation Throughout the World	This course critically examines musical practices and appropriation through the amplification of intersectionality. We consider musics globally through recourse to ethnomusicological literature and critical race theories. Our approach begins from an...
MUSIC11N	Harmonic Convergence: Music's Intersections with Science, Mathematics, History, and Literature	Topics include music and the brain; tuning and temperament; musical form; connections between music and mathematics; and readings in history and literature with strong musical elements. Readings include "The Power of Music" (Mannes), "Musicophilia" (...
MUSIC11Q	Art in the Metropolis	This seminar is offered in conjunction with the annual "Arts Immersion" trip to New York that takes place over the spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI). Enrollment in this course a requirement for taking part in the trip...
MUSIC120D	Jazz Improvisation	This class will focus on developing a deeper understanding of, and capacity for, jazz improvisation -- as it relates to individual expression as well as group interaction, communication, and cohesion. In-class soloing and ensemble playing; guided lis...
MUSIC120DZ	Jazz Improvisation	This class will focus on developing a deeper understanding of, and capacity for, jazz improvisation -- as it relates to individual expression as well as group interaction, communication, and cohesion. In-class soloing and ensemble playing; guided lis...
MUSIC120E	Advanced Jazz Improvisation	This class will focus on broadening the participants' fluency with established improvisational languages, encouraging them to trust and develop their own unique improvisational voices, and deepening their capacities for integrating those individual v...
MUSIC120EZ	Advanced Jazz Improvisation	This class will focus on broadening the participants' fluency with established improvisational languages, encouraging them to trust and develop their own unique improvisational voices, and deepening their capacities for integrating those individual v...
MUSIC122A	Counterpoint	Analysis and composition of contrapuntal styles from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Use of keyboard, ear training, and sight singing underlies all written work. Prerequisites: MUSIC 23 and MUSIC 24C; passing piano-proficiency examination; or, c...
MUSIC122B	Analysis of Tonal Music	Complete movements, or entire shorter works of the 18th and 19th centuries, are analyzed in a variety of theoretical approaches. Prerequisites: MUSIC 23 and MUSIC 24C; passing piano-proficiency examination; or, consent of instructor.
MUSIC122C	Introduction to Post-Tonal Analysis	Survey and analysis of a broad array of 20th-century examples, including compositional options. Prerequisites: MUSIC 23 and MUSIC 24C; passing piano-proficiency examination; or, consent of instructor.
MUSIC122D	Analysis for Performance	Prerequisites: 23 or consent of instructor, successful completion of the ear-training and piano-proficiency examinations.
MUSIC122M	Main Stage Theater Project	The Main Stage Theater Project provides students the opportunity to receive units for participating in a TAPS Main Stage Show. In Autumn 2022-23 the main stage show is Parentheses of Blood. Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe will direct this production.
MUSIC123A	Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Rhythmic Design	Students compose weekly exercises to develop creative fluency and personal style. The course focuses on listening to examples, analysis and emulation of diverse compositional techniques involving rhythm.
MUSIC123B	Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Pitch Design	Students compose weekly exercises to develop creative fluency and personal style. The course focuses on listening to examples, analysis and emulation of diverse compositional techniques involving pitch.
MUSIC123C	Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: World Music	The course introduces composition techniques used in traditional music from Bali, Central African Republic, India, and Japan, that the students use as inspiration to explore and develop their own composition techniques. Prerequisite: Music 19A or Ins...
MUSIC123D	Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Extended Performance Techniques	Extended performance techniques have become standard extension of composers' orchestration technique. The course introduces extended techniques for keyboard, string, woodwinds, brass and percussion instruments, and illustrate their potential with exc...
MUSIC123G	Liberatory Practice Lab: Engaging Sounds in Community	This course is an incubator for new musical practices grounded in the cultivation of community. Learning from live performances, workshops, and archival texts by Black and queer feminist, Indigenous, and disability-culture activists, participants wil...
MUSIC123I	Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Music, Art, and Intermedia	How do music and art relate? How does one speak for, with, the other? In the past century, Western visual art turned towards abstraction and time-based works. Techniques and processes for interaction between image and sound expanded dramatically. Wha...
MUSIC124A	Songwriters Workshop	Laboratory for composers of any kind of vernacular music: singer-songwriters; folk singers; laptop dance music composers; rock and pop bands; rappers; writers of instrumentals or music with lyrics; solo artists and collaborators; etc. Compositional s...
MUSIC125	Individual Undergraduate Projects in Composition	May be repeated for credit a total of 13 times. Prerequisites: Music123A and Music123B or Instructor's permission. Composition concentrators must earn required private lesson credits through enrollment in individual lesson sections taught by Stanford...
MUSIC125A	Individual Undergraduate Projects in Composition	May be repeated for credit a total of 13 times. Prerequisites: Music123A and Music123B or Instructor's permission. Composition concentrators must earn required private lesson credits through enrollment in individual lesson sections taught by Stanford...
MUSIC126A	Thoroughbass Accompaniment	The development of continuo techniques and skills for figured-bass realization. Performance and analysis of selected repertoire, using thoroughbass principles and exercises based on historical theoretical treatises. Prerequisite: 21.
MUSIC127A	Instrumentation and Orchestration	Individual instruments, instrumental groups within the orchestra, and combinations of groups. Arrangements from piano to orchestral music. Score analysis with respect to orchestration. Practical exercises using chamber ensembles and school orchestra....
MUSIC127B	Advanced Orchestration	Through analysis and writing exercises, students develop proficiency in advanced orchestration practices. The course covers techniques currently used in film scoring as well as form basis for new experimental orchestral composition.
MUSIC127C	Band Arranging	Develop skills and techniques related to arranging for marching and concert bands; emphasizes instrumentation, transposition, and voicing.
MUSIC128	Stanford Laptop Orchestra: Composition, Coding, and Performance	Classroom instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) which includes public performances. An ensemble of more than 20 humans, laptops, controllers, and special speaker arrays designed to provide each computer-mediated instrument with its s...
MUSIC129K	Advanced Keyboard Musicianship	Score-reading at the keyboard, for pianists. Students will learn to read and reduce as necessary, score examples from a variety of ensembles, including music for strings, choir, winds, and orchestra. Practice reading associated clefs and transpositio...
MUSIC12A	Introductory Piano Class	(A=level 1; B=level 2; C=level 3) Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. Class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and show up on the first day of class to receive a permission num...
MUSIC12AZ	Introductory Piano Class	This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...
MUSIC12B	Introductory Piano Class	This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...
MUSIC12BZ	Introductory Piano Class	This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...
MUSIC12C	Introductory Piano Class	This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, th...
MUSIC12CZ	Introductory Piano Class	This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...
MUSIC130B	Elementary Instrumental Conducting	What do conductors do and how do they do it? In this course, students are introduced to the theory, technique, and practice of instrumental conducting. Students will develop the art of physical gesture by conducting an ensemble made up of class membe...
MUSIC130C	Elementary Choral Conducting	Techniques specific to the conducting of choral ensembles: warm-ups, breathing, balance, blend, choral tone, isolation principles, recitative conducting, preparation, and conducting of choral/orchestral works.
MUSIC131A	Musical Indeterminacy & Advanced Notation	Strategies for composing works that change from performance to performance and offer performers significant and sometimes spontaneous input into their musical form and content. Examination of canonic works and discussion of the defining boundaries of...
MUSIC132	Music Education: Then, Now, and Then Again	Explores the presence and impact of music across a variety of educational settings, with a focus on the historical function of music education, the current role of music education, and potential future models of music education.
MUSIC136	Intermediate Conducting: Music Since 1900	The art of reading and conducting scores from the Impressionist, late Romantic, and Modern periods to the present, with emphasis on orchestral and choral works that involve changing meters, advanced harmonic vocabulary, and modern instrumental and vo...
MUSIC13P	Media and Communication Before the Printing Press	Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...
MUSIC143F	Nineteenth-Century Pianism: History, Works, & Performance Practices	This seminar narrows the divide between performance and musicology. With nineteenth-century pianism as an extended case study, this course will explore representative and less common composers, works, and performers. Subtopics will include historical...
MUSIC143J	Studies in Music of the Classical Period: Haydn and Mozart: Music in the Age of Enlightenment	Music and Musicians in the Age of EnlightenmentPrerequisites: MUSIC 22, MUSIC 41. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)
MUSIC144N	Reading Recorded Performances: From Data to Interpretation	How might one study and interpret recorded performances as 'texts'? We will explore the intersections of performance and musicology through guided weekly writing assignments, considering 'data' about recorded performances as heard and physically felt...
MUSIC146N	Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts	This course will explore the links between aspects of South-East Asian cultures and their influence on modern and contemporary Western art and literature, particularly in France; examples of this influence include Claude Debussy (Gamelan music), Jacq...
MUSIC14N	Women Making Music	Preference to freshmen. Women's musical activities across times and cultures; how ideas about gender influence the creation, performance, and perception of music.
MUSIC150U	The Arts and Social Justice	A survey of how art addressed and addresses issues of social justice across history and cultures
MUSIC151B	Red Vest Band	A small ensemble of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band open to members of the LSJUMB by audition and consent of instructor. Members perform at multiple Stanford Athletics events, multiple community events, and travel to some away and...
MUSIC151BZ	Red-Vest Band	A small ensemble of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band open to members of the LSJUMB by audition and consent of instructor. Members perform at multiple Stanford Athletics events, multiple community events, and travel to some away and...
MUSIC153A	Network Performance Practice	JackTrip software, developed at Stanford, provides the means for ultra-low-latency, uncompressed sound transmission for live music-making. Remote ensemble rehearsals, coaching, music lessons, jamming and concert broadcasting make use of the technolog...
MUSIC153AZ	Network Music Performance	The Soundwire Ensemble invites student instrumental and vocal performers for online music-making. Musical projects will include improvisational and composed pieces from the group and be presented in a final online concert with online audience. The en...
MUSIC153C	Fly Folk in the Buttermilk: A Black Music and Culture Writing Workshop	This course in honor of the late, great music journalist and thinker, Greg Tate, is designed to introduce popular music writing as a genre to students from all academic backgrounds. From cultural criticism, liner notes, music journalism, and DJ schol...
MUSIC153D	Ensemble Sonification of Temporal Data	An ensemble course with research components for making data-driven music. Improvised and composed pieces make use of large, time-based data sets chronicling humans' digital-life and real-life experiences, and explore how temporal data can be transfor...
MUSIC153DZ	Ensemble Sonification of Temporal Data	An ensemble course with research components for making data-driven music. Improvised and composed pieces make use of large, time-based data sets chronicling humans' digital-life and real-life experiences, and explore how temporal data can be transfor...
MUSIC154A	Sound Art I	Acoustic, digital and analog approaches to sound art. Familiarization with techniques of listening, recording, digital processing and production. Required listening and readings in the history and contemporary practice of sound art. (lower level)
MUSIC154G	Electronic Music Composition	Electronic music composition introduces techniques for electronic music composition. These will be based on the history of electroacoustic music and both theory and analysis will be explored. A critical approach to the historical and contemporary dev...
MUSIC155	Intermedia Workshop	Students develop and produce intermedia works. Musical and visual approaches to the conceptualisation and shaping of time-based art. Exploration of sound and image relationship. Study of a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices including experimen...
MUSIC155A	Piano Literature	An exploration of the repertoire for piano and keyboards, providing experience with and context for this literature while engaging practical, technical and analytical features of the works. Each quarter will cover focused areas defined by time, plac...
MUSIC155AZ	Piano Literature	An exploration of the repertoire for piano and keyboards, providing experience with and context for this literature while engaging practical, technical and analytical features of the works. Each quarter will cover focused areas defined by time, plac...
MUSIC156	"sic": Improvisation Collective	Small ensemble devoted to learning trans-idiomatic improvisation techniques and composing indeterminate pieces in a workshop setting. One major concert. Prerequisite: access to an instrument. Improvisational experience and conventional instrumental v...
MUSIC156Z	"sic": Improvisation Collective	Small ensemble devoted to learning trans-idiomatic improvisation techniques and composing indeterminate pieces in a workshop setting. One major concert. Prerequisite: access to an instrument. Improvisational experience and conventional instrumental v...
MUSIC157	Cardinal Calypso--Steelpan Ensemble	This course introduces students to steelpan as an instrument and as a culture. Over the course of the year students will gain fundamental knowledge of the pitched percussion instrument, background knowledge of the culture of Trinidad and Tobago that...
MUSIC157Z	Cardinal Calypso -- Steelpan Ensemble	This course introduces students to steelpan as an instrument and as a culture. Over the course of the year students will gain fundamental knowledge of the pitched percussion instrument, background knowledge of the culture of Trinidad and Tobago that...
MUSIC158	Musical Acoustics	The physics and acoustics of music and musical instruments. The basics of sound propagation, reflection, and resonance and how this is perceived as musical sound. The specific acoustical phenomena of wind, string, and percussion instruments as well a...
MUSIC159	Early Music Singers	Small choir specializing in Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque vocal music. One major concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit for a total of 15 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http:...
MUSIC159Z	Early Music Singers	Small choir specializing in Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque vocal music. One major concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit for a total of 15 times for 0 unit. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See webs...
MUSIC160	Stanford Symphony Orchestra	Large symphony orchestra (ca. 100 members) that rehearses two evenings per week (M/Th) and performs repertoire primarily from the Classical Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 2-3 performances each quarter i...
MUSIC160A	Stanford Philharmonia	Chamber orchestra (ca. 45 members) that rehearses one evening per week (Tu) and performs repertoire primarily from the Baroque Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 1-2 performances each quarter in Bing Concer...
MUSIC160AZ	Stanford Philharmonia	Chamber orchestra (ca. 45 members) that rehearses one evening per week (Tu) and performs repertoire primarily from the Baroque Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 1-2 performances each quarter in Bing Concer...
MUSIC160B	Stanford New Ensemble	Performing compositions of the 20th century, recent works of this century, and new works by Stanford faculty and student composers. Musicians collaborate with composers and artists visiting and performing at Stanford. One concert per quarter. Admissi...
MUSIC160BZ	Stanford New Ensemble	Performing compositions of the 20th century, recent works of this century, and new works by Stanford faculty and student composers. Musicians collaborate with composers and artists visiting and performing at Stanford. One concert per quarter. Admissi...
MUSIC160C	Stanford Baroque Soloists	Elite string group focusing on chamber music of the Baroque era, c. 1600-1750. Concerti, overtures, suites, solo & trio sonatas for your instrument, quartet music from the pre-history of the string quartet. Each member expected to solo as well as pla...
MUSIC160CZ	Stanford Baroque Soloists	Elite string group focusing on chamber music of the Baroque era, c. 1600-1750. Solo & trio sonatas for your instrument, quartet music from the pre-history of the string quartet. Coaching will emphasize leadership and ensemble techniques, intonation a...
MUSIC160S	Stanford Summer Symphony	See website for details: https://music.stanford.edu/academic-programs/summer-studies-stanford-music/summer-session-ensembles-chorus-and-symphony. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.ed...
MUSIC160SZ	Stanford Summer Symphony	See website for details: https://music.stanford.edu/academic-programs/summer-studies-stanford-music/summer-session-ensembles-chorus-and-symphony. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.ed...
MUSIC160Z	Stanford Symphony Orchestra	Large symphony orchestra (ca. 100 members) that rehearses two evenings per week (M/Th) and performs repertoire primarily from the Classical Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 2-3 performances each quarter i...
MUSIC161A	Stanford Wind Symphony	40- to 50-member ensemble performing transcriptions of symphonic music, brass band music, and repertoire composed specifically for symphonic band. One concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option a...
MUSIC161AZ	Stanford Wind Symphony	40- to 50-member ensemble performing transcriptions of symphonic music, brass band music, and repertoire composed specifically for symphonic band. One concert per quarter. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website...
MUSIC161B	Jazz Orchestra	Jazz Orchestra is an undergraduate large ensemble performance class. Admission is by audition and/or permission of instructor. The class meets three times per week and presents a minimum of one formal concert per quarter with a major jazz artist. The...
MUSIC161BZ	Jazz Orchestra	Jazz Orchestra is an undergraduate large ensemble performance class. Admission is by audition and/or permission of instructor. The class meets three times per week and presents a minimum of one formal concert per quarter with a major jazz artist. The...
MUSIC161D	Stanford Brass Ensemble	Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. Performance of works for full brass choir and for smaller ensembles of brass instruments. Once weekly rehearsals. May...
MUSIC161DZ	Stanford Brass Ensemble	Performance of works for full brass choir and for smaller ensembles of brass instruments. Once weekly rehearsals. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: audition and consent of instructor. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor perm...
MUSIC161E	Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra	Ensemble dedicated to the performance, interpretation and study of Afro-Latin music and its fusion with North American jazz. Repertoire includes the music of Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru and Argentina, as well as the United Sta...
MUSIC161EZ	Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra	Ensemble dedicated to the performance, interpretation and study of Afro-Latin music and its fusion with North American jazz. Repertoire includes the music of Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru and Argentina, as well as the United Sta...
MUSIC161F	Ottoman Music ensemble	Stanford's Ottoman Music Ensemble introduces select music played in the present day that hearkens back to musical practices from diverse communities of Ottoman Constantinople or Istanbul. Much of this music has now fallen under the guise of Turkish a...
MUSIC161FZ	Ottoman Music Ensemble	Stanford's Ottoman Music Ensemble introduces select music played in the present day that hearkens back to musical practices from diverse communities of Ottoman Constantinople or Istanbul. Much of this music has now fallen under the guise of Turkish a...
MUSIC162	Symphonic Chorus	180- to 200-voice choral ensemble, performing major choral masterworks with orchestra. One concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://mus...
MUSIC162Z	Symphonic Chorus	180- to 200-voice choral ensemble, performing major choral masterworks with orchestra. One concert per quarter. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. By e...
MUSIC163	Memorial Church Choir	Official choir of Memorial Church, furnishing music for Sunday services and special occasions in the church calendar. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http...
MUSIC163Z	Memorial Church Choir	Official choir of Memorial Church, furnishing music for Sunday services and special occasions in the church calendar. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure....
MUSIC165	Chamber Chorale	Select 24-voice choral ensemble, specializing in virtuoso choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Annual touring commitment required. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instruct...
MUSIC165Z	Chamber Chorale	Select 24-voice choral ensemble, specializing in virtuoso choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Annual touring commitment required. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanfo...
MUSIC167	University Singers	Select, 50-voice choral ensemble, performing choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanfor...
MUSIC167S	Summer Chorus	150-voice non-auditioned ensemble performing major choral masterworks and choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Concert: August 6, 2022 in Bing Concert Hall. Details at: https://music.stanford.edu/choral-ensembles-2021%E2%80%932022...
MUSIC167SZ	Summer Chorus	80- to 100-voice non-auditioned ensemble, performing major choral masterworks and choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. For details see: https://music.stanford.edu/academic-programs/summer-studies-stanford-music/summer-session-ense...
MUSIC167Z	University Singers	Select, 50-voice choral ensemble, performing choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. By enrolling in...
MUSIC169	Stanford Taiko	Select 15- to 18-member North American taiko ensemble, performing all-original repertoire for Japanese drums. Multiple performances in Winter and Spring quarters, also touring; instrument construction and maintenance. Admission by audition in Autumn...
MUSIC169Z	Stanford Taiko	Select 15- to 18-member North American taiko ensemble, performing all-original repertoire for Japanese drums. Multiple performances in Winter and Spring quarters, also touring; instrument construction and maintenance. Admission by audition in Autumn...
MUSIC16N	Behind "Swingposium:" Activism in Performing Arts	Swingposium (https://taiko.org/swingposium) is an immersive theater production, being presented by San Jose Taiko at Stanford in November. It tells the hidden history of Japanese Americans boosting morale in WWII Incarceration Camps through swing da...
MUSIC170	Collaborative Piano	Performance class in a workshop setting, exploring the art of collaboration with other musicians. Practical techniques will be addressed in highly varied repertoire. Admission is by audition only. Private-lesson proficiency level in piano is a prere...
MUSIC171	Chamber Music	Admission based on audition. Placements according to availability. 3 hr/weekly time commitment minimum. (Two hours of in-person or remote ensemble rehearsal plus one-hour remote coaching from Music department faculty.) Classical string quartets an...
MUSIC171Z	Chamber Music	Admission based on audition. Placements according to availability. 3 hr/weekly time commitment minimum. (Two hours of in-person or remote ensemble rehearsal plus one-hour remote coaching from Music department faculty.) Classical string quartets an...
MUSIC172A	Piano	Private lessons and group master class weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and auditi...
MUSIC172B	Organ	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC172C	Harpsichord	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC172D	Jazz Piano	Admission is by audition and/or invitation only; priority to majors and jazz-ensemble participants. All participants must enroll. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and...
MUSIC172E	Fortepiano	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. edit Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enro...
MUSIC172F	Carillon	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC172G	Gu-Zheng	Private lessons weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All par...
MUSIC173	Voice	Weekly private voice lessons and group master classes. Enrollment is limited to students chosen by auditions held at the beginning of Autumn Quarter or by permission of the instructor, with the expectation that the student will enroll for the entire...
MUSIC174A	Violin	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174B	Viola	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174C	Violoncello	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174D	Contrabass	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174E	Viola Da Gamba	Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with instru...
MUSIC174F	Classical Guitar	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174G	Harp	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174H	Baroque Violin	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174I	Jazz Bass	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC174J	Jazz & Contemporary Guitar	An application of the performance techniques developed by the innovative, genius, and radical guitarists from 1930 to 2020. Improvising, comping, reading, repertoire, and technique will be studied in depth. Rhythm styles, the application of modern th...
MUSIC175A	Flute	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC175B	Oboe	May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....
MUSIC175C	Clarinet	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC175D	Bassoon	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC175E	Recorder/Early Winds	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC175F	Saxophone	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC175G	Baroque Flute	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC175H	Jazz Saxophone	May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC176A	French Horn	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC176B	Trumpet	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC176C	Trombone	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC176D	Tuba	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC176E	Jazz Trumpet	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....
MUSIC177	Percussion	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC177A	Drum Set Lessons	These lessons will be geared toward the individual student's desires and needs. All levels are welcome, but students should contact instructor to set up initial meeting, prior to enrolling in the course. Students will explore drumset technique, coord...
MUSIC179Z	Applied Music Private Lessons	Students enroll in appropriate instructor section for private instrumental/vocal lessons using this zero unit enrollment option. Available only with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. Admission i...
MUSIC17AX	Key-Notes: A Piano Exploration	The objective of the course is to teach piano, improve music reading skills and music theory knowledge. The course is designed for a multi-level class room, so complete beginners and intermediate pianists can learn in this self-paced course. There wi...
MUSIC17P	Keyboard Explorations	This course is designed for students who want to further their skills in music, whether experienced on the piano or not. The class will be divided into groups according to experience level. Whatever the level of their previous experience, students wi...
MUSIC181	Jazz Combos	Admission based on audition. These small jazz ensembles meet weekly and typically include coaching, one masterclass and one performance per quarter. May be repeated for credit. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with...
MUSIC181Z	Jazz Combos	Admission based on audition. These small jazz ensembles meet weekly and typically include coaching, one masterclass and one performance per quarter. May be repeated for credit. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with...
MUSIC182	Diction for Singers	The international phonetic alphabet and its application to German, French, and Italian vocal literature. Open also to pianists interested in vocal coaching and choral conducting.
MUSIC183A	German Art Song Interpretation	By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf and Strauss. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximu...
MUSIC183AZ	German Art Song Interpretation	By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf and Strauss. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximu...
MUSIC183B	French Art Song Interpretation	By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximum)....
MUSIC183BZ	French Art Song Interpretation	By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximum)....
MUSIC183C	Interpretation of Musical Theater Repertoire	By audition only: Contact instructor prior to enrolling (mlcats@stanford.edu). Ability to read music expected, but students with experience singing in musical theater can be accepted. For singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a works...
MUSIC183CZ	Interpretation of Musical Theater Repertoire	By audition only: Contact instructor prior to enrolling (mlcats@stanford.edu). Ability to read music expected, but students with experience singing in musical theater can be accepted. For singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a works...
MUSIC183E	Singing for Musicals	Do you love singing in musicals? Do you know how to sing in musicals? This course provides training in vocal technique and acting for students interested in performing musical theater. Students will learn about the physical process of singing, incl...
MUSIC183F	Songs of Love and Longing	This course will take us on a journey from the Balkans to South Asia as we explore the nexus of poetry and song practiced by bards across a vast geographic and cultural space. Specifically, we will survey the Persianate genre of ghazal lyric, the sto...
MUSIC184A	Editing and Performing Early Music	This course is a practical workshop in early music vocal repertoire. The main focus of this course is to use original source material to explore editorial practice. Having prepared the score, students learn to perform the piece from an historically i...
MUSIC184AZ	Editing and Performing Early Music	This course is a practical workshop in early music vocal repertoire. The main focus of this course is to use original source material to explore editorial practice. Having prepared the score, students learn to perform the piece from an historically i...
MUSIC184B	Topics on the Musical Stage	This course is a practical workshop in vocal repertoire for the stage. Each quarter's offering emphasizes a specific genre or period, therefore the course can be repeated with permission of the instructor. In addition to broadening the student's know...
MUSIC184BZ	Topics on the Musical Stage	This course is a practical workshop in vocal repertoire for the stage. Each quarter's offering emphasizes a specific genre or period, therefore the course can be repeated with permission of the instructor. In addition to broadening the student's know...
MUSIC184C	Dramatic Vocal Arts: Songs and Scenes Onstage	Studies in stagecraft, acting and performance for singers, culminating in a public performance. Repertoire to be drawn from the art song, opera, American Songbook and musical theater genres. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated for credit a t...
MUSIC184CZ	Dramatic Vocal Arts: Songs and Scenes Onstage	Studies in stagecraft, acting and performance for singers, culminating in a public performance. Repertoire to be drawn from the art song, opera, American Songbook and musical theater genres. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated for credit a t...
MUSIC184E	Musical Theater Dance Styles	Students will be able to demonstrate period specificity, character of style through learning different musical theater dances from the early 20th C.to the present. ALL students will participate in an end of quarter showing of the choreography develop...
MUSIC184F	Introduction to Theater Sound Design	This course explores the history and aesthetics,of theatre sound design, and provides the basic technical knowledge to create your own work. Learn how to analyze a script for sound design elements, gain practical knowledge of microphones and loudspe...
MUSIC18A	Jazz History: Bebop to Present, 1940-Present	Modern jazz styles from Bebop to the current scene. Emphasis is on the significant artists of each style.
MUSIC18AX	Audiovisual Performance	The unification of music and visual arts has been attempted throughout history, opera being one example. In the 20th Century, sounds and moving images have been syncretized in various art forms, such as film or video art, as well as in popular cultur...
MUSIC18B	Jazz History: Bebop to Present, 1940-Present	Modern jazz styles from Bebop to the current scene. Emphasis is on the significant artists of each style.
MUSIC18N	Musical Dishonesty: Fakes, Forgeries, Counterfeits, Hoaxes, Deceptions, Illusions, and Artifice	Dishonesty is everywhere. Is anything still honest? To answer we examine the myriad types of musical dishonesty, some harmless and fanciful, others deliberate and pernicious: artfully misleading deceptive cadences and fake endings; evident frauds (th...
MUSIC192A	Foundations of Sound-Recording Technology	This course serves as an introduction to the recording facilities and technology at CCRMA. Through lectures and assignments students learn and practice various studio recording techniques. They also become familiarized with home and field recording p...
MUSIC192B	Advanced Sound Recording Technology	This course aims to heighten the listening skills of students. In a series of group sessions and discussions students compare and contrast a variety of dynamic based processes and other audio effects/plug-ins which might be used in their mixes. Stude...
MUSIC192C	Session Recording	Independent engineering of recording sessions combined with instruction in the use and maintenance of other CCRMA audio/studio facilities and equipment that is required for the realization of studio informed artistic projects. Students will explore h...
MUSIC197	Undergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship	Work in an apprentice-like relationship with faculty teaching a student-initiated course. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)
MUSIC198	Concentrations Project	For concentration program participants only. Must be taken in senior year. Multiple concentrators may enroll in one section of 198 per concentration.
MUSIC199	Independent Study	For advanced undergraduates and graduate students who wish to do work outside the regular curriculum. Before registering, student must present specific project and enlist a faculty sponsor. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.
MUSIC19A	Introduction to Music Theory	For non-music majors and Music majors or minors unable to pass the proficiency test for entry to MUSIC 21. The fundamentals of music theory and notation, basic sight reading, sight singing, ear training, keyboard harmony; melodic, rhythmic, and harmo...
MUSIC19B	Intermediate Music Theory	This course is an introduction to music theory geared toward students who have basic literacy skills (i.e. fundamental notation, identifying major and minor scales, keys, etc). Using musical materials from repertoire selected from campus and area con...
MUSIC1A	Music, Mind, and Human Behavior	An introductory exploration of how and why music is a pervasive and fundamental aspect of human existence across cultures. The class will introduce aspects of music perception and cognition as well as anthropological and cultural considerations.
MUSIC1SI	Introduction to Indian Classical Music	This is an introductory course in the classical music of India, with emphasis on learning to listen to and appreciate Indian classical music concerts. It will cover a broad overview of the two main genres of Indian classical music - Carnatic and Hind...
MUSIC200A	Proseminar in Musicology and Music Bibliography	Introduction to research in music, bibliographical materials, major issues in the field, philosophy, and methods in music history. Guest lecturers and individual research topics.
MUSIC200B	Proseminar in Ethnomusicology	A graduate-level introduction to the field of ethnomusicology. Issues and debates are traced through the history of the discipline, with emphasis on influences from anthropology, performance studies, linguistics, and cultural studies. Topics include...
MUSIC201	CCRMA Colloquium	Weekly review of work being done in the field, research taking place at CCRMA, and tools to make the most of the CCRMA technical facilities.
MUSIC205	Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension	Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...
MUSIC20A	Jazz Theory	Introduces the language and sounds of jazz through listening, analysis, and compositional exercises. Students apply the fundamentals of music theory to the study of jazz. Prerequisite: Music 19, consent of instructor, or satisfactory demonstration of...
MUSIC20B	Advanced Jazz Theory	Approaches to improvisation and composed jazz lines through listening, transcribing, analysis, and compositional exercises. Topics include: chord/scale theory, melodic minor harmony, altered chords, and substitute harmony. Prerequisite: 20A or consen...
MUSIC20C	Jazz Arranging and Composition	Jazz arranging and composition for small ensembles. Foundation for writing for big band. Prerequisite: 20A or consent of instructor.
MUSIC21	Introduction to Tonal Theory	Preference to majors. Introduction to tonal theory. Practice and analysis. Diatonic harmony focusing on melodic and harmonic organization, functional relationships, voice-leading, and tonal structures. Students must concurrently enroll in an Ear-trai...
MUSIC22	Intermediate Tonal Theory	Preference to majors. Introduction to chromatic harmony focusing on secondary functions, modulations, and harmonic sequences. Analysis of musical forms and harmonizations complemented by harmonic and melodic dictation, sight-singing, and other pract...
MUSIC220A	Fundamentals of Computer-Generated Sound	What are the basic tools that computer music researchers and artists use to create sound? This course will include a summary of digital synthesis techniques (additive, subtractive, wavetable, frequency modulation and physical-modeling), signal proces...
MUSIC220B	Compositional Algorithms, Psychoacoustics, and Computational Music	The use of high-level programming language as a compositional aid in creating musical structures. Advanced study of sound synthesis techniques. Simulation of a reverberant space and control of the position of sound within the space. To satisfy a Ways...
MUSIC220C	Research Seminar in Computer-Generated Music	Individual projects in composition, psychoacoustics, or signal processing. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 220B.
MUSIC220D	Research in Computer-Generated Music	Independent research projects in composition, psychoacoustics, or signal processing. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 220C.
MUSIC222	Sound in Space	Historical background, techniques and theory on the use of space in music composition and diffusion. Listening and analysis of relevant pieces. Experimental work in spatialization techniques leading to short studies to be diffused in concert at the e...
MUSIC223Q	Queer Electronic Music Composition	Queer Electronic Music Composition is a creative course structured around the historical and theoretical contributions of composers from the LBGQT+ community with an emphasis on computer-based electronic music. Through a series of reading, listening,...
MUSIC23	Advanced Tonal Theory	Preference to majors. Continuation of chromatic harmony such as mode mixture, Neapolitan, augmented sixth chords, enharmonic modulation, complex forms of the late Romantic and early Modern period, and the transition to post-tonal theory (church modes...
MUSIC230	Advanced Orchestral Conducting	Advanced study of orchestral conducting through individual weekly meetings with the instructor. Develop skills in score reading and analysis, baton technique and the physical art of conducting, performance practice, and rehearsal technique. Expand kn...
MUSIC231	Advanced Choral Conducting	Individual instruction continuing trajectory of Music 130C. Focus on gestural technique and analysis of works by genre and historical period. May be repeated for credit a total of 8 times. Prerequisite: 130C.
MUSIC236	Future Media, Media Archaeologies	Hand-on. Media technologies from origins to the recent past. Students create artworks based on Victorian era discoveries and inventions, early developments in electronic media, and orphaned technologies. Research, rediscover, invent, and create devic...
MUSIC243F	Nineteenth-Century Pianism: History, Works, & Performance Practices	This seminar narrows the divide between performance and musicology. With nineteenth-century pianism as an extended case study, this course will explore representative and less common composers, works, and performers. Subtopics will include historical...
MUSIC243J	Studies in Music of the Classical Period: Haydn and Mozart: Music in the Age of Enlightenment	Music and Musicians in the Age of EnlightenmentPrerequisites: MUSIC 22, MUSIC 41. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)
MUSIC244N	Reading Recorded Performances: From Data to Interpretation	How might one study and interpret recorded performances as 'texts'? We will explore the intersections of performance and musicology through guided weekly writing assignments, considering 'data' about recorded performances as heard and physically felt...
MUSIC246N	Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts	This course will explore the links between aspects of South-East Asian cultures and their influence on modern and contemporary Western art and literature, particularly in France; examples of this influence include Claude Debussy (Gamelan music), Jacq...
MUSIC24A	Ear Training I	Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.
MUSIC24B	Ear Training II	Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.
MUSIC24C	Ear Training III	Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.
MUSIC24Z	Ear Training	Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.
MUSIC25	Decoding Anime	Anime as an artistic form often boasts highly imaginative graphics, striking music, vibrant characters, and fantastical stories. The course aims at decoding the expressive power of anime by applying a method of multimedia analysis that focuses on the...
MUSIC250A	Physical Interaction Design for Music	This lab and project-based course explores how we can physically interact with real-time electronic sound. Students learn to use and design sensors, circuits, embedded computers, communication protocols and sound synthesis. Advanced topics include re...
MUSIC250C	Interaction - Intermedia - Immersion	This course explores creative and technical approaches to the design of digital musical instruments (DMIs) and other systems for interactive performance, composition and/or installations in audio, audiovisual, and other intermedia practice. Various p...
MUSIC250D	The Arts and Social Justice	A survey of how art addressed and addresses issues of social justice across history and cultures
MUSIC251	Psychophysics and Music Cognition	Lecture, lab and experiment-based course in perception, psychoacoustics, cognition, and neuroscience of music. (WIM at 4 or 5 units only.)
MUSIC253	Symbolic Musical Information	Properties of symbolic data for music applications including advanced notation systems, data durability, mark-up languages, optical music recognition, and data-translation tasks. Hands-on work involves these digital score formats: Guido Music Notati...
MUSIC254	Computational Music Analysis	Leveraging off three synchronized sets of symbolic data resources for notation and analysis, the lab portion introduces students to the open-source Humdrum Toolkit for music representation and analysis. Issues of data content and quality as well as...
MUSIC255	Intermedia Workshop	Students develop and produce intermedia works. Musical and visual approaches to the conceptualisation and shaping of time-based art. Exploration of sound and image relationship. Study of a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices including experimen...
MUSIC255A	Piano Literature	An exploration of the repertoire for piano and keyboards, providing experience with and context for this literature while engaging practical, technical and analytical features of the works. Each quarter will cover focused areas defined by time, plac...
MUSIC256A	Music, Computing, Design: The Art of Design	This course explores the artful design of software tools, toys, games,instruments, and experiences. Topics include programming, audiovisualdesign, strategies for crafting interactive systems, game design, aswell as aesthetic and social considerations...
MUSIC257	Neuroplasticity and Musical Gaming	What changes in a musician's brain after hours and years of daily practice? How do skills that make a great violinist transfer to other abilities? Can directed neuroplasticity be used to target skill learning? This course will include fundamentals of...
MUSIC258D	Musical Acoustics	The physics and acoustics of music and musical instruments. The basics of sound propagation, reflection, and resonance and how this is perceived as musical sound. The specific acoustical phenomena of wind, string, and percussion instruments as well a...
MUSIC264	Musical Engagement	A cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research seminar focused on methods to study, evaluate and analyze how humans engage with music both as listeners and as performers.
MUSIC269	Research in Performance Practices	Directed reading and research. May be repeated for credit a total of 5 times.
MUSIC26N	Japanese Arts: a Creative Exploration	The striking originality of Japanese contemporary culture seems to defy unifying pressures of globalization. What are the sources of this originality? Can it be traced to the unique and sophisticated art forms like rock gardens, haiku, tea ceremony,...
MUSIC272A	Advanced Piano	Private lessons and group masterclass weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and auditio...
MUSIC272B	Advanced Organ	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC272C	Advanced Harpsichord	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC272D	Advanced Jazz Piano	Admission is by audition and/or invitation only; priority to majors and jazz-ensemble participants. All participants must enroll. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and...
MUSIC272E	Advanced Fortepiano	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC272F	Advanced Carillon	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC272G	Advanced Gu-Zheng	Private lesson weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All part...
MUSIC273	Advanced Voice	Weekly private voice lessons and group master classes. Enrollment is limited to students chosen by auditions held at the beginning of Autumn Quarter or by permission of the instructor, with the expectation that the student will enroll for the entire...
MUSIC274A	Advanced Violin	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC274B	Advanced Viola	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC274C	Advanced Violoncello	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....
MUSIC274D	Advanced Contrabass	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC274E	Advanced Viola da Gamba	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.htmlfor class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Ze...
MUSIC274F	Advanced Classical Guitar	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....
MUSIC274G	Advanced Harp	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC274H	Advanced Baroque Violin	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....
MUSIC274I	Advanced Jazz Bass	Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with instru...
MUSIC274J	Advanced Jazz & Contemporary Guitar	An application of the performance techniques developed by the innovative, genius, and radical guitarists from 1930 to 2020. Improvising, comping, reading, repertoire, and technique will be studied in depth. Rhythm styles, the application of modern th...
MUSIC275A	Advanced Flute	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....
MUSIC275B	Advanced Oboe	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC275C	Advanced Clarinet	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC275D	Advanced Bassoon	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC275E	Advanced Recorder/Early Winds	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. http://music.stanford.edu/Acade...
MUSIC275F	Advanced Saxophone	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. http://music.stanford.edu/Acade...
MUSIC275G	Advanced Baroque Flute	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC275H	Advanced Jazz Saxophone	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC276A	Advanced French Horn	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC276B	Advanced Trumpet	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC276C	Advanced Trombone	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC276D	Advanced Tuba	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC276E	Advanced Jazz Trumpet	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...
MUSIC277	Advanced Percussion	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....
MUSIC277A	Advanced Drum Set	May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option avai...
MUSIC280	TA Training Course	Required for doctoral students serving as teaching assistants. Orientation to resources at Stanford, guest presentations on the principles of common teaching activities, supervised teaching experience. Students who entered in the Autumn should take 2...
MUSIC283F	Songs of Love and Longing	This course will take us on a journey from the Balkans to South Asia as we explore the nexus of poetry and song practiced by bards across a vast geographic and cultural space. Specifically, we will survey the Persianate genre of ghazal lyric, the sto...
MUSIC285	Intermedia Lab	The Intermedia Lab is a space to develop projects bridging sound with other media through technology. Projects may involve instrument design, physical computing, audiovisual interaction, immersive audio engaging with acoustic environments, and/or oth...
MUSIC298	MA/MST Capstone Project	The MA/MST capstone is intended to gather and focus skills acquired throughout the program toward an exploratory project aimed at bridging between the student¿s residency and whatever will follow beyond the MA. Mentorship can include your advisor aug...
MUSIC299	Independent Study	For advanced undergraduates and graduate students who wish to do work outside the regular curriculum. Before registering, student must present specific project and enlist a faculty sponsor. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.
MUSIC2C	An Introduction to Opera	The lasting appeal of opera as a lavishly hybrid genre from the 1600s to the present. How and why does opera set its stories to music? What is operatic singing? Who is the audience? How do words, music, voices, movement, and staging collaborate in di...
MUSIC300A	Medieval Notation	Western notation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: principles, purposes, and transcription.
MUSIC300B	Renaissance Notation	Western notation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: principles, purposes, and transcription.
MUSIC300D	Music Ethnography	This graduate seminar serves as an introduction to the methodologies and theoretical approaches for the ethnography of sound and musical practices. While we center on research problems, ethics, and methods in the field of ethnomusicology, ethnographi...
MUSIC300E	Analysis and Repertoire: Medieval and Renaissance	Analytical approaches to genres, styles, forms, and techniques of Western music from [chant and early polyphony through the sixteenth century]. Issues of aesthetics, history, and interpretation viewed through representative repertoire, readings, and...
MUSIC300F	Analysis and Repertoire: Baroque to Early Romantic	Analytical approaches to genres, styles, forms, and techniques of Western music from the seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Issues of aesthetics, history, and interpretation viewed through representative repertoire, readings, and analy...
MUSIC300G	Analysis and Repertoire: Late-Romantic to Contemporary	Analytical approaches to genres, styles, materials and techniques of Western music from the mid-nineteenth century through the present. Questions of aesthetics, history and performance explored through musical analysis. Representative repertoire and...
MUSIC300H	Aesthetics and Criticism of Music, Ancients and Moderns: Plato to Nietzsche	For graduate students. Primary texts focusing on the nature, purposes, and uses of music and other arts.
MUSIC300I	Aesthetics and Criticism of Music, Contemporaries: Heidegger to Today	For graduate students. Primary texts focusing on the nature, purposes, and uses of music and other arts.
MUSIC300J	Methods for Studying Gender and Sexuality in Music	Introduction to graduate-level study of gender and sexuality in music; includes feminist and queer critiques of musical canons, historiography, biography, and genius; feminist, queer, and trans perspectives on musical performance, performers, subcult...
MUSIC302	Research in Musicology	Directed reading and research. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.
MUSIC303	The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature	This course will introduce students to the field of Sound Studies (methodology, vocabulary, main claims) with a focus on the various sonic articulations of human-machine interactions in literature. The world of fiction as a sonic machine that articul...
MUSIC305D	Analysis from a Compositional Perspective	Introduction to analysis, examining diverse examples in part chosen from, otherwise supplementing and illuminating, the graduate composers' qualifying exam list; consideration of aesthetic premises and motivations, and of implications for contemporar...
MUSIC310	Research Seminar in Musicology	For graduate students. Topics vary each quarter. May be repeated for credit a total of 8 times.
MUSIC319	Research Seminar on Computational Models of Sound Perception	All aspects of auditory perception, often with emphasis on computational models. Topics: music perception, signal processing, auditory models, pitch perception, speech, binaural hearing, auditory scene analysis, basic psychoacoustics, and neurophysio...
MUSIC320	Introduction to Audio Signal Processing	A first-course in signal processing with applications in computer music and audio for students comfortable with high-school algebra, calculus, complex variables, and beginning linear algebra. The lectures cover fundamentals of audio signal processing...
MUSIC320C	Audio DSP Projects in Faust and C++	Course focuses on developing an audio signal-processing plugin or stand-alone application in C++. Prior experience is assumed with programming in Matlab/Octave and C/C++, and signal processing theory on the level of Music 320. Class time is devote...
MUSIC320D	Tutorial on Audio Signal Processing for Musicians	A tutorial section aimed at students who would like a review of prerequisite material for the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) audio signal processing (ASP) series of classes. The tutorial can be taken prior to or concurren...
MUSIC321	Readings in Music Theory	Directed reading and research. May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times.
MUSIC322	Music/Audio Signal Processing Research Overviews	Introduction to music/audio signal-processing research. Research papers and presentations are discussed in weekly meetings. Students active in related research are invited to present overviews. Emphasis is on currently active topics and their fundame...
MUSIC323	Doctoral Seminar in Composition	Illustrated discussions of compositional issues and techniques. Presentation of relevant topics, including students' own compositional practice. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.
MUSIC324	Graduate Composition Forum	Community forum for all graduate student composers. Discussion of completed and in-progress work by students, faculty, and visiting composers. Repertoire listening sessions. Planning of upcoming Department events. Special area exam topic presenta...
MUSIC325	Individual Graduate Projects in Composition	May be repeated for credit.
MUSIC32N	Sculpting with Sounds, Images, and Words	Throughout history and from East to West, cultures abound in multimedia forms. Whether in Coldplay's Music Video or Fantasia, Pepsi TV adds or Wagner's opera, Miyazaki anime or traditional Noh Theater of Japan, the three modes of expression (sounds,...
MUSIC330	Musicology Dissertation Colloquium	Weekly meetings for all musicology students 4th year and beyond to discuss research and writing strategies, share and critique work in progress, and discuss issues in professional development (preparing abstracts, conference papers, C.V. and job inte...
MUSIC332	Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar	This course serves as the Core Seminar for the PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. It introduces students to a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy with literary and arts criticism. The seminar is intended for graduat...
MUSIC33N	Beethoven	This seminar is designed as an in-depth introduction to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. In addition to exploring the composer's principal works in a variety of genres (symphonies, piano sonatas, string quartets, opera, etc.), we will consider broa...
MUSIC341	Ph.D Dissertation	May be repeated for credit a total of 5 times.
MUSIC34N	Performing America: The Broadway Musical	Musical theater as a site for the construction of American identity in the twentieth century to the present. Issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality; intersections with jazz, rock, and pop; roles of lyricist, composer, director, choreographer, p...
MUSIC351A	Seminar in Music Perception and Cognition I	A seminar on topics in music perception and cognition. Students will study and discuss recent research as well as design and implement experiments.
MUSIC356	Music and AI	How do we make music with artificial intelligence? What does it mean to do so (and is it even a good idea)? How might we design systems that balance machine automation and human interaction? More broadly, how do we want to live with our technologies?...
MUSIC35N	Black Music Revealed: Black composers, performers, and themes from the 18th century to the present	Online seminar on the achievements of Black composers and performers in ragtime, jazz, and classical music, from Chevalier de Saint-Georges, whose music influenced Mozart, and George Bridgetower, for whom Beethoven composed his "Kreutzer" Sonata, to...
MUSIC36H	Dangerous Ideas	Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d...
MUSIC390	Practicum Internship	On-the-job training under the guidance of experienced, on-site supervisors. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Students submit a concise report detailing work activities, problems worked on, and key re...
MUSIC398	PhD Dissertation Proposal	Students have to identify a research advisor and enroll in this course with her/him to develop the dissertation proposal. By the end of this required course or its series (repeatable for three times), students are expected to have identified a) a spe...
MUSIC399	D.M.A. Final Project	May be repeated for credit a total of 5 times.
MUSIC39B	Music and Healing	To what extent can sound or music heal? This interdisciplinary course asks questions about music and healing around the world, drawing on the fields of medical ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, sound studies, and music therapy. Our case studies...
MUSIC40	Music History to 1600	Pre- or corequisite: 21.
MUSIC405	Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension	Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...
MUSIC41	Music History 1600-1830	Pre- or corequisite: 22.
MUSIC42	Music History Since 1830	Pre- or corequisite: 23.
MUSIC422	Perceptual Audio Coding	History and basic principles: development of psychoacoustics-based data-compression techniques; perceptual-audio-coder applications (radio, television, film, multimedia/internet audio, DVD, EMD). In-class demonstrations: state-of-the-art audio coder...
MUSIC423	Graduate Research in Music Technology	Research discussion, development, and presentation by graduate students, visiting scholars, and CCRMA faculty in the areas of music and/or audio technology. Permission of instructor required. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/423/ for latest info...
MUSIC451A	Basics in Auditory and Music Neuroscience	Understanding basic concepts and techniques in cognitive neuroscience using electroencephalography (EEG) specific to auditory perception and music cognition via seminar and laboratory exercise work. Acquiring and practicing skills in experimental des...
MUSIC451B	Neuroscience of Auditory Perception and Music Cognition II: Neural Oscillations	Building on 451A, this course will review basic knowledge and EEG techniques of neural oscillations related to auditory perception and music cognition via seminar and laboratory work. Through reviewing and replicating findings using classic and recen...
MUSIC451C	Auditory EEG Research III: Coordinated Actions and Hyperscanning	Advancing EEG research skills in cognitive neuroscience specific to music cognition by conducting a group research project. In particular, this course focuses on basics for 2-person EEG (hyperscanning) paradigms and explores how coordinated actions a...
MUSIC4SI	Taiko as performance, social justice, and a therapeutic modality	Taught by Stanford Taiko members. Techniques and history. No experience necessary. May be repeated for credit. This course was initiated by Mitchell Fukumoto and Stanford Taiko.
MUSIC50	Arts in Context: The Process of Cultural Production	A combination of practical skill-building and discussions with practicing arts professionals, this course will provide students with the foundational skills necessary to produce programs on campus and/or work in the arts. The talks and workshops will...
MUSIC60	How We Sing: The Voice, How It Functions, and the Singer's Mind	A weekly lecture course for singers, pianists, directors, conductors, and anyone who is interested in the art and craft of the voice. The voice is an instrument whose sounds are determined by its structure and the choices the singer makes. Students w...
MUSIC65A	Beginning Voice Class	Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice (A = level 1; B = level 2). May be repeated for credit. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This cla...
MUSIC65AS	Voice Class 1: Beginning Voice, Level 1 (Group)	Group (6 students to a section) beginning voice. By enrolling in this course you are giving consent for the video and audio recording and distribution of your image and performance for use by any entity at Stanford University.
MUSIC65AZ	Beginning Voice Class	Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice (A = level 1; B = level 2). There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is closed by design. Plea...
MUSIC65B	Intermediate Voice Class	Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice for the non-major (A = level 1; B = level 2). May be repeated for credit. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup inf...
MUSIC65BS	Voice Class 2: Beginning Voice, Level 2 (Group)	Complete registration form available at: https://tinyurl.com/5n63y97k . May be repeated for credit 5 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://tinyurl.com/posmuhn) for policy and procedure. By enrol...
MUSIC65BZ	Intermediate Voice Class	Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice for the non-major (A = level 1; B = level 2). There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is clo...
MUSIC65SZ	Beginning Voice	Beginning Voice (zero-unit option). Complete registration form available for download at: http://tinyurl.com/q43c48g. May be repeated 5 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://tinyurl.com/posmuhn)...
MUSIC6F	Professional Development in Music	Open to majors and non-majors. This course is designed for students who are considering careers in performance or the music industry to explore their personal and artistic identity. Weekly guest speakers provide real world insight on topics related t...
MUSIC6G	Entrepreneurial Development for Classical Musicians	Open to majors and non-majors. This course is designed for students who are interested in professional opportunities in classical music, whether conservatory bound or just exploring possible careers in classical music performance or related interests...
MUSIC72A	Intermediate Piano Class	For intermediate students. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Prerequisites: 12C or equivalent, audition. This class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and meet with Dr. Zerlang in room 111, or contact him at timzer@sta...
MUSIC72AZ	Intermediate Piano Class	For intermediate students. Prerequisites: 12C or equivalent, audition. This class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and show up on the first day of class to receive a permission number for enrollment. Zero unit enrollment option av...
MUSIC72C	Harpsichord Class	For beginning harpsichord students who have keyboard skills. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission based on instructor consent. Contact instructor prior to enrolling to discuss availability. Class meets in Braun 201. Zero unit enr...
MUSIC72CZ	Harpsichord Class	For beginning harpsichord students who have keyboard skills. Admission based on instructor consent. Contact instructor prior to enrolling to discuss availability. Class meets in Braun 201. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permiss...
MUSIC72D	Jazz Piano Class	To enroll, please register on the waitlist and contact the instructor (murlow@stanford.edu) to receive a permission number for enrollment. Priority to majors and jazz-ensemble participants. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permis...
MUSIC72DZ	Jazz Piano Class	Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. To enroll, please register on the waitlist and contact the instructor (murlow@stanford.edu) to receive a permission number for enrollment. Priority to majors...
MUSIC72G	Gu-Zheng Class	Introduction to Chinese music through learning how to play Gu-Zheng, a 21-stringed traditional Chinese instrument. The cultural, social, and historical significance of Gu-Zheng. 15 Gu-Zheng techniques, how to read Chinese music and Gu-Zheng notation,...
MUSIC72GZ	Gu-Zheng Class	Introduction to Chinese music through learning how to play Gu-Zheng, a 21-stringed traditional Chinese instrument. The cultural, social, and historical significance of Gu-Zheng. 15 Gu-Zheng techniques, how to read Chinese music and Gu-Zheng notation,...
MUSIC72SZ	Intermediate Piano	Intermediate Piano (zero-unit option). Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://tinyurl.com/posmuhn) for policy and procedure. By enrolling in this course you are giving consent for the video and audio re...
MUSIC73	Advance Voice Class	For intermediate students. Admission by audition. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is...
MUSIC73Z	Advance Voice Class	For intermediate students. Admission by audition. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is closed by design. Please register on the Axess w...
MUSIC74AA	Introductory Violin Class Level 1: Beginner	Open to majors and non-majors. Focus is on beginning violin skills. Topics include brief history and physics of the instrument, and survey of repertoire. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for class fees and signup...
MUSIC74C	Classical Guitar Class	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.
MUSIC74CZ	Classical Guitar Class	Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.
MUSIC74D	Harp Class	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for...
MUSIC74DZ	Harp Class	There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for...
MUSIC75B	Renaissance Wind Instruments Class	May be repeated for credit. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.
MUSIC75BZ	Renaissance Wind Instruments Class	May be repeated for credit. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.
MUSIC76	Brass Instruments Class	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.
MUSIC76A	Tuba Class	Basic brass techniques as they apply to the tuba including warmups, breathing, and developing a daily routine. For beginning through intermediate players. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for audition information....
MUSIC76AZ	Tuba Class	Basic brass techniques as they apply to the tuba including warmups, breathing, and developing a daily routine. For beginning through intermediate players. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.s...
MUSIC76Z	Brass Instruments Class	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for class fees and signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and pr...
MUSIC77	Percussion Class	May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.
MUSIC77Z	Percussion Class	Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.
MUSIC7B	Musical Cultures of the World	Ethnomusicologists study music in human life. Music is with us as we articulate and define social identities -- punk rocker, student, Japanese-American, member of a sorority, Catholic, radical, etc. --and as we acquire new identities through rites of...
MUSIC801	TGR Project	No Description Set
MUSIC802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
MUSIC80A	Jewish Music of the Diaspora	Through the perspective of Jewish music, the students will be exposed to diverse musical cultures from around the globe while simultaneously being exposed to the rich and multi-faceted cultures of Jewish music. Because the Jews were dispersed around...
MUSIC8A	Rock, Sex, and Rebellion	Development of critical listening skills and musical parameters through genres in the history of rock music. Focus is on competing aesthetic tendencies and subcultural forces that shaped the music. Rock's significance in American culture, and the min...

Introduction to Creating Electronic Sounds

Introduction to Creating Electronic Sounds enables students from a wide variety of backgrounds to cultivate conceptual and technical skills within the production of electronic sound and music composition. Lectures, readings, and group discussions wil...

MUSIC107

Close Analysis: Film Sound

The close analysis of film, with an emphasis on sound, music, and audio-visuality. Films from various historical periods, national cinemas, directors, and genres. Prerequisite: FILMSTUD 4 or equivalent. Recommended: ARTHIST 1 or FILMSTUD 102. Course...

MUSIC112

Film Scoring

Through analysis and technical exercises that involve click tracks, spotting, scoring under dialogue and picture, and the creative use of overlap cues, among others, students will learn how to develop and synchronize an engaging music score that supp...

MUSIC113

Introduction to Instrumental Composition

Students compose weekly exercises to improve creative fluency and develop basic control of instruments. Audio examples of diverse compositional techniques are introduced, analyzed and emulated. Prerequisite: Music 19A or Instructor's permission.

MUSIC113P

Media and Communication Before the Printing Press

Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...

MUSIC115

Individual Undergraduate Projects in Jazz

Students may pursue individual projects in jazz performance, theory, history, etc. Prerequisite: Music 20A or permission of instructor.

MUSIC118

Musics and Appropriation Throughout the World

This course critically examines musical practices and appropriation through the amplification of intersectionality. We consider musics globally through recourse to ethnomusicological literature and critical race theories. Our approach begins from an...

MUSIC11N

Harmonic Convergence: Music's Intersections with Science, Mathematics, History, and Literature

Topics include music and the brain; tuning and temperament; musical form; connections between music and mathematics; and readings in history and literature with strong musical elements. Readings include "The Power of Music" (Mannes), "Musicophilia" (...

MUSIC11Q

Art in the Metropolis

This seminar is offered in conjunction with the annual "Arts Immersion" trip to New York that takes place over the spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI). Enrollment in this course a requirement for taking part in the trip...

MUSIC120D

Jazz Improvisation

This class will focus on developing a deeper understanding of, and capacity for, jazz improvisation -- as it relates to individual expression as well as group interaction, communication, and cohesion. In-class soloing and ensemble playing; guided lis...

MUSIC120DZ

Jazz Improvisation

This class will focus on developing a deeper understanding of, and capacity for, jazz improvisation -- as it relates to individual expression as well as group interaction, communication, and cohesion. In-class soloing and ensemble playing; guided lis...

MUSIC120E

Advanced Jazz Improvisation

This class will focus on broadening the participants' fluency with established improvisational languages, encouraging them to trust and develop their own unique improvisational voices, and deepening their capacities for integrating those individual v...

MUSIC120EZ

Advanced Jazz Improvisation

This class will focus on broadening the participants' fluency with established improvisational languages, encouraging them to trust and develop their own unique improvisational voices, and deepening their capacities for integrating those individual v...

MUSIC122A

Counterpoint

Analysis and composition of contrapuntal styles from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Use of keyboard, ear training, and sight singing underlies all written work. Prerequisites: MUSIC 23 and MUSIC 24C; passing piano-proficiency examination; or, c...

MUSIC122B

Analysis of Tonal Music

Complete movements, or entire shorter works of the 18th and 19th centuries, are analyzed in a variety of theoretical approaches. Prerequisites: MUSIC 23 and MUSIC 24C; passing piano-proficiency examination; or, consent of instructor.

MUSIC122C

Introduction to Post-Tonal Analysis

Survey and analysis of a broad array of 20th-century examples, including compositional options. Prerequisites: MUSIC 23 and MUSIC 24C; passing piano-proficiency examination; or, consent of instructor.

MUSIC122D

Analysis for Performance

Prerequisites: 23 or consent of instructor, successful completion of the ear-training and piano-proficiency examinations.

MUSIC122M

Main Stage Theater Project

The Main Stage Theater Project provides students the opportunity to receive units for participating in a TAPS Main Stage Show. In Autumn 2022-23 the main stage show is Parentheses of Blood. Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe will direct this production.

MUSIC123A

Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Rhythmic Design

Students compose weekly exercises to develop creative fluency and personal style. The course focuses on listening to examples, analysis and emulation of diverse compositional techniques involving rhythm.

MUSIC123B

Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Pitch Design

Students compose weekly exercises to develop creative fluency and personal style. The course focuses on listening to examples, analysis and emulation of diverse compositional techniques involving pitch.

MUSIC123C

Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: World Music

The course introduces composition techniques used in traditional music from Bali, Central African Republic, India, and Japan, that the students use as inspiration to explore and develop their own composition techniques. Prerequisite: Music 19A or Ins...

MUSIC123D

Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Extended Performance Techniques

Extended performance techniques have become standard extension of composers' orchestration technique. The course introduces extended techniques for keyboard, string, woodwinds, brass and percussion instruments, and illustrate their potential with exc...

MUSIC123G

Liberatory Practice Lab: Engaging Sounds in Community

This course is an incubator for new musical practices grounded in the cultivation of community. Learning from live performances, workshops, and archival texts by Black and queer feminist, Indigenous, and disability-culture activists, participants wil...

MUSIC123I

Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Music, Art, and Intermedia

How do music and art relate? How does one speak for, with, the other? In the past century, Western visual art turned towards abstraction and time-based works. Techniques and processes for interaction between image and sound expanded dramatically. Wha...

MUSIC124A

Songwriters Workshop

Laboratory for composers of any kind of vernacular music: singer-songwriters; folk singers; laptop dance music composers; rock and pop bands; rappers; writers of instrumentals or music with lyrics; solo artists and collaborators; etc. Compositional s...

MUSIC125

Individual Undergraduate Projects in Composition

May be repeated for credit a total of 13 times. Prerequisites: Music123A and Music123B or Instructor's permission. Composition concentrators must earn required private lesson credits through enrollment in individual lesson sections taught by Stanford...

MUSIC125A

Individual Undergraduate Projects in Composition

May be repeated for credit a total of 13 times. Prerequisites: Music123A and Music123B or Instructor's permission. Composition concentrators must earn required private lesson credits through enrollment in individual lesson sections taught by Stanford...

MUSIC126A

Thoroughbass Accompaniment

The development of continuo techniques and skills for figured-bass realization. Performance and analysis of selected repertoire, using thoroughbass principles and exercises based on historical theoretical treatises. Prerequisite: 21.

MUSIC127A

Instrumentation and Orchestration

Individual instruments, instrumental groups within the orchestra, and combinations of groups. Arrangements from piano to orchestral music. Score analysis with respect to orchestration. Practical exercises using chamber ensembles and school orchestra....

MUSIC127B

Advanced Orchestration

Through analysis and writing exercises, students develop proficiency in advanced orchestration practices. The course covers techniques currently used in film scoring as well as form basis for new experimental orchestral composition.

MUSIC127C

Band Arranging

Develop skills and techniques related to arranging for marching and concert bands; emphasizes instrumentation, transposition, and voicing.

MUSIC128

Stanford Laptop Orchestra: Composition, Coding, and Performance

Classroom instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) which includes public performances. An ensemble of more than 20 humans, laptops, controllers, and special speaker arrays designed to provide each computer-mediated instrument with its s...

MUSIC129K

Advanced Keyboard Musicianship

Score-reading at the keyboard, for pianists. Students will learn to read and reduce as necessary, score examples from a variety of ensembles, including music for strings, choir, winds, and orchestra. Practice reading associated clefs and transpositio...

MUSIC12A

Introductory Piano Class

(A=level 1; B=level 2; C=level 3) Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. Class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and show up on the first day of class to receive a permission num...

MUSIC12AZ

Introductory Piano Class

This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...

MUSIC12B

Introductory Piano Class

This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...

MUSIC12BZ

Introductory Piano Class

This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...

MUSIC12C

Introductory Piano Class

This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, th...

MUSIC12CZ

Introductory Piano Class

This class is closed by design. To enroll, please sign up on the Axess waitlist and show up on the first day to receive a permission number for re-enrollment. Your place on the waitlist will be considered a reservation. If the waitlist is closed, the...

MUSIC130B

Elementary Instrumental Conducting

What do conductors do and how do they do it? In this course, students are introduced to the theory, technique, and practice of instrumental conducting. Students will develop the art of physical gesture by conducting an ensemble made up of class membe...

MUSIC130C

Elementary Choral Conducting

Techniques specific to the conducting of choral ensembles: warm-ups, breathing, balance, blend, choral tone, isolation principles, recitative conducting, preparation, and conducting of choral/orchestral works.

MUSIC131A

Musical Indeterminacy & Advanced Notation

Strategies for composing works that change from performance to performance and offer performers significant and sometimes spontaneous input into their musical form and content. Examination of canonic works and discussion of the defining boundaries of...

MUSIC132

Music Education: Then, Now, and Then Again

Explores the presence and impact of music across a variety of educational settings, with a focus on the historical function of music education, the current role of music education, and potential future models of music education.

MUSIC136

Intermediate Conducting: Music Since 1900

The art of reading and conducting scores from the Impressionist, late Romantic, and Modern periods to the present, with emphasis on orchestral and choral works that involve changing meters, advanced harmonic vocabulary, and modern instrumental and vo...

MUSIC13P

Media and Communication Before the Printing Press

Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...

MUSIC143F

Nineteenth-Century Pianism: History, Works, & Performance Practices

This seminar narrows the divide between performance and musicology. With nineteenth-century pianism as an extended case study, this course will explore representative and less common composers, works, and performers. Subtopics will include historical...

MUSIC143J

Studies in Music of the Classical Period: Haydn and Mozart: Music in the Age of Enlightenment

Music and Musicians in the Age of EnlightenmentPrerequisites: MUSIC 22, MUSIC 41. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

MUSIC144N

Reading Recorded Performances: From Data to Interpretation

How might one study and interpret recorded performances as 'texts'? We will explore the intersections of performance and musicology through guided weekly writing assignments, considering 'data' about recorded performances as heard and physically felt...

MUSIC146N

Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts

This course will explore the links between aspects of South-East Asian cultures and their influence on modern and contemporary Western art and literature, particularly in France; examples of this influence include Claude Debussy (Gamelan music), Jacq...

MUSIC14N

Women Making Music

Preference to freshmen. Women's musical activities across times and cultures; how ideas about gender influence the creation, performance, and perception of music.

MUSIC150U

The Arts and Social Justice

A survey of how art addressed and addresses issues of social justice across history and cultures

MUSIC151B

Red Vest Band

A small ensemble of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band open to members of the LSJUMB by audition and consent of instructor. Members perform at multiple Stanford Athletics events, multiple community events, and travel to some away and...

MUSIC151BZ

Red-Vest Band

A small ensemble of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band open to members of the LSJUMB by audition and consent of instructor. Members perform at multiple Stanford Athletics events, multiple community events, and travel to some away and...

MUSIC153A

Network Performance Practice

JackTrip software, developed at Stanford, provides the means for ultra-low-latency, uncompressed sound transmission for live music-making. Remote ensemble rehearsals, coaching, music lessons, jamming and concert broadcasting make use of the technolog...

MUSIC153AZ

Network Music Performance

The Soundwire Ensemble invites student instrumental and vocal performers for online music-making. Musical projects will include improvisational and composed pieces from the group and be presented in a final online concert with online audience. The en...

MUSIC153C

Fly Folk in the Buttermilk: A Black Music and Culture Writing Workshop

This course in honor of the late, great music journalist and thinker, Greg Tate, is designed to introduce popular music writing as a genre to students from all academic backgrounds. From cultural criticism, liner notes, music journalism, and DJ schol...

MUSIC153D

Ensemble Sonification of Temporal Data

An ensemble course with research components for making data-driven music. Improvised and composed pieces make use of large, time-based data sets chronicling humans' digital-life and real-life experiences, and explore how temporal data can be transfor...

MUSIC153DZ

Ensemble Sonification of Temporal Data

An ensemble course with research components for making data-driven music. Improvised and composed pieces make use of large, time-based data sets chronicling humans' digital-life and real-life experiences, and explore how temporal data can be transfor...

MUSIC154A

Sound Art I

Acoustic, digital and analog approaches to sound art. Familiarization with techniques of listening, recording, digital processing and production. Required listening and readings in the history and contemporary practice of sound art. (lower level)

MUSIC154G

Electronic Music Composition

Electronic music composition introduces techniques for electronic music composition. These will be based on the history of electroacoustic music and both theory and analysis will be explored. A critical approach to the historical and contemporary dev...

MUSIC155

Intermedia Workshop

Students develop and produce intermedia works. Musical and visual approaches to the conceptualisation and shaping of time-based art. Exploration of sound and image relationship. Study of a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices including experimen...

MUSIC155A

Piano Literature

An exploration of the repertoire for piano and keyboards, providing experience with and context for this literature while engaging practical, technical and analytical features of the works. Each quarter will cover focused areas defined by time, plac...

MUSIC155AZ

Piano Literature

An exploration of the repertoire for piano and keyboards, providing experience with and context for this literature while engaging practical, technical and analytical features of the works. Each quarter will cover focused areas defined by time, plac...

MUSIC156

"sic": Improvisation Collective

Small ensemble devoted to learning trans-idiomatic improvisation techniques and composing indeterminate pieces in a workshop setting. One major concert. Prerequisite: access to an instrument. Improvisational experience and conventional instrumental v...

MUSIC156Z

"sic": Improvisation Collective

Small ensemble devoted to learning trans-idiomatic improvisation techniques and composing indeterminate pieces in a workshop setting. One major concert. Prerequisite: access to an instrument. Improvisational experience and conventional instrumental v...

MUSIC157

Cardinal Calypso--Steelpan Ensemble

This course introduces students to steelpan as an instrument and as a culture. Over the course of the year students will gain fundamental knowledge of the pitched percussion instrument, background knowledge of the culture of Trinidad and Tobago that...

MUSIC157Z

Cardinal Calypso -- Steelpan Ensemble

This course introduces students to steelpan as an instrument and as a culture. Over the course of the year students will gain fundamental knowledge of the pitched percussion instrument, background knowledge of the culture of Trinidad and Tobago that...

MUSIC158

Musical Acoustics

The physics and acoustics of music and musical instruments. The basics of sound propagation, reflection, and resonance and how this is perceived as musical sound. The specific acoustical phenomena of wind, string, and percussion instruments as well a...

MUSIC159

Early Music Singers

Small choir specializing in Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque vocal music. One major concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit for a total of 15 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http:...

MUSIC159Z

Early Music Singers

Small choir specializing in Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque vocal music. One major concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit for a total of 15 times for 0 unit. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See webs...

MUSIC160

Stanford Symphony Orchestra

Large symphony orchestra (ca. 100 members) that rehearses two evenings per week (M/Th) and performs repertoire primarily from the Classical Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 2-3 performances each quarter i...

MUSIC160A

Stanford Philharmonia

Chamber orchestra (ca. 45 members) that rehearses one evening per week (Tu) and performs repertoire primarily from the Baroque Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 1-2 performances each quarter in Bing Concer...

MUSIC160AZ

Stanford Philharmonia

Chamber orchestra (ca. 45 members) that rehearses one evening per week (Tu) and performs repertoire primarily from the Baroque Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 1-2 performances each quarter in Bing Concer...

MUSIC160B

Stanford New Ensemble

Performing compositions of the 20th century, recent works of this century, and new works by Stanford faculty and student composers. Musicians collaborate with composers and artists visiting and performing at Stanford. One concert per quarter. Admissi...

MUSIC160BZ

Stanford New Ensemble

Performing compositions of the 20th century, recent works of this century, and new works by Stanford faculty and student composers. Musicians collaborate with composers and artists visiting and performing at Stanford. One concert per quarter. Admissi...

MUSIC160C

Stanford Baroque Soloists

Elite string group focusing on chamber music of the Baroque era, c. 1600-1750. Concerti, overtures, suites, solo & trio sonatas for your instrument, quartet music from the pre-history of the string quartet. Each member expected to solo as well as pla...

MUSIC160CZ

Stanford Baroque Soloists

Elite string group focusing on chamber music of the Baroque era, c. 1600-1750. Solo & trio sonatas for your instrument, quartet music from the pre-history of the string quartet. Coaching will emphasize leadership and ensemble techniques, intonation a...

MUSIC160S

Stanford Summer Symphony

See website for details: https://music.stanford.edu/academic-programs/summer-studies-stanford-music/summer-session-ensembles-chorus-and-symphony. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.ed...

MUSIC160SZ

Stanford Summer Symphony

See website for details: https://music.stanford.edu/academic-programs/summer-studies-stanford-music/summer-session-ensembles-chorus-and-symphony. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.ed...

MUSIC160Z

Stanford Symphony Orchestra

Large symphony orchestra (ca. 100 members) that rehearses two evenings per week (M/Th) and performs repertoire primarily from the Classical Period to the present. Usually prepares 1-2 programs per quarter, and presents 2-3 performances each quarter i...

MUSIC161A

Stanford Wind Symphony

40- to 50-member ensemble performing transcriptions of symphonic music, brass band music, and repertoire composed specifically for symphonic band. One concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option a...

MUSIC161AZ

Stanford Wind Symphony

40- to 50-member ensemble performing transcriptions of symphonic music, brass band music, and repertoire composed specifically for symphonic band. One concert per quarter. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website...

MUSIC161B

Jazz Orchestra

Jazz Orchestra is an undergraduate large ensemble performance class. Admission is by audition and/or permission of instructor. The class meets three times per week and presents a minimum of one formal concert per quarter with a major jazz artist. The...

MUSIC161BZ

Jazz Orchestra

Jazz Orchestra is an undergraduate large ensemble performance class. Admission is by audition and/or permission of instructor. The class meets three times per week and presents a minimum of one formal concert per quarter with a major jazz artist. The...

MUSIC161D

Stanford Brass Ensemble

Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. Performance of works for full brass choir and for smaller ensembles of brass instruments. Once weekly rehearsals. May...

MUSIC161DZ

Stanford Brass Ensemble

Performance of works for full brass choir and for smaller ensembles of brass instruments. Once weekly rehearsals. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: audition and consent of instructor. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor perm...

MUSIC161E

Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Ensemble dedicated to the performance, interpretation and study of Afro-Latin music and its fusion with North American jazz. Repertoire includes the music of Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru and Argentina, as well as the United Sta...

MUSIC161EZ

Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Ensemble dedicated to the performance, interpretation and study of Afro-Latin music and its fusion with North American jazz. Repertoire includes the music of Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru and Argentina, as well as the United Sta...

MUSIC161F

Ottoman Music ensemble

Stanford's Ottoman Music Ensemble introduces select music played in the present day that hearkens back to musical practices from diverse communities of Ottoman Constantinople or Istanbul. Much of this music has now fallen under the guise of Turkish a...

MUSIC161FZ

Ottoman Music Ensemble

Stanford's Ottoman Music Ensemble introduces select music played in the present day that hearkens back to musical practices from diverse communities of Ottoman Constantinople or Istanbul. Much of this music has now fallen under the guise of Turkish a...

MUSIC162

Symphonic Chorus

180- to 200-voice choral ensemble, performing major choral masterworks with orchestra. One concert per quarter. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://mus...

MUSIC162Z

Symphonic Chorus

180- to 200-voice choral ensemble, performing major choral masterworks with orchestra. One concert per quarter. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. By e...

MUSIC163

Memorial Church Choir

Official choir of Memorial Church, furnishing music for Sunday services and special occasions in the church calendar. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http...

MUSIC163Z

Memorial Church Choir

Official choir of Memorial Church, furnishing music for Sunday services and special occasions in the church calendar. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure....

MUSIC165

Chamber Chorale

Select 24-voice choral ensemble, specializing in virtuoso choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Annual touring commitment required. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instruct...

MUSIC165Z

Chamber Chorale

Select 24-voice choral ensemble, specializing in virtuoso choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Annual touring commitment required. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanfo...

MUSIC167

University Singers

Select, 50-voice choral ensemble, performing choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanfor...

MUSIC167S

Summer Chorus

150-voice non-auditioned ensemble performing major choral masterworks and choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Concert: August 6, 2022 in Bing Concert Hall. Details at: https://music.stanford.edu/choral-ensembles-2021%E2%80%932022...

MUSIC167SZ

Summer Chorus

80- to 100-voice non-auditioned ensemble, performing major choral masterworks and choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. For details see: https://music.stanford.edu/academic-programs/summer-studies-stanford-music/summer-session-ense...

MUSIC167Z

University Singers

Select, 50-voice choral ensemble, performing choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. By enrolling in...

MUSIC169

Stanford Taiko

Select 15- to 18-member North American taiko ensemble, performing all-original repertoire for Japanese drums. Multiple performances in Winter and Spring quarters, also touring; instrument construction and maintenance. Admission by audition in Autumn...

MUSIC169Z

Stanford Taiko

Select 15- to 18-member North American taiko ensemble, performing all-original repertoire for Japanese drums. Multiple performances in Winter and Spring quarters, also touring; instrument construction and maintenance. Admission by audition in Autumn...

MUSIC16N

Behind "Swingposium:" Activism in Performing Arts

Swingposium (https://taiko.org/swingposium) is an immersive theater production, being presented by San Jose Taiko at Stanford in November. It tells the hidden history of Japanese Americans boosting morale in WWII Incarceration Camps through swing da...

MUSIC170

Collaborative Piano

Performance class in a workshop setting, exploring the art of collaboration with other musicians. Practical techniques will be addressed in highly varied repertoire. Admission is by audition only. Private-lesson proficiency level in piano is a prere...

MUSIC171

Chamber Music

Admission based on audition. Placements according to availability. 3 hr/weekly time commitment minimum. (Two hours of in-person or remote ensemble rehearsal plus one-hour remote coaching from Music department faculty.) Classical string quartets an...

MUSIC171Z

Chamber Music

Admission based on audition. Placements according to availability. 3 hr/weekly time commitment minimum. (Two hours of in-person or remote ensemble rehearsal plus one-hour remote coaching from Music department faculty.) Classical string quartets an...

MUSIC172A

Piano

Private lessons and group master class weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and auditi...

MUSIC172B

Organ

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC172C

Harpsichord

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC172D

Jazz Piano

Admission is by audition and/or invitation only; priority to majors and jazz-ensemble participants. All participants must enroll. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and...

MUSIC172E

Fortepiano

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. edit Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enro...

MUSIC172F

Carillon

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC172G

Gu-Zheng

Private lessons weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All par...

MUSIC173

Voice

Weekly private voice lessons and group master classes. Enrollment is limited to students chosen by auditions held at the beginning of Autumn Quarter or by permission of the instructor, with the expectation that the student will enroll for the entire...

MUSIC174A

Violin

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174B

Viola

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174C

Violoncello

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174D

Contrabass

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174E

Viola Da Gamba

Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with instru...

MUSIC174F

Classical Guitar

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174G

Harp

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174H

Baroque Violin

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174I

Jazz Bass

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC174J

Jazz & Contemporary Guitar

An application of the performance techniques developed by the innovative, genius, and radical guitarists from 1930 to 2020. Improvising, comping, reading, repertoire, and technique will be studied in depth. Rhythm styles, the application of modern th...

MUSIC175A

Flute

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC175B

Oboe

May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....

MUSIC175C

Clarinet

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC175D

Bassoon

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC175E

Recorder/Early Winds

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC175F

Saxophone

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC175G

Baroque Flute

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC175H

Jazz Saxophone

May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC176A

French Horn

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC176B

Trumpet

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC176C

Trombone

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC176D

Tuba

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC176E

Jazz Trumpet

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....

MUSIC177

Percussion

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC177A

Drum Set Lessons

These lessons will be geared toward the individual student's desires and needs. All levels are welcome, but students should contact instructor to set up initial meeting, prior to enrolling in the course. Students will explore drumset technique, coord...

MUSIC179Z

Applied Music Private Lessons

Students enroll in appropriate instructor section for private instrumental/vocal lessons using this zero unit enrollment option. Available only with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure. Admission i...

MUSIC17AX

Key-Notes: A Piano Exploration

The objective of the course is to teach piano, improve music reading skills and music theory knowledge. The course is designed for a multi-level class room, so complete beginners and intermediate pianists can learn in this self-paced course. There wi...

MUSIC17P

Keyboard Explorations

This course is designed for students who want to further their skills in music, whether experienced on the piano or not. The class will be divided into groups according to experience level. Whatever the level of their previous experience, students wi...

MUSIC181

Jazz Combos

Admission based on audition. These small jazz ensembles meet weekly and typically include coaching, one masterclass and one performance per quarter. May be repeated for credit. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with...

MUSIC181Z

Jazz Combos

Admission based on audition. These small jazz ensembles meet weekly and typically include coaching, one masterclass and one performance per quarter. May be repeated for credit. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with...

MUSIC182

Diction for Singers

The international phonetic alphabet and its application to German, French, and Italian vocal literature. Open also to pianists interested in vocal coaching and choral conducting.

MUSIC183A

German Art Song Interpretation

By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf and Strauss. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximu...

MUSIC183AZ

German Art Song Interpretation

By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf and Strauss. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximu...

MUSIC183B

French Art Song Interpretation

By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximum)....

MUSIC183BZ

French Art Song Interpretation

By audition only. For advanced singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a workshop setting. Composers include Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. May be repeated for credit a total of 2 times. Enrollment limit: 20 (ten singers maximum)....

MUSIC183C

Interpretation of Musical Theater Repertoire

By audition only: Contact instructor prior to enrolling (mlcats@stanford.edu). Ability to read music expected, but students with experience singing in musical theater can be accepted. For singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a works...

MUSIC183CZ

Interpretation of Musical Theater Repertoire

By audition only: Contact instructor prior to enrolling (mlcats@stanford.edu). Ability to read music expected, but students with experience singing in musical theater can be accepted. For singers and pianists as partners. Performance class in a works...

MUSIC183E

Singing for Musicals

Do you love singing in musicals? Do you know how to sing in musicals? This course provides training in vocal technique and acting for students interested in performing musical theater. Students will learn about the physical process of singing, incl...

MUSIC183F

Songs of Love and Longing

This course will take us on a journey from the Balkans to South Asia as we explore the nexus of poetry and song practiced by bards across a vast geographic and cultural space. Specifically, we will survey the Persianate genre of ghazal lyric, the sto...

MUSIC184A

Editing and Performing Early Music

This course is a practical workshop in early music vocal repertoire. The main focus of this course is to use original source material to explore editorial practice. Having prepared the score, students learn to perform the piece from an historically i...

MUSIC184AZ

Editing and Performing Early Music

This course is a practical workshop in early music vocal repertoire. The main focus of this course is to use original source material to explore editorial practice. Having prepared the score, students learn to perform the piece from an historically i...

MUSIC184B

Topics on the Musical Stage

This course is a practical workshop in vocal repertoire for the stage. Each quarter's offering emphasizes a specific genre or period, therefore the course can be repeated with permission of the instructor. In addition to broadening the student's know...

MUSIC184BZ

Topics on the Musical Stage

This course is a practical workshop in vocal repertoire for the stage. Each quarter's offering emphasizes a specific genre or period, therefore the course can be repeated with permission of the instructor. In addition to broadening the student's know...

MUSIC184C

Dramatic Vocal Arts: Songs and Scenes Onstage

Studies in stagecraft, acting and performance for singers, culminating in a public performance. Repertoire to be drawn from the art song, opera, American Songbook and musical theater genres. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated for credit a t...

MUSIC184CZ

Dramatic Vocal Arts: Songs and Scenes Onstage

Studies in stagecraft, acting and performance for singers, culminating in a public performance. Repertoire to be drawn from the art song, opera, American Songbook and musical theater genres. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated for credit a t...

MUSIC184E

Musical Theater Dance Styles

Students will be able to demonstrate period specificity, character of style through learning different musical theater dances from the early 20th C.to the present. ALL students will participate in an end of quarter showing of the choreography develop...

MUSIC184F

Introduction to Theater Sound Design

This course explores the history and aesthetics,of theatre sound design, and provides the basic technical knowledge to create your own work. Learn how to analyze a script for sound design elements, gain practical knowledge of microphones and loudspe...

MUSIC18A

Jazz History: Bebop to Present, 1940-Present

Modern jazz styles from Bebop to the current scene. Emphasis is on the significant artists of each style.

MUSIC18AX

Audiovisual Performance

The unification of music and visual arts has been attempted throughout history, opera being one example. In the 20th Century, sounds and moving images have been syncretized in various art forms, such as film or video art, as well as in popular cultur...

MUSIC18B

Jazz History: Bebop to Present, 1940-Present

Modern jazz styles from Bebop to the current scene. Emphasis is on the significant artists of each style.

MUSIC18N

Musical Dishonesty: Fakes, Forgeries, Counterfeits, Hoaxes, Deceptions, Illusions, and Artifice

Dishonesty is everywhere. Is anything still honest? To answer we examine the myriad types of musical dishonesty, some harmless and fanciful, others deliberate and pernicious: artfully misleading deceptive cadences and fake endings; evident frauds (th...

MUSIC192A

Foundations of Sound-Recording Technology

This course serves as an introduction to the recording facilities and technology at CCRMA. Through lectures and assignments students learn and practice various studio recording techniques. They also become familiarized with home and field recording p...

MUSIC192B

Advanced Sound Recording Technology

This course aims to heighten the listening skills of students. In a series of group sessions and discussions students compare and contrast a variety of dynamic based processes and other audio effects/plug-ins which might be used in their mixes. Stude...

MUSIC192C

Session Recording

Independent engineering of recording sessions combined with instruction in the use and maintenance of other CCRMA audio/studio facilities and equipment that is required for the realization of studio informed artistic projects. Students will explore h...

MUSIC197

Undergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship

Work in an apprentice-like relationship with faculty teaching a student-initiated course. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)

MUSIC198

Concentrations Project

For concentration program participants only. Must be taken in senior year. Multiple concentrators may enroll in one section of 198 per concentration.

MUSIC199

Independent Study

For advanced undergraduates and graduate students who wish to do work outside the regular curriculum. Before registering, student must present specific project and enlist a faculty sponsor. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.

MUSIC19A

Introduction to Music Theory

For non-music majors and Music majors or minors unable to pass the proficiency test for entry to MUSIC 21. The fundamentals of music theory and notation, basic sight reading, sight singing, ear training, keyboard harmony; melodic, rhythmic, and harmo...

MUSIC19B

Intermediate Music Theory

This course is an introduction to music theory geared toward students who have basic literacy skills (i.e. fundamental notation, identifying major and minor scales, keys, etc). Using musical materials from repertoire selected from campus and area con...

MUSIC1A

Music, Mind, and Human Behavior

An introductory exploration of how and why music is a pervasive and fundamental aspect of human existence across cultures. The class will introduce aspects of music perception and cognition as well as anthropological and cultural considerations.

MUSIC1SI

Introduction to Indian Classical Music

This is an introductory course in the classical music of India, with emphasis on learning to listen to and appreciate Indian classical music concerts. It will cover a broad overview of the two main genres of Indian classical music - Carnatic and Hind...

MUSIC200A

Proseminar in Musicology and Music Bibliography

Introduction to research in music, bibliographical materials, major issues in the field, philosophy, and methods in music history. Guest lecturers and individual research topics.

MUSIC200B

Proseminar in Ethnomusicology

A graduate-level introduction to the field of ethnomusicology. Issues and debates are traced through the history of the discipline, with emphasis on influences from anthropology, performance studies, linguistics, and cultural studies. Topics include...

MUSIC201

CCRMA Colloquium

Weekly review of work being done in the field, research taking place at CCRMA, and tools to make the most of the CCRMA technical facilities.

MUSIC205

Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension

Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...

MUSIC20A

Jazz Theory

Introduces the language and sounds of jazz through listening, analysis, and compositional exercises. Students apply the fundamentals of music theory to the study of jazz. Prerequisite: Music 19, consent of instructor, or satisfactory demonstration of...

MUSIC20B

Advanced Jazz Theory

Approaches to improvisation and composed jazz lines through listening, transcribing, analysis, and compositional exercises. Topics include: chord/scale theory, melodic minor harmony, altered chords, and substitute harmony. Prerequisite: 20A or consen...

MUSIC20C

Jazz Arranging and Composition

Jazz arranging and composition for small ensembles. Foundation for writing for big band. Prerequisite: 20A or consent of instructor.

MUSIC21

Introduction to Tonal Theory

Preference to majors. Introduction to tonal theory. Practice and analysis. Diatonic harmony focusing on melodic and harmonic organization, functional relationships, voice-leading, and tonal structures. Students must concurrently enroll in an Ear-trai...

MUSIC22

Intermediate Tonal Theory

Preference to majors. Introduction to chromatic harmony focusing on secondary functions, modulations, and harmonic sequences. Analysis of musical forms and harmonizations complemented by harmonic and melodic dictation, sight-singing, and other pract...

MUSIC220A

Fundamentals of Computer-Generated Sound

What are the basic tools that computer music researchers and artists use to create sound? This course will include a summary of digital synthesis techniques (additive, subtractive, wavetable, frequency modulation and physical-modeling), signal proces...

MUSIC220B

Compositional Algorithms, Psychoacoustics, and Computational Music

The use of high-level programming language as a compositional aid in creating musical structures. Advanced study of sound synthesis techniques. Simulation of a reverberant space and control of the position of sound within the space. To satisfy a Ways...

MUSIC220C

Research Seminar in Computer-Generated Music

Individual projects in composition, psychoacoustics, or signal processing. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 220B.

MUSIC220D

Research in Computer-Generated Music

Independent research projects in composition, psychoacoustics, or signal processing. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 220C.

MUSIC222

Sound in Space

Historical background, techniques and theory on the use of space in music composition and diffusion. Listening and analysis of relevant pieces. Experimental work in spatialization techniques leading to short studies to be diffused in concert at the e...

MUSIC223Q

Queer Electronic Music Composition

Queer Electronic Music Composition is a creative course structured around the historical and theoretical contributions of composers from the LBGQT+ community with an emphasis on computer-based electronic music. Through a series of reading, listening,...

MUSIC23

Advanced Tonal Theory

Preference to majors. Continuation of chromatic harmony such as mode mixture, Neapolitan, augmented sixth chords, enharmonic modulation, complex forms of the late Romantic and early Modern period, and the transition to post-tonal theory (church modes...

MUSIC230

Advanced Orchestral Conducting

Advanced study of orchestral conducting through individual weekly meetings with the instructor. Develop skills in score reading and analysis, baton technique and the physical art of conducting, performance practice, and rehearsal technique. Expand kn...

MUSIC231

Advanced Choral Conducting

Individual instruction continuing trajectory of Music 130C. Focus on gestural technique and analysis of works by genre and historical period. May be repeated for credit a total of 8 times. Prerequisite: 130C.

MUSIC236

Future Media, Media Archaeologies

Hand-on. Media technologies from origins to the recent past. Students create artworks based on Victorian era discoveries and inventions, early developments in electronic media, and orphaned technologies. Research, rediscover, invent, and create devic...

MUSIC243F

Nineteenth-Century Pianism: History, Works, & Performance Practices

This seminar narrows the divide between performance and musicology. With nineteenth-century pianism as an extended case study, this course will explore representative and less common composers, works, and performers. Subtopics will include historical...

MUSIC243J

Studies in Music of the Classical Period: Haydn and Mozart: Music in the Age of Enlightenment

Music and Musicians in the Age of EnlightenmentPrerequisites: MUSIC 22, MUSIC 41. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)

MUSIC244N

Reading Recorded Performances: From Data to Interpretation

How might one study and interpret recorded performances as 'texts'? We will explore the intersections of performance and musicology through guided weekly writing assignments, considering 'data' about recorded performances as heard and physically felt...

MUSIC246N

Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts

This course will explore the links between aspects of South-East Asian cultures and their influence on modern and contemporary Western art and literature, particularly in France; examples of this influence include Claude Debussy (Gamelan music), Jacq...

MUSIC24A

Ear Training I

Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.

MUSIC24B

Ear Training II

Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.

MUSIC24C

Ear Training III

Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.

MUSIC24Z

Ear Training

Class is closed by design. Please contact instructor Erika Arul (mailto:earul@stanford.edu) for permission to enroll. Preference to Music majors and minors.

MUSIC25

Decoding Anime

Anime as an artistic form often boasts highly imaginative graphics, striking music, vibrant characters, and fantastical stories. The course aims at decoding the expressive power of anime by applying a method of multimedia analysis that focuses on the...

MUSIC250A

Physical Interaction Design for Music

This lab and project-based course explores how we can physically interact with real-time electronic sound. Students learn to use and design sensors, circuits, embedded computers, communication protocols and sound synthesis. Advanced topics include re...

MUSIC250C

Interaction - Intermedia - Immersion

This course explores creative and technical approaches to the design of digital musical instruments (DMIs) and other systems for interactive performance, composition and/or installations in audio, audiovisual, and other intermedia practice. Various p...

MUSIC250D

The Arts and Social Justice

A survey of how art addressed and addresses issues of social justice across history and cultures

MUSIC251

Psychophysics and Music Cognition

Lecture, lab and experiment-based course in perception, psychoacoustics, cognition, and neuroscience of music. (WIM at 4 or 5 units only.)

MUSIC253

Symbolic Musical Information

Properties of symbolic data for music applications including advanced notation systems, data durability, mark-up languages, optical music recognition, and data-translation tasks. Hands-on work involves these digital score formats: Guido Music Notati...

MUSIC254

Computational Music Analysis

Leveraging off three synchronized sets of symbolic data resources for notation and analysis, the lab portion introduces students to the open-source Humdrum Toolkit for music representation and analysis. Issues of data content and quality as well as...

MUSIC255

Intermedia Workshop

Students develop and produce intermedia works. Musical and visual approaches to the conceptualisation and shaping of time-based art. Exploration of sound and image relationship. Study of a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices including experimen...

MUSIC255A

Piano Literature

An exploration of the repertoire for piano and keyboards, providing experience with and context for this literature while engaging practical, technical and analytical features of the works. Each quarter will cover focused areas defined by time, plac...

MUSIC256A

Music, Computing, Design: The Art of Design

This course explores the artful design of software tools, toys, games,instruments, and experiences. Topics include programming, audiovisualdesign, strategies for crafting interactive systems, game design, aswell as aesthetic and social considerations...

MUSIC257

Neuroplasticity and Musical Gaming

What changes in a musician's brain after hours and years of daily practice? How do skills that make a great violinist transfer to other abilities? Can directed neuroplasticity be used to target skill learning? This course will include fundamentals of...

MUSIC258D

Musical Acoustics

The physics and acoustics of music and musical instruments. The basics of sound propagation, reflection, and resonance and how this is perceived as musical sound. The specific acoustical phenomena of wind, string, and percussion instruments as well a...

MUSIC264

Musical Engagement

A cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research seminar focused on methods to study, evaluate and analyze how humans engage with music both as listeners and as performers.

MUSIC269

Research in Performance Practices

Directed reading and research. May be repeated for credit a total of 5 times.

MUSIC26N

Japanese Arts: a Creative Exploration

The striking originality of Japanese contemporary culture seems to defy unifying pressures of globalization. What are the sources of this originality? Can it be traced to the unique and sophisticated art forms like rock gardens, haiku, tea ceremony,...

MUSIC272A

Advanced Piano

Private lessons and group masterclass weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and auditio...

MUSIC272B

Advanced Organ

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC272C

Advanced Harpsichord

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC272D

Advanced Jazz Piano

Admission is by audition and/or invitation only; priority to majors and jazz-ensemble participants. All participants must enroll. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and...

MUSIC272E

Advanced Fortepiano

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC272F

Advanced Carillon

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC272G

Advanced Gu-Zheng

Private lesson weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All part...

MUSIC273

Advanced Voice

Weekly private voice lessons and group master classes. Enrollment is limited to students chosen by auditions held at the beginning of Autumn Quarter or by permission of the instructor, with the expectation that the student will enroll for the entire...

MUSIC274A

Advanced Violin

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC274B

Advanced Viola

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC274C

Advanced Violoncello

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....

MUSIC274D

Advanced Contrabass

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC274E

Advanced Viola da Gamba

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.htmlfor class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Ze...

MUSIC274F

Advanced Classical Guitar

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....

MUSIC274G

Advanced Harp

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC274H

Advanced Baroque Violin

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....

MUSIC274I

Advanced Jazz Bass

Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option available with instru...

MUSIC274J

Advanced Jazz & Contemporary Guitar

An application of the performance techniques developed by the innovative, genius, and radical guitarists from 1930 to 2020. Improvising, comping, reading, repertoire, and technique will be studied in depth. Rhythm styles, the application of modern th...

MUSIC275A

Advanced Flute

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....

MUSIC275B

Advanced Oboe

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC275C

Advanced Clarinet

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC275D

Advanced Bassoon

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC275E

Advanced Recorder/Early Winds

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. http://music.stanford.edu/Acade...

MUSIC275F

Advanced Saxophone

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. http://music.stanford.edu/Acade...

MUSIC275G

Advanced Baroque Flute

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC275H

Advanced Jazz Saxophone

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC276A

Advanced French Horn

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC276B

Advanced Trumpet

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC276C

Advanced Trombone

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC276D

Advanced Tuba

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC276E

Advanced Jazz Trumpet

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Z...

MUSIC277

Advanced Percussion

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll....

MUSIC277A

Advanced Drum Set

May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information. All participants must enroll. Zero unit enrollment option avai...

MUSIC280

TA Training Course

Required for doctoral students serving as teaching assistants. Orientation to resources at Stanford, guest presentations on the principles of common teaching activities, supervised teaching experience. Students who entered in the Autumn should take 2...

MUSIC283F

Songs of Love and Longing

This course will take us on a journey from the Balkans to South Asia as we explore the nexus of poetry and song practiced by bards across a vast geographic and cultural space. Specifically, we will survey the Persianate genre of ghazal lyric, the sto...

MUSIC285

Intermedia Lab

The Intermedia Lab is a space to develop projects bridging sound with other media through technology. Projects may involve instrument design, physical computing, audiovisual interaction, immersive audio engaging with acoustic environments, and/or oth...

MUSIC298

MA/MST Capstone Project

The MA/MST capstone is intended to gather and focus skills acquired throughout the program toward an exploratory project aimed at bridging between the student¿s residency and whatever will follow beyond the MA. Mentorship can include your advisor aug...

MUSIC299

Independent Study

For advanced undergraduates and graduate students who wish to do work outside the regular curriculum. Before registering, student must present specific project and enlist a faculty sponsor. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.

MUSIC2C

An Introduction to Opera

The lasting appeal of opera as a lavishly hybrid genre from the 1600s to the present. How and why does opera set its stories to music? What is operatic singing? Who is the audience? How do words, music, voices, movement, and staging collaborate in di...

MUSIC300A

Medieval Notation

Western notation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: principles, purposes, and transcription.

MUSIC300B

Renaissance Notation

Western notation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: principles, purposes, and transcription.

MUSIC300D

Music Ethnography

This graduate seminar serves as an introduction to the methodologies and theoretical approaches for the ethnography of sound and musical practices. While we center on research problems, ethics, and methods in the field of ethnomusicology, ethnographi...

MUSIC300E

Analysis and Repertoire: Medieval and Renaissance

Analytical approaches to genres, styles, forms, and techniques of Western music from [chant and early polyphony through the sixteenth century]. Issues of aesthetics, history, and interpretation viewed through representative repertoire, readings, and...

MUSIC300F

Analysis and Repertoire: Baroque to Early Romantic

Analytical approaches to genres, styles, forms, and techniques of Western music from the seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Issues of aesthetics, history, and interpretation viewed through representative repertoire, readings, and analy...

MUSIC300G

Analysis and Repertoire: Late-Romantic to Contemporary

Analytical approaches to genres, styles, materials and techniques of Western music from the mid-nineteenth century through the present. Questions of aesthetics, history and performance explored through musical analysis. Representative repertoire and...

MUSIC300H

Aesthetics and Criticism of Music, Ancients and Moderns: Plato to Nietzsche

For graduate students. Primary texts focusing on the nature, purposes, and uses of music and other arts.

MUSIC300I

Aesthetics and Criticism of Music, Contemporaries: Heidegger to Today

For graduate students. Primary texts focusing on the nature, purposes, and uses of music and other arts.

MUSIC300J

Methods for Studying Gender and Sexuality in Music

Introduction to graduate-level study of gender and sexuality in music; includes feminist and queer critiques of musical canons, historiography, biography, and genius; feminist, queer, and trans perspectives on musical performance, performers, subcult...

MUSIC302

Research in Musicology

Directed reading and research. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.

MUSIC303

The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature

This course will introduce students to the field of Sound Studies (methodology, vocabulary, main claims) with a focus on the various sonic articulations of human-machine interactions in literature. The world of fiction as a sonic machine that articul...

MUSIC305D

Analysis from a Compositional Perspective

Introduction to analysis, examining diverse examples in part chosen from, otherwise supplementing and illuminating, the graduate composers' qualifying exam list; consideration of aesthetic premises and motivations, and of implications for contemporar...

MUSIC310

Research Seminar in Musicology

For graduate students. Topics vary each quarter. May be repeated for credit a total of 8 times.

MUSIC319

Research Seminar on Computational Models of Sound Perception

All aspects of auditory perception, often with emphasis on computational models. Topics: music perception, signal processing, auditory models, pitch perception, speech, binaural hearing, auditory scene analysis, basic psychoacoustics, and neurophysio...

MUSIC320

Introduction to Audio Signal Processing

A first-course in signal processing with applications in computer music and audio for students comfortable with high-school algebra, calculus, complex variables, and beginning linear algebra. The lectures cover fundamentals of audio signal processing...

MUSIC320C

Audio DSP Projects in Faust and C++

Course focuses on developing an audio signal-processing plugin or stand-alone application in C++. Prior experience is assumed with programming in Matlab/Octave and C/C++, and signal processing theory on the level of Music 320. Class time is devote...

MUSIC320D

Tutorial on Audio Signal Processing for Musicians

A tutorial section aimed at students who would like a review of prerequisite material for the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) audio signal processing (ASP) series of classes. The tutorial can be taken prior to or concurren...

MUSIC321

Readings in Music Theory

Directed reading and research. May be repeated for credit a total of 15 times.

MUSIC322

Music/Audio Signal Processing Research Overviews

Introduction to music/audio signal-processing research. Research papers and presentations are discussed in weekly meetings. Students active in related research are invited to present overviews. Emphasis is on currently active topics and their fundame...

MUSIC323

Doctoral Seminar in Composition

Illustrated discussions of compositional issues and techniques. Presentation of relevant topics, including students' own compositional practice. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times.

MUSIC324

Graduate Composition Forum

Community forum for all graduate student composers. Discussion of completed and in-progress work by students, faculty, and visiting composers. Repertoire listening sessions. Planning of upcoming Department events. Special area exam topic presenta...

MUSIC325

Individual Graduate Projects in Composition

May be repeated for credit.

MUSIC32N

Sculpting with Sounds, Images, and Words

Throughout history and from East to West, cultures abound in multimedia forms. Whether in Coldplay's Music Video or Fantasia, Pepsi TV adds or Wagner's opera, Miyazaki anime or traditional Noh Theater of Japan, the three modes of expression (sounds,...

MUSIC330

Musicology Dissertation Colloquium

Weekly meetings for all musicology students 4th year and beyond to discuss research and writing strategies, share and critique work in progress, and discuss issues in professional development (preparing abstracts, conference papers, C.V. and job inte...

MUSIC332

Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar

This course serves as the Core Seminar for the PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. It introduces students to a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy with literary and arts criticism. The seminar is intended for graduat...

MUSIC33N

Beethoven

This seminar is designed as an in-depth introduction to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. In addition to exploring the composer's principal works in a variety of genres (symphonies, piano sonatas, string quartets, opera, etc.), we will consider broa...

MUSIC341

Ph.D Dissertation

May be repeated for credit a total of 5 times.

MUSIC34N

Performing America: The Broadway Musical

Musical theater as a site for the construction of American identity in the twentieth century to the present. Issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality; intersections with jazz, rock, and pop; roles of lyricist, composer, director, choreographer, p...

MUSIC351A

Seminar in Music Perception and Cognition I

A seminar on topics in music perception and cognition. Students will study and discuss recent research as well as design and implement experiments.

MUSIC356

Music and AI

How do we make music with artificial intelligence? What does it mean to do so (and is it even a good idea)? How might we design systems that balance machine automation and human interaction? More broadly, how do we want to live with our technologies?...

MUSIC35N

Black Music Revealed: Black composers, performers, and themes from the 18th century to the present

Online seminar on the achievements of Black composers and performers in ragtime, jazz, and classical music, from Chevalier de Saint-Georges, whose music influenced Mozart, and George Bridgetower, for whom Beethoven composed his "Kreutzer" Sonata, to...

MUSIC36H

Dangerous Ideas

Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d...

MUSIC390

Practicum Internship

On-the-job training under the guidance of experienced, on-site supervisors. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Students submit a concise report detailing work activities, problems worked on, and key re...

MUSIC398

PhD Dissertation Proposal

Students have to identify a research advisor and enroll in this course with her/him to develop the dissertation proposal. By the end of this required course or its series (repeatable for three times), students are expected to have identified a) a spe...

MUSIC399

D.M.A. Final Project

May be repeated for credit a total of 5 times.

MUSIC39B

Music and Healing

To what extent can sound or music heal? This interdisciplinary course asks questions about music and healing around the world, drawing on the fields of medical ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, sound studies, and music therapy. Our case studies...

MUSIC40

Music History to 1600

Pre- or corequisite: 21.

MUSIC405

Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension

Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...

MUSIC41

Music History 1600-1830

Pre- or corequisite: 22.

MUSIC42

Music History Since 1830

Pre- or corequisite: 23.

MUSIC422

Perceptual Audio Coding

History and basic principles: development of psychoacoustics-based data-compression techniques; perceptual-audio-coder applications (radio, television, film, multimedia/internet audio, DVD, EMD). In-class demonstrations: state-of-the-art audio coder...

MUSIC423

Graduate Research in Music Technology

Research discussion, development, and presentation by graduate students, visiting scholars, and CCRMA faculty in the areas of music and/or audio technology. Permission of instructor required. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/423/ for latest info...

MUSIC451A

Basics in Auditory and Music Neuroscience

Understanding basic concepts and techniques in cognitive neuroscience using electroencephalography (EEG) specific to auditory perception and music cognition via seminar and laboratory exercise work. Acquiring and practicing skills in experimental des...

MUSIC451B

Neuroscience of Auditory Perception and Music Cognition II: Neural Oscillations

Building on 451A, this course will review basic knowledge and EEG techniques of neural oscillations related to auditory perception and music cognition via seminar and laboratory work. Through reviewing and replicating findings using classic and recen...

MUSIC451C

Auditory EEG Research III: Coordinated Actions and Hyperscanning

Advancing EEG research skills in cognitive neuroscience specific to music cognition by conducting a group research project. In particular, this course focuses on basics for 2-person EEG (hyperscanning) paradigms and explores how coordinated actions a...

MUSIC4SI

Taiko as performance, social justice, and a therapeutic modality

Taught by Stanford Taiko members. Techniques and history. No experience necessary. May be repeated for credit. This course was initiated by Mitchell Fukumoto and Stanford Taiko.

MUSIC50

Arts in Context: The Process of Cultural Production

A combination of practical skill-building and discussions with practicing arts professionals, this course will provide students with the foundational skills necessary to produce programs on campus and/or work in the arts. The talks and workshops will...

MUSIC60

How We Sing: The Voice, How It Functions, and the Singer's Mind

A weekly lecture course for singers, pianists, directors, conductors, and anyone who is interested in the art and craft of the voice. The voice is an instrument whose sounds are determined by its structure and the choices the singer makes. Students w...

MUSIC65A

Beginning Voice Class

Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice (A = level 1; B = level 2). May be repeated for credit. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This cla...

MUSIC65AS

Voice Class 1: Beginning Voice, Level 1 (Group)

Group (6 students to a section) beginning voice. By enrolling in this course you are giving consent for the video and audio recording and distribution of your image and performance for use by any entity at Stanford University.

MUSIC65AZ

Beginning Voice Class

Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice (A = level 1; B = level 2). There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is closed by design. Plea...

MUSIC65B

Intermediate Voice Class

Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice for the non-major (A = level 1; B = level 2). May be repeated for credit. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup inf...

MUSIC65BS

Voice Class 2: Beginning Voice, Level 2 (Group)

Complete registration form available at: https://tinyurl.com/5n63y97k . May be repeated for credit 5 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://tinyurl.com/posmuhn) for policy and procedure. By enrol...

MUSIC65BZ

Intermediate Voice Class

Group (7 students to a section) beginning voice for the non-major (A = level 1; B = level 2). There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is clo...

MUSIC65SZ

Beginning Voice

Beginning Voice (zero-unit option). Complete registration form available for download at: http://tinyurl.com/q43c48g. May be repeated 5 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://tinyurl.com/posmuhn)...

MUSIC6F

Professional Development in Music

Open to majors and non-majors. This course is designed for students who are considering careers in performance or the music industry to explore their personal and artistic identity. Weekly guest speakers provide real world insight on topics related t...

MUSIC6G

Entrepreneurial Development for Classical Musicians

Open to majors and non-majors. This course is designed for students who are interested in professional opportunities in classical music, whether conservatory bound or just exploring possible careers in classical music performance or related interests...

MUSIC72A

Intermediate Piano Class

For intermediate students. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Prerequisites: 12C or equivalent, audition. This class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and meet with Dr. Zerlang in room 111, or contact him at timzer@sta...

MUSIC72AZ

Intermediate Piano Class

For intermediate students. Prerequisites: 12C or equivalent, audition. This class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and show up on the first day of class to receive a permission number for enrollment. Zero unit enrollment option av...

MUSIC72C

Harpsichord Class

For beginning harpsichord students who have keyboard skills. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission based on instructor consent. Contact instructor prior to enrolling to discuss availability. Class meets in Braun 201. Zero unit enr...

MUSIC72CZ

Harpsichord Class

For beginning harpsichord students who have keyboard skills. Admission based on instructor consent. Contact instructor prior to enrolling to discuss availability. Class meets in Braun 201. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permiss...

MUSIC72D

Jazz Piano Class

To enroll, please register on the waitlist and contact the instructor (murlow@stanford.edu) to receive a permission number for enrollment. Priority to majors and jazz-ensemble participants. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permis...

MUSIC72DZ

Jazz Piano Class

Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. To enroll, please register on the waitlist and contact the instructor (murlow@stanford.edu) to receive a permission number for enrollment. Priority to majors...

MUSIC72G

Gu-Zheng Class

Introduction to Chinese music through learning how to play Gu-Zheng, a 21-stringed traditional Chinese instrument. The cultural, social, and historical significance of Gu-Zheng. 15 Gu-Zheng techniques, how to read Chinese music and Gu-Zheng notation,...

MUSIC72GZ

Gu-Zheng Class

Introduction to Chinese music through learning how to play Gu-Zheng, a 21-stringed traditional Chinese instrument. The cultural, social, and historical significance of Gu-Zheng. 15 Gu-Zheng techniques, how to read Chinese music and Gu-Zheng notation,...

MUSIC72SZ

Intermediate Piano

Intermediate Piano (zero-unit option). Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://tinyurl.com/posmuhn) for policy and procedure. By enrolling in this course you are giving consent for the video and audio re...

MUSIC73

Advance Voice Class

For intermediate students. Admission by audition. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is...

MUSIC73Z

Advance Voice Class

For intermediate students. Admission by audition. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. This class is closed by design. Please register on the Axess w...

MUSIC74AA

Introductory Violin Class Level 1: Beginner

Open to majors and non-majors. Focus is on beginning violin skills. Topics include brief history and physics of the instrument, and survey of repertoire. There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for class fees and signup...

MUSIC74C

Classical Guitar Class

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.

MUSIC74CZ

Classical Guitar Class

Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.

MUSIC74D

Harp Class

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for...

MUSIC74DZ

Harp Class

There is a fee for this class. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for...

MUSIC75B

Renaissance Wind Instruments Class

May be repeated for credit. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.

MUSIC75BZ

Renaissance Wind Instruments Class

May be repeated for credit. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.

MUSIC76

Brass Instruments Class

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.

MUSIC76A

Tuba Class

Basic brass techniques as they apply to the tuba including warmups, breathing, and developing a daily routine. For beginning through intermediate players. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for audition information....

MUSIC76AZ

Tuba Class

Basic brass techniques as they apply to the tuba including warmups, breathing, and developing a daily routine. For beginning through intermediate players. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.s...

MUSIC76Z

Brass Instruments Class

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for class fees and signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and pr...

MUSIC77

Percussion Class

May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.

MUSIC77Z

Percussion Class

Please visit http://music.stanford.edu for signup information. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. See website: (http://music.stanford.edu) for policy and procedure.

MUSIC7B

Musical Cultures of the World

Ethnomusicologists study music in human life. Music is with us as we articulate and define social identities -- punk rocker, student, Japanese-American, member of a sorority, Catholic, radical, etc. --and as we acquire new identities through rites of...

MUSIC801

TGR Project

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MUSIC802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

MUSIC80A

Jewish Music of the Diaspora

Through the perspective of Jewish music, the students will be exposed to diverse musical cultures from around the globe while simultaneously being exposed to the rich and multi-faceted cultures of Jewish music. Because the Jews were dispersed around...

MUSIC8A

Rock, Sex, and Rebellion

Development of critical listening skills and musical parameters through genres in the history of rock music. Focus is on competing aesthetic tendencies and subcultural forces that shaped the music. Rock's significance in American culture, and the min...

Department: Music