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MUSC 101 Music Fundamentals 2 credits
A course designed to prepare students with little or no musical background for Carleton’s music courses, ensembles, and applied music studies. We will cover the fundamentals of music notation: notes and chords in treble and bass clefs, intervals, key signatures, scales, time signatures, and the realization of basic rhythmic patterns. Student activities will include singing, conducting, structured listening, and written assignments in staff notation.
- Fall 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 101.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 8:15am-9:20am
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MUSC 103 Musicianship I 2 credits
A course in aural skills, with an emphasis on melody. Primary activities will include singing in solfège (moveable do, do-based minor) while conducting, short rhythmic and melodic dictation exercises of up to four measures in length, and an introduction to improvisation. By the end of this course, you’ll know: “what makes a successful melody?”
Recommended Preparation: MUSC 101 (Music Fundamentals) or an appropriate score on the Music Theory Placement exams on the music department website. Students with questions about placement are strongly encouraged to discuss with the instructor.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 103.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 8:15am-9:20am
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MUSC 104 Musicianship II 2 credits
Continuation of Musicianship I, with an emphasis on singing in solfège (moveable do, do-based minor) and dictation skills. Building on content from MUSC 103, we will explore more advanced solfège techniques, including chromaticism and modulation. Dictation exercises will focus on longer excerpts structured around standard four- and eight-measure schemas, as well as harmonic progressions and two-voice excerpts.
Recommended Preparation: MUSC 103 (Musicianship I) or an appropriate score on the Music Theory Placement exams on the music department website. Students with questions about placement are strongly encouraged to discuss with the instructor.
- Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 104.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 8:15am-9:20am
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MUSC 110 Theory I: The Principles of Harmony 6 credits
An introduction to the materials of Western tonal music, with an emphasis on harmonic structure and syntax, voice leading, and musical analysis. We will cover foundational harmonic topics (including secondary dominants, modal mixture, and modulation), phrase structure and cadential analysis, and small musical forms. Student activities will involve regular analysis and part-writing assignments, readings and short essay responses, and composition exercises.
Recommended Preparation: MUSC 101 (Music Fundamentals) or an appropriate score on the Music Theory Placement exams on the music department website. Students with questions about placement are strongly encouraged to discuss with the instructor.
- Winter 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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MUSC 110.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:40am
- FWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:30am
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MUSC 204 Theory II: Musical Structures 6 credits
An investigation into the nature of musical sounds and the way they are combined to form rhythms, melodies, harmonies, and form. Topics include the nature of musical pitch, the structure of musical scales and their influence on melody, what gives rise to a sense of tonality, the complexity of rhythmic patterns, and the architecture of musical form. Student work includes building a musical instrument, programming a drum machine, writing computer code to create harmonies and timbres, and an extended music analysis project using empirical methods.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): MUSC 110 with grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 204.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:40am
- FWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:30am
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MUSC 308 Seminar in Music Analysis 6 credits
An introduction to advanced analytical techniques for Western Art Music, focusing particularly on the area of musical form. Drawing on a range of sources and styles, this course will also introduce students to theoretical approaches concerning compositional schemas, semiotics, and theories of rhythm and meter. Musical forms to be considered include binary, ternary, rondo, variations, fantasies, and sonata form. At its core, this course asks: “how does music get *big*?”
- Fall 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): MUSC 110 with grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 308.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm