MUS - Music - Undergraduate Courses

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• MUS 1 Beginning Music Theory
• MUS 2 The Music of Today
• MUS 3.02 American Music: Covers, Theft, and Musical Borrowing
• MUS 3.03 American Music: Roots and Revolutionaries
• MUS 3.09 Mestizaje: Music in Latin America
• MUS 4 Global Sounds
• MUS 5 Jazz: Black Creative Music and American Culture
• MUS 7 First-Year Seminar
• MUS 8 Programming for Interactive Audio-Visual Arts
• MUS 9.01 Introductory Guitar
• MUS 11 Introduction to Opera
• MUS 13 Literature and Music
• MUS 14.01 Music, Mind, Invention
• MUS 14.05 Music and Artificial Intelligence
• MUS 16.01 Genre: History of Visual Music
• MUS 16.02 Music and Media in Everyday Life
• MUS 17.06 The Language-Music Connection
• MUS 17.07 Entrepreneurship and the Arts
• MUS 18.01 Pop Music: Past, Present, Future
• MUS 18.02 Hip-Hop in the United States
• MUS 18.03 Verzuz: A History of Black Popular Music
• MUS 20 Creative Music Theory I
• MUS 21 Melody and Rhythm
• MUS 22 Creative Music Theory II
• MUS 23 Timbre and Form
• MUS 24.01 Black Sound Studies
• MUS 25 Sonic Arts I: Machine Music
• MUS 26 Sonic Arts II: Sound is Alive
• MUS 27.01 Musical Theater Writing
• MUS 28 Sonic Space and Form
• MUS 30.01 Composition Seminar
• MUS 30.02 Film Scoring
• MUS 30.03 Writing for Musical Theatre
• MUS 32 Improvisation
• MUS 34 Sound Art Practice
• MUS 35 The Jazz Language
• MUS 36 Songwriting 1
• MUS 37 Songwriting 2: Making the Album
• MUS 38 Noise: Exploring Liberation in Sound
• MUS 41.01 Debussy the Innovator
• MUS 42 Early Classical Music (From Plato to Mozart)
• MUS 43 Modern Classical Music (From Beethoven to Now)
• MUS 45.03 The Music of Central Asia
• MUS 45.04 Music and Social Justice
• MUS 45.05 Polyphony
• MUS 45.06 Music from the Lands of the Silk Road
• MUS 45.12 Advanced Studies in Jazz History: A Century of Jazz at Dartmouth
• MUS 46 Video Games and the Meaning of Life
• MUS 50 Performance Laboratories
• MUS 50.11 Chamber Music I
• MUS 50.12 Chamber Music II
• MUS 50.13 Chamber Music III
• MUS 50.21 Contemporary Music I
• MUS 50.22 Contemporary Music II
• MUS 50.23 Contemporary Music III
• MUS 50.31 Jazz Improvisation I
• MUS 50.32 Jazz Improvisation II
• MUS 50.33 Jazz Improvisation III
• MUS 50.41 Vocal Performance Lab I
• MUS 50.42 Vocal Performance Lab II
• MUS 50.43 Vocal Performance Lab III
• MUS 51 Oral Tradition Musicianship
• MUS 52.01 Conducting and Artistic Direction
• MUS 52.02 Applied Conducting
• MUS 52.03 The Art of Conducting: An Introduction to Choral and Orchestral Conducting
• MUS 52.04 The Modern Conductor: An Introduction to Wind and Chamber Conducting
• MUS 53.01 Keyboard Individual Instruction: Classical and Jazz Piano I
• MUS 53.02 Keyboard Individual Instruction: Classical and Jazz Piano II
• MUS 53.03 Keyboard Individual Instruction: Classical and Jazz Piano III
• MUS 54.01 Woodwind Individual Instruction: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone
• MUS 54.02 Woodwind Individual Instruction: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone
• MUS 54.03 Woodwind Individual Instruction: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone
• MUS 55.01 Brass Individual Instruction: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
• MUS 55.02 Brass Individual Instruction: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
• MUS 55.03 Brass Individual Instruction: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
• MUS 56.01 String Individual Instruction: Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass Viol, Electric Bass, Classical and Electrical Guitar
• MUS 56.02 String Individual Instruction: Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass Viol, Electric Bass, Classical and Electrical Guitar
• MUS 56.03 String Individual Instruction: Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass Viol, Electric Bass, Classical and Electrical Guitar
• MUS 57.01 Voice Individual Instruction
• MUS 57.02 Voice Individual Instruction
• MUS 57.03 Voice Individual Instruction
• MUS 58.01 Percussion Individual Instruction
• MUS 58.02 Percussion Individual Instruction
• MUS 58.03 Percussion Individual Instruction
• MUS 58.11 Sound Engineering I
• MUS 58.12 Sound Engineering II
• MUS 58.13 Sound Engineering III
• MUS 59 Ensemble Performance and Leadership
• MUS 59.11 Coast Jazz Orchestra I
• MUS 59.12 Coast Jazz Orchestra II
• MUS 59.13 Coast Jazz Orchestra III
• MUS 59.21 Dartmouth College Glee Club I
• MUS 59.22 Dartmouth College Glee Club II
• MUS 59.23 Dartmouth College Glee Club III
• MUS 59.31 Dartmouth College Gospel Choir I
• MUS 59.32 Dartmouth College Gospel Choir II
• MUS 59.33 Dartmouth College Gospel Choir III
• MUS 59.41 Handel Society of Dartmouth College I
• MUS 59.42 Handel Society of Dartmouth College II
• MUS 59.43 Handel Society of Dartmouth College III
• MUS 59.51 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra I
• MUS 59.52 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra II
• MUS 59.53 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra III
• MUS 59.61 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble I
• MUS 59.62 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble II
• MUS 59.63 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble III
• MUS 59.71 Dartmouth College Marching Band I
• MUS 59.72 Dartmouth College Marching Band II
• MUS 59.73 Dartmouth College Marching Band III
• MUS 60 Studies in Musical Performance: Keyboard
• MUS 61 Studies in Musical Performance: Woodwinds
• MUS 62 Studies in Musical Performance: Brass
• MUS 63 Studies in Musical Performance: Strings
• MUS 64 Studies in Musical Performance: Voice
• MUS 65 Studies in Musical Performance: Percussion
• MUS 70 Perspectives in Music Performance
• MUS 71 The History of Music in England
• MUS 74 The History of Music in Central Europe
• MUS 82 Special Study in History, Musicology, Ethnomusicology
• MUS 83 Special Study in Composition and Theory
• MUS 84 Special Study in Performance
• MUS 86 Other Special Studies
• MUS 87 Special Studies in Music Abroad (Individual Instruction on Music FSP)
• MUS 88 Honors
• MUS 99 Proseminar