Faculty
Paul Kerekes
Composition
BMus, CUNY Queens College. MM, MMA, Yale School of Music. New York-based composer and pianist whose music has been performed by American Composers Orchestra, Da Capo Chamber Players, and New Morse Code, in Merkin Hall, (le) poisson rouge, and The Winter Garden. He attended The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and The Young Artists Piano Program at Tanglewood. Member of Grand Band, a six-piano ensemble featured in The Bang on a Can Marathon and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. Award recipient from ASCAP, the Academy of Arts and Letters; recipient of the 2015 JFund award from the American Composer’s Forum. SLC, 2015–Previous Courses
Music
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MUSC 5013
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor
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In this course, we will study elements of music such as pitch, rhythm, intensity, and timbre. We will see how they combine in various musical structures and how those structures communicate. Studies will include notation and ear training, as well as theoretical exercises, rudimentary analyses, and the study of repertoire from various eras of Western music. This course is a prerequisite to Theory II: Basic Tonal Theory and Composition and the Advanced Theory sequence.
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As a skill-building course in the language of tonal music, this course covers diatonic harmony and voice leading, elementary counterpoint, and simple forms. Students will develop an understanding through part writing, analysis, composition, and aural skills.
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Music History
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This course is a chronological survey of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present. We will explore the cyclical nature of music that mirrors philosophical and theoretical ideas established in Ancient Greece and how that cycle most notably reappears every 300 years: the Ars nova of the 14th century, Le nuove musiche of the 17th century, and the New Music of the 20th century and beyond. The course involves reading, listening, and class discussions that focus on significant compositions of the Western musical tradition, the evolution of form, questions of aesthetics, and historical perspective. There will be occasional quizzes during the fall term; short, written summary papers or class presentations are required in the spring.
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