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EMU425H1 - Music and Urban Engagement

Fixed Credit: 0.50

This course provides a reflective practicum experience in unique urban settings. Under the mentorship of professional community music teachers, students assist and lead music-making sessions with youth from the Regent Park School of Music and/or youth residing in detention centers. Students have the opportunity to investigate how music is an important tool for social justice.

Prerequisite: EMU240H1, EMU245H1, EMU370Y1 or P.I.

EMU430H1 - Choral Literature & Conducting I

Fixed Credit: 0.50

The study of choral literature and conducting technique with an emphasis on European classical and Contemporary choral music (including selected choral-orchestral repertoire). The weekly class will meet in a combined literature seminar and conducting practicum with piano and/or small instrumental ensemble.

Prerequisite: EMU330Y1 or P.I.
Exclusion: EMU430Y1

EMU431H1 - Choral Literature & Conducting II

Fixed Credit: 0.50

The study of choral literature and conducting technique with an emphasis on European classical and Contemporary choral music (including selected choral-orchestral repertoire). The weekly class will meet in a combined literature and seminar and conducting practicum with piano and/or small instrumental ensemble.

Prerequisite: EMU430H1
Exclusion: EMU430Y1

EMU435H1 - Internship in Music Education

Fixed Credit: 0.50

This course provides a community-based experience that will enable students to merge theory and practice in music education. Students will volunteer for three hours a week in a community music or school setting of their choosing. Placements must be approved by the instructor during the first week of classes.

Prerequisite: EMU240H1, EMU245H1, one of EMU356Y1/EMU330Y1/EMU370Y1/EMU361Y1

EMU437H1 - Internship in Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Music Education

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Students will undertake a unique internship opportunity in partnership with the Toronto District School Board and the Marigold Team (a Black-led organization with a mission to change the visual landscape of music education). Students will lead a series of music education workshops, in schools identified as high needs, that explore culturally relevant and culturally responsive music education through an anti-oppression and anti-racism lens. The focus will be on prioritizing the socio-emotional awareness and well-being of students, while facilitating conversations about historical practices in music education that value one form of musicking over another. Students will be mentored by leaders in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Placements must be approved by the instructor during the first week of classes.

Prerequisite: EMU240H1, EMU245H1, one of EMU356Y1/EMU330Y1/EMU370Y1/EMU361Y1 or P.I.

EMU456Y1 - Instrumental Music II: Advanced Curriculum, Conducting, Rehearsal & Repertoire

Fixed Credit: 1.00

Practical instrumental lab. Selected lecture topics related to teacher effectiveness in an instrumental program. In-field observation and participation.

Prerequisite: EMU356Y1
Exclusion: PMU480Y1

EMU461H1 - Music Education in Cultural Perspective

Fixed Credit: 0.50

A seminar exploring music's social nature, with special attention to the ways culture influences music perception, cognition, and value, and the way musical practices in turn influence culture and social relations. Issues addressed include: music education as intercultural education; music, gender, and power; the educational implications of cultural relativity; music education as an agent of social reproduction and/or transformation; social relations implicit in various musical and instructional practices; and music education's moral significance. Emphasis is placed on practical pedagogical applications of world music.

Prerequisite: EMU240H1, EMU245H1 - Education Majors only/In Year 4.

EMU485H1 - Advanced Topics in Music & Childhood

Fixed Credit: 0.50

The focus will be on developing music teaching and learning strategies for welcoming young children across the developmental periods of early childhood, middle childhood, and adolesence into the diverse human practice of musicking. This course offers an alternative to traditional methodologies by encouraging students to develop their own orientation based on a critical examination of bell hooks’s philosophy of education as the practice of freedom as well as antiracist and anti-oppressive approaches to music education. Students will build teaching expertise through peer teaching and reflective examination of current practices. Lectures and assignments will include exploring diverse repertoire for students in the elementary grades and an examination of the current research in the field of elementary music education. As part of this course, students are expected to submit a research paper, present a seminar discussion on a chosen topic relating to music in childhood as well as submit and present an individual “teaching project.” The welcoming project will be the preparation of a collection of repertoire and teaching materials. 

Prerequisite: EMU370Y1

EMU499H1 - Independent Study

Fixed Credit: 0.50

An intensive research project under the supervision of a faculty member. The project must be academically demanding and uniquely suitable for the individual student. Students propose a topic that is currently not covered in the curriculum or one that warrants further exploration related to research interests and/or musical goals. Available to students in 4th year on successful completion of several EMU courses; minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3 (B+) and availability of a full-time faculty advisor from the Music Education division. Modes of assessment are determined through discussion between student and supervisor, but will usually include a public presentation of the research project.

Prerequisite: In Year 4. Permission of the Division Required.

HMU111H1 - Introduction to Music and Society

Fixed Credit: 0.50

An examination of musical thought and practice in non-Western and Western traditions.

Exclusion: Does not count as an HMU elective.

HMU126H1 - Historical Survey II

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Western music from 1750 to the present.

Exclusion: HMU226H1. Does not count as an HMU elective.

HMU225H1 - Historical Survey I

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Western music up to 1750.

Prerequisite: In Year 2.
Exclusion: Does not count as an HMU elective.

HMU314H1 - Western Cultures of Celebrity in Music

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Musicology as a field developed alongside Western celebrity culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This course uses celebrity as a framework to explore topical musicological concerns, from the history of the Western canon to current constructions of value. It does so by exploring the intersections of celebrity and music, with issues such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, from the likes of Handel and Liszt to Joséphine Baker and Lizzo.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1 and HMU225H1/JMU210H1

HMU316H1 - Korean Music

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Begins with an introduction to traditional Korean music. Considers the class structure of late nineteenth-century Korea and the concomitant development of court, aristocratic and folk genres with the onset of Korean modernity. Second half focuses on popular music and studies the evolving place of music in Korean life.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1,HMU225H1/JMU210H1

HMU328H1 - Contemporary Opera since 1975

Fixed Credit: 0.50

In the last 50 years, opera has developed from an artistic medium often thought of as elitist and archaic to a vibrant and evolving artform encompassing increasingly diverse voices and narratives. Students will explore the flourishing of alternative approaches to opera creation in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing on how the genre has evolved in radically different directions in three core areas: musical and aesthetic practices, subject matter, and the opera industry. Topics include: feminist opera; opera and politics; intercultural opera; opera, film, and media; “indie” opera, and site-specific opera. The repertoire covered will centre primarily on Europe and North America, but the course places strong emphasis on exploring operatic practices from a transnational and global lens.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1 and HMU225H1/JMU210H1

HMU333H1 - Ethnomusicology of Urban Environments: Doing Research in Sound

Fixed Credit: 0.50

This course explores the intersection of sound, listening, and urban environment through a selective survey of contemporary scholarship from ethnomusicology, sound studies, anthropology of sound, cultural geography, and urban studies. Class discussions, assigned readings, audio-visual examples, and lectures will build a theoretical understanding of sound’s relation to issues of identity, culture, politics, representation, power, media, gender, race, and urban space. Students will receive hands-on research methods training as they conduct ethnomusicological research in downtown Toronto. Students will be guided in designing a research project and conduct field research, interviews and soundwalks. They will materialize research results as presentable audio(visual) media.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1 and HMU225H1/JMU210H1

HMU340H1 - Music in North America

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Study of music in North American life. Topics may include folk and popular music, jazz and art music.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1, HMU225H1/JMU210H1

HMU345H1 - Global Popular Musics

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Global Popular Musics is an introduction to popular music in its social and cultural context in a variety of international settings. Genres to be covered may include, but are not limited to, rock, hip-hop, country, and “world music”. The course will take an issues-based approach to the study of popular music, focusing on topics such as the interplay of tradition and modernity; media and technology; race, gender, sexuality, class, and other facets of identity; urbanization and migration; and the markets and legal structures surrounding music.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1, HMU225H1/JMU210H1
Exclusion: HMU245H1

HMU385H1 - Introduction to Sound Studies

Fixed Credit: 0.50

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of sound studies by exploring how people perceive and engage with everyday sounds, especially in urban settings. Topics may include, but are not limited to noise, silence, acoustic communities, soundscapes, media, and various sound technologies.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1, and HMU225H1/JMU210H1

HMU426H1 - Topics: Renaissance Music

Fixed Credit: 0.50

A comprehensive survey of sacred and secular polyphony (1400-1600), including topics or independent research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.
Exclusion: HMU331H1

HMU430H1 - Topics: Classical Music

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Pre-classical composers, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1720-1830), including topics for individual research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.

HMU435H1 - Topics in Ethnomusicology: Current Issues

Fixed Credit: 0.50

An undergraduate seminar devoted to exploring an emergent sub-field of ethnomusicology. The sub-field to be explored will rotate, but some examples are: the study of music and gender, race, or class; music and language; music and violence; sociomusicology; medical ethnomusicology; the ethnomusicology of popular music and technology; analytical approaches in ethnomusicology.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.

HMU450H1 - Topics: Baroque Music

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Instrumental and vocal genres (1600-1750), including topics for individual research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.
Exclusion: HMU333H1

HMU499H1 - Independent Study

Fixed Credit: 0.50

An intensive research project under the supervision of a faculty member. The project must be academically demanding and uniquely suitable for the individual student. Students propose a topic that is currently not covered in the curriculum or one that warrants further exploration related to research interests and/or musical goals. Available to students in 4th year on successful completion of the core HMU requirement plus at least 1.0 credit in HMU courses at the 300 level or higher, minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3 (B+), and availability of a full-time faculty advisor from the History & Culture division. Modes of assessment are determined through discussion between student and supervisor, but will usually include a public presentation of the research project.

Prerequisite: In Year 4. Permission of the Division.

JMU100Y1 - Jazz & Traditional Materials

Fixed Credit: 0.67

The study of harmony, melody and counterpoint in both traditional and jazz musical forms. Written and analytical studies of music from various jazz idioms and traditional repertoire.

JMU101Y1 - Jazz & Traditional Ear Training

Fixed Credit: 0.67

Corresponding with materials studied in JMU100Y. Melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation; sight singing. Transcription of jazz solos and group performances.

JMU104Y1 - Jazz Keyboard Skills

Fixed Credit: 0.33

Basic keyboard skills for jazz majors who play instruments other than piano. Credit for the course may be obtained by passing an examination.

Prerequisite: Required of all Jazz students except keyboard players.

JMU184Y1 - Jazz Applied Music

Fixed Credit: 0.50

Individual instruction on major instrument or voice. One hour weekly (to a total of 24 lessons).

Prerequisite: In Year 1. For students in the Bachelor of Music program.

JMU185Y1 - Jazz Applied Music

Fixed Credit: 1.00

Individual instruction on major instrument or voice. One hour weekly (to a total of 24 lessons).

Prerequisite: In Year 1. For students in the Bachelor of Music in Performance program.

JMU189Y1 - Jazz Orchestra

Fixed Credit: 0.67

While a major ensemble for students enrolled in jazz performance, this ensemble is open to other performers by audition. Students rehearse and perform in concerts as assigned by the Performance Division throughout the academic year. Attendance at all assigned sessions is required. Six hours minimum.

Prerequisite: By audition, In Year 1.