52 undergraduate courses in the 2025–26 Undergraduate Calendar.
The styles, forms, techniques, and terminology of Western music through lectures and listening, as exemplified by great works from all eras of music history.
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This course studies music from around the globe and throughout the ages, employing several approaches in studying how music reflects and responds to its diverse social, political, and historical contexts.
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An introduction to the language of music in the Western art music tradition. Students will learn the fundamentals of musical notation and performance through practice exercises and creative projects. Students will also develop their musicianship skills through listening, sight-singing and analysis.
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The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
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An examination of the styles, forms, and development of 20th century popular music. The social, commercial, and technological aspects of popular music are considered.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
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A study of conducting techniques appropriate for song leading, choral rehearsal, and public performance. The course will include score analysis and rehearsal procedures for music from a wide variety of historical styles.
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Individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, classical guitar, and orchestral instruments.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
Individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, classical guitar, and orchestral instruments.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of music from a behavioural science perspective. Topics include auditory perception, creativity and aesthetic experience, emotive human responses, and the social psychology of music activities. Recent research in the field of music cognition will be explored in detail.
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A survey of music studied in a cross-cultural perspective with regard to its sound, performance practices, meanings, and functions from selected world traditions found in the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
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A study of rhythm in selected musics from oral traditions worldwide. The course emphasizes communal spirit, musical interaction, and human experience through theoretical and ethnographic studies, and hands-on workshops. It focuses on the development of rhythm skills, embodiment of new sounds, and acquisition of new tools for teaching, composing, and thinking about music. Experience a unique opportunity to study the rhythms of diverse music cultures, learn from guest artists, and play a range of percussion instruments including drums, bells, shakers, bronze metallophones, and gongs.
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A survey of the development of jazz schools and individual styles as well as a study of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic improvisation. Styles will be demonstrated through recordings and live performance.
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An examination of the techniques, styles, and functions of music in film, and how music interacts with image and narrative to create meanings. Weekly screenings of films selected from the 1930s to the present.
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A survey of European music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods, including Gregorian chant, polyphony, instrumental music, opera, choral, the advent of the symphony, and other genres that flourished under courtly and church patronage through the end of the 18th century. Students will learn to apply theoretical, historical, and cultural knowledge of early music to listening and analysis.
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A survey of European music of the 19th through 21st centuries in cultural, political, and artistic contexts. Topics include the development of principal genres in the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, and Wagner, and challenges to traditional musical ideals in the music of Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Cage, and others. Students will learn to apply theoretical, historical, and cultural knowledge of Romantic and Modern music to listening and analysis.
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This course introduces students to the development of the symphony and other orchestral repertoire, including the overture, symphonic poem and concerto, from the 18th century to the present. Students will learn to recognize the principal musical forms of orchestral genres, with a focus on critical listening. Students will learn to make connections between historical examples of symphonic music and examples from outside the concert hall, such as music in video games and soundtracks.
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This course introduces students to the themes, sources, forms, and conventions of opera and musical theatre through selected works from Europe and North America. The course explores ways that drama is interpreted through music and considers opera and musical theatre in a broader context of social, political, and artistic issues. Students will learn to articulate how musical elements are used in musical dramas and assess opera and musical theatre performances with critical perception and contextual analysis.
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Using the rules of Western art music voice-leading and harmony from the Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, students will learn to create melodies and harmony in modal and early tonal music through short original compositions and analysis. Upon completion of the course students will be able to identify and create using species counterpoint, analyze music using scale degrees, figured bass, melodic figures and roman numerals, and harmonize melodies in two to four voice textures using the church modes and major and minor scales. Students will also develop their musicianship skills through singing, melodic dictation, and basic keyboard skills.
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A continuation of MUSIC 270, with a focus on the voice-leading and harmony of Western art music in the Baroque and Classical periods (17th-18th centuries). Students will learn to analyze using scale degrees, figured bass, melodic figures, and roman numerals. Students will also learn to recognize and create diatonic sequences and learn how to modulate into new key areas. Upon completion of the course students will be able to analyze and compose four-part chorales in the style of J.S. Bach, and classical instrumental pieces in the style of W.A. Mozart.
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A hands-on introduction to music and technology, including recording, audio editing, digital signal processing, and Musical Instrumental Digital Interface (MIDI). Course work will foster a practical understanding of digital music production software and techniques, and involve electroacoustic or acoustic composition.
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A special study of a selected topic in music. Consult department for details.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
A continuation of the study of conducting techniques begun in MUSIC 222. The course focuses on the development of analytical and musical skills including score study, aural skills, and gestural clarity.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
Individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, classical guitar, and orchestral instruments.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
Individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, classical guitar, and orchestral instruments.
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Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
This course employs various methods to explore questions of musical meaning. Through study and discussion of selected sources from antiquity to the present, such themes as imitation, abstraction, beauty, and other debated issues will be examined in historical context and in relation to the other arts.
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This course explores how landscape is represented in music from Vivaldi and Beethoven to popular genres and Canadian music. Topics include the role of landscape and music in cultural identity, ways in which music evokes space and place, music and the environment, soundscape, and site-specific music.
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An examination of women's roles in music from a cross-cultural perspective. Topics may include women's music as a genre, historical accounts of women's music-making, and the effects of gender ideology on women's musical activities, behaviour, and performance.
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This course examines music's role in peace and conflict from a variety of perspectives through listening, reading, discussion, and using examples from around the world. Topics include the use of music in dissent and resistance, and as an instrument of propaganda, conflict, and peacebuilding.
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A spring term seminar approximately three weeks long, taught on location including daily lectures, attendance at music performances, and tours to places of cultural importance. Past and possible future locations include Vienna, London, Leipzig, South Africa, Morocco, Bali, and Estonia.
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A study of the music written for solo voice from the 17th century to the present.
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A study of music for solo piano from its 17th and 18th century antecedents to the present. Using historical and analytical approaches, individual works will be considered within a tradition of particular forms, genres, and styles.
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This course examines the origins of the music sung by the Christian church and its development up to the present. The course considers the Church's Song as theological, poetic, musical, cultural, and spiritual expression, and the use of songs in a variety of worship settings. Students will practice methods of song analysis, assess musical meaning, value and effects in various cultural contexts, and reflect on written and oral transmission of music.
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The nature of worship and the role of music within worship in historical, theological, and cultural perspectives. Field trips to services of various traditions.
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The study of chromatic harmony as well as melodic and formal aspects of Western art music from the 19th-century. Students will learn to recognize, analyze, and create chromatic harmony through mode mixture, pedal extensions, chromatic sequences, augmented sixth chords and other more chromatic chords. Upon completion of this course students will be able to recognize and analyze musical forms that include modulation. Students will also be able to compose, decorate, and harmonize original melodies and harmonies following the styles of the Classical and Romantic music eras.
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The study of the theoretical and compositional aspects of Western art music in the 20th century. Students will compose and analyze post tonal melodies and harmonies of extended tonality, atonality, 12-tone writing, pitch-class set theory, fusion, and other 20th-century techniques. Upon completion of the course students will be able to discuss some concepts, philosophies, and approaches of music theory, and recognize (and compose in) different types of post tonal musical styles and techniques.
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An exploration of music composition and arranging through regular listening, discussion, and music creation. Student will learn different tools for composing and arranging in various styles, timbres, textures, and with various instrumentation (including vocal music). Emphasis will be placed on compositional expression, notation, score preparation, and live performances. Upon completion of the course students will be able to create a professional quality score, and prepare and produce a concert of music with peers.
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An independent term project completed under tutorial guidance of a faculty advisor.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
An independent term project completed under tutorial guidance of a faculty advisor.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
A special study of a selected topic in music. Consult department for details.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
A study of a selected topic in global music. Consult department for details.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
The study of selected music literature through rehearsals and performance in one of the Department of Music ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Choir, University Choir, Vocal Techniques, Orchestra, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Jazz Ensemble, World Music Ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals and performances is required.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
Individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, classical guitar, and orchestral instruments.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
Individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, classical guitar, and orchestral instruments.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
Individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, classical guitar, and orchestral instruments. Students perform a senior recital.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
A term-length research project for Honours Music students designed to give students an opportunity to develop research techniques through individual research projects under the supervision of a faculty advisor.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines
An independent research project for Honours Music students. The topic is determined through consultation between the student and a faculty advisor. Submitted project will be evaluated by a committee of Music faculty.
Archived calendar entryRequirements, Fall 2025Course outlines