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MU 077 Chamber Music Ensembles (Fall/Spring: 0) Performance Course. Regular participation and coaching in chamber ensembles. The course is offered without credit and is open to any qualified student. It will fulfill the music major requirement for ensemble performance. Sandra Hebert MU 079 Popular Styles Ensemble (Fall/Spring: 0) Performance Course. Regular participation and coaching in jazz, rock, and fusion styles in small group sessions. Any appropriate instruments are welcome. Eric Kniffen MU 081 Ear Training/Sight-Singing Lab (Fall/Spring: 1) For music majors. A twice-weekly opportunity to develop the skills of sight-singing and ear-training for students who are taking theory or other music courses or who are in singing groups and wish to improve their skills. The course is designed to help students pass the Ear Training/Sight Singing tests required for the major. Students will learn to sing melodies onsight by drilling scales and intervals. Ear-training will focus on melodic, rhythmic and harmonic dictation. Highly recommended for students taking Fundamentals of Music and Tonal Harmony. Michael Burgo MU 082 Advanced Ear Training/Sight-Singing Lab (Fall/Spring: 1) Performance Course A continuation of MU 081. Michael Burgo MU 083 Introduction to Improvisation (Fall/Spring: 1) Performance Course. This course may be repeated for credit. Improvisation is a central feature of many Western musical styles. This course offers students the opportunity to learn how to improvise in jazz, blues and rock. In a hands-on manner, students are introduced to the fundamental concepts of improvising. No prior experience is necessary, and there is no prerequisite, but you should have at least some experience playing an instrument or singing. In addition to extensive inclass performance, accompaniment recordings are provided for practice outside class. Erik Kniffen MU 084 Intermediate Improvisation (Fall/Spring: 1) Prerequisites: MU 083 or permission of instructor and previous or concurrent enrollment in MU 070 Performance Course.This course may be repeated for credit. This course focuses, in a hands-on manner, on three elements of improvisational skill in jazz, blues and rock as it advances from the basic concepts of improvisation introduced in Introduction to Improvisation. The course embraces different styles of improvisational music and directs attention to recognizing and responding to these styles in performance situations. Erik Kniffen MU 085 The Boston College Flute Choir (Fall/Spring: 0) Performance Course. An ensemble devoted solely to music for multiple flutes. Meets once a week with a coach. Public performances at B.C. and in the community. Judith Grant-Duce MU 086 Advanced Improvisation (Fall/Spring: 1) Prerequisites: MU 084 or permission of instructor and previous or concurrent enrollment in MU 110 Performance Course. This course may be repeated for credit. This course offers the advanced improvisor the opportunity to build higher order skills of improvisation in the jazz and rock idioms. While the course entails extensive instruction in music theory, the focus is on application of theoretical concepts to real-world improvisational contexts. The course outlines advanced concepts in melody-shaping, form/harmony, and musical style. Erik Kniffen MU 087 Tin Whistle/Beginner (Fall/Spring: 1) Prerequisite: Continued course. Students must sign up in the fall in order to register for spring. Learn to read and play the basic airs and dance music of Ireland on tin whistle. At the end of the course, students will have the opportunity to perform in concert with the advanced fiddle and whistle students. Lessons are taught by Jimmy Noonan, a well-known and respected Irish tin whistle and flute player and teacher. Any make of D-major tin whistle is required and are available for purchase locally at a nominal cost. A portable recording device is required. Jimmy Noonan MU 088 Tin Whistle/Experienced to Intermediate (Fall/Spring: 1) Prerequisite: MU 087 Tin Whistle/Beginner Performance course. No Fee. Experienced to Intermediate For students who have taken a full semester of Beginner Tin Whistle or who have at least one years experience playing flute. The class will help students develop whistle playing while learning more advanced Irish tunes with beginning ornamentation common to Irish music. Lessons are taught by Jimmy Noonan, a well-known and respected Irish tin whistle and flute player and teacher. Any make of D-major tin whistle is required and are available for purchase locally at a nominal cost. A small tape recorder is required. Jimmy Noonan MU 090 Boston College Concert Band (Fall/Spring: 0) Performance Course. No audition required. The BC Concert Band draws its membership from the greater Boston College community. Undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, faculty and alumni participate in this unique ensemble. The Concert Band performs standard concert band repertoire as well as marches, Broadway and film music, and some popular music. The Concert Band presents a Christmas concert, a winter concert, and a spring concert each year. The Concert Band also performs combined concerts with other university bands. Sebastian Bonaiuto, Conductor MU 092 B.C. bOp! (Fall/Spring: 0) Performance Course. Audition required B.C. bOp! is an ensemble dedicated to the highest levels of instrumental and vocal jazz performance. Membership is determined by audition. Instrumentation for B.C. bOp! consists of five saxophones, five trumpets, four trombones, piano, guitar, bass, drums, auxiliary percussion and a vocal ensemble of four to six mixed voices. B.C. bOp! performs jazz and popular music from the 1940s to the 1990s, and appeals to a wide range of musical tastes. Sebastian Bonaiuto, Conductor JoJo David, Vocal Director The Boston College Catalog 2005-2006 175 ARTS AND SCIENCES

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